This page contains a listing of all lecturers, principal investigators, and teaching fellows in the department. General staff and junior research staff contact details can be found on the University of Otago's directory page.
University of Otago's Biochemistry Department directory page
Staff profiles
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Head of Department, Director of the Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: Structural biology of infectious diseases, structure-aided drug design, protein crystallography, x-ray diffraction, structure and function of enzymes and proteins including antibiotic targets, redox proteins, nucleases, luciferase, and bacterial... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Dr Black joined the Department of Biochemistry as a Senior Lecturer in May 2006. He received a B.Sc.(Hons) in Statistics from the University of Canterbury in 1996,... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Motifs in mRNAs that control protein synthesis: The identification of hidden signals in mRNA sequences These projects involve the use both computer (bioinformatic) and experimental tools to... more »
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Lecturer
Research Plant Sexual Reproduction Like in animals, sexual reproduction in flowering plants relies upon the production of male (sperm) and female (eggs) gametes and their fusion upon fertilization. Despite... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Currently, my research is involved with protein purification and characterisation.
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Enzyme structure and function: Discovery of glycosyl hydrolases from marine bacteria with specificity for 1,3- linkages (with Dr Y Nakatani) Site-directed mutagenesis studies of a fungal β-1,3-exoglucanase directed at... more »
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Research: Many key events within cells are regulated by the appropriate interaction of two proteins. Understanding the molecular basis of protein-protein interactions is central to elucidation of these cellular... more »
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Evolution and Development, Genome Evolution: Genetic studies have helped us to understand the molecular control of development in a small number of model systems. In Drosophila melanogaster... more »
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Lecturer
Research in our laboratory focuses on molecular aspects of cancer with particular emphasis on understanding the genotypic and phenotypic determinants of resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer. Current... more »
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Life on our planet is driven by Photosystem II that captures sunlight and extracts electrons from H2O to reduce CO2 into sugars while releasing the O2 we... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Neural Development and Disease Lab: Research in our lab is aimed at identifying molecular pathways that regulate neuronal development, maintenance and disease. Our current research focuses on... more »
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Iron uptake and pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. P. aeruginosa is a species of bacterium that is widely distributed in the environment and is capable of causing very... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Research in our lab is aimed at understanding the regulation of signal transduction in mammalian cells. We are currently focusing on two specific pathways; the role of... more »
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Senior Lecturer
My research group is focused on understand plant development, in particular on how flowering time is regulated and how seeds develop. We are currently using molecular-genetic approaches to: ... more »
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Senior Lecturer
The Structural Basis of Cold-Adaptation in Proteins: Overall Aim of our Research Our major goal in this work is to improve our understanding of the structural and... more »
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Research Interests: Lipoprotein(a) My laboratory is interested in the biochemistry and genetics of molecules involved in heart disease. A major class of molecule involved in heart disease that we... more »
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Associate Professor
Research Interests: Our research group[research-group/] takes a genetic approach to understanding the biology of human disease. Currently we have four primary research projects. 1. Gout[gout/] - the genetic causes and how these... more »
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Eukaryote mobile genetic elements: A long-term interest of this laboratory has been in the genetics of imperfect fungi (i.e. fungi without a known sexual cycle). More recently,... more »
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Research Interests: My laboratory has had a long-term interest in understanding protein synthesis and, in particular, decoding and recoding mechanisms on the ribosome at stop signals. Important recent investigations... more »
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Senior Lecturer
Molecular Chaperones: How do molecular chaperones distinguish proteins which are damaged or threatened by inappropriate interactions from those proteins which are mature, healthy and in no need of assistance?... more »
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Research Associate Professor
Assoc. Prof. Parry Guilford is a Principal Investigator in the Cancer Genetics Laboratory, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and the Research Director of Pacific Edge Biotechnology Ltd.... more »
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Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Centre for Protein Research
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Research Fellow, Next Generation Sequencing
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Research Fellow
Dr McKinney has a PhD in Biochemistry and a Masters in Bioethics and Health Law, both from the University of Otago. For the past few years she... more »
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Research Fellow, Manager of the Otago Genomics Facility
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Senior Research Fellow
Recoding in mammalian Paternally Expressed Gene 10 (PEG10): While investigating recoding in HIV, we found that an unusual human gene (PEG10) uses the same extremely rare ‘frameshift’ mechanism... more »
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Professorial Research Fellow, Director of the Cancer Genetics Laboratory
Professor Tony Reeve has a notable career in cancer research. His work in the Cancer Genetics Laboratory is focussed on the molecular mechanisms of tumour suppressor genes, growth... more »
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Hercus Research Fellow
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FRST Research Fellow
Research: I am interested in production of light by the New Zealand glowworm, and the proteins that catalyse and control this bioluminescence. By investigating the structures and mechanisms of... more »
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Senior Research Fellow, Director of Applied Science
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Research Fellow
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Research Fellow
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Senior Teaching Fellow
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Senior Teaching Fellow, 200-Level
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Professional Practice Fellow
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Senior Teaching Fellow, BIOC 192
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Genetics Programme
