Dr John Tyrrell
ERI Business Manager
Qualifications: PhD Auckland
John Tyrrell has two main roles at the University of Waikato. He is the Business Manager for the Environmental Research Institute and is also the Research Developer for the biological industries sector. He works with researchers to develop multidisciplinary research collaborations and partnerships. He has a PhD from the University of Auckland in marine biology and biotechnology and completed a post-doctorate at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (California, USA) in biological oceanography. For the last decade John has held a range of business roles in the private and public sectors.
Expertise
Biology; Biotechnology; Coastal Sciences; Ecology; Environment; Environment Issues; Environmental Change; Environmental Science and Technology; Marine; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Oceanography; Remote Sensing; Science
Recent Publications
Smith, K. F., Rhodes, L. L., Adamson, J. E., Tyrrell, J. V., Mountfort, D. O., & Jones, W. J. (2011). Application of a sandwich hybridisation assay for rapid detection of the Northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 45(1), 145-152. doi:10.1080/00288330.2010.526124
Mountfort, D., Rhodes, L., Broom, J., Gladstone, M., & Tyrrell, J. (2007). Fluorescent in situ hybridisation assay as a species-specific identifier of the northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 41(3), 283-290. doi:10.1080/00288330709509915
Ayers, K., Rhodes, L. L., Tyrrell, J., Gladstone, M., & Scholin, C. (2005). International accreditation of sandwich hybridisation assay format DNA probes for micro-algae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 39(6), 1225-1231. doi:10.1080/00288330.2005.9517388
Tyrrell, J. V., Bergquist, P., Bergquist, P., & Scholin, C. (2004). US20040023212 A1, Compositions and methods for detecting raphidophytes.
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