Director
Associate Professor Beulah Leitch
Tel +64 3 479 7618
Email director.neuroscience@otago.ac.nz
The Director has responsibility for undergraduate matters.
Deputy Director
Associate Professor Karl Iremonger
Tel +64 3 479 7300
Email karl.iremonger@otago.ac.nz
The Deputy Director has responsibility for postgraduate matters.
Administrator
Coral Steenkamp
Tel +64 3 479 4205
Email neuroscience@otago.ac.nz
Office Hours: 8:00am – 4:00pm in room G25 Sayers Building (School of Biomedical Sciences Administration)
Neuroscientists at Otago
Our neuroscientists are located in various departments, depending on their area of specialisation. The neuroscientists below may be available to supervise your postgraduate neuroscience research.
Department of Anatomy
- Professor Greg Anderson BAgrSc(Hons) PhD
- Associate Professor Yusuf Cakmak MD PhD
- Professor Dave Grattan BSc(Hons) PhD
- Dr Laura Gumy BSc(Hons) MSc PhD
- Professor Christine Jasoni BSc PhD
- Associate Professor Beulah Leitch BSc(Hons) MSc PhD
- Professor Ping Liu MB PhD
- Dr Rob Munn BSc MSc PhD
- Professor Dorothy Oorschot BSc(Hons) PhD
- Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie BPhEd MSc PhD
- Professor John Reynolds MB ChB PhD
- Dr Erik Wibowo BMedSci(Hons) PhD
- Associate Professor Joanna Williams BSc MSc PhD
Department of Biochemistry
- Professor Stephanie Hughes BSc(Hons) PhD
- Emeritus Professor Warren Tate MSc PhD FNZIC FRSNZ MA-PIMBN
Bioethics Centre
- Emeritus Professor Grant Gillett MSc MB ChB DPhil FRACS FRSNZ
Department of Food Science
- Dr Mei Peng MA PhD
Department of Medicine
- Dr Nick Cutfield MB ChB FRACP
- Associate Professor Graeme Hammond-Tooke PhD FRACP FCP
- Professor Patrick Manning BHB MBChB MMedSc FRACP
- Dr John Mottershead BM BCh BA FRCP
- Dr Alan Wright MBhB MD ECFMG FRACP
Department of Oral Sciences
- Professor Mauro Farella DDS PhD PD
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Associate Professor John Ashton BSc(Hons) PhD
- Professor Michelle Glass BSc PhD
- Professor Debbie Hay BSc(Hons) PhD
- Associate Professor Ivan Sammut BSc(Hons) PhD
- Professor Paul Smith BA(Hons) PhD GradDipApplStat MApplStat(Hons) DSc
- Associate Professor Yiwen Zheng BSc PhD
School of Pharmacy
- Associate Professor Alisa McGregor BSc(Hons) PhD
- Professor Bruce Russell BPharm(Hons) PhD
School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences
- Dr Rebekah Blakemore BSc MPhEd PhD
- Professor Jim Cotter BSc MPhEd PhD
Department of Physiology
- Professor Colin Brown BSc(Hons) PhD
- Dr Rosie Brown BSc(Hons) PhD
- Professor Rebecca Campbell BSc PhD
- Associate Professor Karl Iremonger BPhed BSc MSc PhD
- Associate Professor Pete Jones BSc(Hons) PhD
- Dr Joon Kim BSc PGDipSci PhD
- Associate Professor Phil Sheard BSc PGDipSc PhD
- Associate Professor Alexander Tups DipBiol PhD
Department of Psychological Medicine
- Professor Paul Glue MB ChB MD MRCPsych
Department of Psychology
- Professor Cliff Abraham BA PhD FRSNZ
- Professor David Bilkey BA PhD
- Professor Mike Colombo BA MS PhD
- Professor Liz Franz BA MSc PhD
- Dr Olivia Harrison (née Faull) DPHil (Oxon) BPhEd(Hons) BSc
- Associate Professor Liana Machado BA PhD
- Professor Neil McNaughton MA PhD
- Dr Bruce Mockett BSc DipSci PhD
- Dr Narun Pat (Pornpattananangkul) BSc MSc PhD
- Dr Ryan Ward BS MS PhD
Department of Surgical Sciences
- Professor Dirk De Ridder MD PhD
Department of Women's and Children's Health
- Professor Barbara Galland BSc(Hons) PhD NZCS
- Professor Barry Taylor MB ChB FRACP
Department of Zoology
- Dr Bart Geurten
- Dr Paul Szyszka Dipl. Biol., Dr. rer. nat.