Juliet Gerrard

Biography

Professor Juliet Gerrard trained at Oxford University, where she completed an Honours degree in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biological Chemistry. In 1993, she took a role as a research scientist at Crop & Food Research and in 1998 she was appointed as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Canterbury in 1998, where she became Professor and Director of the Biomolecular Interaction Centre until 2014.  She is now a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland. Juliet has over 125 publications and holds a Callaghan Innovation Industry and Outreach Fellowship and is focused on creating an integrated research programme across IRL and the University of Auckland.  

Research Interest

Juliet’s research is interdisciplinary and highly collaborative, cutting across biochemistry, chemistry, health, agricultural and food science and biomaterial design. It also incorporates a full spectrum of applied and fundamental research.    At present, the major focus is the understanding of the higher order protein assembly. This research has potential application in the design of novel therapeutic agents (by disrupting assembly), the improvement of food, and in the assembly of novel materials, e.g. from higher order quaternary complexes or amyloid fibrils.