Lynnette Robin Ferguson ita 'yar New Zealand ce, kuma tun daga shekarar 2021 farfesa ce a Jami'ar Auckland. Ferguson ya kasance Abokin Royal Society Te Apārangi tun 2016. Ferguson ta ce da farko ta so ta zama mai gyaran gashin kai, har zuwa lokacin da ta yi kwalliya a makarantar gyaran gashi ta nuna mata ba ta da baiwa ko sha’awar hakan. Bayan kammala Masters na Kimiyya tare da Daraja a Jami'ar Auckland, Ferguson ya kammala DPhil a Sashen Kimiyyar Shuka, Jami'ar Oxford a 1975, tare da rubutun da ake kira The Control of DNA Repair in Yeast. Ta koma Jami'ar Auckland Makarantar Magunguna don aikin digiri na uku, sannan ya zama abokin aikin bincike na Auckland Society Society. Ferguson farfesa ce a Jami'ar Auckland. Ferguson tana aiki akan kwayoyin halittar abinci mai gina jiki, mutagenesis da abubuwan da ke haddasawa da sarrafa cututtuka na yau da kullun kamar cututtukan hanji. Ta kuma yi aiki akan kwayoyin halittar da ke da alaƙa da ƙoshin jin daɗi, jin daɗin cikawa bayan cin abinci.