Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand

Associate Professor David Wharton

Email david.wharton@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Publications

Associate Professor Wharton's publications are available here

Teaching

• environmental physiology
• parasitology,
• invertebrate biology

Research Interests

• Environmental physiology: desiccation survival (anhydrobiosis) and cold tolerance
• Nematode biology
• Ultrastructural and microscopical techniques
• Ice-active proteins

An Antarctic nematode that survives intracellular ice formation, photographed in the act of freezing

Potential Postgraduate Projects

• A variety of projects on the environmental physiology of nematodes and arthropods, cold tolerance, anhydrobiosis and parasitology

Current Postgraduate Students

• Kalinka Rexer-Huber (MSc) - cold toderance of NZ frogs
• Melianie Raymond (PhD) – cold tolerance of Antarctic nematodes
• Farman Ali (PhD) - cold tolerance of entomopathogenic nematodes
• Stephen Clarke (PhD) - ice active proteins of nematodes
• Tim Hawes (Postdoc) - cold tolerance of NZ and Antarctic arthropods

Other Links

Keywords:

• environmental physiology, parasitology, and invertebrate biology