Friday 30 January | 2014/2015 Summer Studentship Programme Final Presentations | Summer Students |
Monday 16 February | Necroptosis - A newly discoverd cell death pathway | Professor Mark Hampton |
Wednesday 18 February | Health and Safety and HASNO Reform | Robert Mclaren |
Wednesday 25 February | Gut instincts - The gastrointestinal tract in health and disease | Professor Richard Gearry |
Monday 2 March | Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? A lesson from the trophoblast | Professor Ilana Ariel |
Monday 9 March | Using 'omics' to define Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm as a distinct clinical entitiy | Associate Professor Greg Jones |
Tuesday 10 March | Fasting but not Ageing Dramatically Alters the Redox Status of Cysteine Residues on Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster | Professor Mike Murphy |
Wednesday 11 March | Ebola - 12 months on, what have we learned? | Professor Steve Chambers |
Thursday 12 March | 2018 Performance Based Research Fund Workshop | Professor Jeff Smith and Dr Michele Coleman |
Monday 16 March | Micronutrients as a treatment for psychiatric disorders: Rethinking the scientific paradigm | Professor Julia Rucklidge |
Wednesday 18 March | The Meihana model - Utilising a Maori health framework within your clinical practise | Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama |
Monday 23 March | Hydrogen sulfide in atherosclerosis: friend or foe? | Madh Izani Othman |
Monday 23 March | What's toxic about LDL | Shane Revees |
Monday 23 March | sFLT-1, a robust biomarker for prognosis in heart disease | Edward Mark |
Wednesday 25 March | How do we know wether medicines work and are safe? | Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer |
Monday 30 March | Regulation of the 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases and implications for health and disease | Professor Margreet Vissers |
Wednesday 1 April | Shakey times - The psychological effects of the Canterbury earthquakes and all that has followed | Associate Professor Caroline Bell |
Monday 20 April | Challenges of Reconstructive Surgery | Mr Jeremy Simcock |
Monday 11 May | Neutrophil death pathways and their impact on tumour biology | Annika Seddon |
Monday 11 May | Role of peroxiredoxins in protecting cancer cells from oxidative stress | Kate Vick |
Monday 11 May | Scoping RNA biomarkers for colorectal cancer | Arthur Morley-Bunker |
Thursday 14 May | Athol Mann Lecture - Neural plasticity and recovery following stroke | Professor Jeffrey Kleim |
Monday 18 May | MARS Spectral CT - How might it influence future medial care? | Associate Professor Nigel Anderson |
Monday 25 May | Understanding the course of multiple sclerosis through imaging | Professor David Miller |
Monday 8 June | Antibiotic Resistance by Stealth: Is a general creep in biocides behind the creep in MIC? | Professor Jack Heinemann (University of Canterbury) |
Monday 15 June | The role of hydrogen sulfide in acute pancreatitis | Alireza Badiei |
Monday 22 June | Understanding the bowel microbiome | Professor Gerald Tannock |
Monday 29 June | What can a transgenic sheep teach us about Huntington's Disease | Suzanne Reid (University of Auckland) |
Monday 6 July | Redox state of erythrocyte peroxiredoxin 2 during oxidative stress and its effect on membrance binding | Simone Bayer |
Monday 20 July | Fussy females and sneaky males - Female sperm selection and male sperm competition in animals | Dr Patrice Rosengrave |
Monday 27 July | G-quadruplex structures in DNA | Aaron Stevens, PhD Student |
Monday 3 August | Acoustic Emission Monitoring and Design Optimisation of Orthopaedic Implants | Dr Geoff Rodgers |
Monday 17 August | Ascorbate mediated regulation of HIF-1 | Lizzie Campbell, PhD Student |
Monday 17 August | Antibodies as tools to investigate protein structure and function: lessons from corticosteroid-binding globulin (SERPINA6) | Dr John Lewis |
Monday 24 August | Hydrogen sulphide and the inflammatory response | Abel Ang |
Monday 31 August | Post traumatic stress symptoms at school entry of children affected by earthquakes during their preschool years - A longitudinal study | Associate Professor Kathleen Liberty |
Monday 14 September | Measurement of mitochondrial dysfunction in humans | Mark Brinsden |
Monday 14 September | Does fat provide energy for breast tumour cell invasion and metastasis? | Morgan Jones |
Monday 14 September | Impact for G-quadruplex structures and DNA methylation on allelic drop-out imprinted regions | Millie Taylor |
Monday 14 September | Development of a metabolic syndrome mouse model of breast cancer | Anishah Mandani |
Monday 21 September | Inactivation of Thiol-dependent enzymes by Urate Hydroperoxide | Melanie Hamzah |
Monday 21 September | Exploring molecular links between obesity and breast cancer | Rebekah Crake |
Monday 21 September | Investigating the pro- apoptotic properties of portimine | Sarah Drake |
Monday 28 September | Comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens in New Zealand | Dr Patrick Biggs |
Monday 12 October | Multi-scale modelling of complex physiology | Professor Tim David |
Monday 19 October | Research 'in the wild' - Using mobile phones to assess and improved well-being in young adults | Dr Tamlin Connor |
Tuesday 27 October | | Christina Ernst and Ravinder Reddy Gaddam |
Monday 14 December | Effect of UV exposure of mitochondrial function in the skin | Professor Mark Birch-Machin |
Monday 18 July | Leprosy in the Pacific: Some public health and speculation | Professor Steve Chambers |
Monday 1 August | Hydrogen sulphide protects the heart from injury after heart attack | Professor Vicky Cameron |
Monday 15 August | Isothiocyanate bioavailability and biological effects | Masuma Zawari |
Monday 15 August | Genomic analysis of mood stabiliser drugs | Priyanka Sinha |
Monday 15 August | Gene expression variability in breast tumours | George Wiggins |
Monday 22 August | Genetic variation and mRNA splicing in familial breast cancer genes | Vanessa Lattimore |
Monday 5 September | Neuropharmacology of the human brain | Professor Mike Dragunow |
Monday 12 September | Genetics of adverse drug reactions | Dr Simran Maggo |
Monday 10 October | Modification of the breast tumour microenvironment using exercise | Linda Buss, Mackenzie Cancer Research Group |
Monday 10 October | New BRCA1 mRNA isoforms detected by Nanopore sequencing | Lucy de Jong, Gene Structure and Function Laboratory |
Monday 10 October | Has my bed been made? A validation study to detect markers of proliferation adequacy in the endometrium | Rosie Burn, Laboratory for Cell and Protein Regulation |
Monday 10 October | Novel inhibitors of bacterial biofilm formation | Tara Swadi, The Infection Group |