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 | ||
Adam Martinac | |||
6‑Oct-23 | Mahsa Seydi | ||
Louise Lavrencic | |||
20-Oct-23 | Prof Ken Butcher | ||
3‑Nov-23 | Professor Tony Lang (TBD) | ||
10-Nov-23 | Justine Gatt | ||
Stephen Phu | |||
17-Nov-23 | Prof Roy Cheung | ||
24-Nov-23 | A/Prof Kathryn Sibley | ||
1‑Dec-23 | Yann Quide & possible Kristie Smith | ||
Kristie Smith (TBD) | |||
15-Dec-23 | Morag Taylor |
Primary contacts
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