Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FL140100197
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Revealing the invisible: new principles of vision in Australian animals. Revealing the invisible: new principles of vision in Australian animals. This project aims to reveal how the visual systems of marine creatures from the Great Barrier Reef receive and interpret colour and polarisation information, much of which is invisible to the human eye. It aims to utilise this data to tackle fundamental questions in neuroscience and inform bio-inspired camera design and machine-vision solutions. The resulting new generation of polarisation cameras will be used to characterise the environments, animals and brains that inspired them in the first place. This will help the understanding of how nervous systems convey information and may improve our ability to detect dysfunction in neurons and other cells.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 11-2014
End Date: 12-2021
Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships
Funding Amount: $2,970,898.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Animal Neurobiology | Behavioural Ecology | Sensory Systems | Neurosciences
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |
