Peter has received the Biomedical School top Distinguished Researcher Award for 2017.
Our quorum sensing paper gained the Best Paper Award in the Biomedical School for 2017.
Peter was an invited speaker at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Congratulations to Nick, who was awarded the The Margaret and John Loutit prize for the best 300-level Microbiology student
Our latest data on CRISPR adaptation was presented by Peter as an invited speaker in Berlin Germany at a DFG CRISPR Meeting.
Peter was an invited speaker at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, hosted by Emmanuelle Charpentier
Peter was interviewed and quoted in an article by Kate Evans in the New Zealand Geographic on gene editing (Life Hackers)
The lab has been awarded a Marsden Fund grant to study CRISPR-Cas regulation in collaboration with Paul Gardner.
Rob has been awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant to study CRISPR-Cas in cyanobacteria.
We have received a Dean's Bequest Grant for our CRISPR-Cas work.
Peter and Aroa are presenting at the Bio-protection CoRE meeting in Christchurch.
Howard Maxwell has been awarded an Māori Health Research PhD Scholarship! Coverage in ODT, NZ Herald and Waatea News.
Nick Donaldson has been awarded a summer scholarship in the laboratory - great work!
Peter presented the group's research at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.
Peter is teaching on a phage course for South & Central Americans in UBA, Argentina.
Peter was on a Royal Society Panel discussion with Kim Hill - podcast - ODT article
Peter and Simon were on Radio NZ Our Changing World talking about phages and CRISPR-Cas
Mariya and Lucia received poster awards at the Queenstown Molecular Biology meeting
Peter received the Andrew Shelling Memorial Trophy at QMB2017! Thanks to the whole lab for their effort.
Simon was presented with the illumina™ Emerging Researcher Award at QMB2017.
Did you know that type III CRISPR-Cas systems borrow crRNAs from type I? New paper in eLife in collaboration with the Fire and Sanchez-Amat groups.
Congratulations to Simon Jackson - recipient of the illumina™ Emerging Researcher Award, 2017
Bridget and Peter attended and presented work from the lab at the Evergreen International Phage Biology Meeting in the USA
Peter gave the Ross Crozier Award Lecture at the Genetics Society of AustralAsia meeting
Check out our new PNAS paper on type I-F CRISPR-Cas adaptation - a great collaborative project.
Peter was the Keynote speaker at CRISPR2017 in Big Sky, Montana
Rob, Simon, Bridget and Peter attended and presented at CRISPR2017.
Congratulations to Howard who has been awarded a Hauora Māori Ministry of Health Postgraduate Scholarship!
Peter has been awarded the Ross Crozier Medal from the Genetics Society of AustralAsia
Adrian and Peter were interviewed about CRISPR-Cas and quorum sensing on abc radio in Australia.
We have a new review on CRISPR-Cas adaptation out in Science!
We have published a paper in Current Opinion in Microbiology about how CRISPR-Cas systems are regulated.
In collaboration with the Gardner, Mesarich, Gerth and Templeton labs we have generated a Psa mutant library.
Howard has returned to start his Honours project - welcome back!
Peter was external PhD examiner in Wageningen, NL and Uppsala, Sweden
Peter has been an invited speaker in Wageningen, TU Delft and Uppsala Universities
How does a phage evade bacterial innate immunity? - See our AEM paper in collaboration with the Salmond lab
Tim has returned to start his MSc - welcome back!
Raymond has returned to NL to lead his on group at Wageningen University - good luck!
Our Molecular Cell paper was highlighted in Science (Editors' Choice Commentary)
Quorum sensing regulates CRISPR-Cas activity! Read our new paper in Molecular Cell and the accompanying commentary.
Adrian won the NZMS poster prize and Bridget was 2nd in the NZSBMB poster prize - congrats!
Peter was a Plenary Speaker at the NZMS/NZSBMB 2016 in Christchurch, NZ
Bridget spoke at the NZMS/NZSBMB 2016 and Bridget, Hannah, Adrian, Leah, Brian and Mariya presented posters.
Howard has joined the lab for a summer project - welcome!
Peter has been speaking in Parliament on gene editing and CRISPR-Cas9.
Our latest work on CRISPR-Cas adaptation is published in Nature Communications.
Leah has joined the lab from the USA for her PhD!
Aroa has arrived from Spain to start her PhD - Welcome to NZ.
Nils returned to Germany after his 6 month visit - farwell!
Hannah and Peter visited George Salmond's lab at Cambridge University.
Hannah and Peter visited Tim Blower's lab at Durham University.
Peter was an invited speaker at EMBO Viruses of Microbes, Liverpool.
Hannah presented a poster at the EMBO Viruses of Microbes.
Lucia has joined the lab for her PhD - welcome!
Peter was an invited speaker at ASM Microbe in Boston.
We have published a new study on anti-CRISPRs in Nature Microbiology in collaboration with Alan Davidson's lab
The anti-CRISPR publication is a Nature Highlight and has a commentary in The Scientist.
Peter was an invited speaker at the CRISPR2016 meeting in Israel.
Ray gave a talk and Adrian presented a poster at CRISPR2016.
With Chris Brown we have published a CRISPRDetect(ion) tool in BMC Genomics.
Hannah has just published her work on CRISPR-Cas editing and SdhE regulation in Microbiology.
In collaboration with Andrew Pitman we have a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Welcome to Tim Ferguson who is doing his PGDipSci with the group.
We have just published the Cas1 structure in Biochem J with Kurt Krause's group
Peter is in North & South magazine talking about CRISPR-Cas and gene-editing.
Mariya has started her PhD. Welcome to the group!
Brian has returned to the group for his MSc in collaboration with Mihnea Bostina.
Nils has joined the lab as a visiting MSc student from Germany. Welcome!
Alison has finished her summer project. All the best Alison!
Bridget won 1st place for her poster at the Regulatory RNAs meeting in Cancun, Mexico!
Peter spoke about spacer acquisition at the Regulating with RNAs in Bacteria and Archaea meeting in Cancun, Mexico
Peter spoke at the Annual Bio-Protection conference in Christchurch.
We have published a paper in Genome Biology.
Alison has just started a summer project with the group.
We have just published in Nature Reviews Microbiology on phages!
Ray has been awarded a Marsden Fast Start grant! Congratulations!
Ray is speaking at the EMBO/EMBL Non-Coding Genome meeting in Heidelberg, Germany.
Peter was awarded the national 2015 NZSBMB Custom Science Award and gave a plenary lecture at ComBio, Melbourne.
Max is off to start his PhD at Cambridge University - good luck!
We have just had our lab retreat to Tekapo!
Adrian, Hannah, Max and Peter attended the Queenstown Research Week and presented their research.
Peter has been awarded the national 2015 Thermo Fisher Scientific Award for excellence in molecular biology (ODT story).
Peter has presented our current research at the Evergreen International Phage Biology Meeting in Olympia, USA.
Our Colombian collaboration has just resulted in a paper in Viruses.
We have published a study of a T7-like Pseudomonas phage in Viruses.
Peter has given a talk on our work at CRISPR2015 in New York, USA.
Adrian has presented his work at the ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, USA and the FEMS microbiology congress in Maastricht, Netherlands.
CRISPR: Methods and Protocols is now available (Eds. Lundgren, Charpentier and Fineran)
Adrian has published a study in Nucleic Acids Research on regulation of the Type I-F CRISPR-Cas system.
Ambarish's paper on how to detect targets of crRNAs have been published.
Max has graduated with his BSc (Hons)!
Welcome to Rob and Simon, who have just joined the group.
Raymond has published a Science paper on the Cmr CRISPR-Cas complex as part of an international collaboration. (media release)
Chris Lam has started an MSc in collaboration with Chris Brown.
Brian has joined the group and Mihnea Bostina's Lab for his PGDipSci. Welcome!
Bridget has started her PhD in the group. Good luck!
Max has been awarded the Prince of Wales Prize for the top undergraduate or honours student across the whole university. Well done, this is an amazing achievement!
