Associate Professor Patrick Biggs PhD, BSc

Contact details

• Ph: +64 6 951 7597
  Location: 2.32, Hopkirk Institute
  Campus: Turitea
• Ph: +64 6 951 7597
  Location: D5-30, Science Tower D
  Campus: Turitea

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - University of London (1996)
• Bachelor of Science - Brunel University (1992)

Research Interests

The pathogenomics and evolution of food-borne pathogens, in particular Campylobacter spp. and Escherichia coli. Also in functional bacterial genomics and metagenomics.

Thematics

Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Biochemistry and Cell Biology (060100): Bioinformatics (060102): Biological Sciences (060000): Evolutionary Biology (060300): Genetics (060400): Genomics (060408): Infectious Agents (060502): Microbial Ecology (060504): Microbial Genetics (060503): Microbiology (060500): Molecular Evolution (060409): Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis (060309)

Courses Coordinated

• 203.328 Genome Analysis

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

• Rose Collis - Doctor of Philosophy
  Metagenomic analysis and.culture-based. methods to examine prevalence and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes on dairy farms

Co-supervisor of:

• Valter Dos Anjos Almeida - Doctor of Philosophy
  Genetic diversity of enteric microbes and its impacts on host switching
• Paul Ogbuigwe - Doctor of Philosophy
  The role of protozoan genetic diversity in disease in New Zealand
• Olivia Angelin-Bonnet - Doctor of Philosophy
  Investigation of genotype and phenotype interactions using computational statistics
• Richard Fong - Doctor of Philosophy
  Evolution and Rapid Diagnosis of Mycobacterium
• Jabin Vijayan Genitha Helan - Doctor of Philosophy
  Studies of staphylococcus aureus mastitis in dairy cows
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• Sarah Coker - Doctor of Philosophy
  Morphological and Molecular Characterisation of Coccidia (Eimeria spp.) in Kiwi (Apteryx spp.)
• Janelle Wierenga - Doctor of Philosophy
  Metagenomic evaluation of zoonotic pathogen transmission in Uganda
• Helen Smith - Doctor of Philosophy
  Source attribution models for whole genome sequencing data

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

• 2018 - Angela Cornelius - Doctor of Philosophy
  Pangenome-guided Tools for Investigating the Role of Epsilonproteobacteria in Human Gastroenteritis

Co-supervisor of:

• 2020 - Michelle Taylor - Doctor of Philosophy
  Microbiota in the honey bee gut and their association with bee health
• 2019 - Van Hung Vuong Le - Doctor of Philosophy
  Antibiotic Combinations to Tackle Gram-negative Bacterial Pathogens
• 2019 - Ngonidzashe Faya - Doctor of Philosophy
  The reproductive biology and venom system of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
• 2019 - Leah Toombs-Ruane - Doctor of Philosophy
  Is the family pet a risk for multidrug resistant infections?
• 2019 - Milan Gautam - Doctor of Philosophy
  Epidemiology of Ovine Paratuberculosis in New Zealand
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• 2019 - Komkiew Pinpimai - Doctor of Philosophy
  Klebsiella pneumoniae in New Zealand sea lions
• 2018 - Julia Bohorquez Rodriguez De Medina - Doctor of Philosophy
  Companion biota associated with Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka; Myrtaceae)
• 2018 - Juncong Yan - Doctor of Philosophy
  Genome-wide copy number variation in sheep: detection and utility as a genetic marker for quantitative traits, with reference to gastrointestinal nema
• 2018 - Andrew Springer Browne - Doctor of Philosophy
  A food chain approach to control of shiga-toxin producing E. coli in New Zealand
• 2017 - Samuel Bloomfield - Doctor of Philosophy
  Transmission and evolution of bacteria during the course of enteritis outbreaks
• 2017 - Krunoslav Bojanic - Doctor of Philosophy
  Campylobacter species in dogs and cats and significance to public health in New Zealand
• 2016 - Kenneth Sugrim - Doctor of Philosophy
  Commercial and Public Health Applications of DNA Monitoring
• 2016 - Barbara Binney - Doctor of Philosophy
  The Microbial Ecology of Camplyobacter jejuni in New Zealand Within a Spatial-Temporal Framework
• 2016 - Rima Shrestha - Doctor of Philosophy
  Molecular Epidemiology of Waterborne Zoonoses in North Island of New Zealand
• 2016 - Sara Burgess - Doctor of Philosophy
  Characterisation of dairy strains of Geobacillus stearothermophilus and a genomics insight into its growth and survival during dairy manufacture
• 2015 - Zoe Grange - Doctor of Philosophy
  Ecology, epidemiology and evolution of enteric microbes in fragmented populations of the endangered takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri)
• 2015 - Anja Friedrich - Doctor of Philosophy
  Campylobacter jejuni microevolution and phenotype: genotype relationships
• 2015 - Bernard Phiri - Doctor of Philosophy
  Estimating the public health risk associated with drinking water in New Zealand
• 2013 - Shoukai Yu - Doctor of Philosophy
  The Evolution of Campylobacter
• 2012 - Jian Han - Doctor of Philosophy
  Eukaryotic Signature Proteins: Guides to pathogenic eukaryotic parasites

Other Links

• mEpiLab - Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory
• IDReC - Infectious Disease Research Centre
• New Zealand Food Safety Science & Research Centre - New Zealand Food Safety Science & Research Centre