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Marsden Fund awards 2022

An acoustic wave is sent underwater to detect any obstacle like a fish (from simulated data). Photo Supplied by Dr Graff.

View Marsden Fund grants awarded in 2022

Published on 3 Whiringa-ā-rangi November 2022

The definitions of the 10 Marsden Fund panels can be found here

You can download an Excel spreadsheet of these results, including abstracts of all projects, here: 2022-Marsden-Fund-announcement-supplement

Project ID	Panel	Funding (ex GST)	Project	Investigator	Role	Institution
22-AUT-002	BMS	$960,000	Developing Vitamin B12 Conjugates for the Targeted Uptake of Antibiotics in Resistant Gram-negative Pathogens	Professor NE Brasch	PI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr SA Ferguson	AI	University of Otago
				Dr Y Li	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr RB Seale	AI	Auckland University of Technology
22-AUT-015	HUM	$647,000	A rehabilitation model for professional discipline	Professor K Diesfeld	PI	Auckland University of Technology
				Professor LJ Surgenor	PI	University of Otago
				Dr M Rychert	AI	Massey University
22-CAW-003	EEB	$360,000	Rewilding our rivers: Quantifying the cryptic role of whitebait marine subsidies in structuring New Zealand riverine food webs.	Dr SD Stewart	PI	Cawthron Institute
				Dr EMC Egan	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr RJP Holmes	AI	Cawthron Institute
				Dr JA Lueders-Dumont	AI	Princeton University
22-GNS-005	ESA	$360,000	Explosion or lava? Understanding controls on the eruption style of rhyolite magma	Dr SM Rooyakkers	PI	GNS Science
				Professor JE Gardner	AI	The University of Texas at Austin
				Dr S Kolzenburg	AI	University at Buffalo
				Associate Professor FB Wadsworth	AI	Durham University
22-GNS-008	EIS	$360,000	Harnessing the power of thermal spikes - A new pathway to fabricate size-controlled transition metal carbide nanoparticles for energy conversion and storage	Dr PG Sridhar Gupta	PI	GNS Science
				Associate Professor GIN Waterhouse	AI	The University of Auckland
22-GNS-011	EIS	$940,000	Can wonder crystal Perovskites transform solar power generation? - Discovering the links between strain and material properties	Dr JV Kennedy	PI	GNS Science
				Dr H Fiedler	AI	GNS Science
				Dr JE Halpert	AI	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
				Dr J Schuster	AI	Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems
22-GNS-012	ESA	$927,000	Why is pounamu tough? Using materials science and mātauranga Māori to explain the special physical properties and uses of nephrite jade	Dr N Mortimer	PI	GNS Science
				Dr SC Cox	PI	GNS Science
				Associate Professor AC Ford	AI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor LW Kuo	AI	National Central University
				Dr KC Li	AI	University of Otago
				Professor DJ Prior	AI	University of Otago
				Dr SAF Smith	AI	University of Otago
22-IAL-001	SOC	$870,000	Ngā Kare-a-roto: The Ripples Within - Māori Understandings and Expressions of Emotions	Professor LE Pihama	PI	Māori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd (MAIA)
				Professor JB-J Lee-Morgan	AI	Unitec Institute of Technology
				Professor R Matamua	AI	Massey University
22-MAU-006	EHB	$360,000	How much do they recall? Measuring the effect of safety training on human memory	Dr R Lovreglio	PI	Massey University
				Dr Z Feng	AI	Massey University
				Dr ED Kuligowski	AI	RMIT University
				Dr D Paes	AI	Massey University
22-MAU-018	MIS	$602,000	Minimal mathematical models for dynamical systems with abrupt events.	Dr DJW Simpson	PI	Massey University
				Professor PA Glendinning	AI	The University of Manchester
22-MAU-020	SOC	$870,000	The intimate technology shaping millions of lives: Exploring the possibilities of menstruation and perimenopause tracking apps for people with diverse embodied experiences.	Professor SCE Riley	PI	Massey University
				Associate Professor A Ensslin	AI	University of Bergen
				Associate Professor A Evans	AI	Coventry University
				Dr AJ Hawkey	AI	Western Sydney University
				Professor DA Lupton	AI	University of New South Wales
				Dr T Morison	AI	Massey University
				Professor CM Rice	AI	University of Guelph
				Professor CV Stephens	AI	Massey University
				Associate Professor NA Tassell-Matamua	AI	Massey University
				Professor K Tiidenberg	AI	Tallinn University
				Professor JM Ussher	AI	University of Western Sydney
				Dr CA Wilks	AI	Independent researcher
22-MAU-033	SOC	$870,000	It takes a village: Picturing family support for transgender young people in Aotearoa	Dr J de Bres	PI	Massey University
				Dr JF Veale	AI	University of Waikato
22-MAU-045	EEB	$360,000	Gene flow to the rescue? An analytical framework for estimating impacts of genetic augmentation on wildlife population dynamics	Dr EH Parlato	PI	Massey University
				Dr P Brekke	AI	Zoological Society of London
				Associate Professor TE Steeves	AI	University of Canterbury
22-MAU-052	SOC	$870,000	Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: Translating Mātauranga Māori, usefully applied in the past, to enhance recovery trajectories in the future.	Professor CM Kenney	PI	Massey University
				Professor TKR Kingi	PI	Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
				Dr SR Phibbs	PI	Massey University
22-MAU-053	EHB	$360,000	Manahau: In search of the original Māori firm and its philosophy of management	Associate Professor JP Mika	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr KM Dell	AI	The University of Auckland
22-MAU-057	EIS	$360,000	Understanding the mechanisms of microalgal self-aggregation for economic and sustainable harvesting	Dr M Plouviez	PI	Massey University
				Associate Professor B Fedrizzi	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor O Fiehn	AI	University of California, Davis
				Professor AR Grossman	AI	Stanford University
				Professor BJ Guieysse	AI	Massey University
22-MAU-071	SOC	$360,000	Sensationalising Sleep: Discourses and practices of sleep in Aotearoa	Dr RH Gibson	PI	Massey University
				Associate Professor MR Breheny	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor KP Dew	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor TL Signal	AI	Massey University
22-MAU-096	HUM	$647,000	Rangatiratanga and online media: understanding how Māori, create, shape, experience and share our worlds	Dr AM Moewaka Barnes	PI	Massey University
				Professor HE Moewaka Barnes	AI	Massey University
				Associate Professor JT Smith	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-MAU-097	SOC	$360,000	Resisting resource grabs: Understanding emotions in environmental conflict in the Mekong River Basin	Dr AB Beban	PI	Massey University
				Dr A Intralawan	AI	Mae Fah Luang University
				Professor S Mahanty	AI	The Australian National University
22-MAU-104	CMP	$934,000	Use it or lose it: what determines the regulation mode of a given gene?	Associate Professor XX Zhang	PI	Massey University
				Dr CS Gokhale	AI	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
22-MAU-119	CMP	$934,000	Structural basis of viral wars: Innate immune system attack on viral genomes and the counterattack by viruses.	Dr E Harjes	PI	Massey University
				Emeritus Professor GB Jameson	PI	Massey University
				Professor L Chelico	AI	University of Saskatchewan
				Associate Professor VV Filichev	AI	Massey University
				Professor KL Krause	AI	University of Otago
22-MAU-126	HUM	$647,000	Kia rite! Kapahaka for Screens	Dr JKT Wilson	PI	Massey University
22-MNZ-001	EEB	$958,000	Fish, squid and krill: deep-time evolution of marine tetrapod feeding ecology	Dr FG Marx	PI	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
				Dr O Lambert	AI	Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique
				Dr JE Martin	AI	Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
				Dr MR McGowen	AI	Smithsonian Institution
				Dr RM Salas-Gismondi	AI	Cayetano Heredia University
				Dr DB Thomas	AI	Massey University
22-NIW-002	EEB	$360,000	Clear as mud: Revealing subsurface burrows to quantify globally important seafloor sediment biogeochemistry in a changing world.	Dr RL Hale	PI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr C Chambers	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr SA Seabrook	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
22-NIW-005	EHB	$360,000	Solar prosumers in Aotearoa: a behavioural economic analysis	Dr YS Matthews	PI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Ms NA Herangi	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Miss MTA Mayall-Nahi	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
22-TAK-001	SOC	$870,000	Kūmara: uncovering new narratives about settlement, histories and kōrero of Aotearoa	Professor PJT Tapsell	PI	Takarangi Research Ltd
				Professor M Kawharu	AI	University of Otago
22-UOA-001	PCB	$360,000	A Molecular Machine-Based Approach to Artificial Photosynthesis	Dr CB Larsen	PI	University of Geneva
22-UOA-009	EEB	$960,000	Hearing and sound communication in crustaceans	Associate Professor CA Radford	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr JL Shepherd	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor FDG Vanholsbeeck	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-011	MIS	$634,000	Improved control for synthesis of the Fourier transform under symmetry or dynamical constraints	Dr ME Tacy	PI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-018	SOC	$870,000	The Residential Red Zone (RRZ) as Futures Lab: Placemaking in the Anthropocene	Professor SD Matthewman	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor L Goode	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr RM Cretney	AI	University of Waikato
				Dr JD Reid	AI	University of Canterbury
				Mr PJ Simpson	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-035	PCB	$903,000	A Green Awakening for Radical Chemistry	Professor J Sperry	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr EM Leitao	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor T Söhnel	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-038	BMS	$360,000	Stimulating the immune cells to combat cancer by silencing the arylformamidase enzyme	Dr P Tomek	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr AM Mowday	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-048	MIS	$707,000	Spatial tipping points, early warning signals and lung physiology: when can we predict catastrophic change?	Associate Professor GM Donovan	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor MH Tawhai	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-052	MIS	$713,000	Genealogies of samples of individuals selected at random from stochastic populations: probabilistic structure and applications	Associate Professor SC Harris	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr JA Goodman	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr SGG Johnston	AI	University of Bath
				Dr S Palau Calderón	AI	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
				Professor JC Pardo Millan	AI	Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas A.C.
22-UOA-072	PCB	$360,000	Elucidating the biosynthesis of bioactive, chemically-unique terpenoid natural products in a New Zealand marine sponge	Dr T de Rond	PI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-079	EEB	$960,000	The evolution of simplicity: Investigating the Black Queen Hypothesis with biofilm forming cyanobacterial Microcoleus species	Dr KM Handley	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr LT Kelly	PI	Cawthron Institute
				Dr K Bouma-Gregson	AI	U.S. Geological Survey
				Dr J Puddick	AI	Cawthron Institute
22-UOA-087	SOC	$360,000	Feeling abnormal about normalising Te Reo: Maori wellbeing and intensifying Pākeha consumption of the Maori language.	Dr KM Dell	PI	The University of Auckland
				Ms KTRF Warren	AI	Massey University
22-UOA-095	EHB	$870,000	Completing the loop with BabyX: Harnessing a novel interactive experimental tool to uncover how infants’ communicative signals shape caregivers’ interactive responsiveness	Associate Professor AME Henderson	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor MA Sagar	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor MM Taumoepeau	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-UOA-101	MIS	$360,000	Adaptive Eigenspace Inversion: Analysis, improved efficiency, and extensions	Dr M Graff	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr B Hosseini	AI	University of Washington
22-UOA-113	EIS	$940,000	Integrated fiber ring resonators for high-performance optical frequency combs.	Associate Professor SG Murdoch	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor SX Coen	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor MJ Erkintalo	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-116	ESA	$929,000	Probing the depths of Auckland's Volcanic Field: An integrated geophysical investigation into the intraplate volcanism of Tāmaki Makaurau.	Associate Professor K Van Wijk	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor GA Abers	AI	Cornell University
				Dr JD Eccles	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor KM Fischer	AI	Brown University
				Professor E Gazel	AI	Cornell University
				Dr JL Hopkins	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr F Illsley-Kemp	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor JP Morgan	AI	Southern University of Science and Technology
				Associate Professor MC Rowe	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor MK Savage	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-UOA-120	EHB	$870,000	Revealing Dynamic ADHD Brain Behaviour using Hyperband MRI	Associate Professor JW Fernandez	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor SJ Holdsworth	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr H Jahanian	AI	University of Washington
				Associate Professor JJ Maller	AI	Monash University
				Dr VBK Shim	AI	The University of Auckland
				Mr DM Taylor	AI	Mātai Medical Research Institute, NZ
				Professor KE Waldie	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor AD Wang	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-148	BMS	$941,000	The overlooked X and Y factor in osteoarthritis development	Dr RC Poulsen	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor PA Hulley	AI	University of Oxford
				Associate Professor AP Monk	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-151	EIS	$936,000	A blood vessel like no other: How does blood flow across the placental surface impact function?	Associate Professor JL James	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor AR Clark	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr TC Lee	AI	Auckland University of Technology
22-UOA-160	BMS	$956,000	Fructose flux in the heart: discovering hidden pathways of cardiac sugar toxicity	Dr KM Mellor	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor LMD Delbridge	AI	University of Melbourne
				Dr AC Grey	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor TL Merry	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-164	HUM	$360,000	A Public Law Theory of Economic Regulation	Dr EM Willis	PI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-168	SOC	$870,000	"It binds us together": Netball's enduring role in the intergenerational health and wellbeing of Aotearoa women	Professor T Bruce	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr MA Henley	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr BB Erueti	AI	Massey University
22-UOA-171	EIS	$360,000	Waste to Resource; Is a Wastewater-derived Biopolymer a Good Firefighter?	Dr NK Kim	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor Y Lin	AI	Delft University of Technology
22-UOA-172	EHB	$360,000	Understanding the sounds of te reo Māori in an acoustically varied world	Dr CTJ Hui	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr PJ Keegan	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor CI Watson	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-175	BMS	$360,000	Tumour-targeting bacteria as immune stimulants for cancer immunotherapy	Dr AM Mowday	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr KLTK Henare	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor J Theys	AI	Maastricht University
22-UOA-177	CMP	$934,000	What makes the heart fail when it beats like a metronome?	Dr JC Han	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr KM Mellor	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr R Ramchandra	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr K Tran	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-182	MIS	$360,000	Federated Nearest Neighbour Search: Theory and Practice	Dr ND Pham	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor F Silvestri	AI	University of Padova
22-UOA-184	EHB	$870,000	Shining a light on the past: improved chronology for Aotearoa-New Zealand using tree-ring based radiocarbon and stable isotope science	Associate Professor IG Boswijk	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor NJ Loader	PI	University of Wales Swansea
				Ms DA Johns	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor LC Schwendenmann	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-185	EEB	$960,000	Bayesian phylodynamic inference from single-cell sequencing data	Professor AJ Drummond	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor AN Gavryushkin	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor D Posada	AI	Universidad de Vigo
				Professor T Stadler	AI	ETH Zürich
				Dr D Welch	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-189	CMP	$933,000	Coming back to life, systems biology of organelle biogenesis in resurrection plants	Dr CJ Carrie	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor JM Farrant	AI	University of Cape Town
				Professor M Schwarzländer	AI	University of Münster
22-UOA-194	MIS	$360,000	Algorithms for linear groups	Dr MJ Conder	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr JJ Schillewaert	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-201	BMS	$360,000	Using plasmin, a common serine protease from human serum, to make cancer more digestible for the immune system, one bite at a time.	Dr EJ Loef	PI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-204	MIS	$709,000	`Fingerprints' of wild chaos: from theory to practical relevance	Professor HM Osinga	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr A Hammerlindl	AI	Monash University
				Professor B Krauskopf	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor K Shinohara	AI	Hitotsubashi University
22-UOA-242	EIS	$940,000	Uncovering the Secret of Oxidative Power of Bacterial Laccase Enzymes	Dr WQ Zhuang	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr IKH Leung	AI	The University of Melbourne
				Dr S Yi	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOA-250	EEB	$360,000	Is the mutualistic cheating of the strong black queen hypothesis robust to disturbances?	Dr MS Fullmer	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr AS Louyakis	AI	University of Connecticut
				Dr N Takeuchi	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOC-025	EIS	$360,000	Deciphering molecular structures using diffuse X-ray scattering from disordered crystals	Dr JPJ Chen	PI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor RA Kirian	AI	Arizona State University
				Professor RP Millane	AI	University of Canterbury
22-UOC-037	HUM	$360,000	Can word duration in a morphologically complex language tell us if words are stored whole or constructed from parts?	Dr GH Schokkin	PI	University of Canterbury
22-UOC-059	SOC	$870,000	Into the Deep: Analysing the Actors and Controversies Driving the Adoption of the World’s First Deep Sea Mining Governance	Dr P Hatcher	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr GK Ford	AI	University of Canterbury
				Distinguished Professor S Ratuva	AI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor J Veitayaki	AI	The University of the South Pacific
22-UOC-063	MIS	$713,000	Rational points and anabelian geometry	Dr BM Creutz	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor JF Voloch	PI	University of Canterbury
22-UOC-065	HUM	$647,000	Te reo Māori vowel sequences within and across morpheme boundaries	Professor JB Hay	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor JM King	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr FA Panther	AI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor M Sóskuthy	AI	University of British Columbia
				Dr SJ Todd	AI	University of California, Santa Barbara
22-UOC-070	ESA	$360,000	What physics powers the fastest explosions in the Universe?	Dr RG Ridden-Harper	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr AW Rest	AI	Space Telescope Science Institute
22-UOC-076	EEB	$958,000	Stuck at home: the puzzle of a locally-abundant, thermophilic bacterial genus that has not dispersed beyond Aotearoa-New Zealand	Associate Professor MB Stott	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr SDJ Archer	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr CR Carere	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr CK Lee	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr S Louca	AI	University of Oregon
				Professor A Reysenbach	AI	Portland State University
22-UOC-079	ESA	$929,000	How is Antarctic sea ice defying the odds of climate change?	Associate Professor W Rack	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr A Tan	PI	Lincoln Agritech Ltd
				Professor C Haas	AI	Alfred Wegener Institute
				Professor I Hajnsek	AI	Microwaves and Radar Institute
				Dr P Heil	AI	Australian Antarctic Division
				Dr NT Kurtz	AI	NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre
				Dr DDF Price	AI	University of Canterbury
22-UOC-087	EHB	$870,000	Is Algebraic Structure Inherent in Perception?	Professor RC Grace	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor S Kemp	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr MD Ward	AI	Private Individual
				Professor GP Whittle	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-UOC-088	ESA	$928,000	The longevity of airborne microplastic-climate forcing from legacy plastic pollution	Associate Professor LE Revell	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr N Evangeliou	AI	NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
				Dr KF Kvale	AI	GNS Science
22-UOC-092	PCB	$937,000	TRAPped in an elevator.	Professor RCJ Dobson	PI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor JR Allison	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor D Drew	AI	Stockholm University
				Dr RA North	AI	Stockholm University
22-UOC-094	SOC	$360,000	Indigenous Reconstruction: Rebuilding Indigenous economies from the ground up	Dr MR Scobie	PI	University of Canterbury
22-UOC-102	HUM	$360,000	Taniwha: A Cultural History	Dr KH Dunn	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr MM Williams	AI	University of Canterbury
22-UOO-003	CMP	$934,000	Disrupting Bacterial Metal Ion Homeostasis to Break Antimicrobial Resistance	Distinguished Professor GM Cook	PI	University of Otago
				Professor MJ Walker	PI	University of Queensland
				Dr SA Ferguson	AI	University of Otago
				Dr IR Monk	AI	University of Melbourne
22-UOO-005	BMS	$960,000	Molecular mechanisms underlying pathogen-pathogen interaction during skin infection	Dr D Pletzer	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor PP Gardner	AI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor LM Wise	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-011	PCB	$937,000	Growth, life and death of a supersolid	Professor PB Blakie	PI	University of Otago
				Dr D Baillie	PI	University of Otago
				Dr RN Bisset	AI	University of Innsbruck
				Professor F Ferlaino	AI	University of Innsbruck
22-UOO-015	PCB	$937,000	A theory for coronal heating through turbulence mediated by the helicity barrier	Dr J Squire	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor MW Kunz	AI	Princeton University
				Professor AA Schekochihin	AI	University of Oxford
22-UOO-019	EHB	$870,000	Connecting to the Colonial: Exploring the power of archaeological science to humanise the past	Dr CL King	PI	University of Otago
				Professor HR Buckley	AI	University of Otago
				Professor NE Longnecker	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-029	EEB	$960,000	Can isotope maps and environmental DNA reveal the mysterious marine life of New Zealand eels?	Dr AJM Sabadel	PI	University of Otago
				Dr E Behrens	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr MR Décima	AI	University of California, San Diego
				Dr EMC Egan	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr MJ Miller	AI	The University of Tokyo
				Dr XC Pochon	AI	Cawthron Institute
22-UOO-032	EHB	$870,000	Counting On Your Ears	Associate Professor Y Zheng	PI	University of Otago
				Professor PF Smith	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-054	PCB	$937,000	Superconductors that survive ultra-high magnetic fields: Revealing the role of symmetry	Dr PMR Brydon	PI	University of Otago
				Professor DF Agterberg	AI	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
22-UOO-068	CMP	$360,000	Seasonal prostate plasticity: a novel model for the regulation of cell proliferation	Dr MK Laird	PI	University of Otago
				Professor RD Miller	AI	University of New Mexico
22-UOO-069	PCB	$360,000	Covalent Biomolecular Conjugates as Potential Progenitors to Primordial Cooperative Biological Systems	Dr NJ Green	PI	University of Otago
				Dr C Bonfio	AI	University of Strasbourg
22-UOO-070	BMS	$960,000	Molecular and cellular organisation underlies the asymmetric regeneration of sensory axons	Dr LF Gumy	PI	University of Otago
				Professor MA Hilliard	AI	The University of Queensland
				Dr MA Taylor	AI	The University of Queensland
				Dr RJ Woolley	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-087	BMS	$958,000	Role of CK2 phosphorylation of the ryanodine receptor in seizures	Associate Professor PP Jones	PI	University of Otago
				Professor SRW Chen	AI	University of Calgary
				Dr KJ Iremonger	AI	University of Otago
				Dr ML Munro	AI	University of Otago
				Dr SM Ohline	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-098	BMS	$829,000	Exploitation of host mechanotransduction by Listeria monocytogenes	Associate Professor KP Ireton	PI	University of Otago
22-UOO-102	CMP	$934,000	Membranes matter: how membrane lipids control Candida albicans Cdr1 structure and function	Professor RD Cannon	PI	University of Otago
				Dr E Lamping	PI	University of Otago
				Professor TL Han	AI	Chongqing Medical University
				Associate Professor I Rouiller	AI	University of Melbourne
22-UOO-107	BMS	$960,000	A regulatory role for the septin cytoskeleton in brain development	Professor SP Robertson	PI	University of Otago
				Mr G Gimenez	AI	University of Otago
				Dr LF Gumy	AI	University of Otago
				Dr T Namba	AI	University of Helsinki
				Dr L Weiss	AI	Centre for Human Genetics, Regensburg
22-UOO-112	EHB	$870,000	Moa hunting, mahinga kai and Māori economic practices - 1300 to 1450 AD.	Professor RK Walter	PI	University of Otago
				Professor KG Douglass	AI	The Pennsylvania State University
				Dr KL Greig	AI	University of Otago
				Dr CNT Phillips	AI	University of Otago
				Dr M Tromp	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-116	EEB	$960,000	Adapting to NZ's deforested ecosystems: testing for human-driven shifts in insect colour	Professor JM Waters	PI	University of Otago
				Professor PK Dearden	AI	University of Otago
				Dr GA McCulloch	AI	University of Otago
22-UOO-128	BMS	$360,000	Targeting newly discovered biofilm-associated virulence factors of Staphylococcus aureus to treat chronic bacterial infection	Dr M Fellner	PI	University of Otago
				Professor MS Bogyo	AI	Stanford University School of Medicine
				Associate Professor CS Lentz	AI	The Arctic University of Tromsø
22-UOO-138	MIS	$723,000	3D Shape Analysis with Geometric Declarative Networks	Associate Professor SJ Mills	PI	University of Otago
				Dr G O'Regan	AI	Otago Museum
22-UOO-164	ESA	$929,000	Metal micronutrients: Major players in the Southern Ocean's carbon sink	Professor CH Stirling	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor HC Bostock	AI	The University of Queensland
				Dr KF Kvale	AI	GNS Science
				Professor GEA Swann	AI	University of Nottingham
22-UOO-177	ESA	$929,000	Pinpointing the volatile driver for sudden large-scale volcanic eruptions	Dr M Brenna	PI	University of Otago
				Dr SJ Barker	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor SJ Cronin	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor S Mollo	AI	Sapienza University of Rome
				Professor TA Plank	AI	Columbia University
22-UOO-205	BMS	$960,000	Unlocking the therapeutic potential of the human cannabinoid CB1 receptor: Rational design of novel allosteric modulators.	Professor M Glass	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor DP Furkert	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr DB Finlay	AI	University of Otago
				Dr PV Piazza	AI	Aelis Farma
22-UOO-218	CMP	$934,000	Building and breaking the Androgen Clock	Associate Professor TA Hore	PI	University of Otago
22-UOW-001	SOC	$870,000	He Awe Māpara: The intersections of indigenous imaginings, decolonisation and mainstream sport for Māori, as culturally Māori	Associate Professor MR Rua	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr JW Hapeta	PI	University of Otago
				Mr L Rowe	AI	Massey University
				Dr IB Warbrick	AI	Auckland University of Technology
22-UOW-002	HUM	$647,000	Two languages in my kete – a developmental sociolinguistics approach to cultural nuance and social identity in everyday kiwi words	Dr AS Calude	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr LM Rosseel	AI	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
				Professor H Whaanga	AI	Massey University
				Assistant Professor ELR Zenner	AI	KU Leuven
22-UOW-047	HUM	$360,000	Mapping Niue texts in and beyond Aotearoa: Expanding on New Zealand Realm connections to Niue through archival texts	Dr JLP Pasisi	PI	University of Otago
				Professor A Te Punga Somerville	AI	University of British Columbia
22-UOW-062	EEB	$360,000	A complex systems approach to understanding the evolution of mating systems	Dr CJ Painting	PI	University of Waikato
				Professor EA Hebets	AI	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
				Professor M Kuntner	AI	National Institute of Biology
				Dr DRJ O'Neale	AI	The University of Auckland
22-UOW-066	MIS	$360,000	Exploring Disagreement-Based Learning for partially labelled data stream classification	Dr HM Gomes	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor MS Grzenda	AI	Warsaw University of Technology
				Professor JM Read	AI	Ecole Polytechnique
22-VUW-003	SOC	$360,000	The invisibility of mothering with chronic illness: Embodied relationships, entangled feelings	Dr CM Parton	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Ms FW Kewene	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-VUW-010	HUM	$647,000	Do you have a healthy mind? The philosophy of mental health	Professor ST Keller	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-VUW-011	PCB	$937,000	Unravelling the electronic structure of highly charged hydrogen- and halogen- bonds; rational chemical design and the creation of novel ionic liquid materials.	Professor PA Hunt	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr CC Weber	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor T Welton	AI	Imperial College London
22-VUW-015	ESA	$360,000	How much are glaciers melting due to climate change?	Dr LJ Vargo	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor BM Anderson	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor RME Hock	AI	University of Oslo
				Dr AD King	AI	University of Melbourne
				Professor AN Mackintosh	AI	Monash University
				Professor B Marzeion	AI	University of Bremen
22-VUW-021	SOC	$360,000	Big Things, Complex Shadows: investigating intersecting stories of place, identity, and erasure through large roadside sculptures in Aotearoa	Dr M Zonjić	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-VUW-026	CMP	$360,000	What transcription factors activate expression of symbiosis-related genes in symbiotic fungi?	Dr D Berry	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr NT Forester	AI	AgResearch
22-VUW-041	EIS	$940,000	UV–vis spectroscopy of ultra-small scattering samples and individual micro-particles	Dr B Auguié	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor EC Le Ru	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor VM Nock	AI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor C Priest	AI	University of South Australia
22-VUW-052	SOC	$575,000	Empowering Indigenous knowledge: Decolonisation and Indigenisation of Gallery, Library, Archival, Museum and Records (GLAMR) institutions.	Associate Professor SC Lilley	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-VUW-077	EIS	$932,000	Underpinning high temperature superconducting nuclear fusion reactor technology	Dr Z Jiang	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor N Amemiya	AI	Kyoto University
				Professor ZS Hartwig	AI	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
				Dr NM Strickland	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
22-VUW-078	EHB	$360,000	Cross-cultural relationships between speech and song	Associate Professor PE Savage	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr E Benetos	AI	Queen Mary University of London
				Professor WTS Fitch	AI	University of Vienna
				Dr NK Jacoby	AI	Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
				Dr PA Opondo	AI	University of KwaZulu-Natal
				Professor SC Purdy	AI	The University of Auckland
22-VUW-100	EEB	$360,000	Virus-virus interactions: a key to unravel global honey bee colony losses?	Dr ACR Felden	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor PJ Lester	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr EJ Remnant	AI	University of Sydney
22-VUW-103	ESA	$929,000	Past abrupt Antarctic ice sheet melt events and impacts on sea level and climate	Associate Professor RM McKay	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr JAP Bendle	AI	University of Birmingham
				Dr BJ Duncan	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr GR Grant	AI	GNS Science
				Dr DL Lowry	AI	GNS Science
				Associate Professor L Menviel	AI	University of New South Wales
				Distinguished Professor SR Meyers	AI	The University of Wisconsin-Madison
				Dr MO Patterson	AI	Binghamton University, SUNY
				Dr OE Romero	AI	University of Bremen
				Dr F Sangiorgi	AI	University of Utrecht
				Associate Professor O Seki	AI	Hokkaido University
				Dr P Stocchi	AI	Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

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