Past events

15 October 2022
1:00pm to 5:00pm
World Anatomy Day
Anatomy Department, Otago Medical School, Second floor, Lindo Ferguson Building, 270 Great King Street, Dunedin

21 November 2017
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Professor John Reynolds' Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Archway 4 Lecture Theatre, Union Street East, Dunedin

27 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Three dimentional analysis of the posterior ramus of the spinal nerve in the thoracic and lumbar segments
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

04 April 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Role of legal medicine in the German research community
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

05 October 2020
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Christine Jasoni
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin

30 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Biomedical Engineering: Cardiac research and neuroscience - journey from PhD to Postdoc”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

28 March 2023
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin

30 August 2022
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Thirst for Knowledge: Understanding Endometriosis
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon Street, Dunedin Central and via Zoom

18 February 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Sex, brains and microRNAs
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

24 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Craniometric mysteries of the Pacific
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

18 October 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
2018 Carl Smith Research Medal Lecture
Richardson Moot Court, 10th Floor, Richardson Building, University of Otago

19 February 2019
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Tweet your research
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

02 September 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Pregnancy puzzles in live-bearing lizards"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

14 May 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Far-reaching consequences of adolescent social stress on brain and behaviour
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

21 May 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Threshold concepts and decoding the disciplines: Helping students navigate troublesome and transformative ideas”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building

16 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Clinical and MR morphological course of femoral head necrosis (ARCO stage I – III) after femoral head drilling and ilomedin therapy – a pilot study”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

31 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Anatomy Museum workshop: Past, present, future
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

26 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melding Reproductive and Genomic Science for pest control and eradication
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

20 June 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Machine learning to analyse difficult images - a guide for the timid biologist
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

21 August 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Activins in ovarian and prostate cancer
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

15 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
What in the world is happening to Anatomy education?
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor Lindo Ferguson Building

28 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Molecular diagnostics in the palm of one’s hand
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building

04 September 2018
12:00pm to 1:00pm
“How to detect subtle changes in 3D tissue organisation - 2nd Order Stereology”
Room G10, 71 Frederick Street

26 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melding reproductive and genomic science for pest control and eradication
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

19 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Vivid anatomy
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

15 August 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
PBRF 2018, How can I improve my score?

11 September 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Genomic approaches to the study of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

27 June 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Transcriptomic analysis of human norovirus NS1-2 protein
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

20 May 2014
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Captain of all the men of death: bioarchaeological approaches to the impact of tuberculosis on the past and its continuing influence on the present and future”
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

09 May 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
On the fringe of the Empire: Bioarchaeological investigations of a Romano-Christian cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building

17 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Parental care in birds; the role of prolactin
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

29 October 2021
9:00am to 11:00am
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Online, Dunedin

19 March 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
From suicide to head models: Biomechanical research in Otago
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

10 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Muscle, meat, marbling and medicine: The growth axis in livestock and biomedicine
Med Red Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Scott Building

26 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“The roles of bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) in mammalian fertility: what we (think) we know and the controversies”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

20 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Sugar talk – Comparing people’s sweetness perception and cognitive responses to common dietary sugars
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

17 May 2018
5:30pm to 7:00pm
John Borrie Professorial Fellow 2018 Lecture: Professor Richard Drake
Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum

10 September 2019
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor George Dias
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin

13 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Molecular ecology of non-model organisms: inferring historical processes”
Med Red Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Scott Building

06 November 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" Life, Death and Care on the Otago Frontier"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

16 October 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Plasticity has shaped the structure of the honeybee genome
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

08 October 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Paradigm wars and the social construction of sex and gender”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

21 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
(B)rainbow reveals brain adaptation to different reproductive states
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building

14 November 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Medicine at the time of Jane Austen
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

01 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A "kiss" that induces ovulation: New strategy to control reproduction in small ruminants
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

26 November 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Endometriosis / Mate kirikōpū. Recognising the heterogeneity of disease experience and phenotype
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

02 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Growth steering procedures in pediatric orthopedics
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

03 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Maternal high fat diet and developmental programming of offspring brain and behaviour
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Hercus Building

20 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Super Natural History – the Loch Ness Edition (or Nessie and me)
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott building

16 April 2019
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Greg Anderson
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Union St East, Dunedin

07 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
On the Osteology that matters when it comes to elite athletics (and the challenge of making the Olympics both fair and inclusive)
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

22 October 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Past lives on the Silk Roads: preliminary results of bioarchaeological fieldwork in southwest Uzbekistan"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

28 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“A new body in eight days - uncovering the cellular origins of whole body regeneration in the basal chordate Botrylloides leachii ”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

10 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Unlocking the mysteries of marsupial pregnancy
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

06 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
HIPS – A haptic virtual reality simulator for hip pan reaming
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

15 August 2017
1:05pm to 2:05pm
Anatomy Seminar | PBRF 2018: How can I improve my score?
Hercus D'Ath Lecture Theatre, Hercus Building

11 July 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Don’t count your Kiwi before they’ve hatched: Inbreeding, reproduction, and integrating genetics into conservation management
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

17 September 2017
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Seeking community guidance for a project aiming to humanely remove invasive rodents
St David Lecture TheatreUnion Street

29 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
More things on heaven and earth: New approaches for exploring microbiomes
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

28 October – 29 October 2021
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past conference
Online, Dunedin.

10 September 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
"From firecrackers to head models – biomechanical research in Otago"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

15 April 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Engaging with Wikimedia
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott Building

11 April 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Introduction in Forensic Entomology
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor Hercus Building

02 October 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Send my body to the Medical School: Donating one’s body before Anatomical Gift Acts
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

20 August 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in thyrotropic activity during life stage transitions in birds."
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

21 January 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
“Piecing together the settlement of the Pacific”
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

22 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Impact of perinatal nutrition on the programming of the somatotropic axis
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

08 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Melanocortin and serotonin interactions in the central regulation of energy balance
Med Red Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Scott Building

04 September 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
" One bug two bugs three: understanding genetic diversity and adaptation in insect systems"
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building

14 February 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Central and peripheral actions of 17α-estradiol in reversal of obesity and age-related metabolic dysfunction
Gowland Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Lindo Ferguson Building

09 July 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Modulation of life-history and ageing by the opposite sex
D'Ath Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Hercus Building