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Team Hinkley
Based in the Ferrier Research Institute in Gracefield, Lower Hutt, Team Hinkley's focus is natural products.
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Research
Isolation, characterization, and modification of complex polysaccharides in human health, to direct tissue repair as a human therapeutic, and their modification to make new biopolymers suitable for use as commodity chemicals.
Team leader
Team members
Cara Luiten
Students
PhD candidates at the Ferrier Research Institute are listed below, along with their thesis title and supervisors.
| Name | Topic | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Clarke | Measuring Stachybotrys mycotoxins in New Zealand’s leaky buildings | Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey |
| Mahdieh Ghofrani | Quantifying heparan sulfate in biological systems | Simon Hinkley, Susie Carnachan |
| Cara Luiten | Determining the polysaccharide composition of New Zealand lake snow | Simon Hinkley, Tracey Bell |
| Daniel Phipps | Synthesis of heparan sulfate mimetics | Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey |
Publications
Latest publications 2023
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023)