The Otago Medical School Research Society’s 264th Scientific Meeting is the 2022 Masters/Honours Student Award and Annual General Meeting
This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 9th November 2022 in the Barnett Lecture. In person attendance is welcomed, but you may also join by zoom (details below).
8 students will present their work. Presentations will be 8 minutes long, with 4 minutes for questions.
This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 9th November 2022 in the Barnett Lecture. An option for attending and presenting via Zoom will also be offered.
A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and $250 to the runner up, sponsored by the Society.
After the 4th speaker, we will hold the Annual General Meeting of the Society at approximately 5:50pm, before the final four speakers. All are invited to attend the AGM.
Please join us to celebrate our emerging health researchers. Refreshments will be served from approximately 7pm.
Our speakers are listed below in confirmed order.
| Time | Speaker | Title | Co-authors | Department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 | Alisha Dabb | The cardioprotective agent oCOm-21 inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome assembly in cardiac ischaemia reperfusion injury. | Thwaite S, Payne F, Bland A, Harrison J, Sammut I | Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical Sciences and HeartOtago, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
| 5:12 | Haylea Rodgers | Identifying the optimal dose of dopamine agonists to initiate motor activity in a parkinsonian sheep model. | A Banstola and JNJ Reynolds | Department of Anatomy and the Brain Health Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
| 5:24 | Yi ZhenTan | Carbon nano-onions as a novel and safe drug delivery system. | L Thomsen and RJ Rosengren. | Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. |
| 5:36 | Mia Pugh | Health outcomes of children in state care in Aotearoa New Zealand. | N Bowden1, J Kokaua2, P Dawson1, M Duncanson1 | 1 Department of Women and Children’s Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 2 c Va’a O Tautai—Centre for Pacific Health Research, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
| 5:50 | Annual General Meeting | |||
| 6:05 | Break | |||
| 6:15 | Daniel Gray | Brothers discordant for gout have differing DNA methylation patterns in inflammatory genes. | Emily Ewers1, Amanda Phipps-Green1, Archie Campbell2, David E Porteous2, Stewart Morris2, Rosie M Walker2, Nicola Dalbeth3, Lisa K Stamp4, Tony R Merriman1,5, Michelle C Thunders6, Tanya J Major1 | 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin 2Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh3Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland 3Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland 3Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland |
| 6:27 | Barnaby Kelly | Second generation curcumin analogue RL71, induces apoptosis via the regulation of growth signals in canine osteosarcoma cells. | RJ Rosengren2 | 1,2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
| 6:39 | Chole Schwass | Raji and Daudi B cell-lines are not appropriate models of blood-derived B cell responses to interleukin-10. | GS Stuart1, AJ Highton2, LM Wise1. | 1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
| 6:51 | Harriet Spoelstra | The relationship between secreted amyloid precursor protein alpha (sAPPα) and the cell surface expression of NMDA glutamate receptors – a time-course study. | CM Westlake, JM Williams | Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin. |
Zoom details:
Topic: OMSRS Masters/Hons Meeting and AGM
Time: Nov 9, 2022 05:00 PM Auckland, Wellington
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://otago.zoom.us/j/93749579198?pwd=enNHdzQ4WkxTZVhCWUJXZWlrN1VYdz09
Meeting ID: 937 4957 9198
Password: 774481
