Team Parker

Based in the Ferrier Research Institute in Kelburn, Team Parker's focus is synthetic and chemical biology.

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Research

Team Painter's research is focused on

chemistry and biochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions to aid the development of new treatments for diseases
using the natural biosynthetic machinery for the efficient generation of valuable products
using computational and experimental approaches to study the molecular details of communication networks in proteins.

PhD candidates at the Ferrier Research Institute are listed below, along with their thesis title and supervisors.

Name	Topic	Supervisors
Lani Burke	Investigating transcriptional regulation to enhance natural product biosynthesis in Penicillium paxillin	Emily Parker, Luke Stevenson
Florian de Pol	Unveiling the evolution of allostery in adenosine triphosphate phosphoribosyl transferases	Emily Parker, Gerd Mittelstadt
Natasha Nipper	Decoration of the indole ring in indole diterpene biosynthesis	Emily Parker, Rosannah Cameron
Yehezkiel (Kiel) Victorio	Development of metabolic engineering tools for endophytic fungi	Emily Parker, Yonthan Lukito
Adam Hannaford	Building a multidisciplinary pipeline to mine and verify unique indole diterpene cyclases that generate interesting cyclised structures	Emily Parker, Daniel Berry
Rue Parker		Emily Parker, Daniel Berry
Sarah Douglas		Emily Parker, Daniel Berry

K. W. Rothchild, M. Hagar, D. Berry and K. S. Ryan

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024

I. A. Guan, J. S. T. Liu, R. C. Sawyer, X. Li, W. Jiao, Y. Jiramongkol, et al.

ACS Central Science 2024 Vol. 10 Issue 2 Pages 344-357