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  • 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

Speakers and themes

Arthur Morley-Bunker_thumbnailArthur Morley-Bunker

Theme: New diagnostic tools for colorectal cancer
Title: RNAScope – let's get to the bottom of this

Alex Tino_thumbnailAlex Tino

Theme: Better laboratory models to study ovarian cancer
Title: What's wine got to do with it?

Chidimma Ahab-Chiabuotu_thumbnailChidimma 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

Yusmiati Liau_thumbnailCen 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 thumbnailZoe 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-Orozco_thumbnailCesar Alcala

Theme: 3D printing of bone tissue
Title: From Sci-Fi to reality: Advanced bioinks for 3D printing of bone

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