- Student talks between 3.30-4.30pm in the Rolleston lecture theatre
- Each student will talk for 5min
- The audience is encouraged to vote for the best title and best talk
Watch recordings of talks from the 2016 Research Open Day
Chair for the talks
Rebekah Crake
PhD candidate
Speakers and themes
Arthur Morley-Bunker
Theme: New diagnostic tools for colorectal cancer
Title: RNAScope – let's get to the bottom of this
Alex Tino
Theme: Better laboratory models to study ovarian cancer
Title: What's wine got to do with it?
Chidimma Aham-Chiabuotu
Theme: Displaced women in Nigeria
Title: Battered, not broken: The flight and plight of displaced Nigerian women
Chiara Lowe
Theme: Gold nanoparticles and spectral CT imaging for cancer and drug delivery
Title: The Midas Touch: Gold Nanoparticles and Their Potential in Cancer Research
Cen Liau
Theme: Genetics of adverse drug reactions
Title: A gene hunt in drug side effects
Rewi Stirrat
Theme: Refugee experience of NZ healthcare
Title: A researcher's experience of researching experience
Megan Stark
Theme: Cognitive performance and brain imaging in Parkinson's disease
Title: Parkinson's disease: cognitive decline, amyloid and the ageing brain
Zoe Ward
Theme: DNA markers in the blood to predict heart disease
Title: I ♥ genes!
Vanessa Gray
Theme: Emotion Processing in Depressed Older Persons
Title: How do older persons process when they depress?
Cesar Alcala
Theme: 3D printing of bone tissue
Title: From Sci-Fi to reality: Advanced bioinks for 3D printing of bone