Afnan Al Abadey
Investigating the effects of kappa opiod receptor agonists on microglia in an animal model of MS
Supervisor: Anne La Flamme
Current postgraduate students
Our current postgraduate students in the School of Biological Sciences
Peter Alexander
Tuatara nesting ecology on Stephens Island/Takapourewa
Supervisor: Nicola Nelson
Maëlle Anastasi
Supervisor: Phil Lester
Sarah Andreassend
Supervisor: Monica Gerth
Thesis title: Investigating metabolite profiles involved in Kauri dieback
Colan Balkwill
Supervisor: Julie Deslippe
Thesis title: Population genetics of a foundational forest tree species: towards landscape level restoration of gene flow in Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (Kahikatea) in New Zealand
Tom Bird
Supervisor: Davide Comoletti
Thesis title: Identification and characterisation of Novel SARS-COV-2 Receptors
Ian Blixt
Supervisor: Jonathan Gardner
Thesis title: Modelling the impacts of rhodopsin driven energy flux in Antarctic Science microbial communities
Hannah Boswell
Supervisor: Lisa Connor
Thesis title: Interactions between innate-like lymphocites and dendritic cells
Manon Broadribb Payne
Supervisor: James Bell
Thesis title: Role of sponges in supporting higher trophic levels on Temperate Mesophotic reef Ecosytems (TMEs)
Kaitlin Buick
Supervisor: Ian Hermans
Thesis title: Investigating the Immune Networks Involved in mRNA Vaccination
Imogen Bunting
Supervisor: Christopher Cornwall
Thesis title: Climate resilience in New Zealand's giant kelp
Riccardo Ciarle
Supervisor: Kevin Burns
Thesis title: Differentiating the roles of geographical and ecological variables in shaping plant reproduction-related traits on southern Pacific islands
Rianna Collins
Supervisor: Simon Davy
Thesis title: The secretory physiology of the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
Oscar Crehan
Supervisor: Simon Davy
Thesis title: The Role of Nitrogen Metabolism in the Stability and Dysfunction of the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis
Sydney Dean
Supervisor: Ken Ryan
Thesis title: Stress response of proteorhodopsin-bearing bacteria in Antarctic sea ice
Katrijn De Bock
Supervisor: Kevin Burns
Thesis title: Not available
Mari Deinhart
Supervisor: Joe Zuccarello
Thesis title: Quantifying Blue Carbon Sequestration: Kelp Contribution to Carbon Sequestration in Marine Sediments
Aaria Dobson-Waitere
Supervisor: Danielle Shanahan
Thesis title: Te Kura i Huna: Kaupapa Māori approaches to reindigenising taonga species translocations
Josiah Gammeter
Supervisor: Peter Pfeffer
Thesis title: Modelling epiblast-trophoblast signaling using stem cells
Natalie Graham
Supervisor: Nicola Day
Thesis title: The role of host genetics in shaping the tree root microbone
Elysha-Rose Grant
Supervisor: Anne La Flamme
Thesis title: Investigating the mechanism of action of novel immunomodulators on immune cell function in vitro
Hasanah Hamizan
Supervisor: Anne La Flamme
Thesis title: Exploring the immunomodulatory effects kappa opioid receptor on mast cells
Callum Howett
Supervisor: Peter Pfeffer
Thesis title: Regulation Elf5 in mice
Amey Hughes
Supervisor: Janet Pitman
Thesis title: Not available
Polina Idelchik
Supervisor: Monica Gerth
Thesis title: Not available
Louis Kirton
Supervisor: Richard Beasley
Thesis title: Closed loop oxygen control
Holly Koch
Supervisor: Christopher Cornwall
Thesis title: Coralline algal responses to climate change stressors over multiple generations
Indira Leon
Supervisor: Julie Deslippe
Thesis title: Plant Ecology and Physiology
Robert Lewis
Supervisor: Simon Davy
Thesis title: Inter-partner signalling during the establishment of the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
Alexandra Lister
Supervisor: Darren Day
Thesis title: Maternal immune activation and SERT expression as risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders
Alex Martin
Supervisor: Alex Semprini
Thesis title: Exploring decentralisation as an alternative means to clinical trial separation: is cannabis for insomnia?
Edward McGuinniety
Supervisor: David Ackerley
Thesis title: Engineering NRPS enzymes for biosynthesis of novel drug cindideles
Keri Multerer
Supervisor: Andrew Munkacsi
Thesis title: Machine Learning Approaches for Polygenic Risk Score Analysis and Filling in Components of Interaction Networks
Freya Newton
Supervisor: Julie Deslippe
Thesis title: Elevated CO2 and the soil microbiome
Melanie Olds
Supervisor: Janet Pitman
Thesis title: Aneuploidy biomarkers in embryos
Briana Otto
Supervisor: Joanna Mackichan
Thesis title: Bartonella quintana interactions with the host innate immune system
Grady Petersen
Supervisor: Drew Lohrer
Thesis title: Development of a spatial Bayesian network model to anticipate shifts in ecosystem function in estuaries
Miriam Pierotti
Supervisor: James Bell
Thesis title: TBC
Evan Raymond
Supervisor: Simon Davy
Thesis title: Photophysiological phenotyping as a means of genotypic identification in Symbiodiniaceae
Anna Resende
Supervisor: Alice Rogers
Thesis title: Effects of marine heatwaves and suspended sediment on common coastal New Zealand fish
Sam Siljee
Supervisor: Lifeng Peng
Thesis title: Protemic analysis of human aiway basal stem cells associated with p53 mutation
Thomas Skurr
Supervisor: David Ackerley
Thesis title: Discovery of novel prodrug activating and detoxifying genes from bacterial metagenome libraries
Matire Ward
Supervisor: Janet Pitman
Thesis title: Investigating the effect of a physiologically relevant IVM system on the function of bovine cumulus cell-oocyte complexes
Gabriela Wood
Supervisor: James Bell
Thesis title: Impacts of Anthropogenic Stressors on Temperate Marine Sponges
Jarem Wylie
Supervisor: Ian Hermans
Thesis title: T-cells Armoured for Nitroreductase induced killing
Su Min Yeoh
Supervisor: Julie Deslippe
Thesis title: Combating Phytophthora in kauri dieback: Harnessing plant-microbial interactions through co-planting field trial in Waipoua Forest
Gordon Zhao
Developing naval mRNA vaccine for the treatment of HBV infection and hepatocellular carcinoma
Supervisor: Ian Hermans