New year, new team photo! 📸✨. Our researchers and staff remain committed to improving lives by better understanding the brain in health and disease. We look forward to what the rest of this year will bring. #UQ #QBI #research #neuroscience #health

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

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

🧠✨ 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

Brains were buzzing at QBI on Tuesday, when we proudly hosted the Queensland finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge. High school students from across the state joined our researchers for a day filled with neuroscience and competition. Congratulations to our place

Kickstart your next brain injury research project! The QBIC Seed Funding Grant Scheme is now open for 2025, This is your opportunity to secure funding to test a new concept or gather data to support the next breakthrough. 🧠. We’re awarding grants up to $30,000 for 18-month

It's World Brain Day! We asked QBI researchers some questions about the brain - from their favourite type of brain to busting some brain myths. Thanks to Drew Cylinder, Rebecca Lee and Montana Samantzis for sharing these amazing facts🧠. #UQ #QBI #BrainResearch #WorldBrainDay

🎶 What do songbirds and brain science have in common?. Last week at QBI, we welcomed Professor David Perkel from the University of Washington, who took us on a fascinating journey into the neural circuits behind birdsongs. 🐦. His research reveals how neural circuits within

Congratulations to Associate Professor Sally Staton for securing an ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellowship. Her research focuses on the role of early education and care in supporting young children’s immediate and on-going social-emotional, cognitive and physical development.

Join us in Brain Injury Awareness Week for an engaging panel discussion and an interactive Q&A session to explore concussion in sport 🧠. Hear from experts in sports, medicine and research as they discuss the hidden risks of concussion, long-term injury factors, and the

🎓 A huge day for neuroscience at UQ! Seventeen brilliant PhD researchers from QBI graduated today from The University of Queensland — a momentous milestone in their scientific journeys!. 🌟 Special shoutout to Hilary Yong, who received the prestigious Dean's Award for

QBI researchers have developed a cutting-edge device that combines ultrasound with advanced imaging to provide insight into the safe delivery of drugs to the brain. According to Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan, it lets scientists watch individual brain cells in real time after

We’re setting the scene here at QBI’s microscopy labs for a State of Origin showdown!. Did you know that QBI is home to the first super-resolution microscope in QLD? This superior technology has had a significant impact on brain research. Read more: . #UQ

Last month, Souths Rugby Union Club Incorporated held a fundraiser for QBI's Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowship, raising $165,000. The Fellowship is dedicated to fundamental research of the underlying neurological factors behind motor neurone disease. A massive thanks to