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Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates.

Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates. The conference has no parallel sessions and is usually attended by participants from over 25 countries. It is an opportunity to maximise exchange of knowledge and expertise, and encourage collaboration in all areas including functional biology, growth, nutrition, reproduction, and adaptation to an ever-changing environment.

Following highly successful conferences in Mexico, France, Canada, Spain, Chile and the UK, Physiomar 2020 will be held in New Zealand and hosted by the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand's largest independent science organisation.

After a welcome function on Monday 31 August at the Cawthron Institute, the conference will take place at Founders Heritage Park.

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Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates.

Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates. The conference has no parallel sessions and is usually attended by participants from over 25 countries. It is an opportunity to maximise exchange of knowledge and expertise, and encourage collaboration in all areas including functional biology, growth, nutrition, reproduction, and adaptation to an ever-changing environment.

Following highly successful conferences in Mexico, France, Canada, Spain, Chile and the UK, Physiomar 2020 will be held in New Zealand and hosted by the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand's largest independent science organisation.

After a welcome function on Monday 31 August at the Cawthron Institute, the conference will take place at Founders Heritage Park.

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Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates.

Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates. The conference has no parallel sessions and is usually attended by participants from over 25 countries. It is an opportunity to maximise exchange of knowledge and expertise, and encourage collaboration in all areas including functional biology, growth, nutrition, reproduction, and adaptation to an ever-changing environment.

Following highly successful conferences in Mexico, France, Canada, Spain, Chile and the UK, Physiomar 2020 will be held in New Zealand and hosted by the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand's largest independent science organisation.

After a welcome function on Monday 31 August at the Cawthron Institute, the conference will take place at Founders Heritage Park.

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The University of Canterbury, in collaboration with UC Child Well-being Research Institute and A Better Start National Science Challenge presents the 2020 Child Well-being Research Symposium.

This year’s symposium brings together international and national researchers across fields of education, psychology, public health, and speech-language therapy, to highlight the exciting interdisciplinary developments in facilitating young children’s success and well-being. We are delighted to welcome The Child’s Commissioner Honourable Judge Andrew Becroft to open the second day.

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for this year’s symposium, covering a range of topics related to children’s health, learning, and well-being. Our programme of events also features two interactive expert panel sessions – one each on Literacy and Learning Success, and an interactive poster session. View the complete list of speakers in the Child Well-Being Research Symposium Programme (PDF, 1.6MB).

Hosted by the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, College of Education, Health and Human Development | Te Rāngai Ako me te Hauora, this two-day symposium is focused on latest research findings and their practical implications. The symposium will be of strong interest to all practitioners working to support the success and well-being of children and their whānau.

If you wish to attend this event, but the cost or teacher release is an issue, please get in touch with the organising committee who may be able to support you. Email: betterstart@canterbury.ac.nz

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Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates.

Physiomar is a triennial international forum for discussion of recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of aquatic invertebrates. The conference has no parallel sessions and is usually attended by participants from over 25 countries. It is an opportunity to maximise exchange of knowledge and expertise, and encourage collaboration in all areas including functional biology, growth, nutrition, reproduction, and adaptation to an ever-changing environment.

Following highly successful conferences in Mexico, France, Canada, Spain, Chile and the UK, Physiomar 2020 will be held in New Zealand and hosted by the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand's largest independent science organisation.

After a welcome function on Monday 31 August at the Cawthron Institute, the conference will take place at Founders Heritage Park.

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The University of Canterbury, in collaboration with UC Child Well-being Research Institute and A Better Start National Science Challenge presents the 2020 Child Well-being Research Symposium.

This year’s symposium brings together international and national researchers across fields of education, psychology, public health, and speech-language therapy, to highlight the exciting interdisciplinary developments in facilitating young children’s success and well-being. We are delighted to welcome The Child’s Commissioner Honourable Judge Andrew Becroft to open the second day.

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for this year’s symposium, covering a range of topics related to children’s health, learning, and well-being. Our programme of events also features two interactive expert panel sessions – one each on Literacy and Learning Success, and an interactive poster session. View the complete list of speakers in the Child Well-Being Research Symposium Programme (PDF, 1.6MB).

Hosted by the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, College of Education, Health and Human Development | Te Rāngai Ako me te Hauora, this two-day symposium is focused on latest research findings and their practical implications. The symposium will be of strong interest to all practitioners working to support the success and well-being of children and their whānau.

If you wish to attend this event, but the cost or teacher release is an issue, please get in touch with the organising committee who may be able to support you. Email: betterstart@canterbury.ac.nz

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Two studies of change in New Zealand Sign Language report on global influences and show how crowdsourcing is used to document new signs

Part 1: An online community space for New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) users to share and discuss new signs

The lexicon of NZSL is changing and expanding rapidly due to increased participation of NZSL users in new domains. New signs that arise in these domains may need to be discussed and disseminated more quickly than traditional dictionary validation processes allow. NZSL Share was launched in March 2020 as a Deaf community driven online platform for neologisms and other previously undocumented signs. We will demonstrate some of the functions of NZSL Share, give examples of emerging new signs, and outline our plans for using NZSL Share in research and NZSL documentation.

Part 2: Globalisation in the NZSL lexicon

Small languages are susceptible to external inputs into variation and change. Since the 2000s, NZSL users’ virtual and physical exposure to sign languages beyond New Zealand has accelerated - in particular, to American Sign Language (ASL), which is dominant in Deaf cyberspace and carries prestige associated with higher education and international mobility. We report on a recent study that examined the presence of ASL variants in NZSL users’ repertoires and community ideologies about naturalised v. foreign status of loans, and attitudes to global influence in a language identified as emblematic of NZ Deaf identity.

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Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun, and there are three missions en route. What are these missions hoping to find? What do we already know about Mars? Could there be life on the planet? Did you know that there are Martian rocks on Earth? I will talk on these topics, as well as highlight some similarities and differences of Mars with Earth. I will also bring some Martian rocks for show and tell.

This is part of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand President’s lecture tour.

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How does the purpose, ethics, and labour of an anthropologist and ethnographer change or endure over time? 

Dr Catherine Trundle will give a brief reflection on the last 17 years of her research, asking how and why certain intellectual questions came to the fore, changed or have persisted across diverse ethnographic contexts. In doing so she’ll engage from a wide angle view with the anthropology of ethics, asking how her ideas of care and responsibility have evolved. How have they shifted as intellectual concerns, as personal, scholarly, and political commitments, as demands made upon her by interlocutors, as a set of competing and circulating commitments between work, family and self?

In the second half Dr Trundle will briefly outline her new research question, which explores the ethics of responsibility, agency, care, culpability, and narrative in climate change action. In doing so she'll explain why she is currently sitting with Ricoeur’s ideas about time and narrative, why poetry and a poetic sensibility have become so essential to her craft, and what it means to recast ones relationship to research in trying times, where COVID-19, personal loss, and motherhood all demand new modes of being.

Dr Trundle will speak for 25-30 minutes, then would like to invite others in the anthropology community—staff, students and friends—to share glimpses into how their own purpose, ethics, and labours as anthropologists and ethnographers have shifted or endured, and how our current political/ecological moment reshapes or might reshape the anthropologist in Aotearoa.

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Greg Sise talks about current and future developments in the electricity sector including the closure of the Tiwai aluminium smelter, the proposal for pumped hydro at Lake Onslow, and how we might get to 100% renewable electricity.

COVID-19 has turned all aspects of our world upside down. Our ‘normal’ lives in lockdown would not have been imaginable just months earlier. Energy systems have been significantly affected by COVID-19. Industrial and commercial electricity demand has been significantly reduced and the demand for transport fuel has shrunk dramatically.

As we emerge from lockdown, it is critical to question what our experiences during the lockdown might mean for how we re-imagine and reconstruct our future ‘new normal’.

In this OERC seminar series we invite a range of speakers from across the energy system – from industry, academics, community groups and government to reflect on what lessons we can draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that might help to accelerate a transition to a zero-carbon energy future in NZ. This series will consist of a 20 minute talk by speakers followed by 30 minutes of discussion.

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Hear experts discuss the importance of housing at our morning panel talk. Then, learn about creative approaches that are being applied to today’s housing challenges.

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Want some help with your te reo? Sign up for these informative mini webinars and be part of making Māori Language Moments during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Keen to learn some basic te reo Māori? Want to improve your pronunciation? Can you spare 15 minutes each day this week?

Then you’ll want to sign up for our mini webinars during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori where our academics and teaching staff will take you through some te reo basics in a fun and interactive way.

So make this week a week of Māori Language Moments and sign up for one or more, of the webinars.

Ka mau te wehi!

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For Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2020, join us wherever you are via Facebook live, as Dr Elliot Collins from Tāmaki Paenga Hira sits down with a group of Māori language revitalisers, to ask them where they're at in the world of te reo Māori.

Beamed to you live from the beautiful He Taonga Māori gallery inside Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, this young panel of reo enthusiasts will provide food for thought during this kōreroreo, and potentially even inspire others to begin or advance their own te reo journey. 

Run time: approx. 20 mins

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Want some help with your te reo? Sign up for these informative mini webinars and be part of making Māori Language Moments during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Keen to learn some basic te reo Māori? Want to improve your pronunciation? Can you spare 15 minutes each day this week?

Then you’ll want to sign up for our mini webinars during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori where our academics and teaching staff will take you through some te reo basics in a fun and interactive way.

So make this week a week of Māori Language Moments and sign up for one or more, of the webinars.

Ka mau te wehi!

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Discover more about the research that happens at the Liggins Institute as we put our investigators on the spot to sum up their research in five minutes or less. This is your chance to get a taster of the range of multi-disciplinary research that happens at the Institute.

From understanding how best to feed preterm babies, to exploring how our genes contribute to disease, Liggins researchers are committed to understanding the factors that influence health and disease at every stage of life.

Hear from these world-leading researchers in person and find out more about the masters and doctoral projects on offer to you.

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Want some help with your te reo? Sign up for these informative mini webinars and be part of making Māori Language Moments during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Keen to learn some basic te reo Māori? Want to improve your pronunciation? Can you spare 15 minutes each day this week?

Then you’ll want to sign up for our mini webinars during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori where our academics and teaching staff will take you through some te reo basics in a fun and interactive way.

So make this week a week of Māori Language Moments and sign up for one or more, of the webinars.

Ka mau te wehi!

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From working out how to feed pre-term babies, to the best way of managing diabetes in pregnancy, much of the research at the Liggins Institute focuses on maternal and fetal health. Our investigators look at how maternal, fetal and neonatal treatments, including nutrition and the intrauterine environment, affect growth, development and long-term health.

This is your chance to hear more about their ground-breaking research that is changing the way we care for pregnant women and their babies from four of our world-leading maternal and fetal researchers. Ask your questions over a pizza and hear more about the postgraduate research projects on offer.

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The “Great Lockdown” has been described as the worst recession since the Great Depression and certainly is much worse than the Global Financial Crisis. Most countries around the world will have largely emptied their coffers, and borrowed heavily, to fund strategies to support their businesses and workers. Back in April 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast that the cumulative loss to global GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US $9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany combined, but the latest information suggests that this is optimistic.

Many consequences arise from these changes including health, financial, and social. In this last area, some key changes have occurred in the way in which businesses work. This is probably best viewed as an acceleration of the trend towards remote working and digital engagement. For many businesses, the period of lockdown signalled an imperative “go digital, or go dark”.

Join us in this public seminar and panel discussion to explore the changes in the way in which lawyers work in a variety of different practice areas. A networking session will follow

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Want some help with your te reo? Sign up for these informative mini webinars and be part of making Māori Language Moments during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Keen to learn some basic te reo Māori? Want to improve your pronunciation? Can you spare 15 minutes each day this week?

Then you’ll want to sign up for our mini webinars during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori where our academics and teaching staff will take you through some te reo basics in a fun and interactive way.

So make this week a week of Māori Language Moments and sign up for one or more, of the webinars.

Ka mau te wehi!

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From investigating the nutritional value of New Zealand plants to better diagnosing and managing food intolerance, Liggins Institute researchers explore the ways in which nutrition influences health and disease.

Across the lifespan food is a major determinant of health, and Liggins scientists were among the first in the world to identify the link between a lack of appropriate nutrition during the early stages of life and chronic adult conditions such as obesity and diabetes.

This is your chance to meet our world class nutrition researchers and hear more about the factors that link good nutrition to long-lasting health. Ask your questions over a pizza and find out about the postgraduate research projects on offer.

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In absence of the NZMSS conference this year, the NZMSS would like to run a webinar series highlighting the research from our members. Not a Member? Join today.

The NZMSS webinar series aims to deliver access to the latest in marine science research. We bring the science to you – wherever you are – to share discoveries, insights, and best practices and how to apply them to your research.

Each 60-minute webinar (4-5pm) will focus on a given topic (see list below) and include four presentations from both student and professional members . Each talk will be 10 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions from the virtual audience. Webinar links will be emailed to the member list and can be found here. Each webinar will be recorded and made available on the NZMSS YouTube channel.

All webinars in the series are free for NZMSS Members and the public

Given there are few conference opportunities during 2020, this is your chance to tell the New Zealand marine science community about your research!

Marine conservation, restoration and biodiversity research 25th June
Marine monitoring – current and novel approaches 23rd July
Tipping points – climate change, unsustainable resource use 20th August
Marine mammal and seabird conservation 17th September
Mātauranga Maori in our Moana 15th October
Marine invasive species and biosecurity 19th November
Marine pollution 17th December
If you would like to present in any of the above themes, please contact bridie.allan@otago.ac.nz, let us know which session you would like to present in and the title of your talk.

Want some help with your te reo? Sign up for these informative mini webinars and be part of making Māori Language Moments during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Keen to learn some basic te reo Māori? Want to improve your pronunciation? Can you spare 15 minutes each day this week?

Then you’ll want to sign up for our mini webinars during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori where our academics and teaching staff will take you through some te reo basics in a fun and interactive way.

So make this week a week of Māori Language Moments and sign up for one or more, of the webinars.

Ka mau te wehi!

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Join Dr Viliami Puloka and HPF Executive Director Sione Tu’itahi in this interactive webinar looking at and discussing how we can improve our approach to Pacific health, using a range of Pacific health promotion tools.

From Parkinson's disease to ADHD, this area of research is about exploring how the genome works to increase our understanding of why some people develop certain conditions and others don’t. Our investigators explore the relationships that connect a cell’s DNA codes (the genotype), the gene regulation, DNA repair, replication, and environmental signals (epigenetics and the microbiome) with development and disease.

This is your chance to hear more about their cutting-edge research into how gene expression could help us design interventions to decrease the risk of disease in later life. Ask your questions over a pizza and hear more about the postgraduate research projects on offer.

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Mind-mindedness describes a parent’s capacity to view their child as their own person: someone with their own thoughts, feelings and internal life. Mind-mindedness supports the development of a secure parent-child attachment relationship, and has been related to children’s later social, emotional, behavioural and cognitive development.

Data from two studies examining parental mind-mindedness under conditions of adversity will be discussed. The first is a longitudinal study examining associations of mind-mindedness during infancy with later emotional and behavioural functioning. The second examines parental mind-mindedness in the early and latter stages of COVID lockdown, and associations with perceived stress.

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"A radical chemist's ventures into preclinical cyclic research"

Abstract:

Discovering that past researchers have been there before is a common occurrence as one delves deeply into a research area. No more so than in the targeting of treatment-resistant hypoxic tumour cells. In this lecture I will share with you, my and others’ endeavours to improve outcomes for cancer patients whilst riding the cycle of research. Along the way I have met fine mentors and colleagues, many of whom have become personal friends. Overcoming a fiery set-back just prior to returning to Auckland, proved to be beneficial in establishing the only comprehensive facility for free radical research in Australasia.

Biography:

Professor Bob Anderson is a graduate of the University of Auckland where he studied the radiation chemistry of radioprotectors under A/Professor John Packer. Following post-doctoral experience at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mulheim, Germany, he was appointed as staff scientist at the Cancer Research Campaign’s Gray Laboratory, Northwood, UK. The laboratory pioneered the development of radiosensitizers as adjuncts to radiotherapy. On returning to his alma mater he established the Free Radical Research Facility for teaching and research, which has become a regional resource within AINSE. His major research continues in the study of fast radical reactions underlying mechanistic aspects in the development bioreductive anticancer drugs at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre.

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