Research
Research projects undertaken by AWC investigators fall into two major themes:
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Each theme involves three broad activities that span the expertise of the investigators.
Summary of the Research Programme
Genomics and Biomathematics
Activity: Making cutting-edge technologies available to New Zealand
Investigators: Alexei Drummond, Mike Hendy, Peter Lockhart
Activity: Using new genetic knowledge for molecular ecology and evolution
Investigators: David Bryant, Thomas Buckley, Alexei Drummond, Mike Hendy, Barbara Holland, Peter Lockhart, Lisa Matisoo-Smith, David Penny, Paul Rainey, Peter Ritchie, Howard Ross, Mike Steel, Jon Waters
Activity: Analytic and predictive modelling in ecology and evolution
Investigators: David Bryant, Mike Hendy, Barbara Holland, Paul Rainey, Charles Semple, Hamish Spencer, Mike Steel
Biodiversity and Human Impacts
Activity: Biodiversity knowledge and strategy for New Zealand
Investigators: Thomas Buckley, Charles Daugherty, Peter Lockhart, Craig Millar, Nicola Nelson, Richard Newcomb, David Penny, Peter Ritchie, Charles Semple, Hamish Spencer, Jon Waters
Activity: Tracing the origins and histories of the peoples and biota of New Zealand and the Pacific
Investigators: Thomas Buckley, Mike Hendy, Lisa Matisoo-Smith, Craig Millar, David Penny, Howard Ross, Hamish Spencer
Activity: Genetic studies in Health, Agriculture and Environmental Change
Investigators: Charles Daugherty, Alexei Drummond, Nigel French, Peter Lockhart, Richard Newcomb, Paul Rainey, Peter Ritchie, Howard Ross
AWC Research Committee
The AWC Research Committee oversees the research in the Centre. Memebers of this Committee are:
Charles Daugherty
Mike Steel
Lisa Matisoo-Smith/Hamish Spencer
Nigel French
Richard Newcomb
AWC Scientific Advisory Panel
Research in the AWC is undertaken under the guidance of the AWC Scientific Advisory Panel. Members of this Panel are:
 Professor Fred Allendorf
Regents Professor
University of Montana
Research Interests: Conservation Biology
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 Professor Rebecca Cann
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Hawai'i
Research Interests: Molecular Genetic Methods to study Population Dispersal and the Maintenance of Variation
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 Professor Jenny Graves
Comparative Genomics, RSBS
The Australian National University
Research Interests: Mammalian Genome Organisation and Evolution
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 Professor Ary Hoffman
Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology
University of Melbourne
Research Interests: Evolutionary Genetics
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 Professor Daniel Huson
Professor of Algorithims in Bioinformatics
Universitat Tubingen
Research Interests: Computational Biology
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 Associate Professor Stephen Sarre
Associate Professor in Wildlife Genetics
University of Canberra
Research Interests: Conservation Biology
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 Professor Chris Simon
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Patterns of Evolution, Processes of Evolution
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 Dr Arndt von Haeseler
Head of Centre for Integrative Bioinfromatics Vienna (CIBIV)
Max F Perutz Laboratories
Research Interests: Alignment, Sequence Evolution Gene Trees, Population Genetics, Complex Patterns of Evolution
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