Marsden 2008 results


Project

PI Name

Institution

Panel

Type

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Can dietary lignans reduce abnormal cell growth?

Dr MJ McCann

AgResearch

CMP

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Cloning mutant Mommes: a new strategy to understand and improve epigenetic reprogramming

Dr B Oback

AgResearch

CMP

 

$215,000.00

$220,000.00

$230,000.00

Aposematic colouration in plants: 'honest' signals of chemical defences & influences on herbivore fitness

Dr NB Perry                   
Assoc Prof KS Gould

Crop & Food Research

EEB

 

$255,000.00

$260,000.00

$262,000.00

Was collapse inevitable on Easter Island (Rapa Nui): reconstructing a civilisation's failure

Dr WT Baisden               
Dr M Horrocks

GNS Science

EEB

 

$260,000.00

$255,000.00

$255,000.00

How do tectonic plates lock together?

Dr M Reyners

GNS Science

ESA

 

$225,000.00

$225,000.00

$225,000.00

New Zealand's floral origins and the Oligocene land crisis

Dr DC Mildenhall            
Dr N Mortimer

GNS Science

ESA

 

$285,000.00

$315,000.00

$315,000.00

Are molecular metals like metals or molecules? A case study of superheated gallium clusters

Dr N Gaston

Industrial Research Ltd

PSE

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

What are the correct boundary conditions for fluid dynamics?

Dr SC Hendy

Industrial Research Ltd

MIS

 

$150,000.00

$156,000.00

$162,000.00

New Zealand's megaherbivores: resolving their ecological role and the impact of their extinction on the flora

Dr JR Wood                  
Dr JM Wilmshurst   
Professor A Cooper

Landcare Research

EEB

 

$256,000.00

$256,000.00

$256,000.00

Where do new enzymes come from?

Dr WM Patrick

Massey University

EEB

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Cows, starlings and Campylobacter in New Zealand: unifying phylogeny, genealogy and epidemiology to gain insight into pathogen evolution

Professor NP French

Massey University

EEB

 

$265,000.00

$270,000.00

$205,000.00

The evolution of multicellularity

Professor PB Rainey      
Dr BB Kerr

Massey University

EEB

 

$285,000.00

$295,000.00

$300,000.00

Venture capitalists and intellectual property

Dr S Lippert

Massey University

EHB

FS

$95,863.00

$97,894.00

$99,988.00

Waking up can be hard to do: unravelling the dynamics of sleep inertia

Dr TL Signal

Massey University

EHB

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

The variation of fundamental constants in space-time

Professor PA Schwerdtfeger  
Professor VV Flambaum

Massey University

PSE

 

$260,000.00

$260,000.00

$260,000.00

New tools for statistical inference for network-based transportation models

Professor ML Hazelton

Massey University

MIS

 

$105,000.00

$100,000.00

$105,000.00

Complexity reduction in neural models

Dr CR Laing

Massey University

MIS

 

$150,000.00

$150,000.00

$154,000.00

Modelling a virus

Professor MG Roberts

Massey University

MIS

 

$150,000.00

$152,000.00

$160,000.00

Social meanings of medication

Professor KP Chamberlain                       
Assoc Prof KP Dew   
Assoc Prof DJ Hodgetts

Massey University

SOC

 

$192,000.00

$238,000.00

$215,000.00

Reluctant Wanderers: women re-imagine the margins, 1775-1800

Dr I Horrocks

Massey University

HUM

FS

$70,000.00

$75,000.00

$75,000.00

When will the global ozone layer recover? A semi-empirical approach

Dr PE Huck

NIWA Ltd.

ESA

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Streptococcal Surface DNase (SSD): a novel virulence factor?

Dr T Proft

The University of Auckland

BMS

 

$281,000.00

$290,000.00

$295,000.00

Rebuilding the cornea by cell transplantation

Dr DV Patel

The University of Auckland

BMS

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Improving genotype accuracy for genome-wide association studies

Dr BL Browning

The University of Auckland

BMS

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Regenerative medicine using insulin-producing blood stem cells to treat Type I diabetes

Assoc Prof GW Krissansen

The University of Auckland

BMS

 

$269,000.00

$285,000.00

$320,000.00

Protein dynamics is the key to the regulation of cytokine-induced intracellular signalling

Dr AJ Dingley

The University of Auckland

BMS

 

$245,000.00

$250,000.00

$245,000.00

The new nanobiology: seeing signal transduction with greater clarity

Assoc Prof CS Soeller   
Professor MB Cannell

The University of Auckland

CMP

 

$250,000.00

$255,000.00

$265,000.00

Images of the city in New Zealand and Scotland

Professor NP Perry

The University of Auckland

HUM

 

$100,000.00

$105,000.00

$100,000.00

How does the molecular clock tick along genomes?

Dr S Guindon

The University of Auckland

EEB

FS

$86,291.00

$67,650.00

$93,311.00

Geographic dynamics of evolving viral populations

Dr AJ Drummond           
Dr MA Suchard

The University of Auckland

EEB

 

$225,000.00

$230,000.00

$238,000.00

Back to the future: how the brain uses the past to imagine the future

Dr DR Addis

The University of Auckland

EHB

 

$215,000.00

$247,000.00

$202,000.00

Conflict and communication strategies in intimate relationships: tracking improvement in relationship problems over time

Dr NC Overall

The University of Auckland

EHB

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$93,000.00

Isopeptide bonds: a novel component of Nature's toolbox for stabilising proteins

Professor EN Baker

The University of Auckland

PSE

 

$275,000.00

$280,000.00

$285,000.00

Hunting for HIF-1 inhibitors: synthesis of Manassantin B, a potent, non-cytotoxic HIF-1 inhibitor

Dr D Barker

The University of Auckland

PSE

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

How do viruses get inside protein crystals?

Assoc Prof P Metcalf

The University of Auckland

PSE

 

$250,000.00

$250,000.00

$260,000.00

Magma forensics at New Zealand's supervolcanoes

Professor CJN Wilson   
Professor JA Baker

The University of Auckland

ESA

 

$315,000.00

$310,000.00

$315,000.00

The diabetic heart under the mathematical microscope

Dr V Rajagopal

The University of Auckland

MIS

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Aspects of computability in algebra, model theory, and randomness

Professor BM Khoussainov                     
Dr A Nies

The University of Auckland

MIS

 

$135,000.00

$140,000.00

$140,000.00

Investigating features and algorithms for recognising hand-drawn diagrams

Dr BE Plimmer

The University of Auckland

MIS

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Origins of European Christianity

Dr LK Bailey

The University of Auckland

HUM

FS

$45,926.00

$74,795.00

$57,016.00

Exploring the heart warming but deadly impacts of climate change

Dr AJR Hickey

The University of Auckland

CMP

FS

$98,000.00

$107,000.00

$95,000.00

The dynamics of spatially compressed food webs

Assoc Prof AR McIntosh

University of Canterbury

EEB

 

$230,000.00

$263,000.00

$244,000.00

An unnatural nexus: Do food webs merge at the interface between natural and managed habitats?

Dr JM Tylianakis

University of Canterbury

EEB

 

$255,000.00

$256,000.00

$257,000.00

Riches to rags: does elevated productivity drive ecosystem decay in adjacent natural habitats?

Dr RK Didham

University of Canterbury

EEB

 

$255,000.00

$260,000.00

$255,000.00

Gravitational energy and cosmic structure: What is the Universe made of?

Dr DL Wiltshire

University of Canterbury

PSE

 

$250,000.00

$255,000.00

$255,000.00

Carbon neutrality: fact or fiction?

Professor MJ Milne   
Professor A Ball

University of Canterbury

SOC

 

$270,000.00

$275,000.00

$279,000.00

Controlling the optical near field from afar: absorbance-modulation imaging aided by plasmonic superlenses

Professor RJ Blaikie

University of Canterbury

PSE

 

$275,000.00

$275,000.00

$280,000.00

Measuring 150 years of health and wellbeing in New Zealand

Professor LT Oxley

University of Canterbury

SOC

 

$130,000.00

$126,000.00

$109,000.00

Aquatic ecosystem dynamics: size or species?

Dr MJ Plank

University of Canterbury

MIS

FS

$53,396.00

$86,136.00

$73,530.00

Topic and emotional affect in speech perception and production

Assoc Prof J Hay

University of Canterbury

HUM

 

$175,000.00

$175,000.00

$175,000.00

Building sustainable peace in the South Pacific

Professor J Bercovitch

University of Canterbury

SOC

 

$283,000.00

$279,000.00

$285,000.00

The music of the stars: internal structure revealed through the surface vibrations of stars

Dr KR Pollard

University of Canterbury

ESA

 

$200,000.00

$200,000.00

$200,000.00

Defining tissue specific thresholds for apoptosis: new insights from the first mutation in cytochrome c

Dr EC Ledgerwood          
Dr I Morison

University of Otago

BMS

 

$281,000.00

$287,000.00

$250,000.00

Multi-purpose mechanisms for preservation of nerve cell function

Professor WC Abraham

University of Otago

BMS

 

$265,000.00

$275,000.00

$280,000.00

Defining a new estrogen pathway to GnRH neurons

Dr IA Abraham        
Professor AE Herbison

University of Otago

BMS

 

$225,000.00

$230,000.00

$240,000.00

How do we generate potent immune responses when infection strikes? A new role for T cell help in the immune response

Dr AD McLellan

University of Otago

BMS

 

$185,000.00

$193,000.00

$193,000.00

Copy number variants in the genome: are they relevant to human personality and mental health?

Assoc Prof MA Kennedy 
Professor PR Joyce 
Professor PF Sullivan

University of Otago

BMS

 

$251,000.00

$280,000.00

$285,000.00

How does secreted amyloid precursor protein alpha enhance memory mechanisms?

Professor WP Tate          
Dr JM Williams

University of Otago

BMS

 

$303,000.00

$310,000.00

$255,000.00

Shedding light on membrane protein biogenesis and repair in oxygenic photosynthesis

Assoc Prof JJ Eaton-Rye

University of Otago

CMP

 

$265,000.00

$270,000.00

$275,000.00

Deciphering the role of peroxiredoxins in the cellular response to oxidative stress

Dr MB Hampton   
Professor CC Winterbourn

University of Otago

CMP

 

$280,000.00

$285,000.00

$290,000.00

What determines the size of the c ring in a nanomolecular machine?

Assoc Prof GM Cook                 
Dr T Meier

University of Otago

CMP

 

$270,000.00

$280,000.00

$285,000.00

Bridging the 50 Å ubiquitin gap

Dr CL Day

University of Otago

CMP

 

$265,000.00

$270,000.00

$280,000.00

Characterisation of a putative novel bacterial "two-component" regulatory system conserved in a wide range of enteric bacteria

Dr PC Fineran

University of Otago

CMP

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Quantifying fitness using sex reversal of fish: an ultimate conservation biology tool

Dr S Nakagawa

University of Otago

EEB

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Designer dimetallic spin crossover complexes: developing tuneability, cooperativity and hierarchical organisation

Professor SA Brooker

University of Otago

PSE

 

$270,000.00

$270,000.00

$275,000.00

Migration, ethnicity, and asylums in New Zealand and Australia 1860-1910

Professor AH McCarthy  
Dr CS Coleborne

University of Otago

SOC

 

$200,000.00

$214,000.00

$198,000.00

Experimental philosophy and the origins of Empiricism

Professor PR Anstey       
Dr RW Serjeantson

University of Otago

HUM

 

$180,000.00

$195,000.00

$100,000.00

Postcolonialism and ethics

Dr S Drichel

University of Otago

HUM

FS

$70,000.00

$75,000.00

$75,000.00

Unlocking Early Miocene climate: New Zealand in a warmer world

Dr DE Lee                   
Assoc Prof GS Wilson

University of Otago

ESA

 

$320,000.00

$260,000.00

$255,000.00

Probing the memory of quartz sediment

Professor D Craw

University of Otago

ESA

 

$240,000.00

$250,000.00

$240,000.00

Learning to tell life's tales: the development of narrative identity and well-being in adolescence

Assoc Prof JE Reese

University of Otago

SOC

 

$273,000.00

$256,000.00

$292,000.00

Co-management of environment by indigenous people

Assoc Prof H Moller         
Dr J Stephenson

University of Otago

SOC

 

$286,000.00

$285,000.00

$299,000.00

New approaches to uncouple thermoactivity from thermostability in enzymes

Assoc Prof VL Arcus  
Professor RM Daniel

University of Waikato

CMP

 

$320,000.00

$330,000.00

$335,000.00

Life at the extreme: resolving the genetic basis of microbial endemism in the super-heated soils of Mt Erebus, Antarctica

Professor SC Cary

University of Waikato

EEB

 

$265,000.00

$266,000.00

$267,000.00

Is understanding innovation the key to explaining economic growth?

Professor P McCann

University of Waikato

EHB

 

$240,000.00

$240,000.00

$225,000.00

Taming reactive main group element hydrides

Professor W Henderson

University of Waikato

PSE

 

$170,000.00

$173,000.00

$175,000.00

Engaging women and migrants in public policy making

Dr R Simon-Kumar

University of Waikato

SOC

FS

$89,000.00

$100,000.00

$115,000.00

The role of Maori cultural support for employees and employers

Assoc Prof JM Haar

University of Waikato

SOC

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

What is happening in the brain during micro-sleeps?

Assoc Prof RD Jones

Van der Veer Institute

EHB

 

$244,000.00

$270,000.00

$255,000.00

How does fertility factor BMP15 regulate the ovulation quota in mammals?

Professor KP McNatty     
Dr CJ McIntosh

Victoria University of Wellington

CMP

 

$300,000.00

$300,000.00

$300,000.00

The role of eye movements in eyewitness identification

Dr MP Gerrie

Victoria University of Wellington

EHB

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

MDMA abuse and brain behaviour

Professor S Schenk

Victoria University of Wellington

EHB

 

$295,000.00

$305,000.00

$315,000.00

Hearing through someone else's ears: a signal processing approach

Dr PD Teal

Victoria University of Wellington

PSE

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Strongly correlated electrons in rare-earth nitrides

Dr BJ Ruck                     Professor HJ Trodahl

Victoria University of Wellington

PSE

 

$255,000.00

$265,000.00

$265,000.00

Genetic programming for classification tasks

Dr M Zhang

Victoria University of Wellington

MIS

 

$145,000.00

$170,000.00

$150,000.00

Unification of immutability and ownership

Dr A Potanin

Victoria University of Wellington

MIS

FS

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

$100,000.00

Korea and its neighbours: globalisation and national identity in the 21st century

Dr S Epstein

Victoria University of Wellington

HUM

 

$75,000.00

$80,000.00

$140,000.00

The Polynesian iconoclasm

Professor JD Sissons

Victoria University of Wellington

HUM

 

$105,000.00

$155,000.00

$105,000.00

How have the world's youngest ultra-deep (high-pressure) rocks arrived at the Earth's surface?

Assoc Prof TA Little       
Dr LM Wallace

Victoria University of Wellington

ESA

 

$285,000.00

$300,000.00

$310,000.00

Cardinality constraints for XML: challenging the trade-off between expressiveness and tractability

Assoc Prof S Link     
Professor Dr S Hartmann

Victoria University of Wellington

MIS

 

$130,000.00

$135,000.00

$135,000.00

Policing indigenous peoples: a comparative approach to controlling colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Professor RS Hill

Victoria University of Wellington

HUM

 

$223,000.00

$203,000.00

$184,000.00

Total

 

 

 

 

$17,655,476.00

$18,143,475.00

$17,937,845.00

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