Auckland University of Technology

Department Member, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences

Thesis Title: Application and Integration of Omics Based Approaches for the Study of Marine Invertebrate Larval Development

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I'm currently studying towards my PhD in marine biochemistry with a primary focus on the metabolic transformations which occur during larval settlement behavior and metamorphosis of marine invertebrates. In addition, integrating this metabolomic data with gene and protein expression profiles hopefully will give us a better understanding of the variations in chemoreception mechanisms across taxa which regulate such highly conserved behavioral, or 'life-history', events. My interests are varied and include: factors which mediate larval settlement and metamorphosis (chemical [exogenous and endogenous], physical, other environmental), larval ontogeny and behavior, marine invertebrate pharmacology, systematics and evolution of marine invertebrates, ecotoxicology, statistics, computational biology, analytical chemistry, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.

In my spare time I enjoy swimming, diving, fishing, tramping, brewing beer, listening to dub, playing the guitar and reading. Although these are my passions in life I don't get a lot of time these days to practice them - I spend most of my time in the field, in the lab or going square eyes in front of a computer! 

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