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Welcome to you all as we begin on what we hope will be a very exciting and valuable journey.

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

Talofa Malo elelei

Fakaalofa atu ki a mutolu

Kia Orana

Meet the Mentors and Staff

During the programme you will get to know and work with scientists, teachers, clinicians, and students from within The University of Auckland and beyond. We hope that the programme will challenge and inspire you as you prepare to start your university career. To help with this, a number of Student Mentors, students who have participated in this programme in past years and are now undertaking studies at university, will be actively involved in the programme and available to answer any of your questions about this programme and life at university.

The names and contact details for the key staff are listed here.

Bio-Med Summer '11 Scholarship Recipients

Forty scholarships are available to students from schools throughout New Zealand have to attend Bio-Med Summer '11.
A list of scholarship recipients will be posted on this page once these are announced.

Applications are made online.

Frequently Asked Questions

Team Challenges

Challenge 1: Bio-Song Quest - communicating science to society

Challenge 2: Future Problem Solving - addressing the non-communicable disease epidemic

Timetable

	Sunday 11th December	Monday 12th December		Tuesday 13th December
6:15 am		Fit for life fun run/walk – Auckland Domain Circuit
7:30 am		Breakfast – Dining Room
8.30 am		Morning Briefing - FMHS Seminar Room 502-004
9.00 am		Lecture 1: Future Problem Solving 1 The Noncommunicable Disease Epidemic - A Global Issue. Speaker: Jacquie Bay Room: FMHS Seminar Room 502-004		Lecture 3: The Role of Scientific Evidence in Policy Development Speaker: Prof Sir Peter Gluckman Room: FMHS Seminar Room '502-004
10.00 am		Morning Tea Break
10.30 am		Group A LAB 1 pGLO Transformation Part I Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins	Group B LAB 2 What is Diabetes? Prof. David Cameron-Smith Liggins Seminar Room	Group A LAB 3 pGLO Part II / GFP Chromatography Part I / PV92 Part I Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins	Group B LAB 4 Heart Rate Blood Pressure & Exercise Tarewa Williams Liggins Seminar Room
11.30am	Assemble at Grafton Hall Students shown to rooms
12.00 pm	Whakatau and lunch with whanau	Lunch - Grafton Hall Dining Room
1.00 pm	Introduction to Grafton Hall Dr Greg Oates, Head of Hall Heather Kitching, Deputy Head of Hall	Group A LAB 2 What is Diabetes? Prof. David Cameron-Smith Liggins Seminar Room	Group B LAB 1 pGLO Transformation Part I Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins	Group A LAB 4 Heart Rate Blood Pressure & Exercise Tarewa Williams Liggins Seminar Room	Group A LAB 3 pGLO Part II / GFP Chromatography Part I / PV92 Part I Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins
1.30pm	Icebreakers – Helen Mora Room: Liggins 'Seminar Room
2:30pm	Break	Break		Break
2.45 pm	Team Challenges Bio-Song Challenge Jacquie Bay Room: Liggins 'Seminar Room	Lecture 2: The Nine Months that Made You Speaker: Dr Mark Vickers; Jacquie Bay Room: FMHS Seminar Room '502-004		Lecture 4: Growing Up in New Zealand Speaker: Dr Polly Atatoa-Carr Room: FMHS Seminar Room '502-004
4.00 pm	Decision Making Workshop Dr Marcus Grace Room: Liggins 'Seminar Room	Free Time		Free Time
5.30 pm	Dinner - Grafton Hall Dining Room
7.00 pm	90 Seconds Flat Jacquie Bay Grafton Hall Lounge	Movie Night Tarewa Williams Grafton Hall Lounge		Where to now? Inspirational Speakers’ Panel Helen Mora Grafton Hall Lounge
8.30pm	Kapa Haka	Kapa Haka		Kapa Haka
10.00 pm	All students to rooms - Grafton Hall quiet

	Wednesday 14th December	Thursday 15th December		Friday 16th December
6:15 am		Fit for life fun run/walk – Auckland Domain Circuit
7:30 am	Breakfast and Make Packed Lunches	Breakfast – Dining Room
8.30 am	Walk to City Campus OR Leave for MAPAS	Morning Briefing - FMHS Seminar Room 502-004
9.00 am	Brain Health Literacy Workshop City Campus OR MAPAS Interview	Lecture 5: Exploring the Human Brain Dr Donna Addis Room: FMHS Seminar Room 502-004		Lecture 6: When you shake a baby ......... Dr Natasha Heather & Christine Brennan Room: FMHS Seminar Room 502-004
10.00 am		Morning Tea Break
10.30 am		Group A LAB 5 GFP Chromatography Part III / PV92 Part II Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins	Group B LAB 6 ELISA Tarewa Williams Liggins Seminar Room	Presentation Group Presentation Rehearsal Jacquie Bay	All others LAB 7 PV92 Part III Helen Mora Tarewa Williams SJLCC, Liggins
12.00 pm		Lunch - Grafton Hall Dining Room
1.00 pm		Group B LAB 6 ELISA Tarewa Williams Liggins Seminar Room	Group A LAB 5 GFP Chromatography Part III / PV92 Part II Helen Mora SJLCC, Liggins	1.15 - 1.45pm Rehearsal All Students Jacquie Bay 2.00 - 3.00pm Student Presentations Followed by afternoon tea with parents/whanau Liggins Seminar Room Summer School concludes
2.30pm		Break
2.45 pm	Group Time Future Problem Solving Submission Writing Room: SJLC Liggins / Grafton Lounge	Rehearsal of Future Problem Solving Presentation Room: SJLC Liggins / Grafton Lounge
4.00 pm	Free Time	Free Time
5.30 pm	Seriously Scientific Quiz & Pizza Room: Liggins Seminar After Dinner Speaker Assoc Prof Andrew Shelling Challenges of New Technologies Presentation of Song Challenge Tarewa Williams	Dinner - Grafton Hall Dining Room
7.00 pm		Future Problem Solving 2 Jacquie Bay Grafton Hall Lounge
8.30pm		Kapa Haka
10.00 pm	All Students to Rooms - Grafton Hall Quiet

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