Theme Researchers

Theme researchers are drawn from four University of Otago Departments. Click on the links below to get their research profiles.

Faculty of Dentistry

Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences

• Robert Love (Professor and Head of Department)

Department of Oral Sciences

• Murray Thomson (Professor)
• Katie Ayers (Senior Lecturer Dental Public Health)
• Richard Cannon (Professor and Head of Laboratory)
• Brian Monk (Senior Research Fellow)
• Geoffrey Tompkins (Senior Lecturer)
• Ann Holmes (Senior Research Fellow)
• Erwin Lamping (Research Fellow)
• Kyoko Niimi (Research Fellow)
• Jenine Upritchard (Laboratory Technical Manager)
• Frank Fischer (PhD student)
• Karen Matejka (PhD student)
• Kyle Beggs (Assistant Research Fellow)
• Sarah Tsao (Assistant Research Fellow)
• Pauline van der Wielen (Assistant Research Fellow)
• Jules Kieser (Professor and Head of Department)
• Tom Kardos (Professor)
• Dorothy Boyd (Senior Lecturer)
• Douglas Holborow (Senior Lecturer)
• Warwick Duncan (Senior Lecturer)
• Karl Lyons (Senior Lecturer)

Faculty of Medicine

Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Otago School of Medical Sciences)

• John Tagg (Associate Professor)
• Robin Simmonds (Lecturer)
• Nick Heng (Research Fellow)
• Nancy Ragland (Junior Research Fellow)
• Chris Moore (Research Assistant)
• Megan Inglis (Technician)
• John Hale (PhD Student)
• Phillip Wescombe (PhD Student)
• Nicolai Klesse (MSc Student)

Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences)

• Christopher Sissons (Senior Research Fellow)
• Lisa Wong (Junior Research Fellow)
• Megan Coleman (Senior Technical Officer)