Alice Harford
Alice Harford is a PhD Doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, her research examines the underlying structural and functional disruption to cardiac mitochondria which lead to thermally-induced heart failure in wrasse species at high temperature. This mechanistic approach will then be applied to wider conservation efforts in response to climatic change, to improve understanding on what influences species distribution and survival, and allow more accurate and predictive models. Alice’s interests lie in the adaptive physiology of species inhabiting extreme and variable environments, as well as measuring the capacity and plasticity of these systems to compensate and maintain performance under changing environmental conditions. This is primarily focused at the level of the mitochondria, and examines their function, composition and stability under ecological stressors.
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