This issue 2 Minister visits new facilities 3 Our World at War: photographs 6 Rector of University of Dresden visits

University of news for staff | Vol 40 | Issue 21 | 12 November

CELEBRATING A TEN-YEAR

Graeme Aitken, Dean of the Faculty of Education PARTNERSHIP Photo: Rob McEldowney

Famous partnerships in history prove that we positions in the local community. The across the three years of this degree. Students are better when we work together. programme has provided valuable opportunities have access to the best of both worlds and use Think of Gilbert and Sullivan, Hanna and for a diverse range of students from a variety of student services at both MIT and the University, Barbera, Simon and Garfunkel – creative backgrounds to complete a teaching degree while Central University Library services are partners who all came together to create offered within the Manukau region. Graduates available to the students via a delivery service to something exceptional. of the programme are now teaching in 88 MIT Library. Many of the students are parents, So it has been with the enduring relationship schools as far south as Waiuku, while nearby between The and Mayfield School in Otara and Mangere Central “WHEN A MATCH HAS Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) who last School employ eight graduates each. EQUAL PARTNERS THEN I month celebrated ten years of a productive “Supporting the community in this way was FEAR NOT.” AESCHYLUS, partnership in delivering the University’s one of the objectives of the programme, as it Bachelor of Education (Teaching) Primary to the enabled each of the partners to further their GREEK DRAMATIST greater Manukau community. commitment to equal opportunities and the The Deed of Co-operation formalising Treaty of Waitangi,” says Manager of The so the timetable has been designed with their this relationship was signed on 21 October University of Auckland at Manukau Programme, needs in mind. Classes are held four days a 1999, and the celebration of a successful Claire Morrison-Rooney. week from 9am to 3pm, which allows for them ten-year association took place at (MIT) exactly “I believe this is a flagship programme and to both care for their families and succeed at ten years later to the day. This event was that we are doing groundbreaking things here,” their studies. attended by graduates, University and MIT staff, she adds. “By making this programme accessible “Faculty staff love teaching because the and representatives from schools in the area we are supporting a whole generation and a students are so engaged,” says Programme involved with the programme. community to value education, and they in turn Coordinator Dr Pam Millward (Teaching, From small beginnings with just 23 students, pass this onto their children and their families.” Learning and Development, Faculty of 300 have gone on to graduate and fill teaching This year, 150 full-time students are enrolled Education). “The students are like sponges – they (continued page 2)

University news is published by Communications and Marketing, Fisher Building,18 Waterloo Quadrant, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142. EMAIL [email protected] www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews Editor Judy Wilford Photography Godfrey Boehnke, Kathryn Robinson Design AND PRODUCTION The University of Auckland From the Vice-Chancellor Minister visits new facilities

necessary to make advances in medicine now.” “The Maurice Wilkins Centre is unique in the world in having its chemistry so deeply embedded with biology. It’s what makes us able to In 2006, the University embarked on its first progress these fantastic comprehensive, institution-wide fundraising research programmes and Campaign, following on from the very is the envy of many of our successful Campaign for the Business School, colleagues overseas,” added with a fundraising target of $100m by the principal investigator end of 2012. Professor Peter Shepherd. The “Leading the Way” Campaign was a The Hon Wayne Mapp, Minister for Research Rod said the centre now links all of the New response to our Strategic Plan objectives to Science and Technology, visited the Maurice Zealand researchers who have taken new drugs “Engage alumni and friends in mutually Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery and from the laboratory to clinical trial. As well as supportive and productive relationships” so as to was one of the first to see its latest research bringing together a wealth of skills and “Increase and diversify the University’s revenue”. facilities, now under construction at an experience the goal is to build an industrial-scale This we must do in order to create an extension of the School of Biological Sciences. pipeline of new drugs across the country. internationally recognised university in an The minister’s visit was part of a tour of “The range of drug discovery activity around environment where public funding of universities government-funded Centres of Research now means that we’re getting to is very low by international standards but where Excellence. He said that it was an extremely the scale where it is like investing in a portfolio top New Zealand students and academics are in valuable opportunity to find out more about the of companies – at least one of them is likely to strong demand overseas. Maurice Wilkins Centre’s work. be extremely successful,” he said. Over five years we have put together the As well as visiting the new facilities Dr Mapp “There are huge opportunities now because systems needed to support our philanthropic met with the current and former directors of the the large pharmaceutical companies are looking activities and developed strong partnerships with centre and several of its principal investigators. to universities and research organisations like donors and the students and staff they support. Director Associate Professor Rod Dunbar ours to do a lot of the initial drug development Through those systems, we have been able to explained that the Maurice Wilkins Centre’s work,” said Peter Shepherd. better coordinate philanthropic activities and research clusters in three disease areas – cancer, “Traditionally it may not have been thought ensure all donations are appropriately recorded infectious disease, and diabetes. that people in New Zealand could develop new and acknowledged. “Our researchers discover and develop new drugs for cancer, but they can and are, and As a consequence it has become apparent that drugs as well as new diagnostics and vaccines. these are drugs that have the potential to make the level of philanthropic support for the So our portfolio of projects extends from disease a huge impact on people’s lives.” University, particularly through the Research and prevention and early detection through to new Scholarships Offices, is about $8m per annum treatments for advanced disease,” he said. “We are a multidisciplinary centre bringing higher than we had previously appreciated. This Left to right are Thomas Haape (private secretary to support comes mainly from other philanthropic together expertise in biology, chemistry, and the Minister), Wayne Mapp, Joerg Kistler and organisations or individuals who fund research computation and strength in all of these areas is Rod Dunbar. projects or scholarships by giving directly to the University rather than through its associated foundations. Taking that giving into account, the current total of gifts received since the Campaign commenced in 2006 is close to $120m, cover story continued compared with the previously recorded total of around $80m. We have therefore decided to challenge you and make you a better teacher.” and their pass rates are very comparable to the increase the Campaign target to a new figure, Pam believes the programme provides a students at Epsom Campus,” she adds. “They recognising all sources of philanthropic support. valuable pathway for mature students, many of want to make a difference for their children and The new target of $150m by the end of 2012 was whom are former teacher aides who have the community, and they are dedicated to lifting announced on 4 November at the Chancellor’s decided to qualify as teachers. She also feels the Māori and Pacific Island achievement.” Dinner, an annual event at which we location of the programme has been vital in acknowledge the University’s most significant Penny Frost ensuring these students have been able to gain donors. That target, should we attain it, will make (published in Te Kuaka) access to education. “This programme has this undoubtedly the most successful Campaign provided opportunities for students who may Dean of Education Graeme Aitken was MC at in New Zealand university history. It will have otherwise not have been able to study education the celebration. Speakers were Professor John increased the University’s endowment, helping because it would have been impractical or Hattie (Teaching, Learning and Development, secure our future as a university of international impossible for them to travel,” says Pam. “These Faculty of Education), Professor John Morrow, quality. And, most importantly, it will have students are really serious about their study, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) and Dr changed for the better the lives of New they work hard and do very well.” Helen Anderson from Manukau Institute of Zealanders and people around the world through “They are incredibly motivated and focused Technology. the support of outstanding teaching and research.

2 12 November 2010 Laws of war In brief... provide vital protection for civilians, journalists, prisoners of war and other non-combatants who find themselves caught up in the armed conflict around the world.” John Ware, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Red Cross, agrees. “These laws are universal and remind us of our common bonds. It doesn’t distinguish between whether the armed conflicts are ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but on the base level of humanity that applies even during war.” Also featuring at the exhibition will be works from “Wars of dignity in the Football for life (Liberia) Pacific”, an ICRC exhibition featuring historical text and old and recent photographs, demonstrating that The works of award-winning war Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic constraints on the waging of war existed in the photographers examining the suffering Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Pacific centuries ago, including the protection of and dignity of those affected by war and Liberia and the Philippines. women and children, and captured warriors. conflict are on display at the Fale Pasifika this The exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of The Pacific exhibition was inspired by the findings month. the Geneva Conventions which form the contained in the book Under the Protection of cornerstone of international humanitarian law, The “Our World at War” exhibition, organised the Palm: Wars of Dignity in the Pacific, or the “laws of war”. The Geneva Conventions, by the New Zealand Red Cross, features the published by the ICRC agreed by all countries, protect those not or no work of five renowned photographers shot in 2009. longer taking part in hostilities and place limits in countries either at war or living through “Our World at War” is a global exhibition and on how warfare is waged. its aftermath. has been on show in more than 40 countries As Treasa Dunworth (Faculty of Law) explains, in a collaboration between the International around the world, most recently at Parliament the “laws of war” are not concerned with the Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the VII House, in Wellington. The exhibition is on display reasoning for war but more for its humanitarian Photo agency, photographers James Nachtwey, at the Fale Pasifika from 11 to 20 November. It is consequences. Franco Pagetti, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv open Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm, and “The laws of war are as relevant as ever, and Christopher Morris were sent to eight Saturday 4pm to 8pm. countries affected by armed conflict – working on a daily basis to save lives and

Highlighted Events

Universities as leaders Superbugs symposium AMPED Festival A symposium that aims to further enhance On 16 November from 9am to 5pm the Maurice This is an end-of-year creative showcase of staff excellence in sustainability-related teaching and Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery will and student work from The University of research will be hosted by The University of host the New Zealand Superbugs’ Symposium at Auckland's National Institute of Creative Arts Auckland on 16 November. This has been the Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, and Industries, to be held from 19 to 21 organised as part of the Vice Chancellor’s Owen G Glenn Building. This will bring together November. This spectacular programme of Strategic Development-funded Universitas 21 scientists, clinicians, and other health events includes art and architecture exhibitions, Sustainability Project, with the theme of professionals, to highlight current bacterial dance performances, pop and jazz gigs, classical “Universities as leaders in the transition to threats faced by New Zealand. Sessions will concerts and presentations. The programme sustainable societies”. The symposium, to take focus on bacteria identified as posing significant includes firm annual favourites such as the Elam risk to New Zealand, on clinical perspectives on place from 8.30am-5.30pm at the General Graduate Show and ArchPlan Show as well as a emerging microbial threats including Library Lecture Theatre LIB15, will focus on how wide array of new events including a jazz picnic antimicrobial resistance, and on ways scientists universities can provide the intellectual on Old Government House Lawn and and health professionals can most effectively leadership necessary to drive the transition contemporary dance performances inspired by collaborate to combat each of these bacteria. towards more sustainable ways of life. For more the Owen G Glenn Building. Full programme at Contact [email protected] or see the information, contact Dr Lesley Stone (lj.stone@ symposium website. www.amped.auckland.ac.nz auckland.ac.nz) or Dr Rachel Wolfgramm (r. [email protected]).

The University of Auckland News 3 Power To Change University of Auckland, has extremely strong we have tremendous political support both from credentials for making predictions of that kind. Europe and North Africa.” Before being appointed to his present position as His second lecture at the University was on Rector of Dresden he chaired the Institute of the subject of fuel cells, which are highly efficient Technical Thermodynamics of the German converters of energy from hydrogen or natural Aerospace Centre (DLR) and directed the gas to electricity. The focus was on increased Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal energy efficiency in the generation of on-board Engineering at the University of Stuttgart - which electricity in aircraft. collectively employ 270 staff in the areas of Professor Müller-Steinhagen was delighted to concentrating solar power, solar heating and be back in Auckland, where he spent eight years cooling, fuel cells, thermal process technology, on the staff of the Faculty of Engineering - first heat transfer and refrigeration, and systems as a senior lecturer and later as an associate analysis and technology assessment. professor - and still retains good friends and At The University of Auckland Professor fond memories from that time. Müller-Steinhagen delivered two well-attended “I had a brilliant time here and found it public lectures, one on “Power from the desert difficult to leave,” he said. “I had an offer from for a sustainable energy provision”, and the the UK to become a head of department at the second entitled “Fuel cells with wings”. University of Surrey. I declined it three times The focus of the first was on renewable until, after a painful period of decision-making, energy, specifically on an initiative called I felt you have to grab an opportunity when Desertec, comprising a huge industrial it comes. Hans Müller-Steinhagen consortium that began in Germany but now “But for the next two years,” he adds, “I woke involves companies all over Europe, North up dreaming of New Zealand. I had such a “If you spent your salary a million times faster Africa, and the Middle East who have set wonderful, productive time and had absolutely than you earned it, it would be gone two and a themselves the target to supply - by 2050 - 15 outstanding colleagues and students. I laid the half seconds into the first day of the month,” percent of European energy and “about 60 or foundation for many things I was able to said Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rector 70 percent of the North African energy” from develop later at Surrey, and I’m sure the same of the University of Dresden. renewable resources, namely solar thermal will still apply now that I am running a very “In the world we are now using oil, gas and power plants in North Africa. large university.” coal one million times faster than it is naturally Professor Müller-Steinhagen, who still chairs During his visit to Auckland, Professor replenished. There is no question that we will run the advisory board of Desertec, describes the Müller-Steinhagen spoke with Professor Jane out of it, whether in 50 or 100 years. If we huge enterprise proposed for North Africa as Harding, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), persist at our present rate we will run out in “an almost triple win situation”, generating about potential collaborations and exchanges two generations. income and jobs, electricity and water (since the between The University of Auckland and the “We therefore have to increase renewable solar plants can be coupled with desalination University of Dresden. He also had the chance energy, and find ways of using the fossil fuels plants) and eventually offering huge benefits in to exchange ideas with former colleague and more efficiently. We have to approach the terms of quality of life and political stability. friend, Professor John Chen (Chemical and problem from both sides.” “The nice thing is that you can do it,” he says. Materials Engineering). Professor Müller-Steinhagen, who was “It’s technologically possible. If there are any speaking at an interview on a recent visit to The difficulties they are political. But at the moment Judy Wilford Woolf Fisher Scholar off to Oxford

Doron Hickey (25), a trainee intern based at vision to people living with The University of Auckland’s Waikato Clinical inherited blindness. School, is one of three students around the “Inherited blindness country who have been awarded prestigious effects one in 4000 people and valuable Woolf Fisher Scholarships. worldwide, including about These scholarships recognise students who 1000 New Zealanders. My have demonstrated outstanding academic studies will hopefully lead to ability as well as such qualities as integrity, restoring vision for those leadership, vision and capacity for work. They born with inherited eye cover four years of postgraduate research at disease, and possibly one Oxford or Cambridge University at a value of up day help to treat people to NZ$100,000 annually. who live with age-related, Doron entered the medical (MBChB) macular and vision programme at the University in 2004. degeneration,” said Doron. After his fifth year he gained a Bachelor of "Using the DNA of two Science (Honours) degree at the Australian different light sensitive National University. proteins to create a hybrid Following his house surgeon year in 2011, protein will hopefully enable us to produce light "There are over 200 genes which could go Doron will continue his education at Oxford sensitive cells. Once the DNA sequence is wrong in the eyes so our approach is very wide. where he will study for a doctorate and join the optimised, we will undertake clinical trials on Potentially it could be applied to age-related Retina Gene Therapy Project to help restore people suffering inherited blindness. disease too."

4 12 November 2010 controlled environment. Research Funding News Elvis consists of a doughnut-shaped container of fluid attached to a motor. Once in action the New Zealand Fire Service container is spun to a high rotation rate, which creates high speed flow containing Boundary The Contestable Research Fund supports Layers. Then the brakes are slammed on which research into the priority areas below, relevant causes the Boundary Layers to collide and to faculties across the University, and also open detach. What differentiates Elvis from a sister to any research proposal which aligns with NZFS machine currently operated by Richard’s strategic areas: collaborators at the University of Manchester, Targeting Vulnerable Groups; Built Environment UK, is that it enables researchers to see directly Environment; Measuring our effectiveness; into the flow, to enable the best possible view of Incidence and control of vegetation fires in the separation event. rural areas. “The new configuration allows us to make We have had previous University of Auckland extensive and very detailed experimental success. Application by expression of interest measurements to see what’s going on at the (three pages); deadline is 22 November 2010. point when the Boundary Layer becomes For details contact Gemma Paton, ext 87070. detached from the solid surface.” Sport and Recreation New Zealand The experiments will be accompanied by Research Grants Round 2010. Grants average computer simulations and mathematical $20,000. Deadline for expressions of interest is analysis, the outcome of which could have Tuesday 30 November 2010. SPARC advises to Elvis to the rescue applications not only for designers trying to relate the research proposal to its strategy and achieve maximum efficiency but also for to read the example reports on their website. When trying to understand the complex and researchers trying to quantify blood flow, which Key themes are: Delivery; Costs and funding of problematic issue of Boundary Layer has been a topic of interest to fluid dynamicists community sport and recreation; detachment Dr Richard Clarke, fluid for decades. “Blood flow forms Boundary Layers Development and capability; The future. dynamicist in the Department of Engineering on the inside of arteries and if these Boundary Science, is turning to “Elvis” in his search Layers become detached this will completely For details contact Gemma Paton, ext 87070. for answers. change the nature of the blood flow. NARSAD – The Brain and Behavior Solving the problem of Boundary Layer “If I have a fatty plaque in an artery, to what Research Fund (US) detachment is a big challenge in fluid dynamics, extent does that enhance the prospect of This supports research into serious psychiatric and one which remains poorly understood separation and does this separation significantly disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, despite some groundbreaking progress in the accelerate the subsequent growth of that bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders such as PTSD 1970s. Since Richard’s arrival at the University in deposit? If I want to introduce an arterial stent to and OCD and childhood disorders that include 2008 he has continued his work in this area by keep the vessel open what is the best design?" autism and ADHD. Awards are: helping develop new equipment and experiments To aid in his search for answers to these vital • Young Investigators (USD $30,000p.a., to help solve this complex puzzle. questions Richard has recently been awarded a 1-2 years postdoc), The Boundary Layer is a region close to Marsden Fast Start grant which will help fund • Independent Investigators (USD $50,000pa, 2 surfaces where fluid experiences high shear so the project for the next three years. He years, Associate Professor) when aeroplanes, for example, move at speed understands this opportunity may not have been • Distinguished Investigators (USD $100,000, then most of the flow around them will act as if possible without the initial FRDF grant. 1 year established scientist). friction is not important. This helps the “The FRDF grant was the key to building the aeroplane to move efficiently but only if the machine which enabled us to obtain the data to Deadlines at Research Office: Young Boundary Layer stays attached, says Richard. base our research proposal upon. Investigators 11 Jan 2011, Independent “If the Boundary Layers stay stuck to the “I believe this proved to the Marsden panel Investigators 15 Feb 2011, Distinguished plane’s wing then their effects are usually very that we were serious and committed to the Investigators tbc expected July 2011. For details localised, but where they become more study, and had some interesting ideas on which contact David Saunders, ext 84886. influential is when they detach from the surface. to proceed. FRDF funding almost certainly gave Research Professional Funding Database This can create a large low pressure wake the project that vital edge. “ The University of Auckland subscribes to this behind the wing, which can reduce aerodynamic Jared Heffernan database which can be found at www. performance and trigger flow instabilities and researchprofessional.com. You can log in by turbulence. However a plane cannot take off clicking on “Campus Access” if you are on the until the Boundary Layers have become Invitation University network or alternatively register, detached – which happens as the plane reaches which is recommended since you are able to take-off speed. This generates flow circulation Growing Up is an exciting longitudinal save your own searches and set up email alerts. around the wing which in turn produces lift.” study of more than 7000 New Zealand It is global in coverage, and particularly strong So one of the great ambitions for Richard is to children and their families born in 2009 on funding opportunities available in Europe and understand how, why and when this detachment and 2010. You are invited to attend a we recommend using Research Professional occurs. “If you can control the separation, you seminar at 12.30-2pm on 3 December to alongside the COS (Community of Science) can control the wake behind an object and as a mark the release of its first findings. result control the drag it experiences,” he says. Professor Iain Martin will introduce the database (http://fundingopps.cos.com). With a Faculty Research Development Fund seminar and Research Director, Dr Susan For advice on setting up please contact (FRDF) grant Richard and collaborators, Andrew Morton, will present. David Saunders, Research Office, Tabener, Peter Blythe and Catherine Roberts, The seminar will be in Room 22, School of [email protected], ext 84886. built a novel machine - Elvis - that would enable Public Health, Tamaki Campus. them to study Boundary Level detachment in a

The University of Auckland News 5 From the collection of the boat shed in Gables. Elizabeth Smither’s first book of poetry Pukekura Park are a Here Come the Clouds was published in 1975 study in line and and her third, The Sarah Train in 1980. The proportion which marriage ended in 1983. show the artist In 1966, however, domestic harmony navigating away prevailed. Michael Smither composed and from his signature painted, his wife wrote. Landscape and realism towards domestic subjects dominated in both her poetry abstraction. The and his painting. Smither himself describes his ostensible subject own approach to motifs and imagery for his was occasioned by work at this time as “patching items from the the artist’s residence scrapbook of life”, often with symbolic purpose. in The Gables, New His work from this period often features Plymouth’s historic children’s antics and the rocks of Taranaki, as colonial hospital, well as including the inevitable Christian situated in Pukekura imagery occasioned by his commission for new Park. Dubbed “The Stations of the Cross for the modernised St Wonder Years” in Joseph’s Church in New Plymouth where the 2006 by Auckland family worshipped. Art Gallery curator Referring to a more abstract work from the Ron Brownson in his same year, Tale of the Fish, Smither commented survey of Smither’s that the patterns of fish fins and light patterns work from the New on the surface of the lake reminded him of the Plymouth period line breaks and stresses of a poem. “Pukekura During 1966 Michael Smither travelled to (1964-1970), the period spent living in the park Park has a boatshed that makes a quiet place Melbourne for a solo exhibition of 60 paintings was characterised by enormous productivity. for the lake’s carp to hang out in. Their quietly that had been arranged for him at the Argus Smither’s academic career began in 1959 but undulating fins fascinated me. I spent hours Gallery by the eminent art historian Bernard was brief. He lasted only eighteen months at drawing them. Their repeated movements were Smith, who described him as “the outstanding Elam School of Fine Arts, where he was taught like the lines of a poem.” landscape painter of his generation”. by John Weeks, Lois White, Robert Ellis, Peter Another version of this same subject, entitled Boats at Pukekura Park, painted in 1967 and While in Melbourne, Smither met the Brown, Kees Hos and Peter Tomory and met including red and yellow rowboats, is in the Viennese-born Australian artist Anne Graham, contemporaries Stanley Palmer, Don Binney, collection of the Art Gallery. and was commissioned to write the piano score Suzanne Goldberg and Malcolm Warr. for a short film about her life. Returning to New Returning to New Plymouth to work as a Linda Tyler Plymouth, he shared a studio with the inaugural trawlerman in 1963, he met Elizabeth Harrington (known then as Harry, and now as director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, John Michael Smither (b.1939) the poet Elizabeth Smither) who converted to Maynard, and the sculptor Don Driver. The Boat Shed, c.1966 Striated like a piano keyboard, this pattern of Catholicism to marry him. Their first child, oil on hardboard, 910 x 930mm The University of Auckland Art Collection reflections of light and shade through the walls Sarah, was born the following year at The

Books

Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English) Albert Wendt. The late Hawaiian poet English is the follow-up volume to the highly Wayne Kaumualii Westlake is represented by a acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthology unique set of concrete poems and experimental of Polynesian poems in English edited by verse. Tusiata Avia tells tales of Nafanua in Polynesians. The new book includes poetry different settings around the world; Rangi Faith written over the last 25 years by more than 80 imagines “First Landing”; Imaikalani Kalahele writers from Aotearoa, Hawai‘i, Tonga, Samoa, writes a letter to his brother; Brandy Nālani the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti and McDougall discusses “cooking Captain Cook”; Rotuma – some living in these islands and Karlo Mila, eating chocolate, watches “paul some dispersed around the globe. Together holmes apologise for calling kofi annan a with works by established and celebrated darkie”; Robert Sullivan writes against the grain; poets, the editors here introduce the fresh and Apirana Taylor follows zigzag roads. voices of a younger generation. Ranging from the lyrical and sensual to the The anthology, published by Auckland harsh and gritty, from the political to the University Press, includes selections from poets personal: the poems in Mauri Ola are infused including Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Sia Figiel, with vivid imagery, claims of identity, laments, J.C. Sturm, Konai Helu Thurman, Haunani-Kay rages and celebrations that confront again a Trask, Hone Tuwhare and (Emeritus Professor of colonial past and a global present.

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Professor of Chemistry Margaret Brimble has nature can provide.” working on traditional Chinese medicines. “It been recognised internationally for her The laboratory is also studying the potential of means we can now access their specialist “outstanding contributions to the synthesis of natural products produced by marine algae bioassays and test our natural product derived biologically active natural products, their during coastal algal blooms. “The algae produce compounds,” says Margaret. derivatives and analogues”. natural toxins as a defence mechanism against The Medicinal Chemistry Lab together with Margaret has won the UK Royal Society of predators but these toxins also activate specific Associate Professor Rod Dunbar’s immunology Chemistry’s 2010 Natural Product Chemistry receptors in the human brain,” explains lab in the School of Biological Sciences has also Award and recently travelled to the UK and Margaret. “This has implications for people received funding from the Health Research Ireland to receive the award and deliver the suffering from schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s so Council as part of a larger programme led Dr Simonsen lectures associated with the award. we’re synthesising the toxins in the laboratory. Ian Hermans at the Malaghan Institute of A modern-day alchemist, Margaret turns We then model the active features of the Medical Research to make peptide-based natural products such as shellfish toxins and molecule and try different versions, in different components for melanoma vaccines. “The compounds isolated from rare fungi into positions, until we come up with the ideal drug.” components synthesised in our laboratory will new drugs to fight cancer, Alzheimer’s and About 60 percent of all new drugs approved be sent to Glycosyn IRL, a manufacturing facility heart disease. by the US Food and Drug Administration are in Wellington, to be formulated for human The natural products her research is based inspired by or made from natural products. clinical trials.” on are produced by microorganisms that inhabit Margaret compares creating a synthetic Through a contractual agreement with extreme environments, including an abandoned compound from nature to composing a piece of Auckland Uniservices Ltd, the lab has already copper mine in Montana where the pit has filled music or creating a beautiful artwork. delivered a commercial drug candidate called up with a soup of acidic, metal-laden water. “This “It demands academic and manipulative NNZ2566 for the New Zealand biotechnology is an incredible source of fungi that produce rigour, creativity, dedication, persistence and company Neuren Pharmaceuticals. NNZ2566 anti-cancer compounds,” Margaret says. “From hard work.” protects brain cells from dying after traumatic these we are making compounds based on a A trailblazer for women in science, Margaret head injury. With $18 million in funding from unique natural product called berkelic acid, was the first, and remains the only, New the US Army, the drug is now in phase 2b which works on enzymes involved in the spread Zealander to become a L’Oreal-UNESCO human clinical trials and is being tested in of cancer.” Women in Science laureate. trauma centres around Margaret and her team at the University’s More than 20 top PhD students now work in the world. Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory study and her laboratory and several of these students are “If it goes to the market it will be the first drug construct the cancer-fighting molecules collaborating with researchers in Hong Kong for traumatic brain injury,” says Margaret. “It will synthetically. “Nature throws up complicated and China to come up with new drugs for put The University of Auckland and New chemical structures that have evolved over neurodegenerative diseases. Earlier this year the Zealand on the international map as a world millions of years for a specific purpose. If we lab received an International Investment class hub for drug discovery and development.” can fine-tune their molecular structure we Opportunities Funding Grant (IIOF) from FRST to www.che.auckland.ac.nz/staffsites/BrimbleM/ can create potential drugs even better than collaborate with Chinese scientists who are margaretbrimble.html

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