Date	Title	Speaker
Monday 27 February	Living with radicals	Andrew Das, PhD candidate, Centre for Free Radical Research, Department of Pathology, UOC
Monday 6 March	High-value nutrition and (early) life health	Professor Martin Kussman, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland
Monday 13 March	Missing DNA and cancer risk	Dr Logan Walker, MacKenzie Cancer Research Group, Department of Pathology, UOC
Monday 20 March	The macrophage enhancer landscape during cytokine stimulation and tuberculosis infection	Dr Sebastian Schmeier, Massey University, Auckland
Monday 27 March	Vitamin C - Snake oil or an adjunt to cancer therapy?	Associate Professor Gabi Dachs
Monday 3 April	Exploring the anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties of isothiocyanates	Emma Spencer, PhD student, Centre for Free Radical Research, Department of Pathology
Monday 10 April	Something known, something new; results from the Otago cardiovascular disease epigenome-wide association study	Associate Professor Greg Jones
Monday 1 May	Something borrowed, something new: Exome sequencing in diagnostic molecular genetics	Hannah Kennedy, PhD student, Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, UOC
Monday 8 May	3D printing of nanocomposite scaffolds for bone regeneration	Cesar Alcala Orozco, PhD candidate, CReaTE
Monday 8 May	Identifying neutrophil subpopulations in colorectal cancer	Bailey Kennedy, PhD candidate, Mackenzie Cancer Research Group
Monday 8 May	The hidden killer in your garden! Investigating potting mix products for Legionella bacteria	Ali Mohammadi, PhD candidate, The Infection Group
Thursday 11 May	Challenges in human myocardium - Diabetes, atrial fibrillation and adipose tissue	Dr Regis Lamberts, Department of Physiology, University of Otago
Wednesday 17 May	Unravelling the secrets of Huntington's disease through research on the human brain - a unique partnership with neuroscientists, families and the community	Sir Richard Faull
Monday 22 May	Discovering disease mutations by whole genome and exome sequencing - Doing the interesting parts in New Zealand	Associate Professor Klaus Lehnert
Monday 29 May	Biofabrication of 3D in vitro tissue models for Regenerative Medicine and High Throughput Screening	Associate Professor Tim Woodfield
Monday 19 June	Improving aging with big data	Dr Hamish Jamieson
Monday 26 June	The changing landscape of gram negative resistance in New Zealand	Dr Joshua Freeman
Thursday 29 June	Uncovering the missing genetic component of familial motor neuron disease	Emily McCann, PhD Student, Macquarie University
Tuesday 4 July	Development of tissue-resident lymphocytes	Dr Laura Mackay, University of Melbourne
Tuesday 4 July	Using NKT cell antigens as vaccine adjuvants	Professor Ian Hermans, University of Auckland
Wednesday 5 July	Taking mass cytometry, a single cell proteomic platform for comprehensive immune analysis to the clinic	Dr Helen McGuire, Centenary Institute of Sydney
Monday 24 July	The Global Health Classroom	Roshit Bothara, BMedSci (Hons) Student, Department of Pathology, UOC
Monday 31 July	Towards the chemoprevention of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer	Professor Parry Guilford, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin
Monday 7 August	Knock, knock, whose where - how location (and GIS and GPS) can explain health ... and a lot of other things	Professor Simon Kingham, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury
Monday 14 August	Oxidative stress is associated with lung damage in infants with cystic fibrosis	Dr Nina Dickerhof, Centre for Free Radical Research, Department of Pathology, UOC
Monday 21 August	Discovering protein biomarkers to predict future heart attacks using SWATH mass spectrometry	Dr Moritz Lasse, Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, UOC
Monday 28 August	Playing with LEGO: bioassembling tissues for application in cartilage engineering and tumour engineering	Naveen Mekhileri, PhD Student, CReATE, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, UO
Monday 11 September	Scavenger endothelial cells - self-cleaning plumbing of the liver and other organs	Professor Peter McCourt, Vascular Biology Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromso, Norway
Monday 25 September	Aberrant microRNA expression in malignant pleural mesothelioma: from biomarkers to therapeutic targets	Associate Professor Glen Reid, Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Monday 16 October	Cell-based bioassays to measure serum estrogenic activity in clinical studies	Professor Alison Heather, Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin
Wednesday 18 October	The Walking Dead: how the zombie protein MLKL is activated to cause necrotic cell death	Associate Professor James Murphy, Cell Signalling and Cell Death Lab, Walker and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne
Monday 6 November	Enterotoxigenic bacteria in the loss of E-cadherin in colorectal cancer	Alan Aitchison, PhD Student, Department of Surgery
Monday 6 November	A nanopore sequencing-based multiplex assay for pharmacogenetics of clopidogrel and warfrin	Cen Liau, PhD Student, Gene Structure and Function Lab, Department of Pathology
Monday 13 November	Nothing will come of nothing: public health intervention for meningococcal disease	Professor Andrew Pollard, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Tuesday 21 November	Optimisation of spectral CT for novel applications of nanoparticles	Mahdieh Moghiseh, PhD Student
Monday 4 December	Decoding the functional roles of genetic variants in complex phenotypes	Dr Justin O'Sullivan
Monday 11 December	Charaterising the behavioural dynamics of the ribosomal RNA gene repeats in mammals	Dr Austin Ganley