Neuroscience at The University of Western Australia

A fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."
Aesop (from Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Mask)

The University of Western Australia was founded in 1911 as Western Australia’s first university. It remains the State’s premier university and is the only Western Australian institution to belong to the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australia’s leading universities.

UWA is the first university in Australia to recognise the importance of neuroscience as a rapidly expanding discipline by establishing an interdisciplinary BSc Neuroscience degree in 1998.

Leading on from this, we have developed a highly regarded Neuroscience Honours program that provides outstanding training in many areas of neurosciences.

The University also has international excellence in neuroscience teaching and research programs. Our research is built on molecular and cellular neurobiology from systems and developmental neuroscience to the investigation of human perception and cognition. We have major research groups in the areas of:

• Anoxia and cell death
• Audiology and hearing sciences
• Developmental neurobiology
• Facial recognition and cognitive processing
• Neurotrauma
• Retinal degeneration and regeneration
• Spinal cord injury and repair
• Stem cell transplantation
• Visual psychophysics

These internationally recognised research strengths are built on platform technologies which include: genomics; proteomics; gene therapy; computational neurobiology; electrophysiology; electron microscopy; in situ hybridisation; mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrate neurotrauma models; and quantitative behavioural analysis.

For further details and correspondence:

• Undergraduate studies in neuroscience: http://www.neuroscience.uwa.edu.au
• Our research groups offer exciting opportunities for training and research in MSc, PhD and post-doctoral programs. For links to neuroscience staff and further information: http://www.neuroscience.uwa.edu.au
• The UWA Neuroscience Cluster is exploring opportunities for commercial and scientific collaboration. We encourage you to contact us to explore collaborative possibilities, please email: deanlps@science.uwa.edu.au