Projects

Aotearoa New Zealand Xylella fastidiosa Research

Duration: Research since 2005

Enhancing Biosecurity Through Indigenous Collaborations

Lead By Teresa Waiariki. Duration: Project M25.06 runs from 2025 - 2027 Theme 4 Te Ao Māori

Modern technologies to assess environmental risk of introduced weed biocontrol agents

Lead By Arvind Subbaraj . Duration: Project U25.05 runs from July 2025 to June 2026 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

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

Crossing Bridges – Operationalising Risk Analysis Tools

Lead By Waka Paul. Duration: Project U24.05 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

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

Could an alternative insect host be used in NZ to rear the most promising biocontrol agent for the brown marmorated stink bug?

Lead By Karina Santos. Duration: Project U25.01 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Improving Māori/Indigenous engagement within B3 programs

Lead By Waipaina Awarau-Morris. Duration: Project 4X24.02 runs from 2024 – 2028 (4 years). Theme 4: Te Ao Māori

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

AI technology to improve biosecurity at seaports in Aotearoa New Zealand

Lead By Mark McNeill. Duration: Project 2C24.17 runs from 2024 – 2026 (2 years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Automated sensing technologies to detect concealed invertebrates

Lead By Sarah Mansfield. Duration: Project P24.08 runs from 2024 (1-year scoping project), 2025 - 2028 (3 years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Tackling the threat of invasive Ceratocystis species to Aotearoa New Zealand

Lead By Virginia Marroni . Duration: Project UB24.26 runs from July 2024 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Building bridges to impact from risk analysis research

Lead By Waka Paul and Murray Fea. Duration: Project 1A24.05 runs from July 2024 to June 2025 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Prioritising social research for border biosecurity

Lead By Andrea Grant ([email protected]) Simon Wegner ([email protected]). Duration: Project X23.3 runs from 2023 to 2024 (1 Year) Cross-theme project

De-risking the tissue culture import pathway

Lead By Hayley Ridgway ([email protected]) Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C23.2 runs from 2023 to 2026 (3 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Risks from pathogens, pests and weeds in a changing climate

Lead By Craig Phillips ([email protected]). Duration: June 2023 to June 2026 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Kaitiakitanga and mātauranga Māori as a response to biosecurity threats to taonga plant species, native ecosystems and communities.

Lead By Waipaina.Awarau-Morris, Ngāti Porou iwi ([email protected]). Duration: Project 4X22.23 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 years) Theme 4 Te Ao Māori

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

The risk of diapausing pest insects on pathways to NZ

Lead By Jessica Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C22.13 runs from 2022 - 2026 (4 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Accelerated ageing of plants to shorten the post-entry quarantine testing period

Lead By Virginia Marroni ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C22.12 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

De-risking the plant tissue culture pathway

Lead By Hayley Ridgeway ([email protected]). Duration: Project C22.11 runs for one year from 2022 - 2023 C: Pathway Risk Management

Rapid screening model for optimising commodity treatments

Lead By Jessica Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C22.9 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Further development of the Integrated Biosecurity Risk Assessment Model (IBRAM) for pathogens

Lead By Nari Williams ([email protected]). Duration: Project 1B22.7 runs from 2022 - 2026 (4 years) Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Predicting the spillover of pests and pathogens into natural ecosystems

Lead By Darren Ward ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 1B22.6 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 years) Theme 1: Understanding Risk

New risk assessment and detection tools for cereal and grass pathogens on the seed import pathway

Lead By Soonie Chng ([email protected]). Duration: Project B22.5 runs from 2022 - 2023 (1 year) B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)

He Waka Hourua: Matāuranga and Western science navigate a safe course for future biocontrol

Lead By Waipaina Awarau-Morris, Ngāti Porou iwi ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 4A22.3 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 years) Theme 4 Te Ao Māori

Testing the toolbox – reducing uncertainty around non-target impacts

Lead By Jacqui Todd ([email protected]). Duration: Project 1A22.1 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 years) Theme 1: Risk Assessment: Intentional Introductions

Weaving together the complex web of biosecurity social networks

Lead By Philip Hulme ([email protected]). Duration: 2 years (June 2021 - June 2023) Cross-theme project

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

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

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

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

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

Automatic detection of contaminants on shipping container exteriors

Lead By Mark McNeill ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 2C21.7 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 Years) 2: Pathway Risk Management

Unappreciated border biosecurity risks related to herbicide-resistant biotypes in imported seeds

Lead By Chris Buddenhagen ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 2C21.10 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 yrs) 2: Pathway Risk Management

Māori and Pasifika indigenous collaboration to identify pre-border biosecurity threats

Lead By Julia Soewarto ([email protected]). Duration: Project B21.4 runs from (June 2021 - June 2023) 2 years B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)

Pest risk evaluation framework – extended to arable, horticulture and forestry industries

Lead By Craig Phillips ([email protected]). Duration: Project B21.3 runs for 2 years, from June 2021 - June 2023 B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)

Assessing the risk of rapid ōhi’a death to New Zealand and the South Pacific

Lead By Virginia Marroni ([email protected]). Duration: Project B21.2 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 Years) B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)

Pre-emptive biocontrol risk assessment for high-risk biosecurity threats in New Zealand

Lead By Gonzalo Avila ([email protected]). Duration: Project A21.1 ran from June 2021 - June 2022 (1 year) A: Risk Assessment: Intentional Introductions

B3 Project Proposal Planning Documents

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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