Current Projects
Cross-theme projects
Prioritising social research for border biosecurity (New in 2023)
Lead By Andrea Grant ([email protected]) Simon Wegner ([email protected]). Duration: Project X23.3 runs from 2023 to 2024 (1 Year) Cross-theme project Empowering Te Ao Māori responses to biosecurity threats to taonga species, native ecosystems, and communities
Lead By Waipaina.Awarau-Morris, Ngāti Porou iwi ([email protected]). Duration: Project X22.23 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 years) Cross-theme project Theme A - Risk Assessment (Intentional 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]) David Teulon ([email protected]). Duration: Project A22.3 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 years) A: Risk Assessment: Intentional Introductions Testing the toolbox – reducing uncertainty around non-target impacts
Lead By Jacqui Todd ([email protected]). Duration: Project A22.1: 2022 - 2025 (3 years) A: Risk Assessment: Intentional Introductions Theme B - Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)
Risks from pathogens, pests and weeds in a changing climate (New in 2023)
Lead By Craig Phillips ([email protected]). Duration: June 2023 to June 2026 B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions) Further development of the Integrated Biosecurity Risk Assessment Model (IBRAM) for pathogens
Lead By Nari Williams ([email protected]). Duration: Project B22.7 runs from 2022 - 2026 (4 years) B: Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions) Predicting the spillover of pests and pathogens into natural ecosystems
Lead By Darren Ward ([email protected]) . Duration: Project B22.6 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 years) 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) Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) and its New Zealand vectors
Lead By Jessica Dohmen-Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project B20.3 runs from 2020 - 2025 (5 Years) Theme B: Risk assessment – Unintentional Introductions Biosecurity over the horizon: identifying invasive agricultural pests in China
Lead By Colin Ferguson ([email protected]). Duration: Project B19.3 runs from 2019 – 2025 (5 Years) Theme B: Risk assessment – Unintentional Introductions Theme C - Pathway Risk Management
De-risking the tissue culture import pathway (New in 2023)
Lead By Hayley Ridgway ([email protected]) Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project C23.2 runs from 2023 to 2026 (3 Years) C: Pathway Risk Management The risk of diapausing pest insects on pathways to NZ
Lead By Jessica Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project C22.13 runs from 2022 - 2026 (4 Years) C: Pathway Risk Management Accelerated ageing of plants to shorten the post-entry quarantine testing period
Lead By Rebekah Frampton ([email protected]). Duration: Project C22.12 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) C: Pathway Risk Management Rapid screening model for optimising commodity treatments
Lead By Jessica Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project C22.9 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) C: Pathway Risk Management Automatic detection of contaminants on shipping container exteriors
Lead By Mark McNeill ([email protected]) . Duration: Project C21.7 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 Years) C: Pathway Risk Management Unappreciated border biosecurity risks related to herbicide-resistant biotypes in imported seeds
Lead By Chris Buddenhagen ([email protected]) . Duration: Project C21.10 runs from 2021 - 2024 (3 yrs) C: Pathway Risk Management Novel sensor approaches to sniff out biosecurity threats (BMSB, QFF)
Lead By Melissa Jordan ([email protected]). Duration: Project C17.13 ran from 2017 – 2022 (5 Years), then was extended from 2022 - 2024 (2 Years). Theme C: Pathway risk management Theme D - Diagnostics
Beyond soil baiting: toward application of an eRNA diagnostic tool for Phytophthora
Lead By Rebecca McDougal ([email protected]) . Duration: Project D22.17 runs from 2022 - 2025 (3 Years) D: Diagnostics 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) D: Diagnostics 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) 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) D: Diagnostics 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) D: Diagnostics Theme E - Surveillance and Eradication
eDNA for terrestrial biosecurity monitoring
Lead By Andrew Cridge ([email protected]) and Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project E22.19 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) E: Eradication, Surveillance and 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) E: Eradication, Surveillance and 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) E: Surveillance, response and eradication 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. E: Surveillance, response and eradication 