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Research could find answers to kauri dieback and myrtle rust
MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator Dr Volker Nock has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to help eradicate fungi that spread disease to our native trees.
With support from the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Dr Nock will work on developing lab-on-a-chip devices to understand how pathogens locate and infect their target, a key step towards eradicating them.
He went on RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan to discuss his work.
October 11, 2019
“If the lab-on-a-chip works, it will be so exciting and could have a huge impact.”
Dr Volker Nock Principal Investigator The MacDiarmid Institute
More information
For more information on Dr Nock's Rutherford Discovery Fellowship awards:
- Rutherford Discovery Fellowship recipients - Volker Nock - The Royal Society of New Zealand, 10 October, 2019
- UC researchers awarded $800,000 fellowship to save kauri from attack - The University of Canterbury, 10 October, 2019
For more information on Dr Nock's research:
- How an engineer and a biologist could help with kauri dieback and myrtle rust - Stuff, 14 June, 2019
- Feeling the force of fungi to stop it killing our forests - The Spinoff, 20 November, 2018
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