News and Features

The Centre for Integrated Research on Biosafety (INBI) (1 March 2006)
From March 2006, the New Zealand Institute of Gene Ecology will be known as the Centre for Integrated Research on Biosafety (INBI). This change reflects its growing maturity in the field of biosafety, and the changes in the field and to international practice since 2001 when the original Institute concept was established. The new name was chosen in order to better represent the transdisciplinary approach of the Centre, which employs both scientists and social scientists in collaborative biosafety research.

Marsden Fund Award (September 2005)
A project, headed by Professor Andrew Abell (Chemistry), will aim to unravel the relationship between structure and function of biological molecules. The project, which has been awarded $795,000 over three years, seeks to determine the influence of fluorine on the structure of peptides. Professor Abell will work collaboratively with New Zealand and Swiss researchers.