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Marsden Fund 1998
The Minister of Research, Science and Technology has announced 100 new
research grants, totalling $10.5 million, out of 767 applications to
the Marsden Fund in 1998. The Fund is administered by the Royal Society
of New Zealand.
The table shows the Marsden Fund allocation decisions in 1998. The
recipient institutions are listed in alphabetical order, with the sums
awarded in the period 1998 - 2001. ( Archives - Previous
Successful Applicants )
| Contracted Institution |
Title of Project |
Names
of Team Role |
1998/99
|
1999/00
|
2000/01
|
| PI
– Principal Investigator |
Funding
|
| AI
– Associate Investigator |
| AgResearch |
Predicting
evolutionary trends in extrachromosomally-encoded disease: why be
pathogenic? |
Dr
M O'Callaghan (PI)
Dr T Glare (AI)
Dr ND Barlow (AI)
Associate Professor C Ronson (AI)
Mr M Hurst (AI) University of Otago
Professor C Godfray (AI) Imperial College
|
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
|
The
population dynamics of rarity: why are rare animals rare? |
Dr
ND Barlow (PI)
Dr D Teulon (AI) Crop Food
Professor AFG Dixon (AI) University of East Anlgia
Professor C Godfray (AI) Imperial College
Ms K Schops (AI) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Epigenetic
modifications and the genetic clockwork |
Dr
G Laible (PI)
Dr D Wells (AI) |
$110,000 |
$110,000 |
$110,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alexander
Turnbull Library |
Kimihia
te mea ngaro (Search for what is lost). Maori Language Newspapers - A
social history and content analysis of the Maori language newspapers,
1840-1950s |
Professor
NK Hopa (PI) University of Auckland
Dr PJ McRae (PI) University of Auckland
JM Curnow (AI) Private Individual
|
$89,197 |
$94,289 |
$102,015 |
|
The
influence of public libraries in New Zealand on reading patterns and
the development of a local publishing industry, 1840-1960 |
Mr
JE Traue (PI) Victoria University of Wellington |
$32,538 |
$41,479 |
$35,983 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| HortResearch |
The
role of novel N-P bonds in the inactivation of ornithine
transcarbamoylase by N'-sulphodiaminophosphinyl-L-ornithine |
Dr
M Templeton (PI)
Dr RE Mitchell (AI) |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
|
Evolution
of the fly: Insecticide resistance in the sheep blowfly |
Dr
RD Newcomb (PI)
Dr A Heath (AI) AgResearch
Dr DM Gleeson (AI) Landcare Research |
$172,000 |
$172,000 |
$172,000 |
|
Why
does RubisCO have such a large family? |
Dr
WA Laing (PI)
Dr G Ross (AI) |
$84,000 |
$100,500 |
$78,000 |
|
The
Plant's First Perception of a Viral Attack |
Dr
A Allan (PI)
Dr JN Culver (AI) University of Maryland |
$140,000 |
$140,000 |
$140,000 |
|
Water
and solute transport in porous media seen through a Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) microscope |
Dr
I Vogeler (PI)
Dr SL Codd (AI) Massey University
Dr DR Scotter (AI) Massey University |
$145,000 |
$145,000 |
$145,000 |
|
Cosuppression:
unmasking the mRNA assassin |
Dr
R MacDiarmid (PI)
Dr RLS Forster (AI)
|
$37,000 |
$37,000 |
$37,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Industrial
Research Ltd |
Superconductivity
and Normal-State Properties of Electron Doped Perovskite Oxides |
Dr
GVM Williams (PI)
Mr B Walker (AI) Victoria University of Wellington
Professor HJ Trodahl (AI) Victoria University of Wellington
Dr C Bernhard (AI) Victoria University of Wellington
Dr JL Tallon (AI) |
$135,626 |
$141,750 |
$156,750 |
|
White
Light Feedback Interferometry for Adaptive Optics and Measurement
|
Dr
TG Haskell (PI)
Associate Professor TH Barnes (PI) University of Auckland |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Landcare
Research |
Islands
in Treetops: Utilising Island Biogeography Theory and Epiphytes to
Unravel the Relationship Between Biodiversity, Food Web Structure and
Ecosystem Properties |
Dr
DA Wardle (PI)
Dr G Barker (AI)
Dr P Bellingham (AI)
Dr LG Greenfield (AI) University of Canterbury
Dr GW Yeates (AI) |
$130,000 |
$130,000 |
$130,000 |
|
Costs
and benefits of winter leaf loss in New Zealand: when to turn over a
new leaf |
Dr
M McGlone (PI)
Dr R Allen (AI)
Dr D Whitehead (AI) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Low
Frequency Electromagnetic Research Ltd |
VLF
Optical Investigation of Sprites |
Professor
RL Dowden (PI)
Dr CJ Rodger (AI) British Antarctic Survey |
$110,000 |
$135,435 |
$129,565 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Lincoln
University |
Slices
through time: Past climate from ancient kauri (Agathis australis)
tree-rings |
Dr
J Palmer (PI)
Associate Professor J Ogden (AI) University of Waikato
Dr AG Hogg (AI) Lincoln University
|
$145,000 |
$145,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Massey
University |
How
do tuatara determine their sex? |
Dr
S Sarre (PI)
Professor CH Daugherty (PI) Victoria University of Wellington
Professor D Lambert (AI)
Dr M Thompson (AI) University of Sydney
|
$171,875 |
$171,875 |
$146,875 |
|
Competition
and survival across the K/T boundary |
Professor
D Penny (PI)
Dr A Cooper (AI) Oxford University |
$119,750 |
$119,750 |
$119,750 |
|
Bacteriophage
Replication as a Paradigm for Host-Parasite Interactions |
Dr
PW O'Toole (PI)
Dr M Lubbers (PI) New Zealand Dairy Research Institute
|
$153,000 |
$153,000 |
$153,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University
|
A
study of the Performance of Asynchronously scheduled RISC Pipelines |
Professor
CR Jesshope (PI) |
$61,875 |
$78,750 |
$78,750 |
|
The
Biography and writings of Robin Hyde |
Dr
P Sandbrook (PI)
Dr M Paul (PI)
Dr M Leggott (PI) University of Auckland |
$62,875 |
$61,000
|
$61,000 |
|
Alpha-Fibrous
Proteins: Structure and Function of Assemblies of Long Biological
Macromolecules |
Professor
DAD Parry (PI) |
$98,000 |
$98,000 |
|
|
The
biological role of felinine: a urinary amino acid of Felidae |
Professor
PJ Moughan (PI)
Dr WH Hendriks (AI)
Dr AD Woolhouse (AI) Industrial Research
Associate Professor DRK Harding (AI) |
$90,000 |
$84,000 |
$85,000 |
|
Parallel
Algorithms for Singular Perturbation Problems |
Dr
I Boglaev (PI) |
$29,000 |
$34,500 |
$39,500 |
|
Molecular
Architecture: Rings, Cages, and Joints. Compounds for Understanding and
Duplicating Photosynthesis |
Professor
AK Burrell (PI)
Dr DL Officer (AI) |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Malaghan
Institute of Medicine |
Targeted
disruption of the IL-4 gene affects dendritic cell function |
Dr
F Ronchese (PI) |
$157,500 |
$157,500 |
$157,500 |
|
Genetic
programming of T cell maturation |
Dr
G Le Gros (PI)
Dr M Rincon (AI) University of Vermont
|
$176,614 |
$173,986 |
$178,219 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New
Zealand Mathematics Research Institute |
Interactions
between mathematical physics, topology and group theory |
Professor
Vaughan Jones (PI)
Professor MDE Conder (AI) University of Auckland
Professor GJ Martin (AI) University of Auckland
Professor D Gauld (AI) University of Auckland
Professor RG Downey (AI) Victoria University of Wellington |
$81,250 |
$81,250 |
$81,250 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Private
Individual |
The
glass transition |
Dr
RJ Speedy (PI) |
$84,375 |
$84,375 |
$84,375 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Private
Individual |
Topology
and the Evolution of Cooperation |
Dr
M Frean (PI)
Dr E Abraham (AI) NIWA |
$109,425 |
$99,300 |
$99,300 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University
of Auckland |
Quantum
and Atom Optics |
Professor
DF Walls (PI)
Dr M Collett (AI)
Dr SM Tan (AI) |
$101,875
|
$101,875 |
$101,875 |
|
Organometallic
Chemistry of Ruthenium and Osmium |
Professor
WR Roper (PI)
Dr LJ Wright (AI)
|
$171,750 |
$171,750 |
$171,750 |
|
Synthesis
of the Antitumour Antibiotic Medermycin |
Dr
Margaret Brimble (PI) |
$130,899 |
$129,399 |
$129,399 |
|
Do
altered oscillations in the output of the brain cause cardiovascular
pathologies? |
Dr
SC Malpas (PI)
Dr M Navakatykyan (AI)
Dr SK Nguang (AI)
Dr P Austin (AI) |
$148,746 |
$148,746
|
$148,744 |
|
A
novel intracrine signalling system of arachidonic acid metabolism and
action in the nucleus |
Professor
RS Gilmour (PI)
Professor MD Mitchell (PI)
|
$231,310 |
$233,418 |
$235,529 |
|
What
holds cellulose in plant cell walls? |
Associate
Professor LD Melton (PI)
Dr PJ Harris (PI)
Dr RH Newman (AI) Industrial Research |
$63,000 |
$63,000 |
$63,000 |
|
A
new family of transport proteins may provide insights into the
transport of intracellular cargoes along the microtubular highway |
Associate
Professor GW Krissansen (PI) |
$156,875 |
$151,874 |
$156,875 |
|
Influenza
evolution studied using virus preserved in Antarctic ice |
Dr
P Metcalf (PI)
Professor R Bellamy (AI)
Professor D Lambert (AI) Massey University |
$162,000 |
$162,000 |
$162,000 |
|
Microlensing
Observations in Astrophysics: the NZ-Japan MOA Project |
Associate
Professor PCM Yock (PI)
Dr RJ Dodd (PI) Carter National Observatory
Professor J Hearnshaw (PI) University of Canterbury
Dr DJ Sullivan(PI) Victoria University of Wellington
Professor J Jugaku (AI) University of Tokai
Professor Y Muraki (AI) University of Nagoya
Dr F Abe (AI) University of Nagoya
Associate Professor Y Matsubara (AI) University of Nagoya
Professor H Sato (AI) University of Kyoto
Dr I Bond (AI) Mount John Observatory
Ms P Kilmartin (AI) Mount John Observatory
Professor T Nakamura (AI) University of Kyoto
Professor Y Watase (AI) KEK Laboratory
Mr B Carter (AI) Carter National Observatory |
$136,103 |
$326,213 |
$261,684 |
|
Effective
computational approaches to questions in group theory and applications |
Professor
MDE Conder (PI) University of Auckland
Dr E O'Brien (AI)
Dr J An (AI) |
$81,875 |
$81,875 |
$81,875 |
|
Geometry
and Analysis |
Professor
GJ Martin (PI) |
$113,667 |
$113,667 |
$113,667 |
|
New
Statistical Methodologies for Physics-Based Inference |
Dr
C Fox (PI)
Dr G Nicholls (PI) |
$68,750 |
$67,500 |
$67,500 |
|
Brain
Mechanisms of Mental Rotation |
Dr
BW Johnson (PI)
Professor M Corballis (AI) |
$139,995 |
$140,015 |
$140,015 |
|
Why
are there so many species of New Zealand triplefins? |
Dr
K Clements (PI)
Dr C S Baker (AI) |
$72,222 |
$66,197 |
$57,581 |
|
The
theory and practice of Maori representation as it illuminates the
concept of representation |
Professor
A Sharp (PI)
Mr M Roderick (AI) |
$45,844 |
$45,844 |
$45,844 |
|
(Extra)Ordinary
Auckland: Exploring local meanings and evidence of globalisation |
Dr
L Murphy (PI)
Dr W Friesen (AI)
Dr R Kearns (AI) |
$100,000 |
$101,000 |
$101,000 |
|
Captain
Cook and his Pacific Voyages - Cross cultural dynamics |
Professor
Dame A Salmond (PI) |
$91,750.00 |
$91,750.00 |
$92,633.00 |
|
Towards
a Theory of Education in Social Settlements: The Emergence of
"Competitive-Contractualism" |
Professor
R Dale (PI)
Dr S Robertson (AI) |
$58,000 |
$58,000 |
$58,000 |
|
Resistance
to European Expansion, 1800 - 1914 |
Professor
JC Belich (PI) |
$75,094 |
$75,094 |
$75,094 |
|
Enterprises
and environments in the geography of the New Zealand wine industry |
Professor
W Moran (PI) |
$81,479 |
$82,875 |
$82,875 |
|
Plants
as bioreactors for human vaccine production |
Professor
AR Bellamy (PI)
Associate Professor RC Gardner (AI)
Dr GJ O'Brien (AI) |
$49,465 |
$169,616 |
$161,709 |
|
Paleo-climate
determined from isotopic compositions of hydrated water in volcanic
glass shards in New Zealand |
Dr
N Ingraham (PI)
Dr PAR Shane (AI) |
$85,000 |
$85,000 |
|
|
New
Zealand Television and National Identity |
Dr
R Horrocks (PI)
Mr L Simmons (AI)
Dr S Kothari (AI)
Dr N Perry (AI)
Ms M Henley (AI)
Ms A Goldson (AI) |
$70,000 |
$45,000 |
$45,000 |
|
Locating
Auckland's hottest spots: Magnetic navigation by homing pigeons |
Dr
MM Walker (PI) |
$106,282 |
$123,732 |
$42,807 |
|
Characterisations
of planar infinite graphs |
Dr
P Bonnington (PI)
Dr M Morton (AI) |
$43,500 |
$43,500 |
$43,500 |
|
Bayesian
Nonparametric Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data |
Dr
R Meyer (PI)
Dr RB Millar (AI)
Associate Professor F Perron (AI) University of Montreal |
$41,500 |
$41,500 |
$46,000 |
|
Improved
computational methods for flow and pollution simulations in complex
coastal regions |
Associate
Professor MJ O'Sullivan (PI)
Dr MG Gerritsen (AI) |
$44,494 |
$44,494 |
$37,631 |
|
Infrared
laser investigations of the structure and reactivity of transient
molecules in the gas phase |
Professor
DK Russell (PI) |
$43,750 |
$105,000 |
$61,250 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University
of Canterbury |
Molecular
Switches and the Modulation of Chemical Reactivity and Enzyme Action |
Dr
AD Abell (PI) |
$34,938 |
$149,000 |
$149,000 |
|
Ring
Laser Systems Development |
Professor
GE Stedman (PI) |
$160,000 |
$160,000 |
$160,000 |
|
Science
and Engineering of Nanostructures and Devices |
Dr
RMK Cheung (PI)
Dr DRS Cumming (PI)
Dr SA Brown (PI)
Dr RJ Reeves (AI)
Dr R Blaikie (AI)
Dr BD Hall (AI) Industrial Research
Dr MK Andrews (AI) Industrial Research |
$326,500 |
$326,500 |
$326,500 |
|
The
Circulatory Physiology of an Ancient Snail, the New Zealand Paua
Associate |
Professor
HH Taylor (PI) |
$85,060 |
$85,060 |
$85,060 |
|
Collaborative
and Multi-Paradigm Programming Environments for Children |
Dr
A Cockburn (PI)
Dr T Bell (AI)
Professor W Kreutzer (AI) |
$45,029 |
$46,905 |
$46,905 |
|
The
Social Foundation of Political Conservation in New Zealand, 1908-1980s.
A Social History of a 'Working Class Tory' syndrome |
Professor
M Fairburn (PI)
Associate Professor S Haslett (PI) Massey University |
$78,607 |
$76,475 |
$76,475 |
|
Chemical
Mechanisms of Protein Crosslinking |
Dr
JA Gerrard (PI)
Dr KH Sutton (AI) Crop Food Research |
$121,750 |
$121,750 |
$121,750 |
|
Turbo
Ring and Multilevel Codes: Coding to Approach Channel Capacity |
Professor
DP Taylor (PI) |
$57,000 |
$57,000 |
$57,000 |
|
Cognition
in intimate interpersonal contexts: Towards an integration of social
cognition and evolutionary psychology |
Associate
Professor GJO Fletcher (PI)
Professor JA Simpson (AI) Texas A M University |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University
of Otago |
The
origin of vertebrate retroviruses: horizontal transmission from fungi |
Dr
R Poulter (PI)
Associate Professor John Cutfield (PI)
Dr C Marshall (AI)
|
$146,876 |
$141,875 |
$141,875 |
|
E-cadherin:
an evolutionary link between bacterial immunity and cancer
susceptibility? |
Dr
P Guilford (PI)
Dr F Aldwell (AI)
|
$150,000 |
$140,000 |
$140,000 |
|
Modification
of mitochondrial function within living cells |
Dr
MP Murphy (PI)
Associate Professor RAJ Smith (AI) |
$128,000 |
$128,000 |
$128,000 |
|
Designer
peptides to inhibit atherosclerosis |
Dr
SPA McCormick (PI)
Dr AR Hayman (AI) |
$126,875 |
$126,875 |
$126,875 |
|
Do
New Zealand's native grasslands and forests like lichens? |
Dr
DJ Galloway (PI)
Dr JJ Eaton-Rye (AI)
Dr K Farnden (AI) |
$181,875 |
$176,875 |
$176,875 |
|
Decoding
the Symbiotic Island of Mesorhizobium loti |
Dr
JT Sullivan (PI)
Dr P Stockwell (AI)
Associate Professor C Ronson (AI)
Professor FJ de Bruijn (AI) Michigan State University
|
$137,000 |
$134,000 |
$135,000 |
|
Using
molecular genetics to test a hydrographic model of New Zealand's fiords
that predicts their ability to act as barriers to the dispersal of
marine organisms |
Professor
P Mladenov (PI)
Dr M Roy (AI)
Dr S Wing (AI)
Dr K Miller (AI) NIWA |
$108,500 |
$93,500 |
$88,500 |
|
A
bee-Line into Brain Development: Identification of Dopamine Receptors
and their Roles in the Developing Brain |
Associate
Professor AR Mercer (PI)
Dr VK Ward (AI)
|
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
|
Origins
of Autobiographical Memory |
Dr
JE Reese (PI)
|
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Acquiring
the knowledge in childhood: developmental changes in the integration of
information over time and across sources |
Associate
Professor M-E Pipe (PI) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Nitric
Oxide knockouts: The key to understanding the involvement of the
endothelium in cardiovascular control? |
Professor
AM Wheatley (PI) |
$45,000 |
$45,000 |
$45,000 |
|
Interneurons,
eyes and the inner ear: Why are PAX genes essential for development? |
Dr
MR Eccles (PI)
Dr M Legge (PI)
Dr T Yamada (AI) University of Queensland |
$135,000 |
$135,000 |
$135,000 |
|
Synaptic
interactions and neural circuits of the striatum: Electrophysiology and
anatomy |
Dr
JR Wickens (PI)
Dr DE Oorschot (PI)
|
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
|
Direct
observations of basal ice and substrate deformation at subfreezing
temperatures |
Dr
S Fitzsimons (PI)
Professor R Lorrain (AI) Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
$90,000 |
$90,000 |
$85,000 |
|
Sex
steroid hormones and genes: non-mammalian models for studying the
regulation of steroidogenic enzyme gene expression |
Dr
G Young (PI) |
$140,000 |
$140,000 |
$135,000 |
|
A
fundamental investigation of electronic interactions in new photo- and
electroactive arrays |
Professor
BH Robinson (PI)
Dr K Gordon (AI)
Dr HG Kjaergaard (AI)
Mr CJ McAdam (AI)
Professor J Simpson (AI) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Understanding
and replicating Natures production of sea shells, bones and teeth |
Dr
KM McGrath (PI)
Dr MF Barker (AI) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Constructions
of Children's Participation, Health, Safety and Recreational Rights at
School Professor A Smith (PI)
|
Mr
M Gaffney (AI)
Dr A Blaiklock (AI) Auckland Regional Health Promotion
Ms C Kiro (AI) Massey University |
$80,000 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University
of Waikato |
The
transformation of carbonate sediments into limestones: development of
globally applicable diagenetic models for nontropical deposits |
Professor
CS Nelson (PI)
Dr AG Beu (AI) Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
|
$97,750 |
$97,750 |
$118,750 |
|
Special
functions, superintegrability and separation of variables
|
Professor
EG Kalnins (PI) |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
|
The
Role of Human Capital in Economic Growth |
Professor
LT Oxley (PI)
Dr D Greasley (AI)University of Edinburgh |
$41,750 |
|
|
|
Enzyme
dynamics and function |
Professor
R Daniel (PI)
Professor J Finney (AI) University College
Dr J Smith(AI) Commossariat a l'Energic Atomique |
$90,000 |
$90,000 |
|
|
Coordinating
multiple sources of knowledge in computer applications: the optical
music recognition problem |
Dr
D Bainbridge (PI)
Professor I Witten (AI) |
$33,500 |
$33,500 |
$33,500 |
|
Identifying
genes involved in sexual dimorphism |
Professor
RJ Wilkins (PI)
Dr HW Davey (PI) AgResearch |
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
$127,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Victoria
University of Wellington |
Vortex
states and dynamics of layered superconductors |
Professor
HJ Trodahl (PI)
Professor JC Abele (AI) Lewis and Clark College |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
|
Structural
Aspects of Computation |
Professor
RG Downey (PI) |
$111,875 |
$111,875 |
$111,875 |
|
Repertoire
Performance Practice in European Music of the Baroque Era |
Professor
P Walls (PI) |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
$80,000 |
|
Regional
Dialects and New Zealand Children's Language |
Dr
L Bauer (PI) |
$55,000 |
$55,000 |
$85,000 |
|
Theory
for bubbles rising in a liquid |
Professor
JF Harper (PI) |
$48,500 |
$45,000 |
$45,000 |
|
Electronic
Transport in Carbon Nanotubes and related Materials |
Associate
Professor AB Kaiser (PI) |
$60,000 |
$60,000 |
$60,000 |
|
Transgenderism
and Identity Amongst Tongans in Nuku'alofa and Auckland |
Professor
N Besnier (PI) |
$90,000 |
$90,000 |
$50,000 |
|
Brightest
Cluster Galaxies - Hubble Space Telescope observations and beyond |
Dr
G Mackie (PI) |
$130,000 |
$130,000 |
$130,000 |
|
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