Professor of Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
FOCUS: Microbial Biotechnology
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Postdoctoral Research Leaders
FOCUS: Investigating the potential of niclosamide and analogues for treatment of gram negative bacterial infections.
FOCUS: Identification and engineering of enzymes for anti-cancer gene therapy and targeted cell ablation applications.
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Postgraduate Students
THESIS: Anna Moore is discovering and evolving novel polyester degrading enzymes using an optimised high-throughput selection.
THESIS: Amy is working on in vitro biosynthesis of nucleoside analogues with antiviral and anticancer activities, under the supervision of Dr Brown.
THESIS: Synthetic biology for generation of novel alkylating agents.
THESIS: Anna is working on engineering novel imaging agents to guide cancer surgery.
THESIS: Discovery of novel prodrug activating and detoxifying genes from bacterial metagenome libraries
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Research Assistants
Alex's MSc thesis was focused on discovering and characterising chemotherapeutic resistance genes from soil metagenome libraries. She now continues this work as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr Sharrock.