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2024 PhD Student awards

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The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the 271st Scientific Meeting of the Society which will showcase the research performed by 10 University of Otago PhD students. A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker (sponsored by OMSRS), and the runner-up will be awarded $250 (sponsored by Mediray). 

  

The meeting will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 14th August 2024 in the Barnett Lecture theatre, 1st floor Dunedin Hospital.  

  

Our speakers are listed below 

Please join us to celebrate our emerging Otago Health researchers. 

 

Time Presenter Title Department
5pm Prof Shyamal Das (President OMSRS) Opening remarks and Karakia President OMSRS
5.05pm Venus Cahusac de Caux Impact of AID on sleep in type 1 diabetes for young people with suboptimal glycemia. Women’s & Children’s Health
5.15pm LIJO N VARGHESE Varghese Understanding the role of microRNAs in cardiac ageing Physiology
5.25pm Anita Lu Characterising the role of RNF125 in RIG-I anti-viral signalling. Biochemistry
5.35pm Matt Howes Validating and applying a liver-on-a-chip to address the effects of fructose on steatotic liver disease Pharmacology & Toxicology
5.45pm Jildou van der Werf IL-6 promotor SNP rs1800795 influences macrophage polarisation, colitis and response to emerging therapies. Pathology
  Short interval    
6.05pm Kirstin McDonald DECIPHERING THE ROLE OF LNCRNAS IN LYSOSOME AND NEURON HEALTH Biochemistry
6.15pm Caitlin Berry-Kilgour Decellularised Ecklonia radiata as a sustainable cellulose matrix for tissue engineering Pharmacology
6.25pm Sara Crellin Novel therapeutic targets in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Psychological Medicine
6.35pm Douglas Gaskarth Microbial metabolite butyrate stimulates an effector programme in CD8+ T cells that boosts anti-tumour function Microbiology and Immunology
6.45pm Deanna Beckett Dental consequences of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency during pregnancy and early infancy Women’s and Children’s Health
7pm Prof Shyamal Das (President OMSRS) Closing remarks and Karakia  
7.10pm Prof Meghan Gibbons (PVC Health Sciences) Presentation of prizes  

  

               
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi 

(With your basket, and my basket, the people will be well)