Team Rendle

Analytical & applied chemistry

Custom synthesis, scale-up and process development work (linking to GlycoSyn’s cGMP facility) and natural product isolation and identification. Also runs the NMR facility, builds bespoke equipment and software and runs the online sales website.

Team Leader

Dr Phillip Rendle

Deputy Director, Operations and Commercial
Ferrier Research Institute

phillip.rendle@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Jonathan Singh

Senior Scientist
Ferrier Research Institute · Analytical and Applied Chemistry

jonathan.singh@vuw.ac.nz
04 463 9210
04 463 9210
GIQ , Gracefield Innovation Quarter, Lower Hutt

Prof Richard Furneaux

Distinguished Scientist
Ferrier Research Institute

richard.furneaux@vuw.ac.nz
021888694
GIQ , Gracefield Innovation Quarter, Lower Hutt

Dr Scott Cameron

Senior Scientist
Ferrier Research Institute

scott.cameron@vuw.ac.nz
GIQ , Gracefield Innovation Quarter, Lower Hutt

AProf Peter Northcote

Associate Professor

Ferrier Research Institute

peter.northcote@vuw.ac.nz

Michael Godinez

Programmer and Equipment Developer
Ferrier Research Institute

michael.godinez@vuw.ac.nz

Dr. Tracey Bell

Manager of GlycoFineChem
Ferrier Research Institute

tracey.bell@vuw.ac.nz

Students

PhD candidates at the Ferrier Research Institute are listed below, along with their thesis title and supervisors.

Name	Topic	Supervisors
Wayne Kavora		Phillip Rendle, Kajitha Suthagar

Latest publications 2024

Synthesis and Reactivity of Discrete Europium(II) Hydride Complexes

G. M. Richardson, M. J. Evans, T. Rajeshkumar, J. A. J. McCone, S. A. Cameron, L. Maron, et al.

Chemistry—A European Journal 2024 Vol. n/a Issue n/a Pages e202400681

Versatility of a diamidosilylether ligand supporting yttrium complexes: Synthesis, structure and reactivity

M. D. Anker, M. J. Evans, S. A. Cameron and G. Laufersky

Polyhedron 2024 Vol. 247 Pages 116741

2023

Generation of Alternate Indole Diterpene Architectures in Two Species of Aspergilli

Bundela R, Cameron RC, Singh AJ, McLellan RM, Richardson AT, Berry D, Nicholson MJ, Parker EJ

Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023), pp. 2754-2758

Novel 4-O-β-d-xylopyranosyl-3,6-anhydro-l-galactopyranosyl disaccharide units in a polysaccharide from the red alga Pyrophyllon subtumens

Falshaw R, Furneaux RH, Sims IM, Hinkley SFR, Kidgell JT, Bell TJ

Carbohydrate Polymers (2023)

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