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12 Headlines Conference and Training Courses Associate Professor Greg Anson, University of Auckland Progress in Motor Control $6,725 Dr Joanne Lin, University of Auckland Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research $20,000 Travel Grants Dr Victor Dieriks, University of Auckland Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research $2,088 Mr Jordan Lloyd, University of Auckland Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research $1,034 Hackett Trust Grant Catherine Tanumihardja, Auckland District Health Board Circle of Willis Neurovascular Conference $2,648 More about the recipients can be found on our website at: https://neurological.org.nz/research/funded-projects/2021- round-a-grant-recipients Meet some of the latest Neurological Foundation Grant Recipients Associate Professor Yiwen Zheng What did you want to be when you were growing up? I always wanted to be a scientist and a dancer, although there seems to be no connection between them. What do you love about being a researcher? Asking questions and finding answers. “The more you know, the more you realise you don’t know”: this drives me to keep learning and exploring the unknowns. I love looking back when the new results come out and seeing the moment when my brain clicked, and ideas formed. Tell us something interesting about the brain? If you leave your hearing loss untreated, over time, the parts of your brain responsible for hearing can shrink. Dr Mike Maslin What did you want to be when you were growing up? Clichéd as it sounds, I wanted to be a fast jet pilot. Obviously, I didn’t quite get to that... What do you love about being a researcher? Probably that point where you are just ready to distribute the preliminary findings amongst your network, before you go public. That very first glimpse of the data, and the chance to ask collaborators for their opinion. What is important about your research project? The opportunity to join up animal models of tinnitus, with human introspection about tinnitus. This seems like a rare opportunity in tinnitus (and hearing research in general). Tell us something interesting about the brain? The ears have evolutionary origins going back about 500 million years.