Collaborations
Izon is actively involved in setting-up research collaborations with key institutions and individuals around the world.
Our aim is to work with our research partners for mutual long term benefit. Typically, our collaborations involve supply of instrumentation, upgrades, consumables, research suggestions and confidential information by Izon. Research is performed jointly with access made available for guest researchers to Izon’s laboratory on the Otago University Campus in Dunedin, New Zealand. New IP for applications or new discoveries is shared.
Current Collaborations
Active collaborations have been established with Universities and Research Institutes in New Zealand, Australia,Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States.
Current projects cover the following areas:
- Fundamental science around resistive pulse sensing and variable nanopores
- Virus counting and characterisation
- Nanoparticle size measurement
- Nanoparticle charge measurement
- Single biomolecule clamping
- DNA sequencing
- Molecular diagnostics
- Controlled dispensing of particles and biomolecules by count
Participating institutions and projects:
New Zealand
- Auckland University (Department of Chemistry) – Flexible nanopore research
- Cawthron Institute – Fresh water and marine virus research
- Industrial Research Ltd – Nanopore and elastomer characterisation.
- MacDiarmid Institute – DNA sequencing through flexible nanopores
- National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases – Influenza virus research.
- Plant and Food Research – Bead assay technology development
- Victoria University of Wellington (School Biological Sciences) – Marine virus impact on coral reefs
- Victoria University of Wellington (School of Chemical and Physical Sciences) – Non-biological nanoparticle research
Australia
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) – DNA clamping and molecular analysis.
- National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology – Nanoparticle sizing
United Kingdom
- Oxford University (Department of Chemistry) – Aggregation and particle analysis
- Oxford University (Department of Materials, BegbrokeNano) – Particle research
- Oxford University (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) – Gene therapy research
The Netherlands
- Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) – Marine virology research
United States
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) – Marine virology focusing on viruses infecting Prochlorococcus bacteria
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of Chemistry) - Marine virology research
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of Computer Engineering) - A nanopore-based instrument for single molecule analysis of DNA-binding proteins and feedback control of biological polymers in a nanopore.
