The Department of Biochemistry uses tools at the cutting edge of research and innovation to reveal how living things work at the molecular level. This knowledge helps us to develop new technologies in medicine, biotechnology and agriculture.
On this page is a list of the research groups based in the department. You may also be interested in:
- Research facilities - including the Centre for Protein Research and the Otago Genomics Facility
- Postgraduate study
- Research centres and themes
- Publications
Cancer genetics
- Dunbier Group
- Breast cancer
- Resistance to endocrine therapy
- Bioinformatics
- Cell culture
- Molecular biology
- Guilford Group
- Genetics of inherited cancers
- Gastric and breast cancer
- Gene expression analysis
- Cancer susceptibility
- Translational cancer research
- Circulating tumour DNA
- Cancer diagnostics
Computational molecular biology
- Black Group
- Genomic data analysis
- Cancer genomics
- Genomics of human disease
- Bioinformatics
- Data science
- Data visualisation
- Statistics
- Brown Group
- Regulation of gene expression
- Genomics tool development
- Comparative genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Gardner Group
- Bioinformatics
- RNA biology
- Genome variation
- Bioinformatic tool development
- RNA
- Benchmarking
- Lim Group
- Gene expression
- RNA splicing
- Translational Control
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Machine learning
- Software development
Evolution and development
- Dearden Group
- Evolution and development
- Embryogenesis regulation
- Bees and wasps
- Drosophila
- Genome evolution
- Bioinformatics
- Confocal microscopy
- Conservation genetics
- Kenny Group
- Molecular basis of adaptive traits
- Marine invertebrates
- Molecular tools for aquaculture
- Genome evolution
Molecular basis of disease
- Basak Group
- Neurodegeneration
- Rare Parkinson’s disease
- Non-coding RNAs
- Cellular molecular neurobiology
- Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons
- Astrocytes
- Organoids
- Bicknell Group
- Genetics of rare disorders
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- DNA replication
- Molecular genetics
- Cell biology
- Hughes Group
- Neurodegeneration
- Lysosome dysfunction
- Batten disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Gene therapy
- Induced pluripotent stem cells
- Rare disease
- McCormick Group
- Cardiovascular disease
- Lipoprotein metabolism
- Familial lipid disorders
- Transgenic mice
- Cell biology
- Genetics
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
Plants and photosynthesis
- Brownfield Group
- Plant reproduction and development
- Pollen
- Self-incompatibility
- Arabidopsis
- Forages
- Molecular biology
- Plant tissue culture and transformation
- Gene expression
- Eaton-Rye Group
- Photosynthesis
- Photosystem II assembly and regulation of electron transport
- Cyanobacteria
- Molecular biology
- Respiration measurement (oxygen evolution)
- Fluorescence
Protein structure and function
- Day Group
- Molecular basis of cell signalling
- Ubiquitin machinery
- Structural biology
- Biochemical and biophysical analyses
- Recombinant protein production
- Fellner Group
- Protein structure and function
- Enzyme kinetics and inhibition
- Metabolomics
- Lipidomics
- Drug and diagnostic tool design
- Krause Group
- Infectious diseases
- Bioluminescence
- Biophysics
- Drug discovery
- Protein chemistry
- Structural biology
- Viral immunomodulatory proteins
- Ledgerwood Group
- Regulation of signal transduction
- Redox regulation
- Peroxiredoxins
- Ageing
- Cytochrome c
- Megakaryocytes
- Cell culture
- Protein biochemistry
- Mace Group
- Molecular signalling mechanisms
- Human and plant stress response
- Posttranslational modifications
- Transcriptional regulation
- Structural biology
- Protein production
- Marshall Group
- Cold adaptation
- Enzyme structure and function
- Antarctic fish
- Antifreeze glycopeptides
- Freeze-tolerant insects
- Antarctic nematodes
- Protein purification
- Middleton Group
- Structural biology
- Posttranslational modification
- Biology of ubiquitin
- Biochemistry
- Protein engineering
- Machine learning