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Professor Peter Nestor, UQ : “How degenerative dementias affect the cortex in humans”

28 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Peter Nestor
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Live Webinar: Understanding the brain to treat depression

14 October 2020 4:30pm–5:30pm

in Mental Health Week Live Webinar

Join Queensland Brain Institute researchers as they discuss what is happening in the brains of people with depression, why medications don’t work for some people and alternative treatments for people with depression that don’t respond to medication.

Dr Steven Zuryn, UQ : "Mitochondrial genome mosaicism and resistance to damage"

7 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Dr Steven Zuryn
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

CJCADR Public Dementia Forum 2020 - At Home Edition

21 September 2020 12:00am

in Public Dementia Forum Series

Held annually, the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) Public Dementia Forum brings together experts in dementia research and care, with a focus on living well with dementia.

Professor Jason Mattingley, UQ : "Understanding the role of prediction in sensory encoding"

16 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Jason Mattingley
Queensland Brain Institute & School of Psychology
The University of Queensland

Professor Jozef Gecz, University of Adelaide : "Movement in the genetics of neurodevelopmental disabilities"

2 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Jozef Gecz
Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability
NHMRC SPRF, The University of Adelaide

Dr Jess Taubert, National Institute of Mental Health, USA : "The neural basis of social intelligence in primates"

5 August 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Dr Jess Taubert
Laboratory of Brain & Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA

Professor Gwyneth Card, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA : "Small brains, big decisions: uncovering neural mechanisms for real-world choices"

8 July 2020 9:00am

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Gwyneth Card
Janelia Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA

A/Professor Lea K Davis, Vanderbilt University, USA : "Beyond biomarkers: Mining clinical lab data from the Electronic Health Record to advance psychiatric genomics"

1 July 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

A/Professor Lea K Davis
Dept of Medicine
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN37235, USA

Virtual Gold Coast Marathon 2020

1 July 2020 6:00am–31 July 2020 5:00pm

in Virtual Gold Coast Marathon

Professor Ashley Bush, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, The Florey Institute : "Ferroptosis, iron and neurodegenerative disease"

24 June 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Ashley Bush
Director of the Melbourne Dementia Research Centre
The Florey Institute, Parkville VIC

A/Professor Paul Dawson, Mater Research Institute and UQ : “Sulfate deficiency and adverse neurodevelopment”

17 June 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

A/Professor Paul Dawson
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland

A/Professor Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, London, UK : "Making sense of what you see: cortical and thalamic circuits for vision"

27 May 2020 5:00pm–6:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

A/Professor Sonja Hofer
Group Leader, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
London, UK

JOINT QBI AND UQ PHYSICS SEMINAR: Professor William Bialek, Princeton University and The CUNY Graduate Center, USA : "Statistical mechanics for networks of real neurons"

20 May 2020 10:00am–11:00am

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor William Bialek
Princeton University and The CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Professor David Hume, Mater Research Institute and UQ : "Life without microglia?"

13 May 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor David Hume
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland

2020 Informative Breakfast Series: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)

POSTPONED: Informative Breakfast Series: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)

6 May 2020 7:00am

in Breakfast Series

Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Professor Larry Abbott, Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center : "Multi-layer network learning in an electric fish"

30 April 2020 9:30am–10:30am

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Larry Abbott
Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University, New York

Professor Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London, UK : "Temporal backbone for rapid compressible learning in hippocampus"

22 April 2020 5:00pm–6:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Claudia Clopath
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, UK

A/Professor Tim Bredy, UQ : "Long Noncoding RNAs and Memory"

15 April 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

A/Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute,
University of Queensland

Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London : "Organization of neural activity across the brain"

8 April 2020 5:00pm–6:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Matteo Carandini
University College London
UK

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

1 April 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

2020 Informative Breakfast Series: Parkinson's Disease

31 March 2020 7:00am

in Breakfast Series

Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting Parkinson's research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

A/Professor Peter van Wijngaarden, Centre for Eye Research Australia : “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease"

4 March 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden
Deputy Director and Principal Investigator
Centre for Eye Research Australia & University of Melbourne

The 5th International Lead-DBS Workshop

22 February 2020 7:00am–23 February 2020 5:00pm

in International Lead-DBS Workshop

The 5th International Lead-DBS Workshop will be held at Customs House in Brisbane, 22-23 February 2020.

Professor Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany : "Functional correlates of hippocampal synaptic plasticity".

20 February 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Neuroscience Seminars

Professor Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany

Professor Peter Nestor, UQ : “How degenerative dementias affect the cortex in humans”

Live Webinar: Understanding the brain to treat depression

Dr Steven Zuryn, UQ : "Mitochondrial genome mosaicism and resistance to damage"

CJCADR Public Dementia Forum 2020 - At Home Edition

Professor Jason Mattingley, UQ : "Understanding the role of prediction in sensory encoding"

Professor Jozef Gecz, University of Adelaide : "Movement in the genetics of neurodevelopmental disabilities"

Dr Jess Taubert, National Institute of Mental Health, USA : "The neural basis of social intelligence in primates"

Professor Gwyneth Card, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA : "Small brains, big decisions: uncovering neural mechanisms for real-world choices"

A/Professor Lea K Davis, Vanderbilt University, USA : "Beyond biomarkers: Mining clinical lab data from the Electronic Health Record to advance psychiatric genomics"

Virtual Gold Coast Marathon 2020

Professor Ashley Bush, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, The Florey Institute : "Ferroptosis, iron and neurodegenerative disease"

A/Professor Paul Dawson, Mater Research Institute and UQ : “Sulfate deficiency and adverse neurodevelopment”

A/Professor Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, London, UK : "Making sense of what you see: cortical and thalamic circuits for vision"

JOINT QBI AND UQ PHYSICS SEMINAR: Professor William Bialek, Princeton University and The CUNY Graduate Center, USA : "Statistical mechanics for networks of real neurons"

Professor David Hume, Mater Research Institute and UQ : "Life without microglia?"

POSTPONED: Informative Breakfast Series: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)

Professor Larry Abbott, Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center : "Multi-layer network learning in an electric fish"

Professor Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London, UK : "Temporal backbone for rapid compressible learning in hippocampus"

A/Professor Tim Bredy, UQ : "Long Noncoding RNAs and Memory"

Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London : "Organization of neural activity across the brain"

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

2020 Informative Breakfast Series: Parkinson's Disease

A/Professor Peter van Wijngaarden, Centre for Eye Research Australia : “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease"

The 5th International Lead-DBS Workshop

Professor Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany : "Functional correlates of hippocampal synaptic plasticity".

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