Theme 3 - Readiness & Response Projects

Integrating novel multi-taxa lures with multisensory traps for surveillance of high-risk pests

Lead By Adriana Najar-Rodriguez. Duration: Project R25.04 runs from July 2025 to June 2028 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Coordinated biosecurity surveillance for NZ’s primary industries

Lead By Rachael Horner. Duration: Project R25.03 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Tackling the complacent, the resistant, and the disengaged: fostering stronger biosecurity engagement and social licence to manage biosecurity risks

Lead By Ivy Gan. Duration: Project R25.02 runs from July 2025 to June 2028 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

How big is the eDNA operability gap?

Lead By Simon Bulman. Duration: Project 3E24.21 runs from 2024 – 2026 (2 years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

The impact of heatwaves on surveillance programmes for high-risk pests in New Zealand

Lead By Adriana Najar-Rodriguez . Duration: Project 3E24.07 runs from 2024 – 2027 (3 years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Bacterial metabolites as growth promoting agents to enhance detection of plant diseases

Lead By Tanushree Gupt . Duration: Project 3D24.24 runs from 2024-2025 (1 year). Theme 3: Readiness & Response

eDNA for terrestrial biosecurity monitoring

Lead By Andrew Cridge ([email protected]) and Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project 3E22.19 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Expanding our eradication toolbox in NZ: Is biocontrol a feasible tool to incorporate in a response?

Lead By Rachael Horner ([email protected]). Duration: Project E22.18 runs from 2022 - 2024 (2 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Beyond soil baiting: toward application of an eRNA diagnostic tool for Phytophthora

Lead By Rebecca McDougal ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 3D22.17 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Metatranscriptomics informing the relevance of pathogen disease biomarkers in plants

Lead By Sandra Visnovsky ([email protected]). Duration: Project D22.16 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Using images and deep learning for the identification of high-risk insect species

Lead By Darren Ward ([email protected]) . Duration: Project D22.15 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Deployable point-of-use pathogen bioelectric sensor

Lead By Marion Wood ([email protected]). Duration: Project D21.15 ran for one year from June 2021 - June 2022 D: Diagnostics

Improving UAV effectiveness for spot application of Btk during incursion responses

Lead By Justin Nairn ([email protected]). Duration: Project E21.17 ran for two years from June 2021 - June 2023, then one-year extension to June 2024. Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Remote sensing to support surveillance, response and eradication

Lead By Federico Tomasetto ([email protected]) . Duration: Project E21.18 runs from 2021 - June 2024 (3 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Integrated or not? Is this badnavirus viable and what is the risk?

Lead By Rebekah Frampton ([email protected]). Duration: Project D21.3 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

The potential of mass spectral fingerprinting for solving tricky biosecurity issues

Lead By Alastair Ross ([email protected]). Duration: Project D21.14 ran from 2021 - 2022 (1 Year) then was extended 2022 - 2026 (4 years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

New aerodynamic design principles for effective insect traps

Lead By Rachael Horner ([email protected]) . Duration: Project E20.8 runs for three years from July 2020 - June 2023 E - Surveillance, Response & Eradication

Rapid response to biosecurity threats in nurseries

Lead By Emily McLay ([email protected]) . Duration: Project E20.5 runs from July 2020 - June 2023 (3 yrs) E - Surveillance, Response & Eradication

Improving the attractiveness of cuelure for better detection and eradication of invasive fruit flies

Lead By Ashraf El Sayed ([email protected]). Duration: Project E19.12 ran for three years from July 2019 – June 2022 E: Eradication, Surveillance and Response

eDNA detection of invasive insects

Lead By Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project E19.11 ran for three years from July 2019 – June 2022 E: Eradication, Surveillance and Response

Socially-acceptable eradication tools underpinned by modelling for eradication (BMSB, QFF, Codling moth, SWD)

Lead By Lloyd Stringer ([email protected]). Duration: Project E17.31 ran for five years from July 2017 – June 2022 E: Eradication, Surveillance and Response

Biosecurity excellence in port communities

Lead By John Kean ([email protected]). Duration: Project E17.28 ran for five years from July 2017 – June 2022 E: Eradication, Surveillance and Response

Improved surveillance tools for key biosecurity targets (fruit flies, Gypsy moth)

Lead By Flore Mas ([email protected]). Duration: Project E17.27 ran for five years from July 2017 – June 2022 E: Eradication, Surveillance and Response

Diagnosis of irradiated insects and fruit

Lead By Ela Sawicka . Duration: July 2019 – June 2021 (2 yr) Theme D: Diagnostics

Confidence in stable isotopes to verify a high risk pest incursion as foreign or NZ established

Lead By Karen Armstrong ([email protected]). Duration: Project D19.8 ran for three years from July 2019 – June 2022 Theme D: Diagnostics

Alternative Strategies for determination of biosecurity risk using high throughput sequencing (enterobacteriaceae & Xylella)

Lead By Sandra Visnovsky ([email protected]). Duration: Project D17.25 ran for five years from July 2017 – June 2022 Theme D: Diagnostics

eRNA as a molecular diagnostic tool targeting viable Phytophthora spp. and other oomycetes for biomonitoring in plant production nurseries

Lead By Rebecca McDougal. Duration: July 2017 – June 2021 (4 yrs) Theme D: Diagnostics

Using molecular systematics to enhance diagnostics and predict biosecurity risk

Lead By Peter Johnston ([email protected]). Duration: Project D17.2 ran for five years from July 2017 – June 2022 Theme D: Diagnostics

Point of use plant pathogen bioelectric sensor (PSA, Xylella)

Lead By Marion Wood. Duration: July 2017 – June 2021 (3 yr – false start) Theme D: Diagnostics