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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Jim Lorens
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
“The Role of AXL in Cancer Therapy Resistance: Bench to Bedside”
Dr Megan Wilson
Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
“Sex, brains and microRNAs”
Programmed for Preference: The Biology of Same-Sex Attraction in Rams
Professor Charles (Chuck) Roselli, a Physiology, Anatomy and BMS supported William Evans Fellow will be arriving next week for a month long visit to the University. Chuck is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University in the US. He is an international leader in the field of sex differences in brain structure and function and is particularly well known for his contributions to our understanding of the biological basis for same-sex sexual preferences.
Professor Bill Montfort, University of Arizona, Tucson: ‘Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease’
Taonga plants and bioactive molecules: ecology and evolution?
Speaker: Professor Nigel Perry, Plant & Food Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago
Please refer to the below pdf for details of speakers each week.
Professor Robert Korneluk, University of Ottawa:
‘Targeting the Inhibitors of Apoptosis (IAPs) for Cancer Immunotherapy’
Please refer to the below pdf for details of speakers each week.
Psychiatric Genomics Consortium – What have we achieved and where are we going?
Dr Patrick Sullivan
Dr. Sullivan is the Yeargan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, depressive and eating disorders, and autism. Dr. Sullivan is a founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, the largest consortium in the history of psychiatry and has recently launched the UNC Centre for Psychiatric Genomics.
Lecture begins at 5pm, preceded by drinks and canapes from 4pm.
Changes in our individual book of life – our DNA – can alter who we are and cause disease. Identifying and understanding changes in our DNA, and how they lead to conditions affecting brain development, is of immense importance.
In this talk, Professor of Paediatric Genetics Stephen Robertson, and Dr Adam O’Neill, Research Fellow, both of the University of Otago Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, address how this is being achieved, and outline the future applications of this work.
5.30pm, Tuesday 10 March
Hutton Theatre
Free admission
https://otagomuseum.nz/whats-on/do/programme-and-events/event/genetics-and-the-developing-brain
