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Joint Graduate School in Dairy Research and Innovation
Research opportunities
The Joint Graduate School in Dairy Research and Innovation offers masters and PhD research opportunities in a range of subjects, including:
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Biology in Genetics
Our current research in this area is varied including genetic selection, genomics, gene discovery, large scale data analysis and reproduction.
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Business and Economics
Potential supervisors are on hand to advise of opportunities in this area.
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Computer Science and Statistics
Potential supervisors are on hand to advise of opportunities in this area.
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Engineering
The present research in this area is wireless sensor network applications in agritech and dairy.
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Food Science
Our research in this area covers: Physical-chemical characterisation of food systems such as proteins and polysaccharides and their mixtures in solution, gel or emulsion states.
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On farm systems
Molecular plant-microbe interactions: understanding the molecular host specificity of bioprotective symbionts of forage grass; identifying new symbionts of pasture plant species; and characterising regulatory mechanisms of plant-regulated fungal genes.
Current internship and scholarship opportunities
Dairy Goat Cooperative (DGC) MSc Scholarship
The DGC is now offering an annual scholarship, called The Russ Moroney Scholarship. The scholarships is awarded each year to one graduate student undertaking a Masters level degree at University of Auckland. The scholarship is in recognition of Russ Moroney, a pioneering member of the DGC Co-operative. His vision and leadership of the Co-operative as its founding Chairman was instrumental in DGC becoming a successful international export business
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Postgraduate research
Students who wish to register their interest in masters or PhD research at the Joint Graduate School should read the admission and enrolment guidelines:
