Guest Lecturer Professor Perry Bartlett, Founder of the Queensland Brain Institute

The annual Sir Thomas McIlwraith Lecture exists to celebrate the entrepreneurial achievements of an outstanding Queenslander. It is named after an outstanding colonial premier who put Queensland on the map. This year we celebrate the achievements of Professor Perry Bartlett, an eminent Australian scientist who deserves to be much better known.

If you have a relative, friend or colleague suffering from dementia or Alzheimers, then it is highly likely they will have benefited from Professor Bartlett's research.

This is also the major annual fundraiser for the Australian Institute for Progress, Queensland's only free-enterprise think tank. By attending this lecture you will be supporting the Institute, as well as recogising Perry's contribution.

We would love to see you at this function, and we are offering table discounts to encourage you to bring your friends.

Date and time: May 5, 2021 at 7:00 for 7:30 pm

Venue: The Greek Club, 29 Emondstone Street, South Brisbane, Q 4101

Cost: $185 per person ($165 per tables of 10, or AIP members). Includes two course meal and all drinks

RSVP: Monday April 28, 2021 events@aip.asn.au or 0411 104 801. Online bookings at https://mcilwraith6.eventbrite.com.au. 

About Professor Bartlett

Perry is a truly distinguished academic researcher, being one of the few to be awarded the CSL Florey medal.

When Perry started exploring the brain in 1977, the mature brain was regarded as static and unchangeable. He challenged this dogma. In 1982 Perry predicted that there were stem cells in the brain. Twenty years later he isolated them from the forebrain.

His next big project was building up the Queensland Brain Institute from ten people to 500 in little more than a decade. Subsequently, the Institute has unleashed a new generation of neuroscientists whose discoveries range from using ultrasound to treat Alzheimer's disease, to finding stem cells associated with mood, spatial learning and more.

The current focus of Professor's Bartlett's laboratory is understanding the mechanisms that regulate neurogenesis, or the generation of new neurons. He is particularly concerned with the effect of exercise on cognitive function.

Regards,

GRAHAM YOUNG
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR