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The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce 269th Scientific Meeting of the Society which will showcase the research performed by 10 University of Otago Summer Student students. A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and the runner-up will be awarded $250. The scientific meeting and prizes are kindly sponsored by Otago Medical Research Foundation.
The meeting will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 24th April 2024 in the Barnett Lecture, Dunedin Hospital, with an option to attend via Zoom (see link below)
https://otago.zoom.us/j/8357112293?pwd=NWs0enVIL1lmUmJwN0RxaDB6eFo4QT09
Meeting ID: 835 711 2293; Password: 011302
Our speakers are listed below
| Approx time | Participant | Department | Title |
| 5pm | Welcome and opening Karakia | ||
| Miss Mia Cochrane | Department of Psychological Medicine | Pioneering artificial intelligence in the development of cognitive bias modification as a cost-effective treatment for depression. | |
| Mr Finlay Anderson | Department of Microbiology and Immunology | Targeted nanopore sequencing as a diagnostic tool for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis | |
| Mr Andy Stewart | Department of Anatomy | Establishing a model of viral-induced fever suppression in late pregnancy of mice | |
| Miss Angela Fu | Department of Physiology | Changes in RyR2 Phosphorylation in Genetically Modified Mice with absent CK2 activity | |
| Miss Anna Donaldson (zoom) | Dunedin School of Medicine | Discrepancies in clinical coding between rural and urban hospitals in Aotearoa New Zealand. | |
| 6pm | Short interval | ||
| Mr Tom McDermott | Microbiology and Immunology | Are CAR T cells susceptible to NK cell lysis? | |
| Miss Lucy Simmonds (zoom) | Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine | A Qualitative Study of Barriers and Facilitators to Compression Stocking use in Patients with Chronic Venous Disease | |
| Miss Sana Atithi | Physiology | Viral-mediated mapping of a novel escape network in the brain | |
| Miss Jessica Darnley | Microbiology and Immunology | Virus discovery in New Zealand mosquitoes | |
| Miss Samantha Ponder (zoom) | Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine | Effect of Amiloride on CPT1A expression in Reducing Kidney Fibrosis. | |
| 7.20pm | Closing Karakia and kai | ||
| 7.30pm | Presentation of winner and runner up prize | ||
| Please join us to celebrate our emerging Otago Health researchers.
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| Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi
(With your basket, and my basket, the people will be well) |
