• About Us
• Studying Zoology
• Research
• Our People
  • Head of Department
  • Academic Staff
  • Pou Here Tangata
  • Support Staff
  • Postgraduate Students
• News & Events
• Te Rōpū
• Information for School Students
• Contact Us
• Zoology Intranet

• Home
• Our People

Dr Mark Lokman

Email mark.lokman@otago.ac.nz

Phone 64-3-479-5846

• Teaching
• Research Interests
• Postgraduate Students
• Publications
• Visit REPRONZ for further details on research in my lab group

Teaching

• BIOL 112 Animal Biology
  
• ZOOL 223 Animal Physiology
• ZOOL 313 Environmental Physiology
• ZOOL 414 Comparative Physiology
  
• ZOOL 421 Essentials of Molecular Zoology

Research Interests

• Endocrine control of previtellogenic oocyte growth

• Mechanisms controlling fecundity in fish

• Evolution of vertebrate endocrine systems

• Growth and reproduction of aquaculture species in NZ

• Developmental Genetics

Current issues (potential research projects) in the NZ aquaculture industry include:
1. full artificial control of abalone reproduction
2. interaction between growth and reproduction in salmon
3. control of reproduction in eel, hapuka (groper) and giant kokopu
4. development of farming methods for new aquaculture species

Postgraduate Students

• Erin Forbes (PhD) - effects of androgens on eel liver physiology
• Khalid Alqaisi (PhD) - evolution of steroidogenesis in starfish
• Sean Divers (PhD) - induced spawning of eel
• Yair Kohn (PhD) - oogenesis and egg quality in hapuka
• Ali Falahati (PhD) - GDF-9 signaling in the eel ovary
• Alireza (Hamed) Shoae (PhD) - the ovarian IGF-I system in eel
• Sam Van der Horst (MSc) - effects of steroids on eel heaptocytes
• Tasman Gillies (MSc) - spawning induction in abalone

Publications