A/Prof. Bradley Turner is a NHMRC Dementia Research Leadership Fellow and Head of the Motor Neuron Disease Laboratory. He is a molecular neurobiologist who obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Melbourne in 2005 and trained with Prof. Kay Davies and Prof. Kevin Talbot at the University of Oxford in mouse functional genetics as a NHMRC CJ Martin Fellow for 3 years. He was recruited back to the Florey Institute where he established the MND Laboratory supported by a Stafford Fox Senior Research Fellowship. He has broad interest in modelling neurodegenerative diseases affecting the motor system using patient stem cell and animal models, spanning pediatric and adult motor neuron diseases. He is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Grant Review Panels, Assigners Academy and MND Australia Research Committee.