NeuRA Seminar Series 2023

The NeuRA Seminar Series aims to provide the opportunity to listen to interesting and leading research across all fields of neuroscience. Presenters will include a mix of NeuRA-based scientists, as well as invited presentations from external domestic and international scientific experts. The presentations are held Fridays fortnightly at 12 noon online and in the Level 3 John and Betty Lynch Seminar Room. The presentations aim to run for one hour.

The Seminar Committee is also continuing NeuRA Fast Talks / Drinks Series for 2023. This is an internal networking event that aims to occur monthly on the third Wednesday of the month from 4pm, this will include 3 – 4 NeuRA speakers followed by casual drinks.

If you are interested in attending these seminars and wish to be added to the regular email mailing list, please fill out the form.

Date

Speakers

Group/​Institution

Topic

24-Feb-23

Professor Carolyn Sue

NeuRA

Recharging the batteries: Prequel to the Nix gene therapy story

10-Mar-23

Mr Rodrigo Rizzo 

McAuley

Optimising the management of low back pain: New intervention targets and process evaluations

Mr Michael Wewege

McAuley

Improving the use of analgesic medicines for low back pain

24-Mar-23

Ms Kathryn Leany

Cancer Voices

Consumer Involvement in Research Grant Reviews

7‑April-23

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

21-April-23

Ms Sharon Wall

Radford

Aboriginal Health and Ageing Research – an Aboriginal ally perspective

Ms Sophie Debs

Purves-Tyson

Exploring the relationship between neuroinflammation, sex hormones and dopamine dysregulation in schizophrenia

5‑May-23

Professor Jackie Curtis

Mindgardens Neuroscience Network

Keeping the Body in Mind: Improving the physical health of people living with severe mental illness.

19-May-23

A/​Prof Ingvars Birznieks

Birznieks

The secret of tiny movements to sense friction and ovoid slips: the story of hands and feet

2‑Jun-23

Mr Brian Chow

Herbert

Muscle growth in the lower legs of typically developing children

16-Jun-23

Dr Jun Cao

Rae

A new paradigm for neuroscience: magnetic resonance electrical properties tomography

Keith McNaughton

Euan McCaughey

Using abdominal functional electrical stimulation (AFES) to improve bowel function in people with spinal cord injury

30-Jun-23

Professor Geraldine O’Neill

Head of the Children’s Cancer Research Unit, Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Conjoint Professor with the University of Sydney.

Model Behaviour: Improving preclinical assessment of therapies for treating children with brain cancer

28-July-23

Professor Roland Henry

Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco

Spinal cord atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis

25-August-23

Dr Kim van Schooten

Prof Kim Delbaere Group

StandingTall to prevent falls: replication, learnings from telehealth and a meta-analysis

Ms Samantha Millard

Prof Siobhan Schabrun Group

Does changing brain wave speed change pain sensitivity?

8‑Sep-23

Prof Sharon Lewin

Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, Doherty Institute, Melbourne

Towards a cure for HIV – the role of immunotherapy and gene therapy

15-Sep-23

Prof Melissa Bauman

University of California, Davis

Altered neurodevelopment in a nonhuman primate model of maternal immune activation

22-Sep-23

Chiettha Prajnadewie

NeuRA

Voluntary activation of the respiratory muscles determined by spinal root magnetic stimulation during graded respiratory efforts

Adam Martinac

NeuRA

Effect of Yawning on CSF and blood flow through the neck

6‑Oct-23

Mahsa Seydi

NeuRA

How pain affects gait in older people: Development of a senior-specific pain scale and evaluation of pathways to remediate pain’s effect on falls

3‑Nov-23

Professor Anthony Lang

Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada

SynNeurGe: Proposed Research Criteria for a Biological Classification of Parkinson’s Disease

10-Nov-23

Justine Gatt

NeuRA

A mental wellbeing research update

17-Nov-23

Prof Roy Cheung

From Analysis to Application: Harnessing Biomechanics for Health and Performance

24-Nov-23

A/​Prof Kathryn Sibley

Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada

Health translation

Prof Danielle Bouchard

Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick

TBC

1‑Dec-23

Yann Quide

Kristie Smith (TBD)

15-Dec-23

Morag Taylor

Primary contacts

Dr Jasmine Menant, Chair (email hidden; JavaScript is required)

Dr Bart Bolsterlee, Deputy chair (email hidden; JavaScript is required)

Dr Annie Palermo (email hidden; JavaScript is required)

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