Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100009

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100009

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Toxic Oceans: How do anthropogenic pollutants impact vital marine microbes? Environmental pollution threatens the sustainability of the world's oceans. However, we still do not understand how pollution affects primary producers at the base of oceanic food chains. This project aims to provide the first account of how common chemical pollutants (herbicides, plastic leachates and crude oil) affect key groups of marine photosynthetic bacteria. As these microbes underpin entire marine food webs, understanding their responses is crucial to monitoring and mitigating the impact of pollutants on ocean ecosystems. The aim is to design and validate novel, rapid environmental stress assays, based on gene expression profiling. This represents a pioneering new application of gene monitoring techniques to ocean conservation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2015

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $389,476.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Genetics | Environmental Monitoring | Microbial Ecology | Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments |

Other Keywords

Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments | Environmental Monitoring | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Microbial Ecology | Microbial Genetics | Microbiology

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