QBI researchers have received more than $2.7 million in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grants to explore topics ranging from how sensory experience modulates sense of smell through to the role of micro-RNAs in the learning and memory of insects.
The beauty and majesty of birds in flight has long captured the attention of artists and photographers. Now QBI researchers have unlocked the secrets of how birds avoid collisions as they soar, swoop, dive, glide and engage in other aeronautic manoeuvres.
Researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have taken a significant step towards unravelling the mechanism by which communication between brain cells occurs.
Researchers are a step closer to unravelling the genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia following the largest genome-wide association study of the disorder ever undertaken.
Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism that may explain why the children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia or autism.
Australian researchers have discovered a new way to block the action of botulinum toxin, which may pave the way for more effective treatments of the life-threatening disease botulism.
QBI neuroscientists have shed new light on the processes involved in loosening the grip of fear-related memories, particularly those implicated in conditions such as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Professor Jason Mattingley has been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Australia Laureate Fellowship announced by Federal Science Minister Kim Carr.
The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (UQDI) will further strengthen their research ties with China following the opening in Shanghai this month of a joint laboratory dedicated to exploring how genes influence brain development and function.
Teresa Tang from Brisbane State High School has been crowned the 2011 Queensland Brain Bee Champion in a battle of neuroscience knowledge held in Brisbane.
Nina Ruzsicska from Darwin High School has been crowned the 2011 Northern Territory Brain Bee Champion in a battle of neuroscience knowledge held in Brisbane.
More than 130 of the smartest high school students from Queensland and the Northern Territory will converge on the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) next week to contest state and territory crowns in the State Finals of the 2011 Australian Brain Bee Challenge.
Fancy taking a peek inside the classroom of the future? Australia’s first Science of Learning Symposium, to be hosted by the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) next week, will shine a spotlight on how the latest advances in neuroscience can inform educational practice.
Queensland Brain Institute researchers are a step closer to unlocking the mysteries of disorders like schizophrenia and autism – through peering into the brains of bees.
Surprising findings from a study into the brains of transgenic mice carrying the Huntington’s disease mutation could pave the way for treatments which delay the onset and progression of this devastating genetic disease.
In humans, regeneration of the peripheral nervous system after injury remains a hit-or-miss affair, while brain and spinal cord damage usually results in lifelong disabilities.
The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is pleased to announce that Professor Tianzi Jiang has joined the University of Queensland (UQ) in an appointment shared between QBI and the Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI).
For up to five per cent of the population, checking the time, counting change at the cash register or practically anything else to do with numbers can be a nightmare.