Allison Haywood | |
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Born | Allison Joy Haywood 1966 or 1967 (age 57–58) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Morphological and molecular systematics of unarmoured dinoflagellates (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) from New Zealand (2002) |
Allison Joy Haywood (born 1966 or 1967) is a planktonologist from New Zealand. [2]
Haywood completed her doctorate degree at the University of Auckland, focusing on molecular systematics. Her thesis project aimed to rapidly identify toxic algae which can cause serious food poisoning. [3] The title of her 2002 doctoral thesis was Morphological and molecular systematics of unarmoured dinoflagellates (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) from New Zealand. [4]
In 2001, while working at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand, Haywood successfully applied for a fellowship from the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. [5] She was the first recipient of such an award or fellowship from the Southern Hemisphere. [3] Haywood used the fellowship to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States. [2] Her post-doctoral work was at the Florida Marine Institute. [3]