Current students and alumni
We welcome around 20 postgraduate students to study with us in a wide range of chemistry and biochemistry research areas.
Current students
PhD candidates at the Ferrier Research Institute are listed below, along with their thesis title and supervisors.
Lani Campbell: Investigating transcriptional regulation to enhance natural product biosynthesis in Penicillium paxillin
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Luke Stevenson
Ben Clarke: Measuring Stachybotrys mycotoxins in New Zealand’s leaky buildings
Supervisors: Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey
Patrick Cunningham: Transition state inhibitors for radical SAM enzymes as ways to treat viral disease
Supervisors: Lawrence Harris, Joshua Buckler
Florian de Pol: Unveiling the evolution of allostery in adenosine triphosphate phosphoribosyl transferases
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Gerd Mittelstadt
Sarah Draper: Chemical programming to control self-assembly of peptides
Supervisors: Gavin Painter, Margaret Brimble
Mahdieh Ghofrani: Quantifying heparan sulfate in biological systems
Supervisors: Simon Hinkley, Susie Carnachan
Taylor Hibbard: Characterisation of tolypocladium album genes required for indole-terpenoid biosynthesis
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Andrew Munkacsi
Hsin-Chuan (David) Hsu: Development of proximity induced bioorthogonal conjugation reaction
Supervisors: Regan Anderson, Richard Furneaux, Todd Lowary
Lucy Hughes: Drug chaperones for rare diseases
Supervisors: Farah Lamiable-Oulaidi, Scott Cameron
Thomas Lang: Towards anti-tuberculosis drugs
Supervisors: Farah Lamiable-Oulaidi, Peter Tyler, Wanting Jiao
Rory Lehane: Synthesis of 4'-substituted and N-methyl iminomucleoside analogues for use as antiviral treatments
Supervisors: Lawrence Harris, Andreas Luxenburger
Cara Luiten: Determining the polysaccharide composition of New Zealand lake snow
Supervisors: Simon Hinkley, Tracey Bell
Natasha Nipper: Decoration of the indole ring in indole diterpene biosynthesis
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Rosannah Cameron
Daniel Phipps: Synthesis of heparan sulfate mimetics
Supervisors: Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey
Richard Thom: Transition state analysis of acid ceramidase
Supervisors: Farah Lamiable-Oulaidi, Scott Cameron, Peter Tyler
Daniel Torres: Broad spectrum antivirals
Supervisors: Lawrence Harris, James Wood
Yehezkiel (Kiel) Victorio: Development of metabolic engineering tools for endophytic fungi
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Yonthan Lukito
Adam Hannaford: Building a multidisciplinary pipeline to mine and verify unique indole diterpene cyclases that generate interesting cyclised structures
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Daniel Berry
Rue Parker: To be confirmed
Supervisors: Emily Parker, Daniel Berry
Wayne Kavora: To be confirmed
Supervisors: Phillip Rendle, Kajitha Suthagar
Alumni
Students who have completed a Master’s or PhD degree at Ferrier are listed below with a link to their LinkedIn profile (where available).
Sam Spijkers-Shaw