ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT180100407

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT180100407

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Stories from the past: the impact of industrialisation on the human microbiome. This project aims to explore the history and origin of ‘Industrial’ diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and autism. Non-communicable, ‘Industrial’ diseases are rising at an alarming rate in Australia, and changes to the beneficial microorganisms within the human body (microbiota) may be to blame. This project will explore how human microbiota have changed over the past 100 years in response to cultural, environmental, and lifestyle factors linked with Industrialisation. This approach will allow stories from the past to inform modern medical treatment strategies and public health decisions in the future. The project will identify changes in environment, diet, hygiene, and medicine that have altered human microbiota in the past and sparked the Industrial disease epidemic in Australia today.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-2018

End Date: 10-2019

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $756,021.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Microbial Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health | Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences |

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