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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0878713
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Chromatin barriers in Plasmodium falciparum gene regulation. Malaria is a major world disease that kills around 2 million people annually. The genome of the causative agent has now been completely sequenced, but we still know very little of how and why some genes are activated while their neighbours are turned off. I will study the DNA barriers that separate such genes, and the proteins that interact with these regions to better understand how genetic regulation functions in these parasites. A better understanding of gene regulation in malaria parasites will help us to better combat the tricks utilised by this and other organisms to elude our immune systems.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2008
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $301,778.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Medical Parasitology | Gene Expression | Genome Structure | Genetics
