Sydney-Fudan Brain and Mind Research Workshop

You are warmly invited to the Sydney – Fudan Brain and Mind Research Workshop to grow your academic network and strengthen research collaboration in the field of brain and mind research!

Enjoy a full program of inspiring talks, engaging discussion, and a networking lunch, along with plenty of opportunities to meet new colleagues and collaborators.

Keynote speakers

Glymphatic and Perivascular Space dysfunction is the cause of all diseases in the brain.

Professor Meng Law, Departments of Neuroscience, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Director of iBRAIN – Integrated Bioinformatics Research in AI and Neuroimaging, Monash University

Alzheimer's Disease Cohort and Precision Medicine Research

Professor Jintai Yu, Deputy Director of Department of Neurology in Huashan Hospital, Fudan University

Research Presentations

Sleep disturbance in the risk for cognitive decline and dementia

Professor Sharon Naismith, Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology, School of Psychology, Head, the Healthy Brain Ageing Program at the Brain and Mind Centre, BISA Academic Lead, The University of Sydney

Brain State Dependent Deep Brain Stimulation

Professor Shouyan Wang, Deputy Dean, Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University

Sensor Systems and Health Informatics

Professor Wei Chen, Head, School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney

Heterogeneous signal processing in sleep staging

Associate Professor Chen Chen, Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University

Neural Dynamics of Spatial Memory: Insights from Virtual Reality and 7T MRI

Professor Deniz Vatansever, Principal Investigator, Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University

Mapping the neurocircuitry of reward processing disturbances in dementia

Professor Muireann Irish, School of Psychology and Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney

A new generation of imaging atlas for machine learning-based disease models

Dr Yuhong Fu, Senior Research Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney

Reliable Measurement of Cortico-subcortical Functional Connectivity of Human Brain with 7T MRI

Dr Jinglei Lv, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney

Microstructural Diffusion MRI for Vascular Cognitive Impariment Analysis

Dr Zihao Jack Tang, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney 

Ms Yunheng Li, PhD Candidate, Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University

Detailed analysis of the hypothalamus in older adults at-risk for dementia

Dr Nathan Cross, Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney

Please register to confirm your attendance and help us plan catering. A detailed program will be provided after registration.

We look forward to your participation!