A/Prof Lisa Williams (UNSW)Driving EDI with data: How data-driven approaches can advance equity in the STEM sector Abstract Advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion is a moral and operational imperative in today’s society, especially in the STEM sector. Establishing what to do to shift the dial in this space, and evaluating if it’s working, is essential yet […]
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Dr Llew Mills (USYD)What works and why: two approaches to the treatment of addiction Abstract Addiction affects everyone, either directly through their own struggles or indirectly through the struggles of their friends and family. Yet it remains one of the most challenging disorders to treat. Medical addiction research tends to be pre-occupied with what treatments […] |
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A/Prof Vincent Laurent (UNSW)Cholinergic regulation of fear by the basal forebrain Abstract The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the infralimbic (IL) region of the medial prefrontal cortex are heavily implicated in fear regulation. These two regions receive dense cholinergic projections from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) and/or the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of […] |
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Dr Erin Goddard (UNSW)Visual feature binding and colour constancy: similar processes? Abstract Different regions in visual cortex show specialisation for encoding different visual features, giving rise the question of how these features are ‘bound together’ to create a unitary percept of each object. I will show recent work based on classification of magnetoencephalography (MEG) data […] |
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