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18 Jan 2023

High School students explore biochemistry during Hands-On at Otago


Dr Ben Peters has been providing visiting high school students with a taster of...

21 Dec 2022

Record graduation numbers for COVID cohort


Congratulations to all former biochemistry students graduating this month! Tino...

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16 Dec 2022

The Diermeier Lab has three PhDs graduating this week!


Dr Sarah Diermeier leads a highly successful group in the Department of Biochemi...

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16 Dec 2022

Otago Biochemistry End-of-Year Shindig 2022


Scientists, students and professional staff flocked to Biochemistry’s BIG13 (gro...

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16 Dec 2022

PhD graduate Jamie Kok on using seaweed to fight skin disease


Could seaweed be a part of the next treatment for eczema?

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16 Dec 2022

Graduate battles wasps and more to gain PhD


Along with nine other graduands from the Department of Biochemistry, Gemma McLau...

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12 Dec 2022

2022 BMS Staff End of Year Function and Awards


Staff from across the School of Biomedical Sciences gathered last week to celebr...

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29 Nov 2022

Two more prestigious awards for Otago researchers


Two of the University of Otago’s leading researchers have been honoured for thei...

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24 Nov 2022

Valued Otago biochemist awarded Carl Smith Medal for outstanding research


Associate Professor Peter Mace was officially presented with the University’s Ca...

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15 Nov 2022

Bacterial biofilm therapeutics project wins Marsden Fund support


A project investigating new ways to fight deadly bacterial biofilms has won a Ma...

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14 Nov 2022

2022 MSc Research Presentations


In a series of four lunchtime sessions held over the past few weeks, Otago Bioch...

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08 Nov 2022

Members of Microbiology (final edition): Meet Sakiusa Baleivanualala


Over the course of 2022, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology has been...

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