Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160101795
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
New tools to decipher, predict and manage pacific oyster mortality episodes. This project aims to unite cutting-edge genomic and molecular biological tools with novel quantitative modelling analyses to identify the mechanisms behind oyster disease events. Oyster farming contributes almost $100 million to the Australian economy each year and is a cornerstone of coastal communities, but has been decimated by diseases that threaten this important primary industry. While some causative pathogens have been identified, the environmental catalysts of oyster disease remain a mystery. The expected outcome of this project is an innovative coupling of tools that provides new capacity to forecast disease events, delivering the Australian oyster industry a powerful platform to predict, manage and prevent costly disease outbreaks. By identifying environmental thresholds and oyster disease danger periods, an expected outcome of this project is the development of new oyster farming strategies aimed at avoiding multi-million dollar losses associated with disease outbreaks.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2017
End Date: 06-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $570,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Aquaculture | Microbial Ecology | Microbiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Coastal and Estuarine Environments | Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Marine Environments | Aquaculture Oysters |
