| Friday 30 January |
2014/2015 Summer Studentship Programme Final Presentations |
Summer Students |
| Monday 16 February |
Necroptosis - A newly discoverd cell death pathway |
Professor Mark Hampton |
| Wednesday 18 February |
Health and Safety and HASNO Reform |
Robert Mclaren |
| Wednesday 25 February |
Gut instincts - The gastrointestinal tract in health and disease |
Professor Richard Gearry |
| Monday 2 March |
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? A lesson from the trophoblast |
Professor Ilana Ariel |
| Monday 9 March |
Using 'omics' to define Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm as a distinct clinical entitiy |
Associate Professor Greg Jones |
| Tuesday 10 March |
Fasting but not Ageing Dramatically Alters the Redox Status of Cysteine Residues on Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster |
Professor Mike Murphy |
| Wednesday 11 March |
Ebola - 12 months on, what have we learned? |
Professor Steve Chambers |
| Thursday 12 March |
2018 Performance Based Research Fund Workshop |
Professor Jeff Smith and Dr Michele Coleman |
| Monday 16 March |
Micronutrients as a treatment for psychiatric disorders: Rethinking the scientific paradigm |
Professor Julia Rucklidge |
| Wednesday 18 March |
The Meihana model - Utilising a Maori health framework within your clinical practise |
Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama |
| Monday 23 March |
Hydrogen sulfide in atherosclerosis: friend or foe? |
Madh Izani Othman |
| Monday 23 March |
What's toxic about LDL |
Shane Revees |
| Monday 23 March |
sFLT-1, a robust biomarker for prognosis in heart disease |
Edward Mark |
| Wednesday 25 March |
How do we know wether medicines work and are safe? |
Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer |
| Monday 30 March |
Regulation of the 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases and implications for health and disease |
Professor Margreet Vissers |
| Wednesday 1 April |
Shakey times - The psychological effects of the Canterbury earthquakes and all that has followed |
Associate Professor Caroline Bell |
| Monday 20 April |
Challenges of Reconstructive Surgery |
Mr Jeremy Simcock |
| Monday 11 May |
Neutrophil death pathways and their impact on tumour biology |
Annika Seddon |
| Monday 11 May |
Role of peroxiredoxins in protecting cancer cells from oxidative stress |
Kate Vick |
| Monday 11 May |
Scoping RNA biomarkers for colorectal cancer |
Arthur Morley-Bunker |
| Thursday 14 May |
Athol Mann Lecture - Neural plasticity and recovery following stroke |
Professor Jeffrey Kleim |
| Monday 18 May |
MARS Spectral CT - How might it influence future medial care? |
Associate Professor Nigel Anderson |
| Monday 25 May |
Understanding the course of multiple sclerosis through imaging |
Professor David Miller |
| Monday 8 June |
Antibiotic Resistance by Stealth: Is a general creep in biocides behind the creep in MIC? |
Professor Jack Heinemann (University of Canterbury) |
| Monday 15 June |
The role of hydrogen sulfide in acute pancreatitis |
Alireza Badiei |
| Monday 22 June |
Understanding the bowel microbiome |
Professor Gerald Tannock |
| Monday 29 June |
What can a transgenic sheep teach us about Huntington's Disease |
Suzanne Reid (University of Auckland) |
| Monday 6 July |
Redox state of erythrocyte peroxiredoxin 2 during oxidative stress and its effect on membrance binding |
Simone Bayer |
| Monday 20 July |
Fussy females and sneaky males - Female sperm selection and male sperm competition in animals |
Dr Patrice Rosengrave |
| Monday 27 July |
G-quadruplex structures in DNA |
Aaron Stevens, PhD Student |
| Monday 3 August |
Acoustic Emission Monitoring and Design Optimisation of Orthopaedic Implants |
Dr Geoff Rodgers |
| Monday 17 August |
Ascorbate mediated regulation of HIF-1 |
Lizzie Campbell, PhD Student |
| Monday 17 August |
Antibodies as tools to investigate protein structure and function: lessons from corticosteroid-binding globulin (SERPINA6) |
Dr John Lewis |
| Monday 24 August |
Hydrogen sulphide and the inflammatory response |
Abel Ang |
| Monday 31 August |
Post traumatic stress symptoms at school entry of children affected by earthquakes during their preschool years - A longitudinal study |
Associate Professor Kathleen Liberty |
| Monday 14 September |
Measurement of mitochondrial dysfunction in humans |
Mark Brinsden |
| Monday 14 September |
Does fat provide energy for breast tumour cell invasion and metastasis? |
Morgan Jones |
| Monday 14 September |
Impact for G-quadruplex structures and DNA methylation on allelic drop-out imprinted regions |
Millie Taylor |
| Monday 14 September |
Development of a metabolic syndrome mouse model of breast cancer |
Anishah Mandani |
| Monday 21 September |
Inactivation of Thiol-dependent enzymes by Urate Hydroperoxide |
Melanie Hamzah |
| Monday 21 September |
Exploring molecular links between obesity and breast cancer |
Rebekah Crake |
| Monday 21 September |
Investigating the pro- apoptotic properties of portimine |
Sarah Drake |
| Monday 28 September |
Comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens in New Zealand |
Dr Patrick Biggs |
| Monday 12 October |
Multi-scale modelling of complex physiology |
Professor Tim David |
| Monday 19 October |
Research 'in the wild' - Using mobile phones to assess and improved well-being in young adults |
Dr Tamlin Connor |
| Tuesday 27 October |
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Christina Ernst and Ravinder Reddy Gaddam |
| Monday 14 December |
Effect of UV exposure of mitochondrial function in the skin |
Professor Mark Birch-Machin |
| Monday 18 July |
Leprosy in the Pacific: Some public health and speculation |
Professor Steve Chambers |
| Monday 1 August |
Hydrogen sulphide protects the heart from injury after heart attack |
Professor Vicky Cameron |
| Monday 15 August |
Isothiocyanate bioavailability and biological effects |
Masuma Zawari |
| Monday 15 August |
Genomic analysis of mood stabiliser drugs |
Priyanka Sinha |
| Monday 15 August |
Gene expression variability in breast tumours |
George Wiggins |
| Monday 22 August |
Genetic variation and mRNA splicing in familial breast cancer genes |
Vanessa Lattimore |
| Monday 5 September |
Neuropharmacology of the human brain |
Professor Mike Dragunow |
| Monday 12 September |
Genetics of adverse drug reactions |
Dr Simran Maggo |
| Monday 10 October |
Modification of the breast tumour microenvironment using exercise |
Linda Buss, Mackenzie Cancer Research Group |
| Monday 10 October |
New BRCA1 mRNA isoforms detected by Nanopore sequencing |
Lucy de Jong, Gene Structure and Function Laboratory |
| Monday 10 October |
Has my bed been made? A validation study to detect markers of proliferation adequacy in the endometrium |
Rosie Burn, Laboratory for Cell and Protein Regulation |
| Monday 10 October |
Novel inhibitors of bacterial biofilm formation |
Tara Swadi, The Infection Group |
