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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 – POSTPONED


As usual, the Symposium will highlight the fantastic research being done by GO members from around the country through presentations, posters and awards.

Date: New date TBC (tentatively 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 will open closer to time.

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.

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


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Oxford Nanopore Technology Workshop

Join us at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Dunedin, for a one day Oxford Nanopore Technology symposium. This event, jointly hosted by Genomics Aotearoa and the Genetics Otago ONT hub, will feature research talks highlighting different ONT use cases, a technical sequencing demonstration and an EPI2ME workshop.

This is an in-person event being held on Friday, December 6th at the Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka / University of Otago campus.

Registration for this event is free of charge.

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This event is sponsored by ONT, and is supported by the Otago Genomics Facility.

Contact tyler.mcinnes@otago.ac.nz for any queries.


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CRISPR Workshop

This event is designed to cater to the diverse community of researchers at the University of Otago who are using or interested in using the CRISPR-Cas diagnostics toolkit. We warmly welcome everyone to attend.
For the workshop, you will need a laptop with either a macOS or a Windows operating system (with Windows Linux subsystem installed). Optionally, it would be advantageous if you have Geneious Prime software installed (a free trial time can be obtained on the official website)

Date: Wednesday 13th December 2024
Time: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: Hunter Centre, Room 1.18
Programme: CRISPR-Dx Programme

Please register your attendance using the button below. The workshop will only go ahead if >10 people register, with a cap limit of 20. A final decision will be delivered on December 4th if it goes ahead with the corresponding detailed programme.

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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.


Sep
15
Wed
Department of Botany Seminars @ Room 2.13Physical Education Building,
Sep 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Department of Botany Seminars—Semester Two 2021

Wednesdays at 12 noon in the Physical Education Building, 55 Union St West, room 2.13 (unless otherwise stated please see schedule below).

For those who cannot attend in person, you are welcome to join via the Zoom link below: https://otago.zoom.us/j/94239463064?pwd=d051YWFwdVB1bi9FSzBjYzkwNWJBUT09 Password: 807740

Botany Seminars 2021 Schedule

Botany Seminar 21.7.2021 Poster

Botany Seminar 4.8.2021 Poster

Sep
22
Wed
Department of Botany Seminars @ Room 2.13Physical Education Building,
Sep 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Department of Botany Seminars—Semester Two 2021

Wednesdays at 12 noon in the Physical Education Building, 55 Union St West, room 2.13 (unless otherwise stated please see schedule below).

For those who cannot attend in person, you are welcome to join via the Zoom link below: https://otago.zoom.us/j/94239463064?pwd=d051YWFwdVB1bi9FSzBjYzkwNWJBUT09 Password: 807740

Botany Seminars 2021 Schedule

Botany Seminar 21.7.2021 Poster

Botany Seminar 4.8.2021 Poster

Sep
29
Wed
Department of Botany Seminars @ Room 2.13Physical Education Building,
Sep 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Department of Botany Seminars—Semester Two 2021

Wednesdays at 12 noon in the Physical Education Building, 55 Union St West, room 2.13 (unless otherwise stated please see schedule below).

For those who cannot attend in person, you are welcome to join via the Zoom link below: https://otago.zoom.us/j/94239463064?pwd=d051YWFwdVB1bi9FSzBjYzkwNWJBUT09 Password: 807740

Botany Seminars 2021 Schedule

Botany Seminar 21.7.2021 Poster

Botany Seminar 4.8.2021 Poster

Oct
6
Wed
Department of Botany Seminars @ Room 2.13Physical Education Building,
Oct 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Department of Botany Seminars—Semester Two 2021

Wednesdays at 12 noon in the Physical Education Building, 55 Union St West, room 2.13 (unless otherwise stated please see schedule below).

For those who cannot attend in person, you are welcome to join via the Zoom link below: https://otago.zoom.us/j/94239463064?pwd=d051YWFwdVB1bi9FSzBjYzkwNWJBUT09 Password: 807740

Botany Seminars 2021 Schedule

Botany Seminar 21.7.2021 Poster

Botany Seminar 4.8.2021 Poster

Nov
5
Fri
Pathology Seminar @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Nov 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dr Chi Lynch-Sutherland who will present her exit seminar entitled ‘Repeating the past: do cancers use early developmental repeat elements to drive malignancy?’.

Please see attached for more information.

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Nov
11
Thu
Early and Mid-Career Researcher Annual Conference @ Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum
Nov 11 @ 9:15 am – 5:00 pm

The University of Otago Division of Health Sciences Early and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) management committee is holding a one-day conference on 11 November 2021.

The theme of the conference is collaboration, where we will invite EMCRs within the Division to present where you see your research going, and what collaboration you might be seeking.

Professor David Murdoch (Vice-Chancellor Designate, University of Otago), Professor Gary Evans (MBIE Chief Science Advisor) and Dr Sarah Diermeier (founder of Amaroq) are confirmed keynote speakers. They will present on strengthening collaborations between academic institutions and government agencies and creating a start-up company from your research.

The EMCR management committee warmly invites you to attend the Conference.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Nov
18
Thu
GO Annual Symposium @ Hunter Centre G30 A&B
Nov 18 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Feb
4
Fri
Pathology Department Seminar – Prof. Greg Anderson @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

athology Department Seminar Series for 2022 begins this Friday 4th February. Our speaker will be Prof. Greg Anderson from the Centre for Neuroendocrinology & Department of Anatomy (University of Otago) who will present a seminar entitled “A neuronal circuit for stress-induced infertility”.

Anderson_poster

The seminar will be held at the usual time of 1pm in the D’Ath Lecture theatre and accessible over zoom due to the Red Light settings (please contact the organiser for the link). For those attending in person, there will be refreshments provided at 12.45pm (~15min before the seminar). Details of which will be provided closer to the time.

Feb
11
Fri
Pathology Department Seminar – Karen Reader @ D'Ath Lecture Theatre
Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Our Pathology Department Seminar Series for 2022 continues as a Research Forum this Friday 11th February. The Forum will be hosted by Dr. Karen Reader- Operations Manager, Otago Micro and Nanoscale Imaging (OMNI). Karen will be presenting on “Tools for your ResearchAn introduction to the Flow Cytometry, Histology, Confocal and Electron Microscope units”. 

Karen_Reader_Forumposter

 The forum will be held at the usual seminar time of 1 pm in the D’Ath Lecture theatre and accessible over zoom due to the Red Light settings, contact organisers for link.

For those attending in person, there will be refreshments provided at 12.45pm (~15 min before the seminar). Food will kept for collection in the foyer near the back entrance of the D’Ath lecture theatre. We have a capacity for 50 people in the D’Ath.

Feb
14
Mon
Biostatistic Centre: Introductory Biostatistics for Health Researchers @ Room G33, AdamsBuilding
Feb 14 @ 9:00 am – Feb 15 @ 4:30 pm

This two-day course is a fun introduction to the appropriate application and interpretation of biostatistical concepts for people working in clinical research with no formal statistical training. The focus will not be on carrying out analyses, but rather on understanding the appropriate use of statistical methods, the implications when underlying assumptions are not met, and how to interpret statistical results. Course material will be presented through examples, and all statistical analyses will be performed by the course instructors. There are no software requirements.