Allan Wilson @ Otago Oxford Nanopore Technologies Festival
A One Day Symposium highlighting the latest science using the most accessible high throughput sequencing platform, Oxford Nanopore, was hosted by Allan Wilson @ Otago and supported by Genetics Otago.
Date: 27th March 2019
Time: 9:45 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Hutton Lecture Theatre, Otago Museum
Organising Committee: Jo Stanton, Rebecca Oliver
Variant Analysis Hub Workshop
The Variant Analysis Hub hosted a workshop for members, based in Dunedin and Christchurch, to discuss projects, pipelines and troubleshooting ideas.
Date: 23rd May 2019
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: University of Otago Dunedin and Christchurch AV conferencing rooms
Organising Committee: Louise Bicknell, Logan Walker, Rebecca Oliver
Postgraduate Retreat
The Genetics Otago biennial Postgraduate Retreat was held in 2019. This event was open to all postgraduate students who are using genetics in their research and was broken into three sessions – Conferencing, Academic Career Pathways and Problem Solving.
Date: 28th June 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Orokonui Ecosanctuary
Organising Committee: Anezka Hoskin, Rebecca Oliver
Career Evening
The annual Career evening for students in Genetics, Microbiology and Biochemistry was held online this year and featured breakout rooms for discussion following the formal presentations from employers
Date: 4th September 2019
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: University of Otago, St David Lecture Theatre Complex Seminar Room A
Organising Committee: Rebecca Oliver, Miriam Sharpe, Jennifer Robson, Gillian MacKay
CRISPR Workshop
Full-day workshop including CRISPR guide design and delivery, CRISPR validation and analyses and CRISPR models, applications and ethics.
Date: 29th November 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Location: University of Otago, St David Lecture Theatre Complex Seminar Room A
Organising Committee: Cushla McKinney, Indranil Basak, Silke Neumann, Rebecca Oliver
Sponsors:
Asian Conference on Transcription
The 16th Asian Conference on Transcription was hosted by Genetics Otago welcoming delegates from around Asia, the Pacific and beyond to discuss genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of gene transcription in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, chromatin structure, cancer biology, antimicrobial resistance, developmental biology and genomics.
Date: 1st – 4th December 2019
Location: University of Otago, St David Lecture Theatre Complex
Local Organising Committee: Julia Horsfield, Justin O’Sullivan (University of Auckland), Rebecca Oliver, Sally Boult (Events 4 You)
Sponsors:
Visiting Academic – Professor Susan Clark
Professor Susan Clark, FAA (Garvan Institute of Medical Research), hosted by the Epigenetics User Group Hub, presented a seminar and hosted a student and ECR Q+A session.
Date: 4th and 5th December 2019
Location: University of Otago, Hunter Centre G10 and Staff Club
Organising Committee: Aniruddha Chatterjee, Rebecca Oliver
