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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7713
Email
gerald.tannock@otago.ac.nz
Position
Emeritus Professor
Department
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Qualifications
BSC(Hons) PhD(Otago) FRSNZ
Research summary
Gut microbiota (microbiome)

Research

Gerald Tannock is Professor Emeritus of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He graduated BSc (Hons) 1968 and PhD 1972 from the University of Otago. He was a NIH Fogarty postdoctoral fellow with Dwayne Savage at the University of Texas (Austin) and the University of Illinois (Urbana). Returning to the University of Otago, Dr Tannock participated in microbiology teaching, and conducted research about the microbial ecology of the gut microbiota. He held a part-time position at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2001-2005.

Dr Tannock was awarded a Silver Medal for Science and Technology (2000) and a James Cook Research Fellowship (2014-2016) by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Dr Tannock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and member of the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. He has authored two books and 250 journal articles concerning the gut microbiota.

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