Upcoming Events
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Te Tītoki Mataora Forum
Aotearoa Brain Project and the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT)invite you to join us for the third Te Tītoki Mataora (TTM) MedTech Research Translator Forum as part of HealthTech Week 2024.
The Te Tītoki Mataora Forum is a 3-day event, designed to be highly interactive to facilitate accidental collisions with existing and new colleagues to spark great ideas and continue to build and develop our collaborative ecosystem. Our programme will take you from the comfort of your workplace to new spaces and thinking, explore new frontiers and help you grow your networks to support you on your translational journey.
FLAG EMCR workshop
Registrations now open!
FLAG early-mid career researcher workshop
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th November
Leigh Marine Reserve, Auckland
You're invited to our first FLAG workshop! Our focus for this workshop is on building collaborations within our national brain research network, so we're looking for exceptional EMCRs from across the motu who are interested in learning how to effectively market their skills, carry out research with impact, and work collaboratively to get further, faster.
Registration will cost $150, and travel will be subsidised for those coming from outside of Auckland. Places are limited and will be selected based on career stage and potential benefit for the applicant.
Click through here for the registration form. Applications close on Fri 22nd September.
Prospective programme of events:
Day 1:
12:00 pm: Arrival & lunch
1:00 pm: Introductions & icebreakers
1:30 pm: Flash talks - 10 mins/speaker
3:00 pm: National collaboration success story with Brigid Ryan (University of Auckland) and Ashleigh Barrett-Young (University of Otago)
3:45 pm: Afternoon tea & poster session
4:15 pm: Skills session - your own personal elevator pitch
5:30 pm: Plenary talk - a recently established Principal Investigator with national collaborations
6:30 pm: Dinner, poster session & networking
Day 2:
7:30 am: Breakfast & poster session
8:30 am: Panel discussion & Q&A - effective collaboration
10:00 am: Flash talks 2
11:00 am: Skills session - research impact
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Workshop close
FLAG panel discussion - Non-academic research careers
Come along to learn about how you can land a lectureship position in Aotearoa, including the do’s and don’ts, and the opportunities and challenges you may face.
Australasian Neuroscience Society EMCR webinar
The ANS EMCR Committee is excited to announce our next Webinar to be held on the 21st of September at 5 pm NZST (3 pm AEST)
We have 3 fantastic speakers lined up:
Dr Andew Tosolini: In Vivo axonal transport in ALS mice.
Dr Teena Gamage: Working towards an extracellular vesicles-derived biomarker of pre-term brain injury.
Dr Rashika Karunasinghe: The hyaluronan cornerstone: An extracellular matrix sugar that regulates early neurite outgrowth in hippocampal neurons.
Registration link below and flyer attached. Please feel free to distribute amongst your peers, they do not need to be ANS members to attend.
https://auckland.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIode6uqzwqEtzbSztwLY85-_Q2GODIUY-5
AWCBR conference
ABP will again be at the Australasian Winter Conference for Brain Research (AWCBR), and we are proud to be sponsoring prizes for the Early Career Researcher best talk and poster.
For more information, visit the AWCBR and Queenstown Research Week websites!
FLAG ECR Symposium
Nau mai, haere mai,
The ABP Future Leaders Advisory Group (FLAG) would like
to invite you to our
ECR symposium
Friday 18th August
Lunch served at 12:30 pm, speakers from 1:00 pm
With presentations from:
Danica Hamlin - University of Auckland
Faya Sabzevar - University of Otago
Hamid Abbasi - ABI, University of Auckland
Khushi Sehajpal - University of Auckland
Kreesan Reddy - University of Auckland
Lucy Anderson - University of Otago
Nicola Slater - NZBRI, University of Canterbury
Will Aye - NZBRI, University of Otago, Christchurch
In-person locations (lunch served at 12:30 pm)
If attending in-person, please RSVP here with your dietary requirements.
University of Auckland - Grafton Campus, Building 501-010
University of Otago - Psychology Department, Goddard Laboratories Teaching Lab 2.02
NZ Brain Research Institute - 66 Stewart Street, Christchurch
To watch via Zoom, click here or enter the details below (presentations start at 1:00 pm):
Zoom Meeting ID: 921 4692 3042
Password: 571050
Please share with anyone who may be interested in attending. We look forward to seeing you there!
HealthTech Week ABP Day 2023
The Aotearoa Brain Project – Kaupapa Roro o Aotearoa will again be having a ‘Brain Day’ at the HealthTech Week conference, 26h - 29th June.
More details to come!
HealthTech Week Te Tītoki Mataora Forum
Day 1: Te Tītoki Mataora Network Day
The Changing Face of HealthTech
Monday 26th June 2023
Day 2: Te Tītoki Mataora Research Day
Tuesday 27th June 2023
Day 3: Aotearoa Brain Project Day
Wednesday 28th June
Programme details here - speaker details to be added soon.
Day 4: Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Day
Thursday 29th June 2023
Programme details to be added here soon.
FLAG panel discussion - What does it take to secure a permanent lecturing position in Aotearoa?
Come along to learn about how you can land a lectureship position in Aotearoa, including the do’s and don’ts, and the opportunities and challenges you may face.
ABP at Fieldays® 2023
Come and see us at the Health & Wellbeing Hub, at Mystery Creek®!
This year the ABP will have a combined stall with other neuro-health groups - the Neurological Foundation, Brain Health Research Centre (Otago), and the Centre for Brain Research (Auckland).
We’d love to see you there, so come along and say hi if you’re attending!
ABP Co-lead Professor Peter Thorne presenting a display with a plastinated brain
FLAG panel discussion - Vision Mātauranga for EMCRs
Come along to learn about how you can meaningfully engage with Mātauranga Māori in your research, and how to communicate this in an impactful Vision Mātauranga statement.
Aotearoa Brain Project Launch and Symposium
The Aotearoa Brain Project – Kaupapa Roro o Aotearoa is delighted to welcome you to our official launch event and symposium to be held on Friday 17th March, from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
ABP at Fieldays®
Come and see us at site HW13a at Fieldays®, 30 November - 3 December, at Mystery Creek®!
Our stall is part of the Health & Wellbeing Hub, along with other neuro-health groups like the Neurological Foundation, Brain Health Research Centre, Centre for Brain Research, the Stroke Foundation, and Dementia NZ.
We’d love to see you there, so come along and say hi if you’re attending!
Tickets available here: https://tickets.fieldays.co.nz/tickets/login
Friday Feedback Forum webinar with Prof Cliff Abraham
We’d like to invite you to our final Friday Feedback Forum for 2022, on Friday 11th November at 4:00 pm!
The format of the FFF series is a 20 minute presentation from our speaker, with the rest of the session devoted to Q&A and discussing possibilities for building connections/collaborative work between groups.
Our speaker for this session is Professor Cliff Abraham from the Department of Psychology, University of Otago.
Cliff received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Florida before moving as a postdoctoral fellow to the University of Otago, where he is now a Professor of Psychology with an interest in the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in health and disease using animal models. He was the founding Director of Otago’s Brain Health Research Centre, founding co-Director of the CoRE: Brain Research New Zealand, and now co-Leader of the Aotearoa Brain Project - Kaupapa Roro o Aotearoa.
Zoom link: https://otago.zoom.us/j/95504783133?pwd=Rk0zYmtTYU9NK3FLU1hTMW5KU09wZz09
Meeting ID: 955 0478 3133
Password: 671643
FLAG panel discussion: The ABCs of grant writing
FLAG panel discussion ‘The ABCs of grant writing’, July 29th 3:00 pm
Friday Feedback Forum webinar series 1 - A/P Bronwyn Kivell
We are excited to invite you to our second session in our Friday Feedback Forum webinar series on Friday 8th July at 4:00 pm!
Our speaker for this session is Associate Professor Bronwyn Kivell, from the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
She is a behavioural and cellular neuroscientist with research interests that include developing anti-addiction pharmacotherapies, non-addictive pain medications, and evaluating novel remyelination drugs for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases.
Bronwyn is also a founding scientist of a new biotech startup, Rekover Therapeutics Ltd. Rekover aims to conduct clinical trials for a repurposed Kappa opioid receptor agonist, nalfurafine. Current research focusses on minimising symptoms or slowing the progress of the disease; if successful, this research will be a huge step forward for MS sufferers.
Zoom link below:
https://otago.zoom.us/j/94894509275?pwd=ZjFKZnNtR2hpYy9uMmhTL0tFcEErZz09
Password: 055633
HealthTech Week Te Tītoki Mataora Forum Day 3 - ABP Day
The Aotearoa Brain Project – Kaupapa Roro o Aotearoa invites you to Day 3 of the TTM conference. We will explore the application of technologies to accelerate research that promotes good brain health, treat neurological conditions, such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, stroke and traumatic brain Injury, and alleviate mental health conditions.
HealthTech Week Te Tītoki Mataora Forum Day 2 - Research Day
Day 2 of our TTM forum is dedicated to the research space. The research forum is open to everyone interested in the medtech and brain research sectors. We have designed this day to be valuable to students, early- and mid-career researchers and clinicians, and those with more experience.
We invite you to join our discussions around current research, practical advice for working with people outside your field, engaging with your community, and where your career could take you next.
HealthTech Week Te Tītoki Mataora Forum Day 1 - Network Day
Day 1 of our TTM forum aims to inspire you to take your challenges to infinity and beyond. Our highly interactive day will introduce you to successful innovations that have become new commercial ventures, learn about the various translational pathways, hear diverse viewpoints, get involved in healthy discussions, and take action on the day to progress ideas.
ABP FLAG discussion panel: The overseas post-doc experience: pros and cons, and other options
This session is an opportunity for students and post-docs to discuss different post-PhD experiences and options.
We have a fantastic line-up of speakers who will describe their experiences of post-docing in North America and Europe, staying in New Zealand after your PhD, parenting while developing a research career, and non-academic career opportunities.