Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100621
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australian Sea Anemone Venoms: Bioprospecting & Evolution. Australian sea anemones are a highly promising and largely unexplored source of peptides and proteins with potential therapeutic and diagnostic applications. This project aims to evaluate this potential by undertaking transcriptomic analyses of a number species of anemones from Australian waters and identifying peptides and proteins in their venoms by mass spectrometry. It will also demonstrate the value of transcriptomics in informing taxonomic classification of anemones. In addition this project will assess toxin diversity within and between species based on nematocyst function from specific tissue sources and provide a clearer understanding of the evolution of venoms in Australian Actiniaria.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2015
End Date: 07-2018
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $174,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Proteins and Peptides | Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry | Bioinformatics | Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences |
