Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101549

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE120101549

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Creating a baker's yeast chassis cell via shikimate pathway engineering for production of sustainable, carbon-neutral plastic precursors for the future. From air bags to carpets, tyres and garden hoses, plastics shape our every day life. Coming from fossil fuels most are currently neither sustainable nor renewable. This project will engineer baker's yeast to produce plastic precursors from cane sugar in a fermentation process. This lays the basis for a sugar cane based chemical industry.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-01-2012

End Date: 08-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $375,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industrial Biotechnology | Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts | Industrial Microbiology (incl. Biofeedstocks) | Systems Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Organic Industrial Chemicals (excl. Resins, Rubber and Plastics) | Sugar | Plastics in Primary Forms |

Other Keywords

Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts | Industrial Biotechnology | Industrial Microbiology (incl. Biofeedstocks) | Organic Industrial Chemicals (excl. Resins, Rubber and Plastics) | Plastics in Primary Forms | Sugar | Systems Biology

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