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Acknowledgements<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
I would like to extend my s<strong>in</strong>cere thanks for the guidance and support I received from<br />
my supervisors: Richard Newcomb, Andrew Kralicek and David Christie. This PhD<br />
would not have been possible without your encouragement and open door policy for<br />
us students. Thank you for always be<strong>in</strong>g available for discussions from the<br />
commencement through to the completion <strong>of</strong> my research.<br />
No work is complete without the efforts <strong>of</strong> all the members <strong>of</strong> a team. My heartfelt<br />
thanks to all the members <strong>of</strong> the Molecular Sens<strong>in</strong>g Team. Thank you Melissa for<br />
do<strong>in</strong>g the groundwork on EpOR1; to Cyril for your expertise <strong>in</strong> recomb<strong>in</strong>ant prote<strong>in</strong><br />
expression and purification; to Colm and Aidan for shar<strong>in</strong>g your expertise <strong>of</strong> Sf9 cell<br />
culture; to Nadeesha for your guidance <strong>in</strong> the lab and for your friendship and to<br />
Edwige for your valuable time and guidance <strong>in</strong> deal<strong>in</strong>g with the ghosts <strong>of</strong> qRT-PCR,<br />
and your friendly support and encouragement <strong>in</strong> the highs and lows <strong>of</strong> my life. A big<br />
thank you to Pablo, Andy, Sylvia, Jeremy, Leah and Carol<strong>in</strong>e for your company <strong>in</strong> the<br />
lab and dur<strong>in</strong>g the many lunch breaks. The time spent as part <strong>of</strong> the Molecular<br />
Sens<strong>in</strong>g team would not have been enjoyable without you all!<br />
A very big thank you to Anne Barr<strong>in</strong>gton <strong>of</strong> the <strong>in</strong>sect rear<strong>in</strong>g facility at Plant and<br />
Food Research Ltd, for rear<strong>in</strong>g the thousands <strong>of</strong> sacrificial moths without whom a<br />
major part <strong>of</strong> this thesis would have been <strong>in</strong>complete. Thank you to the members <strong>of</strong><br />
the microarray facility at Plant and Food Research, especially Luke Luo for sett<strong>in</strong>g up<br />
the hybridisations and Bart Jenssen for your expertise on data analysis. I would also<br />
like to show my gratitude to the Bio<strong>in</strong>formatics department at Plant and Food<br />
Research, especially Ross Crowhurst for do<strong>in</strong>g all the raw data analysis <strong>of</strong> the tons <strong>of</strong><br />
sequenc<strong>in</strong>g with a smile! Thank you a lot Ross!<br />
I would also like to thank the Allan Wilson Centre Genome Service, especially<br />
Lorra<strong>in</strong>e Berry for your advice on sample preparations and genomic sequenc<strong>in</strong>g; and<br />
to the team at the University <strong>of</strong> Otago high-throughput DNA sequenc<strong>in</strong>g unit.<br />
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