Queensland Brain Institute

Events

Dr Alexandra Grubman, VIC : "Distinct microglial phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease are controlled by amyloid plaque phagocytosis"

6 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Alexandra Grubman,
Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800

Dr Martin Smith, NSW : "Going beyond the basepair with nanopores"

12 February 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Martin Smith
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Victoria Street, New South Wales

A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya, VIC : "Conscious perception and its neural substrate: integration and dynamics"

20 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya
School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3168

International Women's Day 2019

6 March 2019 11:00am–1:30pm
 
in International Women's Day
Join us to hear Mrs Raynuha Sinnathamby, Managing Director of Springfield City Group speak as part of an International Women’s Day Panel Discussion and Lunch.

Dr Laura Gumy, New Zealand : "MAP2-dependent regulation of axonal transport"

13 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Laura Gumy,
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

Professor Luis Puelles, Spain : "An introduction to the prosomeric model"

14 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Luis Puelles
Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology
University of Murcia, Spain

Dr Dorit Kliemann, USA : "Functional brain networks in hemispherectomy"

14 March 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Dorit Kliemann
Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Ralph Adolph’s Emotion and Social Cognition lab
Caltech

Neuroanatomy Workshop

15 March 2019 9:00am–4:00pm
 
in Neuroanatomy Workshop
We have the honour of hosting Professors Luis Puelles and Charles Watson, both renowned international authorities in comparative neuroanatomy, for this year’s Advanced Neuroanatomy Workshop.

Dr Graham Murray, UQ : "From dopamine to delusions: mechanisms of psychotic symptom formation"

20 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Graham Murray
Visiting Academic 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Professor John Nurnberger, USA : “Emerging themes in the genetics of bipolar disorder”

27 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor John Nurnberger
Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

2019 MND Breakfast

3 April 2019 7:00am–8:45am
 
in Breakfast Series
Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Professor Preben Bo Mortensen, Denmark : "iPSYCH: studying nature and nurture in mental disorders in Denmark"

10 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Preben Bo Mortensen
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Elly Nedivi, USA : "Visualizing molecular events in synapse formation in vivo"

23 April 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Elly Nedivi
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA

Hand Heart Pocket Gala 2019

26 April 2019 6:30pm–10:30pm
 
in Hand Heart Pocket Gala
QBI and Dementia Australia are delighted to invite you to the fourth Hand Heart Pocket Gala event, to be held at Queensland Parliament House, on Friday 26th April.

A/Professor Tom Burne, UQ : " The role of vitamin D in the adult brain"

8 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Tom Burne,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

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

13 May 2019 1:30pm–4:30pm
 
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.

Dr Matilde Balbi, Canada : "Activity dependent neuroprotection in the acute phase after stroke"

13 May 2019 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Matilde Balbi
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Nancy Kanwisher, USA : "Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind"

22 May 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Nancy Kanwisher
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Professor Michael Hausser FRS, UK : "All-optical closed-loop manipulation of neural circuits in vivo"

23 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Professor Michael Hausser FRS
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK

Dr Michael Lazarou, VIC : "Culling Bad Mitochondria: The Molecular Mechanisms of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy"

29 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Michael Lazarou
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Monash University VIC

Dr Tim O'Shea, USA : "Bioengineering neural repair in the central nervous system"

30 May 2019 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Tim O'Shea
Departments of Neurobiology and Bioengineering,  David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr Albert Lee, NSW : "Application of proteomics to characterise mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases”

5 June 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Albert Lee
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales

Informative Breakfast: What do we really know about the brain?

12 June 2019 7:00am–9:00am
 
in Breakfast Series
Join us for an informative breakfast session discussing What do we really know about the brain?, with researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute.

Dr Dimitri Perrin, QUT : "Whole-brain 3D imaging and quantitative analysis"

12 June 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
Dr Dimitri Perrin
Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Data Science Group
Queensland University of Technology

A/Professor Jared W. Young, USA : "Delineating potential mechanisms underlying bipolar disorder using cross-species testing"

19 June 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Jared W. Young
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA

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