Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: “Weaving equity and innovation into Parkinson’s research”.
World Anatomy Day
Saturday, 15 October 2022
Do you know the difference between your carpal and your metacarpal bones? Ever wondered what connections are made between your brain and facial muscles when you smile? Come to our World Anatomy Day expo to discover the answers to these questions, and more.
Thirst for Knowledge: Understanding Endometriosis
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Associate Professor Jane Girling from the Department of Anatomy, University of Otago will discuss the work that is being done internationally to find better diagnostics and treatments for endometriosis
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Friday, 29 October 2021
‘The Maternal-Infant Nexus in the Past’ is the theme of this year’s Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference. This year’s conference will be online, and registration is free and open to all.
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Thursday, 28 October 2021
‘The Maternal-Infant Nexus in the Past’ is the theme of this year’s Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference. This year’s conference will be online, and registration is free and open to all.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Christine Jasoni
Monday, 5 October 2020
Professor Christine Jasoni delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: Every little thing she does is magic: How our mother’s health affects our own
Sex, brains and microRNAs
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Presented by Dr Megan Wilson, Department of Anatomy
Central and peripheral actions of 17α-estradiol in reversal of obesity and age-related metabolic dysfunction
Friday, 14 February 2020
Presented by Dr Michael Stout, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Allied Health, Oklahoma City, USA
“A new body in eight days - uncovering the cellular origins of whole body regeneration in the basal chordate Botrylloides leachii ”
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Presented by Dr Michael Meier, Department of Anatomy
“Piecing together the settlement of the Pacific”
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Presented by Dr Catherine Collins, Department of Anatomy
On the Osteology that matters when it comes to elite athletics (and the challenge of making the Olympics both fair and inclusive)
Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Presented by Dr Richard Wassersug, Honorary Professor from the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia
Endometriosis / Mate kirikōpū. Recognising the heterogeneity of disease experience and phenotype
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
A seminar presented by Dr Jane Girling, Department of Anatomy.
"Past lives on the Silk Roads: preliminary results of bioarchaeological fieldwork in southwest Uzbekistan"
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Presented by Dr Rebecca Kinaston, Department of Anatomy
“Paradigm wars and the social construction of sex and gender”
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Presented by Dr Melanie Beres, Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, University of Otago
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor George Dias
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Professor George Dias delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: Anatomical adventures with making faces, bone building, woolly foods, and corroding plates.
"From firecrackers to head models – biomechanical research in Otago"
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Presented by Dr Johann Zwirner, Department of Anatomy
"Pregnancy puzzles in live-bearing lizards"
Monday, 2 September 2019
Presented by Professor Alison Cree, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
" Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in thyrotropic activity during life stage transitions in birds."
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Presented by Dr Yugo Watanabe, Department of Anatomy
Modulation of life-history and ageing by the opposite sex
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Presented by Dr Mike Garratt, Department of Anatomy
“Threshold concepts and decoding the disciplines: Helping students navigate troublesome and transformative ideas”
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Presented by Dr Julie Timmermans, Higher Education and Development Centre, University of Otago
Far-reaching consequences of adolescent social stress on brain and behaviour
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Presented by Dr Mick Watt, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
“Biomedical Engineering: Cardiac research and neuroscience - journey from PhD to Postdoc”
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Presented by Dr Prashanna Khwaounjoo, Department of Anatomy
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Greg Anderson
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Professor Greg Anderson delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: ‘Female fertility: fundamentally faithful yet frequently fickle’.
“Clinical and MR morphological course of femoral head necrosis (ARCO stage I – III) after femoral head drilling and ilomedin therapy – a pilot study”
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Presented by Dr Thibaut Hiegel, Leipzig, Germany
Engaging with Wikimedia
Monday, 15 April 2019
Presented by Dr Mike Dickison, New Zealand Wikipedia Editor, Wikimedia Foundation, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
Growth steering procedures in pediatric orthopedics
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Presented by Dr Dirk Zajonz, Department of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany
Melding reproductive and genomic science for pest control and eradication
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
A seminar in the Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago
Melding Reproductive and Genomic Science for pest control and eradication
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Presented by Professor Neil Gemmell, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
From suicide to head models: Biomechanical research in Otago
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
A seminar in the Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago
Tweet your research
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Presented by Associate Professor Sian Halcrow, Department of Anatomy
" Life, Death and Care on the Otago Frontier"
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Presented by Professor Hallie Buckley, Department of Anatomy and Dr Peter Petchey, Department of Anthropology
2018 Carl Smith Research Medal Lecture
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Children as canaries in the coalmine: Modelling social and environmental change in prehistory
Plasticity has shaped the structure of the honeybee genome
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Presented by Professor Peter Dearden, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago
Send my body to the Medical School: Donating one’s body before Anatomical Gift Acts
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Presented by Professor Sue Lederer, Williams Evans Visiting Fellow (Robert Turrell Professor of the History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Genomic approaches to the study of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Presented by Dr Margaret Ryan, Department of Anatomy
" One bug two bugs three: understanding genetic diversity and adaptation in insect systems"
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Presented by Dr Edwina Dowle, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
“How to detect subtle changes in 3D tissue organisation - 2nd Order Stereology”
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Presented by Emeritus Professor C. Vyvan Howard, Systems Biology Centre for Molecular Bioscience, University of Ulster and Managing Director, QuanToxPath Ltd, Coleraine, UK
Activins in ovarian and prostate cancer
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
Presented by Dr Karen Reader, Department of Anatomy
The Anatomy Museum workshop: Past, present, future
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Presented by Dr Louisa Baillie, Department of Anatomy
Unlocking the mysteries of marsupial pregnancy
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Presented by Dr Melanie Laird, Department of Anatomy
More things on heaven and earth: New approaches for exploring microbiomes
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Presented by Dr Hugh Cross, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
Impact of perinatal nutrition on the programming of the somatotropic axis
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Presented by Dr Lyvianne Decourtye, Department of Anatomy
John Borrie Professorial Fellow 2018 Lecture: Professor Richard Drake
Thursday, 17 May 2018
The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Trust proudly presents a public lecture from The John Borrie Professorial Fellow 2018, Professor Richard Drake.
What in the world is happening to Anatomy education?
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Presented by Professor Richard Drake, Director of Anatomy and Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Melanocortin and serotonin interactions in the central regulation of energy balance
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Presented by Dr Teodora Georgescu, Department of Anatomy
A "kiss" that induces ovulation: New strategy to control reproduction in small ruminants
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Presented by Dr Caroline Decourt, Department of Anatomy
Craniometric mysteries of the Pacific
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Presented by Professor Emeritus Richard Wright of Prehistory at the University of Sydney
Parental care in birds; the role of prolactin
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Presented by Dr Kristina Smiley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy
Three dimentional analysis of the posterior ramus of the spinal nerve in the thoracic and lumbar segments
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Presented by Professor Toshi Saito, Tokyo Medical School, Japan
Sugar talk – Comparing people’s sweetness perception and cognitive responses to common dietary sugars
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Presented by Dr Mei Peng, Sensory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Food Science, University of Otago
HIPS – A haptic virtual reality simulator for hip pan reaming
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Super Natural History – the Loch Ness Edition (or Nessie and me)
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Presented by Professor Neil Gemmell, Department of Anatomy
"Molecular ecology of non-model organisms: inferring historical processes”
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Presented by Dr Alana Alexander, Department of Anatomy
Molecular diagnostics in the palm of one’s hand
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Presented by Dr Jo-Ann Stanton, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
Professor John Reynolds' Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series 2017
(B)rainbow reveals brain adaptation to different reproductive states
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Presented by Dr Joe Yip, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy
Medicine at the time of Jane Austen
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Presented by Professor Barbara Brookes, History and Art History, University of Otago
Muscle, meat, marbling and medicine: The growth axis in livestock and biomedicine
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Presented by Dr Chris McMahon, Senior Scientist at ManukaMed LP, Hamilton, previously Senior Scientist (Animal Nutrition and Physiology Team) at Agresearch Ltd, Ruakura
Maternal high fat diet and developmental programming of offspring brain and behaviour
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Presented by Dr Kelly Glendining, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
“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”
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Presented by Dr Jenny Juengel, Reproduction, Animal Science, AgResearch Limited
Vivid anatomy
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Presented by Associate Professor Sabine Löffler, Leipzig, Germany
Seeking community guidance for a project aiming to humanely remove invasive rodents
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Assistant Professor Kevin M. Esvelt will held a community meeting to discuss ‘daisy drive’ technology for invasive predator removal on Sunday, 17 September 2017.
Anatomy Seminar | PBRF 2018: How can I improve my score?
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Presented by Michele Coleman, Research and Development Manager, Division of Health Sciences
PBRF 2018, How can I improve my score?
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Presented by Michele Coleman, Research and Development Manager, Division of Health Sciences
Don’t count your Kiwi before they’ve hatched: Inbreeding, reproduction, and integrating genetics into conservation management
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Presented by Dr Helen Taylor, Department of Anatomy
Transcriptomic analysis of human norovirus NS1-2 protein
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Presented by Dr Zabine Lateef, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago
Machine learning to analyse difficult images - a guide for the timid biologist
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
On the fringe of the Empire: Bioarchaeological investigations of a Romano-Christian cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Presented by Professor Tosha Dupras, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida
Introduction in Forensic Entomology
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Presented by Mr Marcus Schwarz, Forensic Entomologist, Leipzig University, Germany
Role of legal medicine in the German research community
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Presented by Dr Benjamin Ondruschka, Leipzig University, Germany
“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”
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Professor Charlotte Roberts from Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK
