Queensland Brain Institute

Events

Professor Preben Bo Mortensen, Denmark : "iPSYCH: studying nature and nurture in mental disorders in Denmark"

10 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Preben Bo Mortensen
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark

2019 MND Breakfast

3 April 2019 7:00am–8:45am
 
in Breakfast Series
Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Professor John Nurnberger, USA : “Emerging themes in the genetics of bipolar disorder”

27 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor John Nurnberger
Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

Dr Graham Murray, UQ : "From dopamine to delusions: mechanisms of psychotic symptom formation"

20 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Graham Murray
Visiting Academic 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Neuroanatomy Workshop

15 March 2019 9:00am–4:00pm
 
in Neuroanatomy Workshop
We have the honour of hosting Professors Luis Puelles and Charles Watson, both renowned international authorities in comparative neuroanatomy, for this year’s Advanced Neuroanatomy Workshop.

Dr Dorit Kliemann, USA : "Functional brain networks in hemispherectomy"

14 March 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Dorit Kliemann
Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Ralph Adolph’s Emotion and Social Cognition lab
Caltech

Professor Luis Puelles, Spain : "An introduction to the prosomeric model"

14 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Luis Puelles
Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology
University of Murcia, Spain

Dr Laura Gumy, New Zealand : "MAP2-dependent regulation of axonal transport"

13 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Laura Gumy,
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

International Women's Day 2019

6 March 2019 11:00am–1:30pm
 
in International Women's Day
Join us to hear Mrs Raynuha Sinnathamby, Managing Director of Springfield City Group speak as part of an International Women’s Day Panel Discussion and Lunch.

A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya, VIC : "Conscious perception and its neural substrate: integration and dynamics"

20 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya
School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3168

Dr Martin Smith, NSW : "Going beyond the basepair with nanopores"

12 February 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Martin Smith
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Victoria Street, New South Wales

Dr Alexandra Grubman, VIC : "Distinct microglial phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease are controlled by amyloid plaque phagocytosis"

6 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Alexandra Grubman,
Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800

Kiaran Lawson, UQ : "From bugs to bots: examining insect flight behaviour for potential robotic applications"

30 January 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Kiaran Lawson (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Bruno van Swinderen, UQ : "Understanding general anaesthesia: why loss of consciousness is interesting"

23 January 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Jeremy Dittmann, USA : “Molecular Control of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion”

16 January 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Jeremy Dittmann
Cornell Medical School, New York, USA

Professor Valentin Nägerl, France : "Super-resolution microscopy for neuroscience: new methods & applications"

30 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Valentin Nägerl
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux

Adjunct Professor Pirta Hotulainen, Finland : "Vital role of the tropomyosin decorated actin filaments in the the structure and function of the axon initial segment"

26 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Adjunct Professor Pirta Hotulainen
University of Helsinki, Finland

Dr Shankar Sachidhanandam, Switzerland : "Neural dynamics of sensory perception and decision making in the mouse posterior parietal cortex"

23 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Shankar Sachidhanandam
Sensory Perception Group, Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland




International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Yale : "Statistical learning in the hippocampus"

21 November 2018 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven CT06520, USA

2018 Churchie Cricket Luncheon

21 November 2018 11:30am–5:00pm
 
in Churchie Cricket Luncheon

Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph, UK: "Semantic representation and its disorders"

16 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph
Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Professor Sylvain Baillet, Canada : "Perception as prediction: network architectures of brain perceptual inferences"

9 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Sylvain Baillet
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Professor Peter Visscher FRS, UQ : "The genetics of educational attainment"

7 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Peter Visscher FRS
Program in Complex Trait Genomics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci, UK : "The conscious phenotype"

1 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci
Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

Professor Urs Meyer, Zurich : "Epigenetic and transgenerational mechanisms in immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disorders"

31 October 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Urs Meyer
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Zurich – Vetsuisse Faculty
Zurich, Switzerland

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