Professor Gerald Tannock and his interdisciplinary research team have been awarded $1M of funding to develop a slow-release energy weaning food for babies, to stop them from waking up hungry.
Dr Xochitl Morgan has joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology as a Lecturer, bringing expertise in sequencing and computational biology and an impressive publication profile. She is particularly interested in areas of environmental and medical microbiology, with one of her major research projects looking at host-microbe interactions in inflammatory bowel disease.
Congratulations to Dr Raymond Staals, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Fineran Lab, who has been awarded a Fast-Start Grant of $300,000 in the 2015 Marsden Funding round. Raymond's project is entitled Restriction of gene transfer in pathogenic bacteria by a novel CRISPR-Cas system.
Dr Matloob Husain is conducting a survey of University of Otago staff to learn more about the reasons why staff did or didn't take up the offer of a free influenza vaccine last winter.
Congratulations to the six staff of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology who have been successful in obtaining University of Otago Research Grants for the 2015-2016 year.
Associate Professor Peter Fineran spoke at last week’s ComBio conference as the winner of this year's Custom Science NZSBMB Award, presented by the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Dr Michelle McConnell's research has been featured in the latest issue of farming magazine Country-Wide.
Dr Ros Kemp has been named as this year's winner of the Association for Women in the Sciences (AWIS) Miriam Dell Award, for her work inspiring female immunologists across Australasia. Ros was recognised with the Award for her work with students and for furthering the goals of the Women’s Initiative of the Australasian Society for Immunology.
Dr Htin Aung, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cook Lab, has been awarded a New Zealand-ASEAN Award for his work in bringing New Zealand and his home country closer together. He is one of 40 people to be honoured by the New Zealand Government for significantly contributing to relationships with the Southeast Asia region.
Associate Professor Peter Fineran is one of two University of Otago researchers to have received national awards at the recent Queenstown Research Week.
