Past events
15 October 2022
1:00pm to 5:00pm
World Anatomy Day
Anatomy Department, Otago Medical School, Second floor, Lindo Ferguson Building, 270 Great King Street, Dunedin
21 November 2017
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Professor John Reynolds' Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Archway 4 Lecture Theatre, Union Street East, Dunedin
27 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Three dimentional analysis of the posterior ramus of the spinal nerve in the thoracic and lumbar segments
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
04 April 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Role of legal medicine in the German research community
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
05 October 2020
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Christine Jasoni
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin
30 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Biomedical Engineering: Cardiac research and neuroscience - journey from PhD to Postdoc”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
28 March 2023
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin
30 August 2022
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Thirst for Knowledge: Understanding Endometriosis
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon Street, Dunedin Central and via Zoom
18 February 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Sex, brains and microRNAs
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
24 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Craniometric mysteries of the Pacific
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
18 October 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
2018 Carl Smith Research Medal Lecture
Richardson Moot Court, 10th Floor, Richardson Building, University of Otago
19 February 2019
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Tweet your research
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
02 September 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Pregnancy puzzles in live-bearing lizards"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
14 May 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Far-reaching consequences of adolescent social stress on brain and behaviour
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
21 May 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Threshold concepts and decoding the disciplines: Helping students navigate troublesome and transformative ideas”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building
16 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Clinical and MR morphological course of femoral head necrosis (ARCO stage I – III) after femoral head drilling and ilomedin therapy – a pilot study”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
31 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Anatomy Museum workshop: Past, present, future
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
26 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melding Reproductive and Genomic Science for pest control and eradication
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
20 June 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Machine learning to analyse difficult images - a guide for the timid biologist
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
21 August 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Activins in ovarian and prostate cancer
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
15 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
What in the world is happening to Anatomy education?
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor Lindo Ferguson Building
28 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Molecular diagnostics in the palm of one’s hand
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building
04 September 2018
12:00pm to 1:00pm
“How to detect subtle changes in 3D tissue organisation - 2nd Order Stereology”
Room G10, 71 Frederick Street
26 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melding reproductive and genomic science for pest control and eradication
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
19 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Vivid anatomy
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
15 August 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
PBRF 2018, How can I improve my score?
11 September 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Genomic approaches to the study of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
27 June 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Transcriptomic analysis of human norovirus NS1-2 protein
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
20 May 2014
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Captain of all the men of death: bioarchaeological approaches to the impact of tuberculosis on the past and its continuing influence on the present and future”
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
09 May 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
On the fringe of the Empire: Bioarchaeological investigations of a Romano-Christian cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building
17 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Parental care in birds; the role of prolactin
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
29 October 2021
9:00am to 11:00am
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Online, Dunedin
19 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
From suicide to head models: Biomechanical research in Otago
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
10 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Muscle, meat, marbling and medicine: The growth axis in livestock and biomedicine
Med Red Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Scott Building
26 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“The roles of bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) in mammalian fertility: what we (think) we know and the controversies”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
20 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Sugar talk – Comparing people’s sweetness perception and cognitive responses to common dietary sugars
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
17 May 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
John Borrie Professorial Fellow 2018 Lecture: Professor Richard Drake
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
10 September 2019
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor George Dias
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin
13 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Molecular ecology of non-model organisms: inferring historical processes”
Med Red Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Scott Building
06 November 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" Life, Death and Care on the Otago Frontier"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
16 October 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Plasticity has shaped the structure of the honeybee genome
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
08 October 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Paradigm wars and the social construction of sex and gender”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
21 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
(B)rainbow reveals brain adaptation to different reproductive states
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building
14 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Medicine at the time of Jane Austen
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
01 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A "kiss" that induces ovulation: New strategy to control reproduction in small ruminants
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
26 November 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Endometriosis / Mate kirikōpū. Recognising the heterogeneity of disease experience and phenotype
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
02 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Growth steering procedures in pediatric orthopedics
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
03 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Maternal high fat diet and developmental programming of offspring brain and behaviour
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building
20 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Super Natural History – the Loch Ness Edition (or Nessie and me)
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott building
16 April 2019
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Greg Anderson
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin
07 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
On the Osteology that matters when it comes to elite athletics (and the challenge of making the Olympics both fair and inclusive)
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
22 October 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Past lives on the Silk Roads: preliminary results of bioarchaeological fieldwork in southwest Uzbekistan"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
28 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“A new body in eight days - uncovering the cellular origins of whole body regeneration in the basal chordate Botrylloides leachii ”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
10 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Unlocking the mysteries of marsupial pregnancy
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
06 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
HIPS – A haptic virtual reality simulator for hip pan reaming
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
15 August 2017
1:05pm to 2:05pm
Anatomy Seminar | PBRF 2018: How can I improve my score?
Hercus D'Ath Lecture Theatre, Hercus Building
11 July 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Don’t count your Kiwi before they’ve hatched: Inbreeding, reproduction, and integrating genetics into conservation management
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
17 September 2017
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Seeking community guidance for a project aiming to humanely remove invasive rodents
St David Lecture TheatreUnion Street
29 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
More things on heaven and earth: New approaches for exploring microbiomes
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
28 October – 29 October 2021
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Online, Dunedin.
10 September 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"From firecrackers to head models – biomechanical research in Otago"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
15 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Engaging with Wikimedia
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott Building
11 April 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Introduction in Forensic Entomology
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building
02 October 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Send my body to the Medical School: Donating one’s body before Anatomical Gift Acts
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
20 August 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in thyrotropic activity during life stage transitions in birds."
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
21 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Piecing together the settlement of the Pacific”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
22 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Impact of perinatal nutrition on the programming of the somatotropic axis
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
08 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melanocortin and serotonin interactions in the central regulation of energy balance
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott Building
04 September 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" One bug two bugs three: understanding genetic diversity and adaptation in insect systems"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building
14 February 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Central and peripheral actions of 17α-estradiol in reversal of obesity and age-related metabolic dysfunction
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building
09 July 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Modulation of life-history and ageing by the opposite sex
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building