Neuroscience seminars at the Queensland Brain Institute play a major role in the advancement of neuroscience in the Asia-Pacific region.
A major goal of this initiative is to promote excellence in neuroscience through the exchange of ideas, establishing new collaborations and augmenting partnerships already in place.
The QBI Neuroscience Seminar series is held weekly, usually on Wednesday afternoons from midday to 1.00 pm in the Level 7 Auditorium of the Queensland Brain Institute, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia Campus.
Details about the next scheduled QBI seminar are always listed here.
Recordings of the QBI Advanced Neuroscience Seminar Series are accessible from here.
For more information about the seminar series or to find out how to participate, please contact Dr Massimo Hilliard on (+61-7) 3346 6390.
2009 seminar series
JANUARY 2009
Wednesday, 21 January — Dr Anders Nykjaer
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark Sortilin - Live or Let Die?
FEBRUARY 2009
Monday, 2 February — Professor John Rubenstein
Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, San Francisco, CA Forebrain Patterning
Wednesday, 4 February — Professor Justin Marshall
School of Biomedical Sciences/ Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland A new form of vision - but why? Circular polarization vision
Wednesday, 11 February — Dr Antony Cooper
Garvan Institute, Sydney) Parkinson's Disease - Identifying the sub-cellular causes
Friday, 13 February — Dr Stephen Williams
Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Electrically Distributed Neurons
Please note special time - 4.00 pm
Wednesday, 18 February — Dr Guy Wallis
School of Human Movement Studies/ Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland In search of a cortical blueprint for object analysis
Wednesday, 25 February — Professor Mayank Mehta Department of Neuroscience, Brown University Synaptic plasticity, place cell plasticity, oscillations and sleep
MARCH 2009
Wednesday, 4 March — Dr Christopher Chambers
BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, School of Psychology, Cardiff University Neural mechanisms of attention: Insights from TMS and concurrent TMS-fMRI
Thursday, 12 March — Dr Klaus M Stiefel
Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Single Neuron Computation
Wednesday, 18 March — Professor Phillip Robinson
Professor in Medicine University of Sydney, Head, Cell Signalling Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute Dynamin and synaptic vesicle endocytosis in nerve terminals
Toshiya Yamada Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, 24 March — Professor Martyn Goulding
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA Going walkabout in the spinal cord: genetic approaches for unravelling the neural networks that control locomotion
Please note special time 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Wednesday, 25 March — Dr Luli Faber
NHMRC R Douglas Wright Fellow, Prefrontal Cortex Lab, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Mecshanisms regulating synaptic excitability in the prefrontal cortex
APRIL 2009
Wednesday, 1 April — Dr Angelique Paulk
Visual Neuroscience, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Visual processing in the insect brain
Wednesday, 8 April — Dr Joanne Britto
Senior Research Officer, Brain Development Laboratory, Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne Travelling neurons- constructing the cerebral cortex
Wednesday, 8 April — Dr Soo-Siang Lim
Director and Chair of the Coordinating Committee, Science of Learning Centers Program, US National Science Foundation The Science of Learning Centres
Please note special time 5.30 - 6.00 pm
Wednesday, 15 April — Mr Duncan Mortimer
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Designing the optimal growth cone
Wednesday, 22 April — Associate Professor Dan Minor
Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, & Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California Structural insights into ion channel function and regulation
Wednesday, 29 April — Dr Elliot Ludvig
Department of Computing Science, The University of Alberta. Real-time Prediction Machines: How Animals Learn to Anticipate the Future
MAY2009
Wednesday, 6 May — Dr Michael Piper
Cortical Development and Axon Guidance Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Nfia regulates cortical glial development via antagonism of the Notch effector Hes1
Thursday, 7 May — Professor George Augustine
Professor of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Synaptic biophotonics: Novel optogenetic methods for defining brain circuitry
Wednesday, 13 May — Professor John McGrath
Director, Epidemiology and Developmental Neurobiology, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research,
Head of QBI Schizophrenia Group, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Advanced paternal age and neurodevelopmental disorders - linking epidemiology with neurobiology
Monday, 18 May — Australia - China Workshop on Neuroscience and Cognition between Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland and Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Please note special time 8.30 am - 5.00 pm Wednesday, 20 May — Dr James Crane
Research Fellow Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Aversive stimuli synchronize neuronal activity and reset oscillatory phase in the basolateral amygdala
Wednesday, 27 May — Associate Professor Mark Bellgrove
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Linking attentional phenotypes to candidate genes
JUNE 2009
Wednesday, 3 June — Professor Matt Brown
Professor of Immunogenetics, Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland Common disease genetics in the era of genomewide association studies
Wednesday, 10 June — NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, 17 June — Associate Professor Ross Cunnington
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland The perception of action and the mirror neuron system
Wednesday, 24 June —Ms Divya Unni
Cortical Development and Axon Guidance Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Slits regulate glial development and corpus callosum formation
JULY 2009
Wednesday, 1 July — NO SEMINAR Tuesday, 7 July
12:00pm - 12:30pm — Professor Ben Oldroyd
Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab, University of Sydney Searching for a gene for altruism. Genomic studies of anarchistic honey bees
12:30pm - 1:00pm— Associate Professor Madeleine Beekman
Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab, University of Sydney What maintains the natural honeybee hybrid zone in South Africa?
Wednesday, 8 July — NO SEMINAR Monday, 13 July — Professor Tom Albright
Professor and Director Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California Adapting to Environmental Change: Lessons from Color-Opponency in the Primate Visual System Please note special time 3.00 pm Tuesday, 14 July — 8:45am - 4:30pm Queensland Brain Institute Workshop
CORPUS CALLOSUM DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS
Wednesday, 15 July — Dr Elliott Sherr
Pediatric Neurologist, UCSF Children's Hospital, San Fransisco Building a brain – developmental and genetic causes of epilepsy and agenesis of the corpus callosum Please note special time 5.30 pm Friday, 17 July — Professor Wieland Huttner
Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Neurogenesis and the cell biology of neural stem and progenitor cells
Wednesday, 22 July — Associate Professor Geoff Goodhill Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Building a Brain – wiring the brain Please note special time 3.30 - 5.30 pm Wednesday, 29 July — Professor Seong-Seng Tan Senior Principal Research Fellow, Brain Development Laboratory, Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne Building a Brain - harm minimization following injury Please note special time 3.30 - 5.30 pm
AUGUST 2009
Wednesday, 5 August — Professor Dennis O'Leary Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California Building a Brain – building the cerebral cortex Please note special time 3.30 - 5.30 pm Wednesday, 12 August— NO SEMINAR Thursday, 13 August — Prof. Michael T. Shipley University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA Building a Brain – deciphering functional circuits in the brain Please note special time 3.30 - 5.30 pm Wednesday, 19 August — Dr John Power Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Neuronal Calcium Waves: What do they do?
Wednesday, 26 August — NO SEMINAR
Thursday, 27 August — Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture - 2009 Professor Harvey Whiteford Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland Title: The Global Burden of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Please note special time 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm Friday, 28 August
Please note special time 10.00am - 11.00am Professor Claes Wahlestedt Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida Regulatory RNAs in CNS Disorders
12.00 noon - 1.00 pm
Ms Vilija Jokubaitis Multiple Sclerosis Group, Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne Identification and characterisation of Dab2 - a novel regulator of microglial activation
Monday, 31 August — Dr Volker Neugebauer Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas, Medical Branch Amygdalo-cortical plasticity in pain
SEPTEMBER 2009
Wednesday, 2 September — Professor Herbert Herzog Director, Neuroscience Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney Central control of energy homeostasis via the Neuropeptite Y system
Thursday, 3 September — 9.30am - 4.30pm
Charles Watson short course
Friday, 4 September — 9.30am - 4.30pm
Charles Watson short course
Monday, 7 September — Frontiers in Spinal Cord Research
Tuesday, 8 September — Frontiers in Spinal Cord Research
Wednesday, 9 September — Professor Darwin Berg Professor of Biology, Section of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego Title: Organizing nicotinic input and using it to control glutamate synapse formation in brain
Tuesday, 15 September — Dr Kaylene Young Research Fellow, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, United Kingdom Title: The life of an oligo progenitor - from birth to old age Wednesday, 16 September — Professor Bryan Mowry Executive Director and Director of Genetics, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research Adjunct Professor Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
Title: Towards identifying genetic variants predisposing to schizophrenia
Wednesday, 23 September— NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, 30 September — NO SEMINAR
OCTOBER 2009
Tuesday, 6 October — Dr. Jochen Zeil Visual Sciences Group, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University
Title: View-based Homing
Wednesday, 7 October — Ms DanaKai Bradford Neural Migration Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
Title: Studies in Differentiation and Migration in the Adult Mammalian Brain with emphasis on the multi-functional receptor Neogenin
Wednesday, 14 October —Dr Tara Walker Research Associate, Neural Plasticity Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Title: Activation of a latent hippocampal stem cell: identifying factors theat regulate adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Wednesday, 21 October —NO SEMINAR Wednesday, 28 October — Mr Benjamin Sivyer ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Title: A retinal ganglion cell that breaks all the rules.
NOVEMBER 2009
Wednesday, 4 November — Assistant Professor Kang Shen Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA
Title: Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation and axonal transport
Thursday, 5 November — Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti Department of Neurosciences, Universita' Degli Studi Di Parma, Italy Inaugural Merson Lecture Title: The mirror mechanism: a neural mechanism to understand others Please note special time 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Thursday, 12 November — Professor Anirvan Ghosh
Professor and Chair, Section of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego Title: Regulation of synaptic specificity in a developing neural circuit
Wednesday, 18 November - Professor Peter Gunning Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC Head Oncology Research Unit
Department of Pharmacology School of Medical Sciences University of New South Wales
Title: Regulation of neuronal morphogenesis by the actin cytoskeleton
Wednesday, 25 November — Professor Michael A. Arbib Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Southern California Title: Template Construction Grammar and the Description of Visual Scenes
Wednesday, 25 November — Dr Christine Wells
Research Fellow, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Studies, Griffith University Title: Networking through the nose
Please note special time 4:00 - 5:00pm
DECEMBER 2009
Wednesday, 2 December —NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, 9December —NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, 16 December —NO SEMINAR
JANUARY 2010
Wednesday, 27 January —Associate Professor Yimin Zou
Section of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego Title: TBA
FEBRUARY 2010
Thursday, 4 February — Associate Professor Shubha Tole
Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India Creating the cortex, assembling the amygdala Please note special time 10.30am - 11.30am
February 4-5 MND Symposium
February 10-12 2nd Queensland Brain Institute Short Course in Computational Neuroscience
