Rate My Professor Ross Marshall-Seeley

Ross Marshall-Seeley is the Scientific Officer - eLearning in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago, a position he has held as part of the university's teaching and research support staff. He earned his Master of Science degree from the University of Otago and has been listed in the university calendars since at least 1994, demonstrating a long-term commitment to the institution within the School of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Health Sciences. His role involves supporting eLearning initiatives for anatomy education, contributing to the department's teaching laboratory and museum activities alongside colleagues such as technical managers and laboratory technicians.

Marshall-Seeley has received recognition for his professional contributions, including the Teaching Support Sustained Contribution Award from the School of Biomedical Sciences in December 2024, presented at an end-of-year function to honor outstanding sustained efforts in teaching support. Earlier, in 2014, he was awarded the distinguished research support staff award by the Otago School of Medical Sciences. He developed Diet Cruncher for Macintosh (version 1.2.0, Way Down South Software, Dunedin), a dietary analysis tool incorporating the New Zealand Food Composition database, utilized in peer-reviewed studies such as 'Food-based strategies improve iron status in toddlers: a randomized controlled trial' (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2009) and 'Predictors of vitamin D status and its association with parathyroid hormone concentrations during pregnancy and postpartum in New Zealand women' (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2010). Additionally, he assisted in processing CT scan data to produce digital 3D files for anatomical models, as noted in the university's 2017 newsletter on diagnostic technology targeting global markets. Marshall-Seeley has been acknowledged for computing and IT support in PhD theses, including those on GABAergic neurotransmission in the primary visual cortex (2022) and other research (2010), as well as technical assistance in the Genographic Project publication 'From cheek swabs to consensus sequences: an A to Z protocol for high-throughput DNA sequencing of complete human mitochondrial genomes' (BMC Genomics, 2014).