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07 Aug 2023
New prestigious role for Professor Jemma Geoghegan
After a global search, Professor Jemma Geoghegan has been appointed the Webster...
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14 Oct 2021
TB research will make ‘enormous global health impact’
University of Otago researchers are behind a major scientific breakthrough which...
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27 Aug 2020
Vaccine alliance for national COVID-19 vaccine screening and development programme
Vaccine alliance for national COVID-19 vaccine screening and development program...
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02 May 2019
Australasian Virology Society meeting, December 2019
The Webster Centre will be sponsoring the Australasian Virology Society's tenth...
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02 May 2019
Webster Centre Symposium: Infectious diseases and membrane proteins
The Webster Centre presents the 2019 QMB satellite symposium: Infectious disease...
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22 Mar 2019
Webster Family Chair in Pathogenesis appointment
Following an extensive international search, Professor Miguel Quiñones-Mateu has...
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10 Oct 2018
Webster Centre awards conference scholarships
The Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases has awarded three conference attendan...
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04 Oct 2018
Webster researchers feature in Otago Spotlight Series
At the 2018 Otago Spotlight Series: Infectious Disease Research forum held in We...
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25 Sep 2018
Chaffer Fellow will share advanced microscopy techniques
Chaffer Fellow, Dr Kelly Rogers, will deliver lectures on advanced microscopy te...
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13 Sep 2018
Early immune response research wins Otago Spotlight Award
Brin Ryder, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, won the 2018 Otago Spotli...
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05 Sep 2018
Flu Hunter: Unlocking the Secrets of a Virus
New book: Flu Hunter, is Robert G Webster’s gripping, first-person account of th...
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30 Aug 2018
Join the crew to track the flu!
The Ministry of Health is looking for volunteers to help track influenza. People...
Researchers feature at Otago Spotlight Series
Greg Cook: Opportunities for Infectious Disease Research in New Zealand: a Biomedical Perspective (32 minutes, YouTube)
Jo Kirman: Deciphering the protective immune response (18.5 minutes, YouTube)
Kurt Krause: Spotlight 2018 Infectious Diseases (20 minutes, YouTube)
James Ussher: New sequencing technologies for infectious diseases (22 minutes, YouTube)