Congratulations to Elliott Dunn, who was runner up at the OMSRS Summer Student Presentation Evening, held on May 1. The evening showcased a great series of student talks. Elliott is a MSc student in Dr Ros Kemp’s lab, and presented his work: ‘Long-term in vitro expansion of human intestinal organoids’ which was performed in the lab of Assoc Prof Grant Butt.
Congratulations to Dayle Keown, for winning a prize for the best summer scholarship report. Dayle’s project, conducted in Dr Joanna Kirman’s lab, was part of the multidisciplinary Whiti Te Ra study, which aims to understand the causes of early childhood respiratory infection in New Zealand. Dayle's project was to investigate whether the presence of rhinovirus correlated with respiratory disease severity. Unlike similar studies conducted on infants overseas, Dayle did not find that the presence of human rhinovirus in nasal swab samples was associated with disease severity. Interestingly, the number of human rhinovirus positive samples was twice as high as those detected in a similar study population in the US. The aim is to publish these findings, along with the investigations on other viruses present in the samples, later this year.
Congratulations to our 400-level students, Hannah Greenhough, Kieran Jongerius, Rebecca McKenzie and Adrian Patterson, who were recently awarded a University of Otago Scholarship in Science. These scholarships are awarded to excellent students, by the University Council, on the basis of high academic achievement. For further information on scholarships click here.
Congratulations to Elliott Dunn, who was awarded the People's Choice Award at last week's OSMS Postgraduate Symposium. Elliott presented his MSc research, undertaken in Dr Ros Kemp's lab - "Macrophage and T cell distribution in autoimmune inflammation of the gut"
Congratulations to Imogen Nolan, Marian Makary and Stephanie Gamble, who were jointly-awarded the Sydney Champtaloup Memorial Prize for 2012.
On 14 February 2013, Professor Gerald Tannock featured on the Radio New Zealand programme Our Changing World. The recording is now available online - click here to listen.
Congratulations to the following staff, whose contributions were recognized at the OSMS annual awards ceremony held at the Hunter Centre on 7 February 2013.
The new University of Otago Whanau Guide features one of our post-graduate students, Georgia Bell. Georgia is undertaking a PostGraduate Diploma in Science in Ros Kemp's lab.
Seven Microbiology and Immunology students were each awarded a University of Otago Scholarship in Science in December after completing the third year of their Microbiology B.Sc or Infection and Immunity B.Biomed.Sci degrees.
