Daryl Rowan

Team Leader, Plant & Food Research
Leader - Metabolomics, Nutrigenomics New Zealand

Research specialty: Metabolomics

Academic qualifications

PhD (University of Otago) Chemistry

Distinctions/Honours
Invited speaker - Intn. Conference on Nutrigenomics and Gut Health, Auckland, 2006
Invited speaker - New Trends in Functional Foods, Auckland, 2005
Chair metabolomics session and workshop at NZ Microbiology Conferences, 2004 and 2003.
Trimble Agricultural Trust Travel Fellowships, 1999, 1990, 1986
Ministerial Science Award Commendation, 1991
Fulbright Travel Fellowship 1986,
UGC postgraduate Research Scholarship
Mellor Prize for Chemistry
Member NZ Institute of Chemistry, The Metabolomics Society, The New Zealand Royal Society, The American Chemical Society (2000 - 2005)

Employment Record

1992 - 2006 Research Scientist, HortResearch (Flavour and phytochemistry, metabolomics)
2001 - 2002 Science Capability Leader, HortResearch (Biological Chemistry)
1987 - 1992 Research Scientist, DSIR (Chemical Ecology)
1986 Visiting Fellow, University of Georgia, USA (Plant Biochemistry)
1981 - 1985 Research Scientist, DSIR (Chemical Ecology)
1979 - 1980 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Key Publications

• Adam J. Matich, Marian J. McKenzie, David A. Brummell and Daryl D. Rowan. 2009. Volatile organoselenides in Nicotiana tabacum overexpressing a selenocysteine methyltransferase transgene. Phytochemistry, in press.
• Rowan, D.D., Cao, M., Hunt, M.B., Austin, P.T., Norling, C.L., Cooney, J.M., Jensen, D.J., Hellens, R.P., Lin-Wang K., Schaffer R.J. and Allan A.C. 2009.  Environmental regulation of leaf colour in red 35S:PAP1 Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist, 182(1):102-115.
• Lin, H-M., Edmunds, S.J., Helsby, N.A., Ferguson, L.R. and Rowan, D.D. 2009. Non-targeted metabolite profiling by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry reveals potential inflammatory biomarkers in a Crohn’s disease mouse model. J. Proteomics Research. 8 (4): 2045–2057. DOI: 10.1021/pr800999t.
• McKenzie M.J., Hunter, D.A., Pathirana, R., Watson, L.M., Joyce, N, Rowan, D., Matich, A. and Brummell D.A. 2009. Accumulation of an organic anticancer selenium compound in a transgenic Solanaceous species shows wider applicability of the selenocysteine methyltransferase transgene from selenium hyperaccumulators. Transgenic Research 18 (3): 407. DOI 10.1007/s11248-008-9233-0.
• Dryland, P.A., Love, D.R., Walker, M.F., Dommels, Y., Butts, C., Rowan, D., Roy, N.C., Helsby, N., Browning, B.L., Zhu, S., Copp, B.R. and Ferguson, L.R. 2008. Allantoin as a biomarker of inflammation in an inflammatory bowel disease mouse model: NMR analysis of urine. The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal 1: 1-6.
• A.J. Matich, B.J. Bunn, D.J. Comeskey, M.B. Hunt and D.D. Rowan. 2007. Chirality and biosynthesis of lilac compounds in Actinidia arguta flowers
  Phytochemistry, 68(13): 1746-1751.
• Matich, A. J. and Rowan D. D. 2007. Pathway analysis of branched-chain ester biosynthesis in apple using deuterium labelling and enantioselective GC-MS. J. Agric. Food Chem. 55 (7): 2727-2735