Events
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.
Logan Walker IPL
Preparing for the future of genetic health
Logan is a cancer geneticist and the current Associate Dean Research, at the University of Otago Christchurch. His research focuses on understanding the impact of genetic changes on health. After completing post-doctoral training in Australia, and returning to the University of Otago, his research programme was significantly strengthened by being awarded a Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship (Health Research Council) followed by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (Royal Society Te Apārangi).
He is an invited member of several international groups tasked with improving protocols for genetic testing around the world. This work includes developing RNA diagnostic guidelines for both the clinical and research setting, and providing expert advice about the implementation of these guidelines and the interpretation of genetic test results. In collaboration with multiple international consortia, he has also contributed to and led some of the largest genetic association studies to discover inherited DNA copy number changes that increase or decrease susceptibility to cancer.s.
Date: Tuessday, 11th March 2025
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Venue: Rolleston Lecture Theatre, Christchurch Campus (and via Zoom)
AlphaFold for Geneticists
The AlphaFold for Geneticists workshop will introduce participants to the AI tool AlphaFold. Attendees will learn how to run AlphaFold on their chosen variant and interpret outputted results. Led by experts Prof Peter Mace and Dr Adam Middleton, the session will provide insight into the strengths and limitations of AlphaFold. Further details will be provided to registrants.
Date: Monday, 24th March 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: TBC, Dunedin Campus
This workshop is now full, please email go@otago.ac.nz if you would like to be added to the waitlist.
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.
This Friday, March 4th Associate Professor Ben Wheeler from the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health (Dunedin) will be presenting the seminar titled “Technology for the management of Type 1 Diabetes – Past, Present, and Future”. Attached is the poster
The seminar will be held at the usual time of 1 pm over Zoom. Please see poster for Zoom details.
Small packed lunches will be available for collection in the ground floor tea room from 12:45 pm onwards.
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We look forward to seeing you on Friday!
Ngā Mihi,
Sunali & Jisha
Are you interested in mentorship as a mentor or mentee? On the 9th of March at 12-1pm the Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Committee will be running its first professional development workshop of 2022.
The session is titled ‘Getting the most out of mentorship: Tips for Mentors and Mentees’. We would like to encourage all early and mid-career researchers to join us and learn more about this opportunity. The session will be run over zoom and our guest speaker is Suzy Keene.
Please contact the Organiser for Zoom link details.
STEM Women – Australia & New Zealand Careers Event
I wanted to invite your students to a free virtual careers event, focused on graduate roles and internships, based In Australia & New Zealand.
During the event, students will network live (chat, audio and video!) with graduate employers in different industries, hear insightful presentations from exhibiting companies and ask questions to a panel of women already working in STEM roles!
This event is targeted towards people who identify as female and are studying or recently graduated from, a STEM-related course at university. Students can also apply for graduate roles and internships within the event platform and have skipped interview stages through networking with graduate recruitment teams at our events, so this truly is a unique and exciting opportunity! We have a limited number of places for this free event.
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.
This Friday March 18th Dr Tania Slatter from the Department of Pathology (Dunedin) will be presenting the seminar titled “p53 Isoform Contributions to Brain Cancer”. Attached is the poster.
The seminar will be held at the usual time of 1 pm over Zoom.
Zoom Link:
https://otago.zoom.us/j/98905607169?pwd=N21NQ0FINnpIMHZUMng4Y0kzQ0FhUT09
Meeting ID: 989 0560 7169
Password: 566363
Small packed sandwiches, muffins and snacks will be available for collection in the ground floor tea room from 12:45 pm onwards.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday!
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.
R for Successful Student Projects is back again this semester starting 16th March. Across 9 sessions online, Wednesdays 10am-12pm, Murray Cadzow and Patricia Haden from the RTIS programming team will be teaching R, starting with an introduction to R syntax, through to using R with a focus on data, then onto how to use R programmatically. During each session, there will also be time to seek help and advice on how to use R for your own projects.
Staff are welcome to join in.
Please register your interest at https://rtis-training.github.io/r4ssp.