 Hello, my name is Jamie Barros and I'm a researcher in the Brain Plasticity Lab at the University of Western Australia in Perrin Institute and I am extremely honored to be selected for a Brain Foundation grant for 2023. Now the brain has a limited capacity to repair its cell following traumatic brain injury and so interventions that promote the survival of brain cells are essential to improving recovery outcomes. Now my project we use an exciting and cutting-edge neuroscience technique termed optogenetics which allows us to control the activity of brain cells using light stimulation and our goal is to use this technique following traumatic brain injury to activate brain cells around the injury site to promote brain recovery and I would like to thank the Brain Foundation for the generous support.