Department of Zoology, University of Otago

Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand

 

Associate Professor David Wharton

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

 

 

 

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