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Research Fellow

Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago

Group leader

• Awarded a Marsden Fast-Start Grant to establish independent research.

PhD

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Bioinformatics, Biochemistry

• Roles of Introns

Deciphering translation of the ‘untranslated’ regions of messenger RNAs

Marsden Fast-Start Grant funded by the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Principal Investigator, $360,000

• Upstream Open Reading Frame
• Translation

Rapid identification of leads for antimicrobials

HRC Explorer Grant funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Co-Investigator, $150,000

• Bioactives
• Enzymes

Deciphering translation of the ‘untranslated’ regions of messenger RNAs

University of Otago Research Grant, University of Otago. Principal Investigator, $36,147

• Upstream Open Reading Frame
• Translation

NativeCLIP - transcriptome-wide footprinting of protein-RNA binding sites using single-molecule sequencing of native RNAs

Otago Medical School Foundation Trust/School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago. Principal Investigator, $21,512

• Nanopore
• direct RNA sequencing

A commercialisation project

Otago Innovation Limited-University of Otago (OIL-UoO) Grant. Co-Investigator, $76,542

Certified Instructor

Carpentries

• Python
• R
• Bash

Curator

Genome in a Bottle Consortium, National Institute of Standards and Technology

• SVCurator