Brain Sciences UNSW - Research Presentations/Meetings

New presentations and meetings will be announced at News & Events

A Short Course in Diffusion Imaging - 1 October - Program
Co-sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW

6th Congress of The International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN) - 1-4 September - Program
Co-sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW

Brain Sciences UNSW Symposium 2009 - The Emotional Brain - 31 August - Program (PDF)
Winners of Brain Sciences UNSW 2009 Symposium Best Poster Award - Dr Eryn Werry (postdoctoral section) and Zayra Millan (postgraduate section).
Professor Hugo Critchley, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK, presented the plenary session "Visceral Influences on Emotional Processing" as Brain Sciences UNSW Senior Overseas Presenter 2009.

Professor Phil Mitchell

Professor Gordon Parker

Australian Brain Bee Challenge, NSW State Finals - 16 June - Program (PDF)
Individual winners: 1st: Andrew Li, James Ruse Agricultural High School; 2nd: Elizabeth Huynh, James Ruse Agricultural High School; 3rd: Jedda Elliott, The Illawarra Grammar School
Team winners: 1st: Baulkham Hills High School; 2nd: James Ruse Agricultural High School; 3rd: The Hills Grammar School

Cellular Neuroscience and Imaging Techniques Symposium - 6 May - Program (PDF)
Department of Physiology (SOMS) in conjunction with Brain Sciences UNSW.

GeneMappers 2009 - 7th Australian Human Gene Mapping Conference - 14-17 April - Program (PDF)
Co-sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW.

Brain Sciences UNSW Special Presentation - 2 April hosted by Assoc. Prof. Michael Breakspear
Jean Paul Thivierge, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University.
Topic: "Neurons that Keep the Rhythm"

Brain Sciences UNSW Special Presentation - 6 February hosted by Assoc. Prof. Michael Breakspear
David McCormick, Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine.
Topic: David McCormick has made major contributions to our understanding of basic neurophysiology, from individual synapses up to the scale of neuronal networks, and how these relate to perception, learning and memory. His current research interests include fast visual cortical plasticity, persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex, and sleep-related activity in the cortex.

Brain Sciences UNSW Special Lecture - 5 November - Program (PDF)
Dr Yong HE, Investigator of State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Topic: Structural Brain Networks Studied with Structural MRI and Diffusion MRI


Poster Display

Brain Sciences UNSW Symposium 2008 - 26 September - Program (PDF)
Winners of Brain Sciences UNSW 2008 Symposium Best Poster Award - Dr Frank Cloutier (postdoctoral section) and Rebecca St George (postgraduate section).
Associate Professor Andrew Fuglevand, College of Medicine, Tucson Arizona, presented the plenary session "Neural Control of the Hand" as Brain Sciences UNSW Senior Overseas Researcher 2008.

Neural Stem Cells and Regenerative Neuroscience Workshop - 6 September - Program (PDF)
Workshop leaders included: Professor Hideyuki Okano, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan; Professor Brent Reynolds, Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida. Co-sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW.

Australian Brain Bee Challenge, NSW State Finals - 25 June - Program (PDF)
Individual winner: Jayson Jeganathan (Baulkham Hills High School)
Team winner: Jacqueline Lai, Jessie Jung, Tina Guan and Aditi Halder (James Ruse Agricultural High School)

Brain Connectivity Workshop - 12-13 June
Associate Professor Michael Breakspear, School of Psychiatry UNSW, Further Information: BCW website

Visiting Academic - Dr Bertram Opitz - 11 June - Program (PDF)
Dr Bertram Opitz, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany will visit UNSW (co-sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW).
Topic: "Mismatch Negativity in Cognition and Disease: A neurobiological index of change in the auditory environment, and its application in schizophrenia research"

Special Brain Sciences UNSW Presentation - 28 March - Further Information (PDF)
Professor Alison Wray, Cardiff University
Topic: Language Profiling for Twin Studies

Academic Visit to UNSW by Professor Scott Makeig (UCSD) on 17 September, sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW
Professor Scott Makeig, Director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California.
Topic: "Brain Rhythms / Brain Noise: Human Brain Dynamics from the Top Down"

Professor Makeig's influential work includes novel methods for the analysis of EEG and neuroimaging data and a sophisticated conceptual framework for the interpretation of results. Together with Professors Terrence Sejnowski and Tony Bell, Makeig introduced the use of Independent Components Analysis (ICA) into neuroscience research.

Brain Sciences UNSW Symposium, 13 September - Program (PDF)
Winners of Brain Sciences UNSW 2007 Symposium Best Poster Award - Dr Janice Fullerton (postdoctoral section) and Angela Laird (postgraduate section).


Symposium - Galleries Room, Scientia, UNSW	Poster Display

Special Brain Sciences UNSW Presentation - 27 August
Dr James Blair, Chief of the Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at NIMH, USA on "The amygdala and ventromedial frontal cortex in psychopathy and morality". Discussant: Professor Mark Dadds, School of Psychology, UNSW

Special School of Psychology and Brain Sciences UNSW presentation - 20 August
Professor Ina Weiner (Tel Aviv University), the world expert on the latent inhibition model of schizophrenia and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at UNSW.
Title: "Schizophrenia like abnormalities and their prevention following prenatal maternal immune system activation: Modelling the disorder and its prodrome?"
Chair: Scientia Professor Fred Westbrook, School of Psychology, UNSW
Discussant: A/Professor Philip Ward, School of Psychiatry, UNSW; Director, Schizophrenia Research Unit, Sydney South West Area Health Service

Nobel Laureate Peter Agre visited UNSW in July and a lecture was sponsored by Brain Sciences UNSW, Contact: Professor George Paxinos - Lecture details (PDF)

Advances in Hearing Research Symposium. Sponsored by the Garvan Institute and Brain Sciences UNSW, 24 July - Program (PDF)

The Australian Brain Bee Challenge, 15 March - A national event coinciding with Brain Awareness Week - Program (PDF)

Image Methods Analysis Group, inaugural meeting in February, Brain Sciences UNSW - Program (PDF)

INA/Brain Sciences UNSW Neurophilosophy Workshop, 10 September - Program (PDF)

Advances in Brain Function Symposium, Garvan Institute and Brain Sciences UNSW, 10 August - Program (PDF)