Dr Steve Bird
Senior Lecturer (Biological Sciences)
Research Supervised
PhD
- Evans, Steve (in progress). Charcterising the pharmacodynamic dose response of three selenium compounds in cancer patients.
MSc (Research)
- Gibbons, Olivia (2016). Antimicrobial peptides in jawed and jawless vertebrates.
- Green, Kevin (in progress).
- Broomfield, Grant (2015). Molecular characterisation of immune genes in yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi).
- Elliott, Nick (2015). Molecular characterisation of sex differentiation of yellowtail kingfish, Seriola lalandi.
MSc
- Ahmadi, Ramtin (2014). Characterising eating behaviour genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio).
Recent Publications
Evans, S. O., Jacobson, G. M., Goodman, H. J. B., Bird, S., & Jameson, M. B. (2020). Comparison of three oral selenium compounds in cancer patients: Evaluation of differential pharmacodynamic effects in normal and malignant cells. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 58. doi:10.1016/j.jtemb.2019.126446
O'Donnell, S., Beaven, C., Jacobson, G., Bird, S., & Driller, M. (2019). Melatonin and sleep responses following exercise in elite female athletes. New Zealand Journal of Sport and Exercise Science, 2(1), 23-33. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13050
Jacobson, G. M., Voss, L. J., Klockars, A., Bird, S., Dimitrov, I., Denny, W. A., . . . Harvey, M. G. (2019). Transcriptional changes in response to ketamine ester-analogs SN 35210 and SN 35563 in the rat brain. BMC Genomics, 20(1), 10 pages. doi:10.1186/s12864-019-5649-6 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12585
O'Donnell, S., Bird, S., Jacobson, G., & Driller, M. W. (2018). Sleep and stress hormone responses to training and competition in elite female athletes. European Journal of Sport Science, 18(5), 611-618. doi:10.1080/17461391.2018.1439535
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Contact Details
Email: sbird@waikato.ac.nzRoom: C.2.01C
Phone: +64 7 838 4723