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Arielle Sulit

Research Fellow

BSc, MSc, PhD (Massey)

Email arielle.sulit@otago.ac.nz

Dr Arielle Sulit is a research fellow working on colorectal cancer genetics, including microbiome influences affecting its development. She is currently a member of the UOC EMCR committee, and co-organises the Biomedical Research Seminar Series.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of the Philippines, and a master’s degree in Molecular Medicine from St. Luke’s College of Medicine, Philippines. She moved to New Zealand in 2017 to obtain her Doctorate in Genetics from Massey University, Auckland. She now serves as one of the department’s bioinformaticians, using computational biology to study colorectal cancer and other diseases.

Arielle’s career goal is to conduct scientific bench study that can be translated into clinical bedside, and allowing for improvements to more personalised medicine. She supervises honours, masters', and PhD students.

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biotechnology
  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Microbiome
  • Omics

Publications

Purcell, R. V., Hegoburu, A., Sulit, A., & Frizelle, F. (2026). Spatial immune architecture as a predictor of response to neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in rectal cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 44(16, Suppl.), e15739. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2026.44.16_suppl.e15739 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Purcell, R. V., Waddell, O., Sulit, A., & Frizelle, F. (2026). A distinct immune-microbiome axis in early-onset colorectal cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 44(16, Suppl.), e15736. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2026.44.16_suppl.e15736 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Permain, J., Sulit, A., Eglinton, T., & Purcell, R. (2026). Bacterial lipopolysaccharide alters DNA methylation in colorectal cancer cells. Clinical Epigenetics, 18, 11. doi: 10.1186/s13148-025-02012-w Journal - Research Article

Waddell, O., Sulit, A., Wilson, K., Ramsey, R., Heriot, A., Frizelle, F., & Purcell, R. (2025). Consensus molecular subtypes and gene expression in early-onset colorectal cancer. Colorectal Cancer, 14(1), 2562798. doi: 10.1080/1758194X.2025.2562798 Journal - Research Article

Sulit, A. K., Hegoburu, A., & Purcell, R. (2024, August-September). Response to chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancers: Profiling protein expression in defined tumour tissue structures. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Cancer Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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