Departmental Seminar series

Our department has a regular weekly seminar program on Mondays during lunchtime (12:30 - 1:30pm) featuring both local and visitor speakers. At present the seminars are held online by Zoom. Presentations cover a range of topics relating to the field of translational neuroscience research across the spectrum from fundamental to clinical/applied research. The duration of presentation are approximately 35 - 40 minutes, followed by a Q&A session of 10 - 15 minutes. If you are interested in attending our seminars, please contact us and we will send you the details to login.

Our audience generally is made up of a mixture of all career level scientists, clinician researchers, and clinicians who do or have an interest translational neuroscience research. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Upcoming seminars

  • 9 May - Dr Brenton Hordacre (Guest speaker, NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, Body in Mind Research group, University of South Australia) - Evidence for a Window of Enhanced Plasticity After Stroke: Clinical Implications and Future Opportunities
  • 16 May - A/Prof Anneke van der Walt (Local speaker, Group leader Dept of Neuroscience), TBA
  • 23 May - Mr Tom Burns (Guest speaker, Late stage PhD student, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Inhibition in memory and traumatic brain injury
  • 30 May -  Professor Raymond Norton and Dr Dorothy Wai (Guest speakers, MIPS), TBA

Video presentations

Here are a few of our International seminars that were recorded which you may be interested in seeing (view time - approximately 60 minutes).

Haar

Animal models for psychiatric dysfunction after traumatic brain injury

Dr Cole Vonder Haar's presentation on using animal models for psychiatric impairments after brain injury.

Donkelaar

Characterising intimate partner violence-related brain injury

Dr Paul van Donkelaar describes the different characterisations of intimate partner violence-related brain injury using measures of symptomology and cerebrovascular and cognitive-motor function.

Irimia

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), blood-brain barrier breakdown and white matter degradation

A/Prof Andrei Irimia outlines recent findings on the relationship between mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), blood-brain barrier breakdown and white matter degradation.

Oxley

Stentrode brain computer interface

A/Prof Thomas Oxley presents an overview of brain computer interfaces and how the Stentrode Endovascular BCI solution is so unique.