Friday 22nd May 2015 6 pm Presbyterian Community Centre Tenby St. Associate Professor John Reynolds, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago. Assoc Prof Reynolds will review recent work he and others have been undertaking towards new therapeutic approaches to Parkinson’s disease and stroke. He will describe an approach that his team is taking to restore the natural activity of the dopamine system that is lost in Parkinson’s disease. He will also describe novel and promising neurostimulation approaches designed to increase the functional gains obtained from rehabilitation following stroke.

Friday 17th April 2015 6 pm Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Professor Shaun Hendy FRSNZ, Professor of Physics, Director of Te Punaha Matatini, University of Auckland. Shaun Hendy is a physicist by training, formerly Professor of Computational Physics at Victoria University, a Fellow at Callaghan Innovation, and presently Professor and Director at Auckland university’s Te Punaha Matatini, a Centre of Research excellence (CoRE) which focuses on developing better economic and environmental policies for governments and business. In 2012 Shaun was awarded the Callaghan Medal by the Royal Society of NZ, and the Prime Ministers Science Media Communication Prize.. With the

Friday 20th March 2015 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Professor Frances Ashcroft FRS, University of Oxford, UK. 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Distinguished Speaker Frances Ashcroft is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and Director of OXION, a training and research programme on the physiology of ion channels. Ion channels are unique proteins found in the membranes of all cells, which allow charged particles (ions) to flow in and out of cells, thus producing electrical signals. Frances’ thesis is a reductionist one, that all our activities, behaviours, sensory perceptions, conscious or unconscious thinking,

Friday 6 March 2015 6 pm Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Emeritus Professor Erik Olssen, Otago University, and Dr Malcolm McKinnon, Victoria University. The Royal Society of New Zealand has undertaken a major review paper about the 2013 census and New Zealand’s changing population, bringing together data and analyses from the 2013 Census and other sources, together with input from a wide range of researchers around the country. You are invited to hear a presentation from two eminent historians who were members of the review panel about what an evolving New Zealand society might look like.

Friday 21st November 2014 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Professor Ian Jamieson, Department Of Zoology, Otago University, and Allan Wilson Centre

Wednesday 22nd October 2014 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre Tenby St. Professor Mike Steel, Deputy Director Alan Wilson Centre, and Director Biomathematics Research Centre, University of Canterbury

Friday 17th October 2014 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Dr Catherine Mohr, Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical Inc, California

Thursday 25th September 2014 6 pm. Presbyterian Community centre, Wanaka. Professor Colin Green, Professor of Ophthalmology and Translational Vision Research, Auckland Medical School.

Friday 15th August 2014 6 pm. Presbyterian Community Centre, Wanaka. Dr Ian Griffin, Director of Otago Museum, Dunedin

Friday 25 July 2014 6 pm. Presbyterian Community Centre, Wanaka. Professor Parry Guilford, Centre for Translational Cancer Research, University of Otago, Principal Investigator Pacific Edge Technologies Ltd

Thursday 19th June 2014 6 pm, Main Hall, Lake Wanaka Centre, Wanaka. Professor Nigel French, Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health department, Massey University .

Friday 13 June 2014 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St, Wanaka. Dr Michael Joy, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University

Friday 2 May 2014 6 pm in the Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Centre. Professor Jim McQuillan, Professor of Chemistry, University of Otago

Friday 14 February 2014 6 pm at the Presbyterian Community Centre, Tenby St. Professor Cliff Abraham, Professor of Psychology and Director, Brain Health Research Centre, University of Otago

Friday 12th December 2013 6pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Wanaka. Dr Mike Plank, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Canterbury

Friday 15th November 2013 6 pm, Main Hall, Lake Wanaka centre. Professor Sir David Skegg, Preventive & Social Medicine, University of Otago

Friday 20th September 2013 6 pm, Edgewater Theatre, Edgewater, Wanaka. Dr Lindy Castell, Research Fellow in Physiology, University of Oxford, UK

Friday 16th August 2013 6 pm in the Main Hall, Lake Wanaka Centre. Professor Tim Stern, Professor of Geophysics, Victoria University.

Friday 4th June 2013 6pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Wanaka. Emeritus Professor Jim Flynn, Political Science Department, University of Otago

Wednesday 8th May 2013, 6 pm, Presbyterian Community Centre, Wanaka Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble, Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Auckland. Rutherford Lecture