Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102146
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Revealing the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of avian influenza virus. This project aims to understand how avian influenza virus (AIV) emerges, evolves and spreads in wild birds. AIV has the potential to devastate the poultry industry and cause human pandemics, but the factors that shape the genetic diversity of AIV in its wild bird reservoir are poorly understood. The project plans to combine genomic, ecological and phylogenetic approaches to reveal key aspects of AIV evolution, as well as the risk for future viral emergence. Using sampling sites in Australia and Antarctica, it plans to investigate AIV diversity, the evolutionary dynamics of AIV in wild birds and poultry, and the role played by environmental transmission in AIV ecology.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 06-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $534,100.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Microbial Ecology | Virology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Microbiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Disease Distribution and Transmission (incl. Surveillance and Response) |
