Vanessa Morris
Principal investigator
I joined the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in late 2018, completing my world tour after working and studying in Australia, Germany and Canada. I am interested in proteins that form large aggregates as part of their function or as a pathological process.
Christoph Göbl
Principal investigator
I am a research fellow at the Center for Free Radical Research at the University of Otago, Christchurch and I am working in the field of redox biology and oxidative stress signalling in cancers. Vanessa and I work together on the amyloid formation mechanism of the tumor suppressor protein p16.
Sarah Heath
PhD student with Christoph Göbl
Sarah is working on the mechanism of p16 fibril formation.
Dylan Goldsmith
PhD student
Dylan is working on structural studies of the Alzheimer’s-disease risk factor TREM2.
Abigail Schwartfeger
Honours student
Abigail is carrying our her Honours research project looking at ligand-activated transcription factors together with Christoph.
Shelby Gray
Masters student
Shelby is working on investigating how p16 mutations alter fibril formation.
Emilie Hamzah
Honours student
Emilie is looking at fibril formation of the protein p18.
Jemima Ganderton
Masters student
Jemima is carrying out her Masters looking at methods to detect alpha synuclein in biofluids, co-supervised by Prof. John Dalrymple-Alford in Psychology.
Siddhant Kumar
PhD student
Siddhant finally made it into the country, and is working on interactions of the microglial receptor TREM2.
Former group members
Madison Hill
Undergraduate project student
Madi worked on amyloid beta interactions during two undergraduate projects and her summer scholarship in summer 2019/2020. She is now carrying out her Honours year with Prof. Mark Hampton and Dr Leon Symth at the University of Otago, Christchurch
Jennifer Naughton
Honours student with Christoph Göbl
Jenni did her Honours project on investigating p16 fibrils using mass spectrometry.
