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Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua
Finance and Projects Administrator
Riddet InstituteResearch Projects
Current Projects
Project Title: TDR1 - Optimal nutrition in elderly populations
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: CS1 - AI & Machine Learning Techniques
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: HD2 - Consumer & Sensory
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Joanne Hort - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: HD1 - Food and nutrient intakes of kids and teens in Aotearoa New Zealand
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Lisa Te Morenga - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
- Mrs Hilary Nuttall - Team Member
Project Title: Project 3.3 - Alternative proteins
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Munish Puri - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 3.2 - Recombinant Technology
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.3 - Food Structures & Metabolism
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.2 - Human Digestome
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.1 - Food Structure Design
Date Range: 2025 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Dr Alejandra Acevedo Fani - Project Leader
- Mr John Henley-King - Team Member
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Matauranga Kai
Date Range: 2021 - 2026
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Lisa Te Morenga - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 3.2 - Recombinant technology
Date Range: 2021 - 2025
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Emeritus Professor Geoff Jameson - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 2.3 - Consumer & sensory
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Joanne Hort - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.1a - Food materials
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Matt Golding - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.3a - Human Digestome
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Prof John Bronlund - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Riddet Institute Management and Strategic
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Mr John Henley-King - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Riddet Institute Competitive Awards
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Mr John Henley-King - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 3.1 - Cell based production of protein
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Prof Warren McNabb - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 2.2 - Combinatorial proteins
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 2.1 - Plant and novel proteins
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.6 - New indices of nutritional impact
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.5 - Food structure and metabolism
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.3 - Human Digestome
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.2 - Food structure modifications in the GIT
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Project Title: Project 1.1 - Food materials
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member
Completed Projects
Project Title: Project 1.4 - Food structure and microbiome
Date Range: 2021 - 2028
Funding Body: Tertiary Education Commission
Project Team:
- Distprof Harjinder Singh - Project Leader
- Miss Meka Faamanu Mapuilesua - Team Member