MedSci 2016 Programme
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Monday 29th August 2016 |
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6.00 pm - 6.30 pm |
Opening: Peter Shepherd,
Queenstown Research Week Chair |
6.30 pm - 8.00 pm |
QRW Lecture: Professor John
Gurdon (Nobel Laureate) �Title TBA� |
8.00 pm |
QRW Social |
Tuesday 30th August 2016
- Societies Day |
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9.00 am - 10.00 am |
MedSci Plenary Lecture: David
Eisner, The University of Manchester, UK, �Calcium in the heart in health and
disease�
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10.00 am - 10.30 am |
Morning Tea |
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10.30 am - 12.30 pm |
Session 1A |
Session 1B Biomed Tech Prize
Finalists and Free Communications
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Session 1C Free communications
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12.30 pm - 1.30 pm |
Lunch |
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1.30 pm - 3.30 pm |
Session 2A Free communications
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Session 2B Free communications
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Session 2C Free communications
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3.30 pm - 4.00 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
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4.00 pm - 6.00 pm |
Session 3A Free communications
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Session 3B Free communications
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Session 3C Free communications
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6.00 pm - 7.30 pm |
Combined MedSci & QMB Poster Session + Mixer |
Wednesday 31st
August 2016 - Symposia Day
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9.00 am - 10.00 am |
MedSci Plenary Lecture: Javier
Stern, Augusta University, USA, �Synaptic and non-synaptic mechanisms
regulate autonomic-neuroendocrine integration in the hypothalamus�
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10.00 am - 10.30 am |
Morning Tea |
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10.30 am - 12.30 pm |
Symposium 1A (PSNZ) - Stress responses
in cardiac and skeletal muscle Prof Roberta Gottlieb
(USA) - Mitochondrial turnover & cardioprotection Prof Lea Delbridge
(AUS) - Paradoxical cardiac responses to metabolic stress Dr Rajesh Katare (NZ)- The role of beclin1
in the diabetic heart Dr Troy Merry (NZ) - ROS and metabolic signalling
in skeletal muscle |
Symposium 1B (CNE) - Neurosecretion:
the bigger picture Prof Paul Le Tissier
(UK) - Neurosecretion and novel mechanisms for its in vivo measurement Professor Peter Thorn
(AUS) - Neurosecretion from pancreatic beta cells Dr Brie Sorrenson (NZ) - New observations on
neurosecretion from pancreatic beta-cells A/Prof Stephen Bunn
(NZ) - Neurosecretion from adrenal chromaffin cells Dr Merja Joensuu (AUS) - Single vesicle
tracking by nanoscale topographic imaging |
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12.30 pm - 1.30 pm |
Lunch and MedSci AGM |
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1.30 pm - 3.30 pm |
Symposium 2A (PSNZ) - Interventional
approaches targeting the sympathetic nerves in cardiovascular disease A/Prof Ivan Sammut (NZ) - Renal denervation in
diabetes Dr Maximilian Pinkham (NZ) - Heart Failure:
are women less sympathetic than males? Dr Lindsea Booth (AUS) - Re-innervation of
renal nerves after catheter based denervation Dr David Jardine (NZ) - TBA |
Symposium 2B (IBT) - Respiratory Diagnostics and Therapies Prof Jason Bates (USA) - Mechanical
ventilation and acute lung injury Prof Frank Bloomfield
(NZ) - Gas flows and lung injury in ventilated preterm babies Prof Paul Young (AUS) - Innovative Devices
and Therapies for Respiratory Diseases Dr Stanislav Tatkov
(NZ) - Respiratory Therapy with Nasal High Flow |
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3.30 pm - 4.00 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
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4.00 pm - 6.00 pm |
Symposium 3A (ABI) - State-of-the-art
computational modelling tools developed to solve physiology problems Professor Edmund
Crampin (AUS) - System Biology Dr Vijay Rajagopal
(AUS) - 3D cell imaging Dr Alys Clark (NZ) - Computer modelling
of placenta A/Prof Thor Besier (NZ) - Modelling
musculoskeletal system |
Symposium 3B (NZSE) - Female
reproduction: control of oocyte development and ovulation Dr Karla Hutt (AUS) - Mechanisms of
quality control in the female germ line Dr Michael Pankhurst
(NZ) - Transgenic overexpression of AMH reduces female fertility A/Prof Rebecca Robker
(AUS) - Impact of obesity on female fertility and offspring mitochondrial
inheritance Dr Jenny Juengel (NZ) - Reproductive
characteristics of sheep with mutations in the leptin receptor |
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6.00 pm |
Closing |
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6.00 pm |
Fashionomics |
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7.00 pm |
Combined MedSci & QMB Dinner + Prize-giving |
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