| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Friday 26 January | 2017/2018 UOC Summer Students Final Presentations | Summer Students |
| Monday 12 February | Design of cell-instructive photo-polymerisable hydrogels towards functional tissue engineered cartilage | Dr Gabriella Brown |
| Monday 26 February | Uncovering DNA methylome and epigenetic drivers of cancer metastasis | Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee |
| Monday 5 March | Cancer Pharmacogenomics - an update on ongoing studies in Auckland | Associate Professor Nuala Helsby |
| Monday 30 April | Antioxidant enzyme systems of intracellular pathogens - Role in infectivity and virulence | Professor Rafael Radi |
| Monday 7 May | Peroxiredoxin expression and redox state in human cancers | Kate Vick |
| Monday 14 May | UOC Dragon's Den - A new forum for grant writing support | Various |
| Monday 21 May | Ovarian and breast cancer - challenges of studying rare and common cancer in New Zealand | Professor Andrew Shelling |
| Monday 28 May | What's happening in Emergency Medicine? | Professor Mike Ardagh |
| Thursday 7 June | Where do Parkinson's and Alzheimer's start and how do they spread in the brain? | Associate Professor Maurice Curtis |
| Monday 11 June | Why is sleep apnoea bad for your brain? And why do we need sleep? | Professor Richard Jones |
| Tuesday 19 June | Preclinical activity of the novel anticancer drugs SN32976 and evofosfamide | Dr Stephen Jamieson |
| Monday 25 June | Unravelling the interactions between lipids and membrane proteins | Dr Timothy Allison |
| Monday 3 September | New cancer therapies - many advances, more challenges | Dr Chris Jackson |
| Monday 10 September | Danger in the dark - when bacteria outsmart the neutrophil | Dr Louisa Ashby |
| Monday 10 September | Assessment of erythroferrone in acute heart failure patients | Dr Sarah Appleby |
| Monday 17 September | Chemical biology approaches to wound healing and tissue regeneration | Professor Rudi Marquez |