Queensland Brain Institute

Events

Parkinson's & Movement Disorders Information Session for Patients & Carers 

2 September 2017 10:00am–2:00pm
 
in Parkinson's & Movement Disorders Information Sessions
An informative session for patients and carers living with Parkinson’s Disease, Dystonia, Essential Tremor and Tourette’s Syndrome

A/Professor Frini Karayanidis, U Newcastle : "Age-related decline in cognitive control: Role of CV risk factors"

30 August 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Frini Karayanidis
Director, Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308

Professor Alison Goate, Mount Sinai: "Rare and Common Genetic Variation implicates microglial function in Alzheimer’s disease risk"

24 August 2017 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Alison Goate
Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease, Dept of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, UWA. "The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases"

23 August 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, Laboratory Head, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth, WA

ECR Workshop

17 August 2017 1:30pm–3:30pm
 
in Early Career Researcher Events
ECR workshop followed by a social mixer

Professor Michael Milford, QUT : "Navigation, Neuroscience and Neural Networks: A Quest to Understand Intelligence and Build Better Robots"

9 August 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Michael Milford
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Garden Point Campus, Brisbane

Professor Christian Haass, LMU, Munich : "TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease – from microglial dysfunction to human patients"

2 August 2017 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Christian Haass
Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Professor Sunil Gandhi, USA : "Rewiring the circuits of high acuity spatial vision"

24 July 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Sunil Gandhi
Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

Professor David Tremethick, ANU : "What do reproduction and memory have in common? The epigenetic regulator H2A.B"

19 July 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor David Tremethick
Head of the Department of Genome Science, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601 

Professor Loren Frank, UCSF : "Neural substrates of memories and decisions"

12 July 2017 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Loren Frank
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Dr Jeehyun Kim, VIC : "Understanding the development of emotional memory to treat anxiety and addiction"

5 July 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Jeehyun Kim,
Lab Head, Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory –Behavioural Neuroscience, The Florey Institute, Parkville VIC 3052

Anthony Harris, UQ : "The role of neural oscillations in human visual attention and awareness"

21 June 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Anthony Harris (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Michael Nilsson, Hunter Medical Research Institute : "Emerging avenues in stroke rehabilitation – focus on recovery and secondary neurodegeneration"

14 June 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Michael Nilsson, MD, PhD
Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, Australia.

Dr Hari Subramanian, UQ : "The midbrain periaqueductal gray: A novel circuit for treatment of intractable neurogenic autonomic disease via neuromodulation"

13 June 2017 12:45pm–1:30pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Hari Subramanian
Research Leader - Systems Neuroscience & Neuromodulation Laboratory, Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Dr Susannah Tye, USA: "Metabolic Deficits in Antidepressant Resistance are a Functional Target for Neuromodulation"

13 June 2017 11:30am–12:15pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Susannah Tye
Director, Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Depression Center, Rochester, MN, USA

Dr Jana Vukovic, UQ : "Understanding the role of microglia as regulators of adult neurogenesis in the intact and injured brain"

7 June 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Jana Vukovic
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland and School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland

Robert Maier, UQ : "Improving genetic risk prediction in psychiatric disorders and other complex traits"

31 May 2017 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars

Madhusoothanan Bhagavathi Perumal, UQ. "Organisation of a reverberating cell assembly in the basolateral amygdala"

31 May 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Madhusoothanan Bhagavathi Perumal (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Linda Richards, UQ : "Interhemispheric axonal plasticity in developmental brain disorders"

17 May 2017 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Linda Richards PhD FAA FAHMS
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

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

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