Date	Title	Speakers
Wednesday 16 January	Media Skills Workshop for Summer Students	Carole Acheson
Friday 25 January	2012/2013 Summer Studentship Final Presentations	Summer Students
Thursday 7 February	New Zealand Consumer Health Information Needs	Michelle Honey
Monday 11 February	Genetic determinants of susceptibility to ambient and engineered nanoparticle induced lung inflammation in mice: The role of gluthathione	Professor Terrance Kavanagh
Monday 18 February	How to be rejected	Professor Edwin Gale
Monday 18 February	Antisense RNA for the modulation of splicing: A correctional gene therapy approach for neurodegenerative diseases	Michela A Denti
Monday 25 February	The role of vitamin C in regulating HIF-1 in cancer cells	Caroline Kuiper
Tuesday 26 February	The Experience of Practice Nurses who had obtained a Postgraduate Nursing Qualification and how the knowledge was utilised in the General Practice	Sally O'Connor
Wednesday 27 February	DNA and disease - Following a common thread	Professor Martin Kennedy
Monday 4 March	Exploring telomere length as a potential biomarker	Sarah Jodczyk
Monday 4 March	Exploring the anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties of novel isothiocyanates	Emma Spencer
Monday 4 March	Venous thromboembolism and cancer patients	Tony Rahman
Wednesday 6 March	Stress and its effect on the brain, including the effect of the Canterbury earthquakes	Professor Richard Porter
Wednesday 13 March	Free radicals spark the fires of inflammation	Professor Tony Kettle
Monday 18 March	Genetic association studies GWASes	Dr John Pearson
Wednesday 20 March	Tales of genes, gender and genealogy	Professor Vicky Cameron
Wednesday 20 March	Rutherford Discovery Fellowship Seminar	Dr Mark Stagg
Monday 25 March	Natural nanotechnology by liver sinusoidal cells	Professor Robin Fraser
Tuesday 26 March	The Experiences and Monitoring of People wth Chronic Obstructve Pulmonary Disease (COPD) whilst utilising Long-term Oxygen Therapy (LTOT)	Shirley Harris
Wednesday 27 March	The battle in the gut	Professor Andrew Day
Wednesday 3 April	Advances in cancer medicine: pathways	Professor Bridget Robinson
Thursday 4 April	Preventing Vitamin B12 deficiency in South Asian women of childbearing age	Gael Mearns
Wednesday 10 April	Gout - A disease of New Zealand	Professor Lisa Stamp
Thursday 11 April	Alan Clarke Memorial Lecture	Professor Gary Hooper, Professor Richard Siegert and Professor Gerben DeJong
Monday 15 April	Cell death, survival and caspases	Professor Guy Salvesen
Monday 22 April	Oxidised calprotectin as a biomarker for inflammation	Nick Magon
Tuesday 23 April	Realisation of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Technology	Dr Yang Liu
Monday 29 April	The Biggest Global Killer of Young Children - Investigating the Causes of Childhood Pneumonia in Developing Countries	Professor David Murdoch
Monday 6 May	Including people with disabiliy in physical activity: The New Zealand context	Dr Hilda Muligan
Monday 13 May	Hydrogen peroxide oxidation promotoes an interaction between the anitoxidant protein peroxiredoxin 2 and ERp46	Dr Paul Pace
Monday 20 May	Three short talks from the MARS-CT Collaboration between Canterbuy, Otago and CERN - Using the MARS Spectral CT for Biomedical Research and Development/Imaging of Advanced Atherosclerotic Plaque by High Resolution and Multi-Energy X-Tay Computer Tomography/Where is Multispectral CT Imaging: Summary of 2013 Spectral-X-ray Conference in CERN, Geneva	Professor Phil Buttler/Associate Professor Steven Gieseg and Dr Anthony Buttler
Tuesday 21 May	Using overseas serum banks to test hypotheses about viruses (DMV and EBV) and breast cancer	Professor Ann Richardson
Tuesday 21 May	Why are huge collections of data needed when studying genes and breast cancer?	Dr Logan Walker
Tuesday 21 May	The cannabis consortium - three longitudinal studies with various measures investigating effects of cannabis	Associate Professor John Horwood
Tuesday 21 May	The World Mental Health Survery Initiative - a consortium involving over 25 countires with a cross-sectional survey in each	Research Professor Elizabeth Wells
Wednesday 22 May	Centre for Bioengineering Mini-Conference	Staff and students of the Centre for Bioengineering and Nanomedicine
Wednesday 29 May	C4 Cancer Research Workshop	Professor Bridget Robinson
Friday 31 May	2013 Harkness Report-Back Seminar	Dr Sarah Derrett
Tuesday 4 June	Bioinformatic Peptide Discovery and the Identification of an Endogenous Inhibitor of Angiotensin II Signalling	Professor Rick Samson
Monday 17 June	Evaluating BRCA1 and BRCA2 sequence variants that modulate isoform expression	Vanessa Lattimore
Monday 17 June	The role of hydrogen sulfide in inflammation	Abel Ang
Monday 17 June	Renal function equations for predicting gentamicin clearance	Paul Chin
Monday 17 June	Hydrogen Sulfide: A Novel Mediator of Inflammation	Professor Madhav Bhatia
Tuesday 18 June	Mindsight: Providing hope and demystifying the Borderline Personality Disorder	Rob Green
Monday 24 June	HRC Roadshow	HRC Staff
Tuesday 25 June	Earthquake related PTSD - not everyone has moved on	CDHB Adult Earthquake Treatment Team
Tuesday 2 July	Addiction under the DSM5. Progress and pitfalls.	Associate Professor Simon Adamson
Monday 8 July	The effect of dietary ascorbate levels on tumour growth and HIF-1 activation in the Gulo-/- mouse	Lizze Campbell
Monday 8 July	Understanding Adverse Drug Reactions or Responses Using Genomic Sequencing (UDRUGS)	Eng Wee Chua
Monday 8 July	The effect of hypoxia on neutrophil lifespan and function	Usha Pujary
Tuesday 9 July	Society and behaviour: Cultural aspects of personality disorder	Professor Roger Mulder
Wednesday 10 July	A new model for the regulation of intestinal iron absorption	Dr Paul Sharp
Monday 15 July	History never repeats: Or does it? The reasons why we need to cumulate existing data to make clinical decisions and plan our research	Dr Suetonia Palmer
Thursday 18 July	Frontiers in Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering: 3D Printing and translational models in bone repair and convergence in cancer research	Professor Dietmar Hutmacher
Monday 22 July	Live and let die (and other Bond themes)	Dr Grahame Tosh
Monday 22 July	The key to Pre-eclampsia	Professor Philip N Baker
Monday 29 July	Three dimensional (3D) cell cultures and gynaecological cancers: Exploring targeting pathways in 3D cell models	Dr Kenny Chitcholtan
Monday 5 August	Investigating therapy resistance and obesity in breast cancer	Dr Elisabeth Phillips
Tuesday 6 August	Alcohol misuse and outcomes inteh Chrsitchurch Health and Development Study Cohort	Associate Professor Joe Boden
Monday 12 August	The forces of Biology: Mechanotransduction as the Cure for Cancer	Profesor John Evans
Tuesday 13 August	Canterbury's Dementia Care Pathway. What is it and how can it be of help to people in CDHB services who may have worsening cognitive impairment?	Dr Matthew Croucher
Tuesday 13 August	Quantitative Methods Group Symposium on Mixed Models - History, Standard Models and Recent Extensions	Professor Elisabeth Wells, Dr Jonathan Williman, Dr Jim young and Dr Danial Myall
Friday 16 August	George Abbott Symposium - What will we be doing in 2020?	Professor Melissa Wake
Monday 19 August	Tapu and the invention of the "Death Taboo": A cross-cultural understanding of a Polynesian cultural concept	Helen Gilmore
Tuesday 20 August 2013	Outcomes from the Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder Study for young people	Dr Maree Inder
Monday 26 August	Obesity and Cancer	Dr Margaret Currie
Tuesday 27 August	An update on psychiatric genetics	Dr Alexa kidd
Monday 2 September	Agreeing to disagree: The double-dichotomisation of debate about eh cross-cultural valididty of ADHD	Neil Pickering and Jing-Bao Nie
Monday 2 September	Nano and Microsystems for Cell Culturing and Dopamine Sensing	Dr Luigi Sasso
Tuesday 3 September	Somatoform disorders and the DSM-5	Dr Collin Peebles
Tuesday 3 September	Phenotype MicroArrays: An overview of the techonology and applications	Dr Barry R Bochner
Wednesday 4 September	Mastering molecular chess to mine natures medicine chest	Professor Margaret Brimble
Friday 6 September	New Zealand Food Addiction Symposium - Exploring the relationship between compulsive overeating and obesity: Causes, treatment, prevention and recovery	Professor Doug Sellman
Monday 9 September	How come translation initiation is different in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes and what might that tell us about the evoluation of the three domains of life?	Dr Anthony Poole
Monday 9 September	Human Participant Research Ethics: Principles and Practicalities	Gary Witte
Tuesday 10 September	The Post-Concussion Syndrome: How far have we come since Lishman published his seminal paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1988 (Physiogenesis and Psychogenesis in the Post Concussional Syndrome)	Dr Debbie Snell
Monday 16 September	Jekyll or Hyde? Immune responses and anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer	Dr Anita Dunbier
Tuesday 17 September	Childhood sexual and physical abuse: A research update from the Christchurch Health and Development Study	Associate Professor John Horwood
Tuesday 17 September	Foundations for Health: Otago Health Research	Professor Grant Montgomery
Wednesday 18 September	Professionalism Matters	Professor Tim Wilkinson, Dr Maggie Meeks and Anthony Ali
Friday 20 September	The place of literature in medicine	Emeritus Professor Richard Sainsbury
Monday 23 September	Functional consequences of lowering Peroxiredoxin 3 expression	Kate Vick
Monday 23 September	Gene transfer to restore vitamin C synthesis in a human cell line	Teresa Flett
Monday 23 September	Predicting with cutaneous squamous call carcinomas will kill. Evaluationg myeloid cells	Annika Seddon
Monday 23 September	Evaluating molecular markers of breast tumour progression	Zac Gerring
Tuesday 24 September	Transdiagnostic vs disorder-specific treatment for anxiety disorders: A step forward?	Anxiety Disorders Team - Jenny Jordan, Alison Alexander and Ron Chambers
Monday 30 September	Quantifying the phenotypic significance of genetic variation	Dr Paul Gardner
Thursday 3 October	Health Research Society of Canterbury's Annual Scientific Meeting	Dr Erick Monasterio and Professor Richard Porter
Tuesday 15 October	Out of the Bang Emerges a Global Human World on Planet Earth: Is this relevant to psychiatry and mental health?	Professor Doug Sellman
Friday 1 November	Iwi Hauora	Arihia Bennett, CEO - Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu
Monday 4 November	Old proteins, new tricks: proteins as building blocks for nanotechnology	Professor Juliet Gerrard
Tuesday 5 November	Metacognitive therapy for eartquake-related post-traumatic stress disorder	Dr Jenny Jordan
Tuesday 12 November	Do Maori receive different care in psychiatric inpatients units? Review of local and national findings	Dr Cameron Lacey and Ms Karen Keelan
Wednesday 13 November	Learning Matters: From teaching to learning	Professor Tim Wilkinson and Anthony Ali
Tuesday 19 November	Fetal alcohol syndrome - diagnostic considerations	Dr Carin Conaghan
Tuesday 19 November	C4 Cancer Research Workshop	Various speakers
Friday 22 November	Researching the Health Implications of Seismic Events - Symposium on the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011	Various speakers
Monday 25 November	Whole genome sequencing of cancer reveals mutational signatures and suggests new therapeutic options	Dr Nic Waddell
Tuesday 26 November	Athletic or eating disorderd? A team approach to compulsive exercise	Amanda Brennan
Tuesday 3 December	Time to resurrect a role for psychedelics in the treatment of brain disorders?	Professor David Nutt
Tuesday 10 December	MBIE 2014 Science Investment Round Road Show	MBIE Staff
Thursday 12 December	2014 Marsden Fund Presentation	Peter Gillberd and Martin Kennedy