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Upcoming events hosted by or involving Genetics Otago will be listed here. Please check back regularly for updates. A calendar of events that may be of interest to our members can be found at the bottom of this page and in the sidebar of other pages on this site, please note that this includes events hosted outside of Genetics Otago.

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GO Annual Symposium – New Date Confirmed!


As usual, the Symposium will highlight the fantastic research being done by GO members from around the country through presentations, posters and awards. We are aware that this date clashes with a couple of other conferences happening in NZ and we apologise if this means you are unable to attend.

Date: Thursday, 20th February 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: TBC

Programme
A draft programme will be available here soon.

Registration
Registration for this event is now open via the button below. If you had already registered for the event scheduled for December we ask you to please register again so that we have accurate numbers for catering. If you made a payment at that time, this should have been refunded to you – please contact us if you don’t think this has been processed.

Registration will remain open until Monday the 3rd of February, however we hope that by opening now, prior to end of year budget cut-offs, you maybe able to charge the registration fee to any surplus in your 2024 University accounts.

Register Now

Registration Fee
Due to budget constraints, we will be charging a $50 per person registration fee for all attendees to subsidise the costs associated with the Symposium. We have received confirmation that this registration fee can be paid from S accounts, and if you are in a position to make a donation on top of this fee, we would gladly receive it. However, we do not want the payment to be a barrier to attendance, so if you are not in a position to make a payment, please contact us go@otago.ac.nz.

Payment Methods
Payments from an S account (or other University account) can be journaled to Genetics Otago account GL.10.LH.A14.2541 via your finance associate. Please include the surname(s) of the registrants that the payment covers in the narration.

If you need to make payment using funds from outside the University this can be arranged via the Cashier’s Office. Please contact us for details (go@otago.ac.nz).

Awards
The Annual Genetics Otago Awards including The Genetics Otago Award, Outstanding Mentor Awards, Student Supervisor Award, Publication Awards, Poster Awards and Science Communication Prize will be presented at the conclusion of the Symposium and nominations for these are now open.

All award nominations should be submitted by email to go@otago.ac.nz.

Please note: Award nominations are now open until Monday 3rd February at 5pm.

Full details of the awards can be found here: Award Details.


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Calendar of Events

The below is a calendar of events hosted by GO as well as events hosted by others that may be of interest to our members. If you have an event you would like us to include please contact us here.


Mar
11
Wed
Department of Pathology, Special Seminar @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Associate Professor Elin Gray
Edith Cowan University, Perth

Title TBC.

This special seminar is being held in conjunction with the EUG Symposium to be held on the 13th March.

Mar
12
Thu
EUG Symposium and Workshops @ Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Mar 12 – Mar 13 all-day

This event is open to all GO members.

Hosted by Genetics Otago, the 2nd EUG (Epigenetics User Group) Symposium is to be held on 13th March 2020 at the Hutton Theatre in Otago Museum. The Symposium will be preceded by a day of workshops on the 12th of March 2020.

The aim of the Symposium is to bring Epigenetics research and collaboration opportunities to all researchers from students through to principal investigators and as such the Symposium and associated workshops will be free of charge to all delegates.

Key Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 17th January 2020
Authors Advised: TBC
Registration Closes: 27th February 2020
More information here

 

Department of Pathology, Special Seminar @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dr Felicity Newell
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane

“The genomics of melanoma subtypes”

This special seminar is being held in conjunction with the EUG Symposium to be held on the 13th March.

Mar
13
Fri
Department of Biochemistry Journal Club
Mar 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Please refer to the below pdf for details of speakers each week.

Journal Club S1 2020

Mar
17
Tue
CRISPR Hub Meeting @ Biochemistry Seminar Room 231
Mar 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Anatomy Department Seminar @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dr Brad Hurren (Department of Anatomy) “What is the ASERT group all about?” and Mr Tapekaoterangi Hakopa (Department of Anatomy) “Te Mātauranga Māori o te tinana – understanding the human body in te reo Māori/with a Māori world view.”

Mar
18
Wed
Botany Department Seminar @ Betts workroom
Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Professor Graham Wallis
Department of Zoology, University of Otago

Going under down under?
Molecular data provide no evidence for complete inundation of New Zealand during the Oligocene Marine Transgression.

The last 25 years have seen heated debate over whether there was continuous emergent land through the Oligocene “drowning” of current-day NZ some 25–23 million years ago. Such an event would imply that all terrestrial, freshwater and maybe coastal marine lineages must have dispersed here since. A compilation of 248 phylogeographic splits (i.e. molecular estimates of divergence times between NZ lineages and their closest overseas sister groups) follows a smooth exponential over the last 50 Ma or more. ~74 of these lineages appear to have survived the OMT in situ; some of these major lineages comprise multiple additional lineages as a result of autochthonous speciation prior to the OMT. Although extinction of closer

overseas lineages will cause overestimation of some splits, there is no evidence for a deficit of pre-Oligocene lineages, nor an excess of ones arriving just afterwards. Consequently, this large body of molecular data provides no evidence for complete inundation of NZ during the Oligocene.

Mar
20
Fri
Department of Biochemistry Journal Club
Mar 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Please refer to the below pdf for details of speakers each week.

Journal Club S1 2020

Pathology Department Seminar @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Presented by Professor Birgitta Tomkinson, visiting academic from Uppsala University. The title of her talk will be “Tripeptidyl-peptidase II: An interesting enzyme involved in intracellular protein turnover, antigen presentation, MS and more”,

Mar
27
Fri
Department of Biochemistry Journal Club
Mar 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Please refer to the below pdf for details of speakers each week.

Journal Club S1 2020