Video and TV archive 2024

13 December 2024: Dr Sotaro Ochiai's research is uncovering why and how atopic dermatitis develops on a cellular level. He aims to identify therapeutic targets which may be able to dampen the overactive immune cells present in the skin of those affected..

28 November 2024: Professor Richard Beasley CNZM FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherford Medal for preeminent research by Royal Society Te Apārangi for revolutionising the treatment of asthma worldwide.

13 November 2024: Discover how a five-year research project has transformed what we know about braided rivers and their connection to groundwater systems. Hydrogeologist Scott Wilson will share insights from this project, which has redefined how we manage braided rivers. Learn how unseen layers beneath these rivers affect our regional water systems and how management choices can have unexpected impacts

31 October 2024: PhD student Hannah Boswell is developing vaccines that can be inhaled, providing localised immunity in the lungs and airways and stopping respiratory viruses at the very point they enter the body.

26 September 2024: CAR T-cell therapy uses modified blood cells to target and destroy cancerous blood cells. Dr Puja Paudel is researching ways to improve the effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma, using a two-pronged attack to combat the high rates of relapse.

13 September 2024: Lincoln Agritech's Alice Sai Louie placed second in the Falling Walls Lab competition for her innovation of repurposing existing fibre optic telecommunications networks with distributed temperature sensors for real-time groundwater flood monitoring.

21 August 2024: “Everyone has heard grandma’s advice to ‘let the fever run its course’, that an increased body temperatures will drive out whatever is infecting the body. What if that wasn’t entirely unhelpful advice?” asks PhD student, Rosemary Jackson.

15 August 2024: Cawthron Scientist Dr Xavier Pochon provide a comprehensive overview of how citizen science is contributing to mapping ocean health through the newly launched Citizens of the Sea project.

8 August 2024: An insightful webinar, with Lincoln Agritech’s Dr Helen Rutter, that delves into the critical yet frequently neglected subject of shallow groundwater. Discover how this "out of sight, out of mind" resource influences flooding, susceptibility to liquefaction, architectural design, infrastructure, health, and more. Also, understand what effect climate change is likely to have.

31 July 2024: The collaborative ‘Living Filters’ project - a trial of bioremediation for improved water quality using Greenshell mussels - is a joint initiative between Cawthron Institute, mussel farming company MacLab, Port Nelson, and Moananui, a Te Tauihu blue economy cluster, with funding support from the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge.

29 July 2024: Climate adaptation pathways planning is a flexible tool that can be applied across any sector of society to help groups of people work together to prepare for an uncertain climate future. To find out more, visit cawthron.org.nz/capp

24 July 2024: Cawthron’s newly released Seagrass Blueprint hopes to pave the way for large-scale restoration efforts of seagrass meadows across the country, helping to support biodiversity, improve water quality and sequester carbon. In this webinar, hear from Dr Dana Clark (Co-Lead), Dr Anna Berthelsen (Co-Lead), Dr Dan Crossett and Dr Maureen Ho.

9 July 2024: Bragato Research Institute drives world-leading innovation for the New Zealand wine industry—from blue sky research to the practical application of science in our vineyards, wineries and supply chain. Their state-of-the-art Research Winery opened in February 2020 at the Marlborough Research Centre in Blenheim.

24 June 2024: Cawthron’s newly released Seagrass Blueprint hopes to pave the way for large-scale restoration efforts of seagrass meadows across the country, helping to support biodiversity, improve water quality and sequester carbon. Find out more at cawthron.org.nz/seagrass

19 June 2024: Dr Swee Tan, a lead researcher at Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, is now recruiting participants for a Phase II clinical trial focussed on glioblastoma treatment. Following the successful Phase I trial, which demonstrated the safety and tolerability of a novel combination of repurposed drugs, the Phase II trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of this treatment in a larger group of 75 patients.

19 June 2024: In this 40-minute webinar, Allister Holmes explains how to leverage yield maps to create profit-and-loss maps. By focusing on the economic implications of yield variations, growers can make data-driven decisions to enhance their profitability.

12 June 2024: New adaptation strategies are required to deal with climate change. Bragato Research Institute has developed a trial with 15 different rootstocks. Focusing on Sauvignon Blanc, the trial aims to identify rootstocks that will confer drought tolerance and maximise the productive water use efficiency while maintaining high productivity and a characteristic style.

13 June 2024: Arguably the most important security guard of our immune system, dendritic cells could be the key to understanding how our immune system responds to allergies. It’s a focus for research officer Abbie Larson from the Ronchese Lab, who is using advanced technologies to evolve our thinking.

21 May 2024: PhD student Jarem Wylie is researching ways to make CAR T-cell therapy even more effective and safer so that it can be applied to a broader range of cancers. His studies have taught him that negative results are as informative as breakthroughs in scientific discovery.

7 May 2024: In this 40-minute webinar, learn how data science is revolutionising the way businesses operate and make decisions. No matter your level of experience, you’ll find something valuable in this session. Join Lincoln Agritech's Machine Vision Principal Scientist Jaco Fourie.

18 April 2024: Rebecca Palmer is a PhD student at the Malaghan Institute investigating the lung’s multi-faceted immune response to provide a holistic understanding of how the lung adapts to different types of infections.

9 April 2024: This symposium was an output of the Emerging Aquatic Diseases research Programme - a five-year collaborative research programme enabled by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment through the Endeavour Fund and led by Cawthron Institute. It addresses emerging aquatic diseases in wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture and will tackle long standing challenges associated with unresolved disease investigations.

5 March 2024: Cawthron Marine Ecologist Dr Dan Crossett discusses "Investigations into seed and shoot-based seagrass restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand" in this Seaweek Science Talk jointly hosted by Cawthron and the Nelson Science Society.

15 February 2024: Bioinformatics uses cutting-edge data-visualisation and data-sorting tools to help scientists decipher and understand the incredibly complex and incredibly large sets of biological information generated from their experiments. Sam Old is a bioinformatics research officer at the Malaghan Institute who uses his skills in bioinformatics to accelerate the pace of research.

8 February 2024: Kate Maclean is a clinical researcher in the Le Gros laboratory at the Malaghan Institute who will soon be applying her expertise in human hookworm to human bacteria, with the aim of reducing the incidence of stomach cancer in New Zealand.

29 January 2024: An innovative 'safety switch' for CAR T-cell therapy, designed at the Malaghan Institute and recently patented, has the potential to significantly enhance the safety and accessibility of this cutting-edge cancer immunotherapy and other cell therapies.