Events

Dr Tara Walker
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Joshua Lowe

Hear about the latest advances in neuroscience and neural engineering from renowned UQ and SUSTech researchers, network with your local and international colleagues, and share your work.

Professor Karen Thorpe and Associate Professor Sally Staton
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Emily Westwood

Professor Jürgen Götz
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

​Host: Bradley Connor

Dr Jessica Kretzmann
The University of Western Australia
Perth

Host: Professor Jürgen Götz

Professor Damien Keating
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute
Flinders University
Adelaide

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

The goal of the event is to share knowledge, break down silos and celebrate how brain science and creativity collide to seed new ideas in social development, technology, entrepreneurship, wellbeing and physical, mental and brain health across the life cycle.

Please join us for an Italian wine appreciation dinner where the Emporium’s Sommelier will share thoughts on the evening’s wine selections paired with fine food and enjoy an enlightening presentation from one of QBI's top researchers.

Professor Ryan Lister
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Perth

Host: Professor Tim Bredy

Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Mason Musgrove

Professor Lane Strathearn
Center for Disabilities and Development
University of Iowa

Host: Professor Karen Thorpe

Professor Ed Boyden develops tools for analysing and repairing the brain and systematically applies them to enable comprehensive understandings of neural circuits, yielding new insight into potential treatment strategies for brain diseases.

Dust off your dancing shoes and join us at Waters Edge at Portside for the 2024 QBI Lexus Alzheimer’s Jazz Gala! Enjoy city and river views from this fabulous location including canapes and drinks on the balcony when you arrive and a sit-down two course meal, beverage package and entertainment. Plenty of great prizes and auction items on offer supporting dementia research at QBI.

Assistant Professor Laramie Duncan
Director of the Integrative Mental Health Laboratory
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University

Host: Associate Professor Susannah Tye

This EViND symposium aims to underscore the significance of research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and broader brain functions. The symposium will discuss the role of EVs in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Prion disease.

PhD Student Seminars
1. Svetlina Vasileva (Eyles Lab)
2. María Eugenia Ferreiro (Faulkner Lab)

Chair: Elise Kellett

Dr Christina Mo
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Melbourne

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

Professor Ulrik Wisløff and Dr Atefe Rafiee Tari
Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Host: Dr Tara Walker

Professor Danny M Hatters
The University of Melbourne

Host: Professor Jürgen Götz

Professor Karin Nordström
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders University
South Australia

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Professor Bryan Mowry
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Dr Duncan McLean

Speaker: Professor Stephan Kröger
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Germany

Host: Professor Fred Meunier

North Queensland Club invites you to attend our March Business Luncheon, entitled Your Brain is on our Mind: Improving Lives through Brain Research with guest speaker Professor Pankaj Sah, Executive Director of the Queensland Brain Institute.

This event is now sold out. If you missed out, you can tune in, live! Visit this page or the Queensland Brain Institute Facebook page to watch at 6:30pm on Thursday, 14 March.

Sleep. We can't live or learn without it, but how much do we know about what's happening in our brains while we snooze? In Brain Awareness Week 2024 and on the eve of World Sleep Day, join us for an engaging evening with our scientific panel as we explore the world of sleep.

A/Professor Susanne Van Veluw
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
USA.

Host: Dr Matilde Balbi