Invited Conference and Institutional Talks (National)

April, 2020          Invited speaker at the Brain Awareness Week public outreach lecture (University of New South Wales). Host: Natasha Kumar (Sydney, Australia). DELAYED COVID-19

March, 2020       Invited speaker at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health seminar series (University of Melbourne). Host: Christopher Reid (Melbourne, Australia).

May, 2019           Plenary Lecture at the Kioloa Neuroscience Colloquium (ANS, SfN). Host: Prof Greg Stuart (ANU); Chair: Prof John Bekkers (ANU, Australia).

Sept 2018           Invited speaker at the School of Medicine seminar series (Western Sydney University). Host: Dr Morven Cameron (Sydney, Australia).

July, 2018           Invited speaker at the Neuroscience and Non-Communicable Diseases seminar series (UNSW School of Medical Sciences). Host: Dr Natasha Kumar (Sydney, Australia).

May, 2018           Invited speaker at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences seminar series (Macquarie University). Host: Dr Simon McMullan (Sydney, Australia).

April, 2018          Invited speaker at the Eccles Seminar (John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU). Host: Dr Nathalie Dehorter (Canberra, Australia).

Nov, 2016            Invited speaker at the Queensland Brain Institute Seminar (University of Queensland). Host: Prof Jürgen Götz (Brisbane, Australia).

Aug, 2016            Invited speaker at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Seminar Series (Monash University). Hosts: Dr Adam Morris and Prof Marcello Rosa (Melbourne, Australia)

Dec, 2015            Selected talk at the Systems & Computational Neuroscience Down Under (QBI). Host: Prof Geoff Goodhill (Brisbane, Australia)

Oct, 2015             Invited speaker at the 3rd QBI-MCN Symposium “Constructing the Integrated Brain” (QBI, Brisbane, Australia)

July, 2015           Invited speaker at the Australian Learning Group Midyear Conference (Katoomba, Australia).

July, 2014           Invited speaker at the Queensland Brain Institute Seminar (University of Queensland). Host: Prof Geoff Goodhill (Brisbane, Australia).

July, 2014           Invited speaker at the Australian Learning Group Midyear Conference (Katoomba, Australia).

Jan, 2014            Selected talk at the Australasian Neuroscience Society meeting (Adelaide, Australia).

Oct, 2013             Selected talk at the Biological Psychiatry Australia Society meeting (Brisbane, Australia).

Sept, 2013           Invited speaker at the Recent Advances in Neuroscience Conference “Plasticity, Imaging, Regeneration and Addiction” (University of Sydney). Host: Prof Bernard Balleine (Sydney, Australia).

Invited Conference and Institutional Talks (International)

Sep 2024             Invited speaker at the Department of Anatomy seminar series (Otago University). Host: Prof John Reynolds (Dunedin, New Zealand)

Aug 2024             Invited speaker at the Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (Queenstown)

March 2023         Invited speaker at the Otago brain Research Centre (University of Otago). Host: A/Prof Karl Iremonger (Dunedin, New Zealand)

August 2019        Invited speaker at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (Honolulu University). Host: Prof Peter Balsam (Columbia University, New York)

June 2019           Invited speaker at the Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Integratives d'Aquitaine (University of Bordeaux). Host: Dr Shawna Parkes (France)

Nov, 2017            Invited speaker at the Zuckerman Institute seminar series (Columbia University). Host: Prof Rui Costa (Manhattan, New York, US).

Nov, 2017            Invited speaker at the National Institute of Drugs of Abuse Seminar (NIH). Host: Prof Geoffrey Schoenbaum (Baltimore, Maryland, US).

June, 2017           Invited speaker at the Department of Basic Neuroscience Seminar (University of Geneva). Host: Prof Christian Lüscher (Geneva, Switzerland).

May, 2017            Invited speaker at the Aquitaine Institute for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience (INRIA). Host: Dr Etienne Coutureau (Bordeaux, France).

May, 2017            Invited speaker at the NeuroFrance Symposium “Dynamics of cholinergic signals in health and disease”. Host: Jacques Barik (Bordeaux, France).