Professor Josh Kaplan, Harvard : "From compost to the clinic: using C. elegans to study psychiatric disorders"

18 January 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Josh Kaplan
Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 USA

Professor Mike Cousin, Edinburgh University : “Activity-dependent bulk endocytosis: presynaptic function and dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease”  

23 January 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Mike Cousin
Chair of Neuronal Cell Biology, Centre for Integrative Physiology, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh,  Scotland

Dr Lin Kooi Ong, University of Newcastle : “Modulating the trajectory of brain recovery after stroke from bench to bedside"

7 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Lin Kooi Ong
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Dame Linda Partridge, Max Planck Institute Germany and University College London : "The ageing fly nervous system"

14 February 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Dame Linda Partridge
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany and Institute for Healthy Ageing, and GEE, University College London, UK

Shanzhi Yan, UQ : "NMDA Receptors in the Neural Circuit Underlying Fear Learning"

21 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Shanzhi Yan (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Sajikumar Sreedharan, National University of Singapore : "The p75 neurotrophin receptor is a necessary mediator of synaptic and behavioral changes induced by sleep deprivation"

28 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Saji Kumar Sreedharan
Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597

Casey Linton, UQ : "Function and regulation of the fusogen EFF-1 during axonal repair"

7 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Casey Linton (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
International Women’s Day 2018

International Women’s Day 2018

8 March 2018 12:00pm
International Women’s Day Discussion Followed By The Inaugural QBI Networking Lunch
Please join us on International Women’s Day for a lively discussion on “Whose responsibility is it to effect change?” Hear about challenges, accomplishments and what role organisations versus individuals play in effecting change. 

A/Professor Ethan Scott, UQ : "Whole-brain imaging of sensory processing in larval zebrafish”

14 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Ethan Scott
Head, Laboratory for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Marcel Kool, German Cancer Research Center : "Molecular characterization of pediatric brain tumors and preclinical models"

20 March 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Marcel Kool
German Cancer Research Center, Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Adekunle Bademosi, UQ : "Lateral trapping of syntaxin1A in nanodomains: key to neuroexocytosis?"

28 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Adekunle Bademosi (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

YeJin Chai, UQ : "A highly Munc18-ocentric Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

4 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
YeJin Chai (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Jazzing up the Brain

10 April 2018 6:00pm7:00pm

Dr Nathalie Dehorter, ANU : "Molecular Control of Interneuron Identity"

11 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Nathalie Dehorter
Group Leader at the Eccles Institute for Neuroscience,
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra

Parkinson's Breakfast

12 April 2018 7:15am9:00am
You are invited to an exclusive breakfast event to hear the latest insights into Parkinson’s Disease research at QBI.

A/Professor Adam Vogel, VIC : "Who cares about speech and what can it tell us?"

13 April 2018 2:30pm3:30pm
A/Professor Adam Vogel
Director
Centre for Neuroscience of Speech, The University of Melbourne, VIC

Katie Drummond, VIC: "Influence of Psychological Stress on Fear Extinction during Development"

18 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Katie Drummond
The Florey Neuroscience Institute of Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC

Dr Tara Walker, Germany : "Cell death in adult hippocampal neurogenesis is ferroptotic and rescued by selenium"

19 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Tara Walker
Senior Research Associate, Kempermann Group
Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden, Germany

MND Awareness Breakfast

9 May 2018 7:00am9:00am
Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting Motor Neurone Disease research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Professor Jonathon Howard, Yale : "Dendritic Branching Morphogenesis: Motors and Cytoskeleton"

11 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Jonathon Howard
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Yale University, USA

Marge Maallo, UQ : "Neural correlates of visual function in agenesis of the corpus callosum"

15 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Marge Maallo (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

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