Queensland Brain Institute

Events

Public Dementia Forum

Living well with dementia: improving health and quality of life with evidence based research

11 May 2017 8:30am–1:15pm
 
in Public Dementia Forum Series
Updates on dementia for researchers, industry and the general public.

Professor George Augustine, Singapore. "Optogenetic mapping of novel cerebellar circuits"

10 May 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor George Augustine, Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Elliott Sherr

Autism: Progress in understanding the genetics

8 May 2017 6:00pm–7:00pm
 
in Public Lecture
Presented by Professor Elliott Sherr, Institute of Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco. Join him to learn about the latest research insights into autism, epilepsy, intellectual disabilities and other key neurodevelopment disorders in children.

Dr Vincent Daria, ANU : "Understanding brain circuits using nanotechnology and photonic tools" 

8 May 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Vincent Daria
Group Leader (Neurophotonics Group)
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

Professor Geoff Faulkner, UQ. "Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in the mammalian brain"

3 May 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Geoff Faulkner
Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Brenda Gannon, UQ. "Connecting health economics and brain research"

26 April 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Brenda Gannon
Mater Research Institute Chair in Health Economics, Centre for Business and Economics of Health, University of Queensland

Professor Lars Ittner, UNSW : "On the molecular role of Tau in regulating post-synaptic toxicity"

19 April 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Lars Ittner
School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

Lacey Atkins, UQ : "An investigation of risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in obstructive sleep apnoea patients"

18 April 2017 10:00am–11:00am
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
PhD Exit Seminar by Lacey Atkins, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
In the Ritchie Meeting Room (Building 64A)

Dr Christian Winterflood, Zurich : "Applications of supercritical angle and single-molecule fluorescence''

13 April 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Christian Winterflood, Zurich, Switzerland

Reuben Strydom, UQ. "Bio-inspired Strategies for Autonomous Aerial Navigation, Guidance and Interception"

12 April 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Reuben Strydom, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Andrew Higginson, Exeter : "Learning to be ill? Adaptive decision-making systems with limited information may cause ill health"

6 April 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Andrew Higginson, Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Exeter, UK.

Professor Scott Tyo, UNSW Canberra at ADFA : "Do You see What I See?  Exploiting advanced properties of light and mimicking biological vision systems to develop new imaging and sensing methods"

29 March 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Scott Tyo, Head of the School of Engineering and IT, The University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600

ECR Career Workshop

23 March 2017 2:30pm–4:00pm
 
in Early Career Researcher Events
Taking the leap to become a group leader: skills required to start your own lab

TBA

22 March 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars

TBA

15 March 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars

A/Professor Zhiyi Wei, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Guangdong Sheng, China. "Structural Insights into Presynaptic Active Zone Assembly"

10 March 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars

International Women's Day Lunch 2017

8 March 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in International Women's Day
Celebrate women in science for International Women's Day.

Eco-Oncology: Applying principles of ecology to improve outcomes in oncology

7 March 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Brent Reynolds, Lillian S Wells Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Tong Wu, UQ : "Functional brain network study on wild type and DISC1 transgenic mice"

28 February 2017 3:30pm–4:30pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Tong Wu
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Jing Zhao, UQ : "Role of EphA4 in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis and motor neuron disease"

22 February 2017 11:00am
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Jing Zhao
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Investigating the disease mechanisms of MND and frontotemporal dementia related to TDP-43 pathology

17 February 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Adam K. Walker, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Macquarie University, NSW

Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in mammalian genetics

15 February 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Geoff Faulkner, Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Innovative genetic and chemical genetics approaches to understand and treat motor neuron diseases

14 February 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Jean Giacomotto, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

TBA

3 February 2017 1:15pm–2:15pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
 

Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of sensorimotor integration in C. elegans

31 January 2017 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Zhaoyu Li, Research Investigator, Life Science Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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