Video and TV archive 2021

17 September 2021: PlantTech Principal Research Scientist Dr Alvaro Orsi gives a plenary talk about the role of Artificial Intelligence in Data Driven Horticulture. This talk was recorded as part of the Durham University CDT Summer School talks.

13 September 2021: Te Karere TVNZ - The Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA) is on a mission to increase the number of Māori engineers. Alongside Pūhoro STEM Academy, they say their goal is to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion within the industry. Bronson Perich has more.

7 September 2021: Vaccine Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand's Dr Lisa Connor and Associate Professor James Ussher talk to TVNZ 1 News about our NZ-made COVID-19 booster vaccine in development which is showing promising signs of protection against the Delta variant.

"It will neutralise against Delta as effectively as it will neutralise against the original variant," says Dr Connor. And why not just leave this to big pharma? "We need to build resilience for the future," says Associate Professor Ussher. "There will undoubtedly be future pandemics."

18 June 2021: Malaghan Institute of Medical Research Director Professor Graham Le Gros has had a stellar career as a world-leading immunologist, seeking to harness the power of the human immune system to improve human health.

He worked on a prestigious fellowship in Washington at the National Institutes of Health (Tony Fauci was the big boss), and as a scientist for Ciba-Geigy (Novartis) in Switzerland before returning to New Zealand in 1994. Since then he’s led the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research as Chief Executive and Director of Research.

13 June 2021: According to one of New Zealand’s leading aquaculture scientists, king salmon can be fussy eaters, but after seven years of research and development, a team of research and development collaborators have settled on a selection of advanced diets that keep the fish happy and healthy and improve feed conversion.

02 June 2021: In the first of a monthly science series, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research Director Professor Graham Le Gros talks to Samoa Capital Radio's Afamasaga T Moresi and Alo Brian Duffy about immunology, COVID vaccines, and research underway at the Institute.

Recorded 18 May 2021 at Samoa Capital Radio in Porirua, New Zealand. Interview in English and Samoan.

18 May 2021: Over the last three years Verum Group has worked with Massey University on a research programme looking at the mass balance of nutrients through soil, water, and biomass systems under controlled laboratory conditions at Verum Group in Lower Hutt.

The lysimeter facility will be available soon for testing new products in this rigorously controlled environment. Ben Rumsey talks us through the lysimeter lab.

3 March 2021: Asparagopsis, a native red seaweed, has huge potential as a methane-busting cattle feed supplement - studies show the superfood can cut methane emissions from cattle by up to 90 per cent. Cawthron Institute's Dr Johan Svenson spoke with TVNZ 1 about the work Cawthron scientists are doing to learn about its life cycle and develop reliable methods of scaling-up production to the levels required to make a real-world impact.

19 February 2021: Professor Graham Le Gros from the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research was on TVNZ Breakfast on 19 February to talk vaccines as New Zealand's COVID-19 vaccination campaign gets underway.

He says it's all about "communication, communication, communication” with people who are still deciding whether to get vaccinated. “We all want to play our role . . . We need to be informed if we are to play that role well."

19 January 2021: Malaghan Institute of Medical Research's Professor Graham Le Gros speaks to TVNZ Breakfast's John Campbell about Kiwis' legitimate concerns about COVID-19 vaccines and why New Zealand has the "privilege" of waiting to roll them out.

11 January 2021: Are you concerned about the incoming freshwater standards? Check if you are operating within your nitrate limits by using nitrate monitoring.

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