OMSRS Honours/Masters Student Award 2021
The Honours/Masters student meeting was held on 3rd November 2021. The OMSRS AGM was also held during this meeting.
This year we had joint winners! Congratulations to Brooke Craik (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) – Title: An exploration of mental health promotion in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative study, and Katerina Thompson (Department of Anatomy) Title: Agmatine attenuates actin dynamic alteration and synaptic dysfunction in aged rats
Brooke (left) and Katerina (right) pictured receiving their award from the President of the OMSRS, A/Prof Gisela Sole
A line-up of all the entrants!
From Left to Right
Lisa Hammersley (School of Pharmacy)
Brooke Craik (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine)
Alistar Machado (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Dansoa Tabi-Amponsah (Deparment of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Milly Morice (Department of Biochemistry)
Shivankar Nair (Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hanna Corre (Department of Anatomy)
Katerina Thompson (Department of Anatomy)
OMSRS PhD Student Award 2021
The meeting was held on 22nd September 2021, but alas due to COVID Level 2 restrictions we were unable to share supper together.
Congratulations to the Winner: Jessie King (Pharmacology & Toxicology), prize sponsored by the Otago Post-graduate Medical Society (first photo). Title: Aryl hydrocarbon receptor ligands can modulate fructose-induced hepatic insulin resistance.
And to the Runner-up: Travis Gibbons (Physical Education, Sports & Exercise Sciences), prize sponsored by the Otago Medical Research Society. Title: The regulation of cerebral oxygen delivery in hypoxia: the effect of acclimatisation.
Jessie King (left) and Travis Gibbons (right) accepted their prizes from the President of the OMSRS, A/Prof Gisela Sole.
All presenters:
Jessie King (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Travis Gibbons (Physical Education, Sports & Exercise Sciences)
Brendon Roxburgh (Department of Surgical Sciences)
S Jack Chan (School of Pharmacy)
Neda Nasrollahi (Department of Psychology and Brain Health Research Centre)
Shruthi Sateesh (Department of Psychology and Brain Health Research Centre)
Louise Croizat-Viallet (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Esther Asamudo (Department of Physiology and HeartOtago)
Val Mereacre (Department of Physiology and HeartOtago)
Prakash Khadka (School of Pharmacy)
OMSRS Science Writing Competition 2021
More than 20 submissions were received and judging followed a three-phase process!
Congratulations to the winner: Hayley Stent (right front), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, published in Otago Daily Times Title: Incredible possibilities of fish muscle
Runner-up: Meriam van Os (left front), Department of Anatomy; Title: Did we really get tuberculosis from seals?
We thank Kainic Medical for sponsoring the runner-up prize and judging the finalists. A warm thank you also to Kathleen Lucere (PhD candidate, left back, Department of Biochemistry), A/Prof Shyamal Das (School of Pharmacy) and for Dr Johann Zwirner (Department of Anatomy) for coordinating the contest and judging the first phase, and Prof Lloyd Spencer Davis (Centre for Science Communication) for judging the second phase.
258th Scientific meeting, the 2021 Research Staff Awards.
The Otago Medical School Research Society 258th Scientific meeting, the 2021 Research Staff Awards, was held on 23rd June 2021.
Five speakers were selected:
From left to right:
- Zhaoyang Xu (Dept. of Anatomy) – Three-dimensional somatotopic mapping of human trigeminal ganglion neurons in situ.
- Shabah Shadli (Depts of Psychological Medicine & Psychology) – Right frontal anxiolytic-sensitive EEG ‘theta’ rhythm in the stop-signal task is a theory-based anxiety disorder biomarker.
- Teodora Georgescu (Depts of Anatomy & Physiology) – Prolactin modulates maternal aggression through action on neurons in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.
- Kristina Smiley ((Depts of Anatomy & Physiology) – A novel role for prolactin in paternal behaviour.
- Paulo Pelicioni (School of Physiotherapy & Dept of Medicine) – Gold standard postural, balance and gait measures are reliable and valid to assess healthy older adults remotely.
We congratulate Kristina Smiley on winning the $1000 prize for the best presentation of the evening.
Pictured: Kristina Smiley receiving her award from OMSRS President Assoc. Professor Gisela Sole.
Thanks go to the Otago Postgraduate Medical Society for donating the prize fund.
