| 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 |
