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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 Family Chair in Viral Pathogenesis at th...
14 Oct 2021
TB research will make ‘enormous global health impact’
University of Otago researchers are behind a major scientific breakthrough which could lead to elimination of the world’...
27 Aug 2020
Vaccine alliance for national COVID-19 vaccine screening and development programme
Vaccine alliance for national COVID-19 vaccine screening and development programme
02 May 2019
Australasian Virology Society meeting, December 2019
The Webster Centre will be sponsoring the Australasian Virology Society's tenth meeting, 2 to 5 December 2019, in Queens...
02 May 2019
Webster Centre Symposium: Infectious diseases and membrane proteins
The Webster Centre presents the 2019 QMB satellite symposium: Infectious diseases and membrane proteins, on 1 and 2 Sept...
22 Mar 2019
Webster Family Chair in Pathogenesis appointment
Following an extensive international search, Professor Miguel Quiñones-Mateu has been appointed as the second holder of...
10 Oct 2018
Webster Centre awards conference scholarships
The Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases has awarded three conference attendance scholarships to young researchers to...
04 Oct 2018
Webster researchers feature in Otago Spotlight Series
At the 2018 Otago Spotlight Series: Infectious Disease Research forum held in Wellington, four of the Webster Centre's l...
25 Sep 2018
Chaffer Fellow will share advanced microscopy techniques
Chaffer Fellow, Dr Kelly Rogers, will deliver lectures on advanced microscopy techniques, a research seminar about her l...
13 Sep 2018
Early immune response research wins Otago Spotlight Award
Brin Ryder, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, won the 2018 Otago Spotlight student poster competition. As one o...
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 the tenacious scientific detective work in...
30 Aug 2018
Join the crew to track the flu!
The Ministry of Health is looking for volunteers to help track influenza. People who live in New Zealand who have easy a...
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)