Maintaining world-class research equipment at the Queensland Brain Institute is all part of a day’s work for fitter and turner Ethan Park, who has been named MIGAS Queensland Apprentice of the Year.
Research at The University of Queensland has found that using a vastly cheaper strategy of genetic analysis can be almost as efficient as a more expensive method.
Brother and sister duo, Michael and Deanna Iannantuono, are taking up the challenge to raise funds for QBI by running in this year’s Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane.
Researchers from QBI will be running alongside many people touched by brain disease when they join Team QBI in this year’s Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane charity run on Sunday, 30 August.
Queensland will host 23 of the world’s brightest high school students for the 2015 International Brain Bee neuroscience competition in Cairns from 20-26 August.
Set aside Sunday 30 August in your diary and join Team QBI as the Queensland Brain Institute races for neuroscience research at the Sunday Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to Brisbane on 30 August.
After correctly answering that the cochlear and vestibular nerves are the two branches of the eighth cranial nerve, 15-year-old Abigail Green from Somerville House has become the 2015 Queensland Brain Bee Champion.
Potential future neuroscientists will be tested on their knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, emotions, sleep and memory at the Queensland Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) final at the Queensland Brain Institute next week.
Do you know where your corpus callosum is located? A Queensland Brain Institute researcher at The University of Queensland is on a mission to make sure more people know about the central brain structure by supporting National Corpus Callosum Awareness Day on 2 July.
Researchers have crunched the numbers and calculated the physical limit of accuracy at which our cells can detect concentrations of substances in their environment.
Professor Pankaj Sah has been appointed to the role of Director of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), commencing 1 July 2015, following a highly competitive international search.