Email kirsten.donald@otago.ac.nz
Phone 64-3-479-5096
- BScHons in Marine and Environmental Biology; University of St Andrews, 1992
- PhD in Micro- and Molecular Biology; University of Warwick, 1997
Comparative nutrition of marine phytoplankton
Research Interests
- Biogeography and evolution of topshells
- Biogeography and evolution of digenea
- Interrelationships and co-evolution of host topshells and their parasitic trematodes
- Gene expression in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
- Primary production and phosphorous nutrition in marine phytoplankton
Current Postdoctoral Project
Using molecular techniques to determine whether topshells and the parasitic trematodes they harbour share a tight co-evolutionary relationship. (Marsden funding) Collaborator: Hamish Spencer