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Highlights Nature-based management uses biodiversity and targeted biotic introductions to improve sustainable agroecosystem production, but results have been variable. A network perspective can drive research to improve the future design…

This radio interview features Professor Peter Dearden, a Deputy Director for Bioprotection Aotearoa.  Peter is also the director of Genomics Aotearoa and discusses with Wallace Chapman from RNZ the launch…

This article features comments from Professor Anita Wreford, a researcher for Bioprotection Aotearoa, who welcomes public consultation following the release of the draft National Adaptation Plan.   Anita comments on…

Epigenetic DNA methylation plays an important role in bacteria by influencing gene expression and allowing discrimination between self-DNA and intruders such as phages and plasmids. Restriction–modification (RM) systems use a…

This article features Distinguished Professor Philip Hulme, who is a Deputy Director at Bioprotection Aotearoa.  Philip lends his expertise on an article about management efforts to eradicate wilding pines in Aotearoa. READ…

Professor Nick Roskruge is a Deputy Director and leading researcher at Bioprotection Aotearoa.  He wrote an article for Stuff discussing the whakapapa of soil and its defining pronouncement which establishes…

This article features Professor Margaret Stanley, a researcher at Bioprotection Aotearoa.  Margaret shares her science communication project on weed management. Margaret was one of 30 scientists and illustrators who participated…

Jessie Chan is a board member for Bioprotection Aotearoa and was inlcuded in the 2022 New Years Honours list.  She became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit…

Meaden and Biswas et al. use metagenomic data to test associations between CRISPR-Cas abundance and viral abundance and diversity across environments. There is a positive association between CRISPR-Cas abundance and…

Bioprotection Aotearoa, is the latest co-sponsor of MacDiarmid’s Institute  Discovery Scholarships programme, that nurtures a pathway for undergraduate Māori and Pasifika students interested in STEM. Through collaboration the most difficult challenges…

Creating the new brand and logo for Bioprotection Aotearoa was a collaborative effort, involving many different people with many different roles in the new Centre of Research Excellence. It started…

Bioprotection Aotearoa is a new Centre of Research Excellence, built on the whakapapa of the Bio-Protection Research Centre. However, it is not a simple continuation – it is an evolution….