We help you identify, quantify and understand the active ingredients in your natural health product. We specialise in analysing proteins, lipids and microbial derived natural products that give your product its unique health properties.

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Identify and understand active compounds

Proteins and enzymes in natural products have bioactive and functional properties, such as peptides, structural proteins like collagen or catalytic enzymes that can be exploited for higher valued applications beyond essential nutrition.

We can help discover and characterise these proteins and enzymes in your natural product so you can gain the most value from it.

Our expertise includes the development of purification strategies grom bench to large scale, analytical methods for proteins and glycoconjugates and characterisation of the purified end-product for its functions and bioactivities.

Uncover the microorganisms present in your natural resource with microbial characterisation. Discover the microbes naturally occurring in your product, detect contaminants or support fermentation development.

Characterise complex natural resources to elucidate what makes it unique. From omega3s and phospholipids to sterols and squalene. Leverage our lipidomic tools to quantify lipids across natural health, food and cosmetic products.

Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer LCMS 8040

High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Utilise our mass spectrometry technology for detecting and identifying bioactive compounds in complex mixtures. From early-stage discovery to final quality assurance of product batches, this tool helps confirm what's in your product. 

Capabilities

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Waters G2-XS Quadrupole time-of-flight (qToF)
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Shimadzu Triple quadrupole
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Agilent GC-MS
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Waters single-quad
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Supercritical CO2 LC
Phospholipid testing with NMR

NMR Spectroscopy

Understand the molecular structure of your natural product.

We have a commercial NMR and a team of world-class scientists and researchers who can research the detailed molecular fingerprint of your product. Understand the composition with clarity across multiple applications:

  • Honey 
  • Wine 
  • Fruit and fruit juices 
  • Dairy 
  • Marine oils 
  • Vegetable oil, including olive oil 
  • High-value ingredients 
  • Nutraceuticals 
  • Cosmeceuticals 
  • Pharmaceuticals

Capabilities

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Bruker 500 MHz spectrometer equipped with a helium-cooled TCI cryoprobe
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Bruker 500 MHz spectrometer equipped with a helium-cooled BBF cryoprobe
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Bruker 400 MHz FoodScreener NMR spectrometer equipped with a BBI (broadband inverse) probe

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Abishek Muralidhar
Abishek Muralidhar Senior Scientist Commercial product development from biotech research

As a Senior Scientist in the Proteins and Enzymes team, my main focus is the development of extraction and purification strategies and analysis of high value proteins and enzymes.

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Abishek Muralidhar Senior Scientist
Josiah Doorman
Josiah Doorman Research Technician Protein Purification and Characterisation

I am a Research Technician in the Biotechnologies team, specialising in Biochemistry. My passion for Biochemistry began during my undergraduate degree at the University of Otago, leading me into a Master’s degree with a focus on post-translational modification, specifically ubiquitylation.

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Josiah Doorman Research Technician
Craig van Dolleweerd
Craig van Dolleweerd Senior Scientist Using synthetic biology to generate innovative applications

I am a Senior Scientist in the Protein Science & Engineering (PSE) team within the Biotechnologies group. As a molecular biologist, I have worked on bacterial, plant and mammalian recombinant protein expression systems.

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Craig van Dolleweerd Senior Scientist
Shuguang Zhang
Shuguang Zhang Principal Research Scientist Manipulating microorganisms for product commercialisation

I am Shuguang Zhang, a Principal Research Scientist specialising in Bioprocessing and Fermentation in the field of Biotechnologies. My training is in microbiology and I work manipulating microorganisms, including bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts, at both molecular and flask/agar plate scales.

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Shuguang Zhang Principal Research Scientist
Callum Lambert
Callum Lambert Senior Scientist Design of complex cultures for commercialisation

I am a Senior Scientist specialising in Bioprocessing and Fermentation where my expertise lies in the culture of fastidious microorganisms and pathogens, cloning and microbiome research.

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Callum Lambert Senior Scientist
Mikhail Vyssotski
Mikhail Vyssotski Distinguished Research Scientist Lipid scientist

I graduated from the chemical department of the Far-Eastern State University (Russia), before joining the top Russian lipid research laboratory at the Institute of Marine Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok.

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Mikhail Vyssotski Distinguished Research Scientist
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Ulrike Hubl Senior Scientist Protein biochemistry innovations

I moved to New Zealand in 1997 to join the Glycobiology and Enzyme Technology Team (GET) at Industrial Research Limited as a postdoctoral researcher.

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Ulrike Hubl Senior Scientist
Cynthia Sun
Cynthia Sun Team Leader, Principal Research Scientist Leading protein and enzyme biotechnology research

I'm currently the Team Leader and Principal Research Scientist in the Proteins and Enzymes team within the Biotechnologies group. I have deep experience and expertise in the field of biochemistry around biotransformation, protein extraction, glycoenzymes and bioassays.

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Cynthia Sun Team Leader, Principal Research Scientist
Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell Principal Research Scientist Analytical supercritical chromatography for natural products

I am a Senior Research Scientist specialist working on lipids and natural products within the Biotechnologies team. My work revolves around utilising analytical techniques such as LCMS and SFCMS for the quantification, isolation, and structural elucidation of natural product compounds.

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Kevin Mitchell Principal Research Scientist
Dawn Scott
Dawn Scott Team Leader Analysis and enzymatic modification of fats and oils

I'm a Senior Research Scientist in the Biotechnologies group working in Lipids and Natural Products where I specialise in the analysis and modification of fats and oils, including utilising enzyme technology.

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Dawn Scott Team Leader
Andrew MacKenzie
Andrew MacKenzie Distinguished Research Scientist Phospholipid analysis specialist

I am a Principal Research Scientist in the Biotechnologies group where I manage the commercial analytical activities for the Lipids team. During my time at Callaghan Innovation I have established phosphorous-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy analysis of phospholipids.

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Andrew MacKenzie Distinguished Research Scientist
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