Date	Title	Speaker
Friday 30 January	2014/2015 Summer Studentship Programme Final Presentations	Summer Students
Monday 16 February	Necroptosis - A newly discoverd cell death pathway	Professor Mark Hampton
Wednesday 18 February	Health and Safety and HASNO Reform	Robert Mclaren
Wednesday 25 February	Gut instincts - The gastrointestinal tract in health and disease	Professor Richard Gearry
Monday 2 March	Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? A lesson from the trophoblast	Professor Ilana Ariel
Monday 9 March	Using 'omics' to define Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm as a distinct clinical entitiy	Associate Professor Greg Jones
Tuesday 10 March	Fasting but not Ageing Dramatically Alters the Redox Status of Cysteine Residues on Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster	Professor Mike Murphy
Wednesday 11 March	Ebola - 12 months on, what have we learned?	Professor Steve Chambers
Thursday 12 March	2018 Performance Based Research Fund Workshop	Professor Jeff Smith and Dr Michele Coleman
Monday 16 March	Micronutrients as a treatment for psychiatric disorders: Rethinking the scientific paradigm	Professor Julia Rucklidge
Wednesday 18 March	The Meihana model - Utilising a Maori health framework within your clinical practise	Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama
Monday 23 March	Hydrogen sulfide in atherosclerosis: friend or foe?	Madh Izani Othman
Monday 23 March	What's toxic about LDL	Shane Revees
Monday 23 March	sFLT-1, a robust biomarker for prognosis in heart disease	Edward Mark
Wednesday 25 March	How do we know wether medicines work and are safe?	Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer
Monday 30 March	Regulation of the 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases and implications for health and disease	Professor Margreet Vissers
Wednesday 1 April	Shakey times - The psychological effects of the Canterbury earthquakes and all that has followed	Associate Professor Caroline Bell
Monday 20 April	Challenges of Reconstructive Surgery	Mr Jeremy Simcock
Monday 11 May	Neutrophil death pathways and their impact on tumour biology	Annika Seddon
Monday 11 May	Role of peroxiredoxins in protecting cancer cells from oxidative stress	Kate Vick
Monday 11 May	Scoping RNA biomarkers for colorectal cancer	Arthur Morley-Bunker
Thursday 14 May	Athol Mann Lecture - Neural plasticity and recovery following stroke	Professor Jeffrey Kleim
Monday 18 May	MARS Spectral CT - How might it influence future medial care?	Associate Professor Nigel Anderson
Monday 25 May	Understanding the course of multiple sclerosis through imaging	Professor David Miller
Monday 8 June	Antibiotic Resistance by Stealth: Is a general creep in biocides behind the creep in MIC?	Professor Jack Heinemann (University of Canterbury)
Monday 15 June	The role of hydrogen sulfide in acute pancreatitis	Alireza Badiei
Monday 22 June	Understanding the bowel microbiome	Professor Gerald Tannock
Monday 29 June	What can a transgenic sheep teach us about Huntington's Disease	Suzanne Reid (University of Auckland)
Monday 6 July	Redox state of erythrocyte peroxiredoxin 2 during oxidative stress and its effect on membrance binding	Simone Bayer
Monday 20 July	Fussy females and sneaky males - Female sperm selection and male sperm competition in animals	Dr Patrice Rosengrave
Monday 27 July	G-quadruplex structures in DNA	Aaron Stevens, PhD Student
Monday 3 August	Acoustic Emission Monitoring and Design Optimisation of Orthopaedic Implants	Dr Geoff Rodgers
Monday 17 August	Ascorbate mediated regulation of HIF-1	Lizzie Campbell, PhD Student
Monday 17 August	Antibodies as tools to investigate protein structure and function: lessons from corticosteroid-binding globulin (SERPINA6)	Dr John Lewis
Monday 24 August	Hydrogen sulphide and the inflammatory response	Abel Ang
Monday 31 August	Post traumatic stress symptoms at school entry of children affected by earthquakes during their preschool years - A longitudinal study	Associate Professor Kathleen Liberty
Monday 14 September	Measurement of mitochondrial dysfunction in humans	Mark Brinsden
Monday 14 September	Does fat provide energy for breast tumour cell invasion and metastasis?	Morgan Jones
Monday 14 September	Impact for G-quadruplex structures and DNA methylation on allelic drop-out imprinted regions	Millie Taylor
Monday 14 September	Development of a metabolic syndrome mouse model of breast cancer	Anishah Mandani
Monday 21 September	Inactivation of Thiol-dependent enzymes by Urate Hydroperoxide	Melanie Hamzah
Monday 21 September	Exploring molecular links between obesity and breast cancer	Rebekah Crake
Monday 21 September	Investigating the pro- apoptotic properties of portimine	Sarah Drake
Monday 28 September	Comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens in New Zealand	Dr Patrick Biggs
Monday 12 October	Multi-scale modelling of complex physiology	Professor Tim David
Monday 19 October	Research 'in the wild' - Using mobile phones to assess and improved well-being in young adults	Dr Tamlin Connor
Tuesday 27 October		Christina Ernst and Ravinder Reddy Gaddam
Monday 14 December	Effect of UV exposure of mitochondrial function in the skin	Professor Mark Birch-Machin
Monday 18 July	Leprosy in the Pacific: Some public health and speculation	Professor Steve Chambers
Monday 1 August	Hydrogen sulphide protects the heart from injury after heart attack	Professor Vicky Cameron
Monday 15 August	Isothiocyanate bioavailability and biological effects	Masuma Zawari
Monday 15 August	Genomic analysis of mood stabiliser drugs	Priyanka Sinha
Monday 15 August	Gene expression variability in breast tumours	George Wiggins
Monday 22 August	Genetic variation and mRNA splicing in familial breast cancer genes	Vanessa Lattimore
Monday 5 September	Neuropharmacology of the human brain	Professor Mike Dragunow
Monday 12 September	Genetics of adverse drug reactions	Dr Simran Maggo
Monday 10 October	Modification of the breast tumour microenvironment using exercise	Linda Buss, Mackenzie Cancer Research Group
Monday 10 October	New BRCA1 mRNA isoforms detected by Nanopore sequencing	Lucy de Jong, Gene Structure and Function Laboratory
Monday 10 October	Has my bed been made? A validation study to detect markers of proliferation adequacy in the endometrium	Rosie Burn, Laboratory for Cell and Protein Regulation
Monday 10 October	Novel inhibitors of bacterial biofilm formation	Tara Swadi, The Infection Group