Associate Professor Nicholas Ling

Qualifications: BSc MSc PhD (Auckland)

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Research Interests

Comparative animal physiology, particularly the physiology and biomechanical behaviour of muscleand connective tissues. Environmental physiology, including the effects of environmental changes and pollutants on physiological systems.

Students Supervised

PhD

• Kallingappa, Prasanna (in progress). Epigenetic Plasticity in donor cells for nuclear transfer.
• Ulrich, Christine (in progress). Comparative oxygen sensing mechanisms & adaptation to hypoxia in galaxiid fishes.
• Tempero, Grant (submitted). Specificity of Stressors Cross-Tolerance in Fish
• Landman, Michael (2004). Effects of pulp mill effluent and dissolved oxygen on survival and development of New Zealand native fishes.
• Bannon, Jim (2006). Effects of water quality on sustained swimming ability in New Zealand native fishes.
• Ellis, Rosanne (2001). An assessment of endocrine disrupting potential of a New Zealand pulp and paper mill effluent using rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and mosquitofish Gambusia affinis.
• McFarlane, Craig (2007). The functional role of Myostatin during muscle wasting and regeneration.
• Rogers, David (2006). Metabolic effects of controlled atmosphere treatment in huhu larvae.
• Siriett, Victoria (2007). The Role of Myostatin during Age-Related Sarcopenia
• Cairney, Julie (2005). Defining the structural elements of ovine muscle that contribute to fibre tensile strength.

MSc

• Harris, Daina (in progress). Pluripotency in cattle embryos and embryo-derived stem cells.
• Brijs, Erik (2010). The effect of Pax3 over-expression on myoblast function.
• Shannon, Nicholas (2010). Presence of Androgens In Pulp & Paper Wastewaters & Biosolids.
• Fieten, Daniel (2009). The effect of a myostatin antagonist on the healing of burn wounds in skin. Embargoed until mid 2011
• Laurenson, Rachel (2009). The effect of myostatin-antagonist4 on a severe muscle burn injury. Embargoed until mid 2011
• Taylor, Sean (2009). Flow cytometric enumeration of the blood cells of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and New Zealand freshwater crayfish (Paranephrops planifrons).
• Bleakley, Natalie (2008). Reproductive Impacts of a pulp mill effluent on common bully (Gobiomorphus cotidianus) in the Tarawera River.
• Brijs, Jereon (2007). The ecophysiology & evolution of adaptives oxygen transport in NZ mudfishes.
• McDonald, Amy (2007). Translocation, habitat characterisation and rearing investigations of black mudfish (Neochanna diversus).
• Theobald, Kylie (2007). Ecology and impact of invasive gobies.
• Wilson, Bridget (2007). The role of a novel zinc-finger transcription factor in myogenesis.
• Davies, Todd (2006). Role of Mighty in satellite cells and skeletal muscle regeneration.
• Dyer, Kelly (2006). The role of Mighty during embryogenesis and myogenesis.
• Osborne, Matt (2006). Movement, growth and diet of koi carp in lower Waikato.
• Smith, Murray (2005). Quantification of Vitellogen Gene expression in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) using targeted proteomics.
• Collinson, Miranda (2002). Post-rigor freeze storage effects on meat quality.
• De Krout, Andrea (2002). Habitat mediated stress responses in hedgehogs.
• Hackell, Deborah (2004). Stimuli associated with clover root nodule location by first instar Sitona lepidus.
• Perrie, Alton (2004). Competitive interactions between New Zealand mudfish species.
• Tempero, Grant (2004). Biology and control of pest fish species.

Expertise

Comparative physiology, particularly of fishes; ecotoxicology of fish and invertebrates; physiology of vertebrate muscle; environmental physiology, including effects of environmental changes and pollutants on physiological systems.

Recent Publications

• Allibone, R., David, B., Hitchmough, R., Jellyman, D., Ling, N., Ravenscroft, P., Waters, J. (2011) Reply to Chisholm (2011), Conservation status of New Zealand freshwater fish, 2009; Allibone et al.(2010)
  Refereed Journal Articles - New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
• Ninnes, C., Waas, J., Ling, N., Nakagawa, S., Banks, J., Bell, D., Bright, A., Carey, P., Chandler, J., Hudson, Q., Ingram, J., Lyall, K., Morgan, D., Stevens, M., Wallace, J., Mostl, E. (2011) Environmental influences on Adelie penguin breeding schedules, endocrinology, and chick survival
  Refereed Journal Articles - General and Comparative Endocrinology
• Daniel, A., Hicks, B., Ling, N., David, B. (2011) Movements of radio- and acoustic-tagged adult Koi Carp in the Waikato River, New Zealand
  Refereed Journal Articles - North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• Landman, M., Bleackley, N., Ling, N., van den Heuvel, M. (2010) Physiological health of common bully (Gobiomorphus cotidianus) in the Tarawera and Rangitaiki Rivers of New Zealand: Evidence of diminished ecological effects of pulp and paper effluents in wild fish populations
  Refereed Journal Articles - Water Quality Research Journal of Canada

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