Dr. Sarah C. Finch is affiliated with the Department of Plant-Fungal Interactions, New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute, where she is currently working as a Senior Scientist. Dr. Sarah C. Finch has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also works as a reviewer for reputed professional journals. Dr. Sarah C. Finch has an active association with different societies and academies around the world. Dr. Sarah C. Finch made her mark in the scientific community with contributions and wide recognition from subject experts around the world. Dr. Sarah C. Finch has received several awards for her contributions to the scientific community. Dr. Sarah C. Finch's major research interests involve using mycology, fungal molecular biology and supporting plant and animal sciences to focus on understanding and developing opportunities from the ecology of pasture-based fungi, particularly the fungal endophytes of grasses.

D. Tim Harwood is a toxin chemist with research interests in natural toxin accumulation in food gathered from the land and the sea. He co-leads the MBIE-funded Seafood Safety research platform and is the Deputy Director of the New Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre. His specialist areas of expertise include natural product isolation and structural elucidation, analytical method development and validation. He completed his post-graduate degrees at the University of Canterbury and University of Otago, before undertaking a postdoc at Sydney’s ANZAC Research Institute. Since returning to New Zealand and joining Cawthron in 2010, his research interest has been on marine toxins that accumulate in seafood. His recent focus has been on the analysis of saxitoxin-group toxins and the toxins implicated in ciguatera fish poisoning.

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Andrew I. Selwood received a graduate diploma in Chemistry from the University of Waikato in 2012. He leads Cawthron’s Bioactives team, a division of Cawthron that is world-renowned for the production of natural compounds from algal cultures. He is an expert in marine and freshwater algal toxins; his work has been published in over 60 scientific papers (H-Index 28) and through international conferences. Highlights from this work include the invention of novel detection methods and the discovery of several new compounds. His skills in chemical analysis and purification of rare and novel natural compounds from complex matrices are extensive. His research interests include marine and freshwater toxins; liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (lc-ms); and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).