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Australian Brain Bee
The Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) is a competition for high school students in year 10 to learn about the brain and its functions, learn about neuroscience research, find out about careers in neuroscience and to dispel misconceptions about neurological and mental illnesses.
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Research in action
Hilliard: Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
Group Leader
Professor Massimo Hilliard
NHMRC Leadership Fellow - GLQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:Queensland Brain Institute
Dr Massimo A. Hilliard received his PhD in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology in 2001 from the University of Naples, Italy. His experimental work, performed at the Institute of Genetics and Biophysics of the CNR (Italian National Council of Research), was aimed at understanding the neuronal and genetic basis of aversive taste behavior (bitter taste) in C. elegans.
During his first postdoc at the University of California, San Diego, using the Ca2+ indicator Cameleon he published the first direct visualisation of chemosensory activity in C. elegans neurons. In his second postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco and at The Rockefeller University, he switched from neuronal function to neuronal development, focusing in particular on how neurons establish and orient their polarity with respect to extracellular cues.
From September 2007, he is at the Queensland Brain Institute where he established an independent laboratory.
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Professor Massimo Hilliard: Molecular and cellular neurobiologyThe Hilliard laboratory is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate neuronal development, maintenance and repair, using C. elegans as a model system. The group’s current research goals are: (1) how the axon, which is the longest of the neuronal processes, is subdivided into structurally and functionally different compartments, (2) how the axon maintains its structure and function over the lifetime of the organism, and (3) how the axon can be repaired when severing damage occurs.
Research Members
Mrs Fiona Ritchie
Senior Research TechnicianQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Dr Alessandra Donato
Postdoctoral Research FellowQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Mehershad Wadia
Research AssistantQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Dr Xue Yan Ho
Honorary FellowQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Dr Ramon Martinez-Marmol
Research FellowQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Students
Dr Igor Bonacossa Pereira
PhD student & Postdoctoral Research FellowQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Lachlan Lu
PhD StudentQueensland Brain InstituteResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:
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