| Friday 29 January |
Final Summer Studentship Oral Presentations |
Summer Students |
| Thursday 25 February |
Mum's the word: Revealing how maternal obesity and inflammation during pregnancy elevate the risk of offspring neurodevelopmental disorders |
Associate Professor Christine Jasoni |
| Wednesday 9 March |
New Diagnosis Tools in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis |
Professor Markus Melloh |
| Wednesday 9 March |
The Art and Science of Breathing - Research Vignettes |
Professor Lutz Beckert |
| Monday 14 March |
DNA demethylation and naïve pluripotency |
Dr Tim Hore, University of Otago (Dunedin) |
| Monday 21 March |
Sheep in Space - Bone Fracture Healing in Microgravity |
Professor Christian Puttlitz, Colorado State University, USA |
| Monday 4 April |
Computer-based post-stroke rehabilitation of prospective memory |
Professor Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury |
| Monday 11 April |
Cancerous genes can be modulated by physical forces |
Professor John Evans |
| Monday 18 April |
ROS in metabolism |
Dr Troy Merry, University of Auckland |
| Thursday 21 April |
Epidemiology and prognostic factors of myeloproliferative neoplasms - implications for treatment |
Dr Andrew Duncombe, University of Southampton Medical School, UK |
| Monday 2 May |
Two tales of DNA hypomethylation - in the placenta and following oxidative stress |
Professor Ian Morison |
| Monday 9 May |
Sulfilimine crosslink in collagen IV |
Bee Bathish |
| Monday 9 May |
Post-translational modifications of calprotectin during inflammation |
Teagan Hoskin |
| Monday 9 May |
HLA-B typing by MinION Nanopore Sequencing |
Kim Ton |
| Monday 16 May |
Improving detection of paediatric infections |
Dr Tony Walls |
| Monday 30 May |
Questions and tribulations: mechanisms of kinase-based signalling in stress and development |
Dr Peter Mace |
| Monday 13 June |
Heterogeneity amongst brain tumours and the impact on patient survival |
Dr Tania Slatter |
| Tuesday 21 June |
The dynamics of mitochondria and their bioenergetics in cancer and in the brain |
Professor Mike Berridge |
| Tuesday 21 June |
Simultaneous measurements of mitochondrial respiration, ROS, membrane potential, pH, ATP, Ca2+ and redox state |
Associate Professor Tony Hickey |
| Monday 4 July |
Genome structure: Capturing the link between phenotype and genotype |
Dr Justin O'Sullivan, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland |
| Monday 11 July |
There and back again - a tale of three genomes |
Dr Amy Osborne, Gene Structure and Function Laboratory, UOC |
| Monday 26 September |
The next pandemic threat - Influenza or what? |
Professor Robert Webster, St Jude Children's Hospital, USA |
| Thursday 29 September |
Beta-cell expressed antimicrobial peptides cathelicidins positively modulate beta-cell function and limit autoimmune diabetes |
Professor Jia Sun, Jiangnan University, China |
| Monday 3 October |
Measuring signal peptides in blood - Lessons learned |
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| Monday 17 October |
Neutrophils in early clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Dr Ayesha Verrall |
| Monday 7 November |
A new way to kill the malaria parasite |
Dr Bruce Russell |
| Monday 21 November |
Understanding the evolution of spherical cell shape in bacteria: An experimental evolution approach |
Dr Heather Hendrickson |
| Friday 25 November |
A structural biologist's view of cell signalling |
Associate Professor Kunchithapadam Swaminathan |
| Monday 28 November |
3D fabrication cell-based implants for joint regeneration |
Associate Professor Jos Malda |
| Monday 5 December |
The local and systemic affects of inflammatory adipokines on chemotherapy response in obese breast cancer patients |
Rebekah Crake |
| Monday 5 December |
Fabrication of gelatin-heparin hydrogels for enhanced chondrogenic differentiation |
Gabriella Brown |
| Monday 12 December |
Gene therapy in sheep models of Batten disease |
Dr Nadia Mitchell |
| Thursday 15 December |
Extracellular vesicles at the cross-line between basic and translational science |
Professor Constanza Emanueli |
