Email mark.lokman@otago.ac.nz
Phone +64 3 479 5846
Teaching
- BIOL 112 Animal Biology
- ZOOL 223 Animal Physiology
- ZOOL 313 Animal Function and Environment
- ZOOL 414 Comparative Physiology
- ZOOL 421 Essentials of Molecular Zoology
Research Interests
- Endocrine control of previtellogenic oocyte growth
- Mechanisms controlling fecundity in fish
- Evolution of vertebrate endocrine systems
- Growth and reproduction of aquaculture species in NZ
- Developmental Genetics
Current issues (potential research projects) in the NZ aquaculture industry include:
1. full artificial control of abalone reproduction
2. interaction between growth and reproduction in salmon
3. control of reproduction in eel, hapuka (groper) and giant kokopu
4. development of farming methods for new aquaculture species
Postgraduate Students
- Erin Forbes (PhD) - effects of androgens on eel liver physiology
- Khalid Alqaisi (PhD) - evolution of steroidogenesis in starfish
- Sean Divers (PhD) - induced spawning of eel
- Yair Kohn (PhD) - oogenesis and egg quality in hapuka
- Ali Falahati (PhD) - GDF-9 signaling in the eel ovary
- Alireza (Hamed) Shoae (PhD) - the ovarian IGF-I system in eel
- Sam Van der Horst (MSc) - effects of steroids on eel heaptocytes
- Tasman Gillies (MSc) - spawning induction in abalone