Yoshio Nakatani, Research Fellow in the Cook Lab, has started a research collaboration in the field of infectious disease research with a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
Dr Adam Heikal, Research Fellow in the Cook Lab, will be bringing metabiotic development to the dairy sector with a $126,988 funding grant to develop a new treatment for mastitis.
University students are still on holiday, but the department is alive with bright young minds as high school students from around the country take part in this week's Hands-On at Otago programme.