Thank you for making a difference this UQ Giving Day! One of our loyal QBI donors, Maureen Stevenson, has pledged to match donations, which means your donation of $10 becomes $20 or $100 will become $200 for QBI research. Please give today: https://t.co/yvdUvcKv50 #UQGivingDay

UQ Giving Day 2025 is on Wednesday, 15 October! But you do not have to wait until then. By donating to brain research today, you can be the catalyst in turning hope into healing. Every donation to QBI research will be tripled-matched.* Please give today: https://t.co/yvdUvcL2Uy

Your brain is incredible 😍 As QBI researcher Montana Samantzis explains, even after a traumatic injury, your brain has the capacity to repair itself! #UQ #QBI #braininjury #brainresearch

A wormhole in our universe? Animation of a curled up C. elegans nematode imaged with a spinning disk confocal, deconvolved and rendered using the Huygens Software. C/o Igor Bonacossa Pereira @HilliardLab, @QldBrainInst. #Neuroscience #microscopy #deconvolution #imageanalysis

Dr. Barbora Fulopova @BarbFulop from @QldBrainInst will explore proprioception, our body's vital sense of self-awareness. Her project at the University of Fribourg 🇨🇭 aims to develop advanced robotic systems to understand how the brain processes proprioceptive information.

Excited to announce our group leader @JohnDGLee has been awarded the Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowship at @QldBrainInst! We are so excited to continue our research on #MotorNeuronDisease at #QBI - read more👇🏻 https://t.co/EZFHb3ZE25 #MND #UQ @UQ_News

Dr Esteban Cruz Gonzalez is studying tau antibodies as a potential immunotherapy treatment aimed at targeting harmful protein aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease. This image illustrates the formation of intracellular tau aggregates upon seeding in HEK Tau biosensor cells. “We used

🧠Congratulations, Joris Geigenmueller the recipient of the Alastair Rushworth Research Endowment PhD Award. Established in 2020 by Mrs Janice Rushworth in memory of her late husband, Alastair, who passed away from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, this Research Endowment Fund

Get behind one of QBI’s rising stars, Drew! QBI researcher Dr @DrewCylinder will represent Queensland as one of 12 finalists at the FameLab Australia Final on September 18. Drew’s talking about how general anaesthetics disrupt neurotransmitter release. FameLab is a live science

“I'm very confident that we can eventually come up with a cure for Alzheimer's disease.” Professor Jürgen Götz. Professor Götz is the Director of QBI’s Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research. This week, he will be formally admitted as a Fellow to the @Science_Academy,

Don’t miss QBIC's Brain Injury Community Roadshow in Townsville this Saturday! Whether you're personally affected by brain injury, a carer, or community supporter, this event will provide an opportunity to build connections, discover local supports and community resources, and

Our Heads Up event on Monday offered a fascinating look into concussion research, featuring powerful insights from former footy players and leading experts in the field. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us. Find out more about QBI concussion research:

QBI’s Professor Barry Dickson has recently been awarded a $3 million NHMRC grant to study how chronic stress affects neural connectivity. Over the course of his career, Professor Dickson’s lab has mapped the 130,000 neurons and 30 million synapses in the brain of a fruit fly to

Deep fake fraud isn’t coming—it’s already here. From AI-generated voices stealing veterans’ benefits to fake documents slipping past identity checks, these threats move faster than traditional defenses. Learn more

Tonight's the night! This Brain Injury Awareness Week, join us to hear from leading researcher in brain injury, Associate Professor Fatima Nasrallah, and other experts as they discuss concussion research and the future tech aiming to improve diagnosis. Heads Up: Concussion,

Today at QBI, we proudly hosted the UQ Ideas Forum as part of National Science Week. Year 10 students from Canterbury College, Mansfield State High School, and Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics & Technology took on the challenge of presenting a solution to a real-world

Latest research published in Nature Protocols puts the spotlight on a new super resolution imaging technique pioneered by QBI researchers. Scientists can now track proteins in space and time– by their conformation, movement, and clustering patterns – at the nanoscale. This is a

We were delighted to welcome Professor Jason Shepherd from the University of Utah to QBI this week. Professor Shepherd shared his fascinating research on the neuronal gene Arc, which is essential for information storage in the brain. Even more intriguing, Arc exhibits virus-like

Jay Ruderman speaks with @LizzySavetsky, a longtime activist and influencer who turned her activism and social media presence towards Israel after October 7th. Listen to the podcast episode now.

🧠✨ Memory remains one of the brain’s most fascinating mysteries. A study from QBI's Meunier and Dehorter labs, published in The EMBO Journal, uncovers how saturated free fatty acids may influence memory formation. Huge congrats to Professor Fred Meunier and the team for

Meet @wallabies Team Physician and @qldhealth Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr Gary Mitchell, during Brain Injury Awareness Week as part of an engaging panel discussion and an interactive Q&A session to explore concussion in sport. Hear from experts in sports, medicine and