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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 7293
Email
joel.tyndall@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Associate Dean (Internationalisation), School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Qualifications
BSc(Hons)(Monash) PhD(Qld)
Research summary
Drug design and discovery
Teaching
Medicinal Chemistry

Research

Drug design and discovery using computational techniques. Drug discovery in the areas of inflammatory disorders, cancer, antifungals, bacterial infections (chlamydia, tuberculosis), and viral infections targeting both enzymes and GPCRs. Techniques include virtual screening, structural biology, enzymatic, and cellular assays.

Professor Tyndall on PubMed

Publications

Roohi, B., Tyndall, J. D. A., Svoboda, T., de Hoog, S., Crous, P. W., Monk, B. C., … Lackner, M. (2026). The dual role of azoles: Lifesaving antifungals and drivers of resistance: A One Health perspective. Nature Communications. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71762-9 Journal - Research Article

Belcher, C. M., Souza, C. P., McGuire, E., Hung, C.-C., Tyndall, J. D. A., & Hoyer, L. L. (2026). Phylogenetic and structural analysis of miconazole susceptibility in Malassezia pachydermatis isolates from dogs with otitis externa. Veterinary Determatology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/vde.70059 Journal - Research Article

Zhao, M., Niimi, M., Niimi, K., Chindamporn, A., Kajiwara, S., Bonus, M., … Tyndall, J. D. A., Cannon, R. D., & Lamping, E. (2026). G521 is the gatekeeper and a key transmembrane domain contact residue of Candida albicans Cdr1. mBio. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1128/mbio.03746-25 Journal - Research Article

Fleming, C., Nugent, H., Loli Quinteros, S., Fernando, B. S. M., Tyndall, J. D. A., Webb, J. K., … Huston, W. M. (2025). A pilot study of re-purposing drugs to treat koalas with chlamydia. Scientific Reports. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-29789-3 Journal - Research Article

Alsulaimany, M., Keniya, M. V., Alanazi, R. S., Ruma, Y. N., Hughes, C. S., Jones, A. T., Tyndall, J. D. A., … Monk, B. C., & Simons, C. (2025). Exploring long arm amide-linked side chains in the design of antifungal azole inhibitors of sterol 14α-demethylase (CYP51). Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c02922 Journal - Research Article

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