Rate My Professor Hannah Darroch

Hannah Darroch serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Otago. She earned her PhD in 2022 from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, under the supervision of Chris Hall. During her doctoral studies, she employed larval zebrafish models to examine the functional and transcriptomic adaptations in neutrophils arising from infection-driven granulopoiesis. Additionally, her PhD work assessed the suitability of larval zebrafish for studying trained immunity. In 2022, Darroch joined the Horsfield Laboratory at the University of Otago, where she persists in utilizing zebrafish as disease models. She collaborates with the Leask Laboratory, which has affiliations at both the University of Otago and the University of Alabama, USA, focusing on non-coding genetic variants potentially increasing metabolic disease risk in Māori and Pacific populations. Furthermore, she holds a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the ENHANCE Laboratory, directed by Dr. Megan Leask, within the Centre for Neuroendocrinology. Her research is also connected to the Centre for South Island Genomics and the Otago Zebrafish Facility.