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Welcome to Yining He

We welcome a new PhD student, Yining to our team. Yining, also known as Gloria, will be leading our research on Cold Plasma treatment of biofilms with her initial focus on Listeria monocytogenes. Her arrival is excellent timing as we commission our new high voltage di-electric barrier cold plasma unit.

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Welcome to Thi Van Nguyen

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Post date 31 March 2023
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We are pleased to welcome Van to our team as a new PhD student. Van will be working on a project studying biofilms of food pathogens.

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Welcome to Krisha Pant

Welcome to Krisha Pant who joins our research team as a PhD student. Krisha will be studying the exciting area of multi-species biofilm interactions.

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NZ Microbiological Society Conference Wellington 2022

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Post date 29 November 2022
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Great to be able to participate in the NZ Microbiological Society conference in person this year.

Nice to receive an award for our work.

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Congratulations to Yiying Huang

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Post date 8 November 2022
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Deans Award Recipient, PhD Graduate October 2022

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Congratulations to Emmanuel Kyere

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Post date 11 September 2022
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We wish Emmanuel all the best for his new job as Food Safety and Quality manager at Cargill in New York. An excellent career move for Emmanuel. Nice to see our graduates doing well in the world.

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Congratulations Thu Nguyen

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Post date 16 March 2022
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Celebrating with friends.

Thu completed her PhD examination with minor emendations this week. Her study was “The degradation of aflatoxin M1 in skim milk”. Her study involved using UV light and cold plasma. She is now heading back home to Vietnam and plans to head to the University of Guelph for a Post Doc position.

Well done Thu.

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Dean’s List

Congratulations to Yiying Huang who’s PhD thesis has been added to the Dean’s List of Exceptional Theses. Well done, Yiying.

Yiying at work in the lab.

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Congratulations Yiying Huang

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Post date 4 February 2022
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Congratulations to Yiying Huang for successfully completing her PhD oral examination today. Yiying’s research was “The spore formation and toxin production in bioflms of Bacillus cereus

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Update 2021

This has been the most successful year for our team with 6 PhD students completing one waiting for her exam and another handing in her thesis by the end of the year.

Congratulations to you all for your achievements this year. This has been a record year for publications for our group. We thought last year was good but this year has been even better.

Several of our recent graduates have landed some great Post Doc positions

Dong Zhang in The University of Guelph, Canada
Amilia Nawarathna, Arla Foods, Denmark
Murali Kumar, University of Limerick, Ireland

One of our graduates Emmanuel Kyere was able to attend graduation this year. Emmanuel is now with his family in Chicago and has applied for a Post Doc position at Michigan State University. We wish him all the best for the future.

Emmanuel at Graduation 2021

Looking forward to 2022, we have funding applications to continue with Emmanuel’s work and to extend some of our work on EPS. We expect to be able to take on some more international students and there is the possibility of two NZ students joining the team. Watch this space.

Everyone deserves a good holiday and we look forward to working with you in 2022.