Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100248

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160100248

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Annotating unknown microbial gene functions with organic matter change. This project intends to develop a new method for determining the function of microbial genomes. Microbes are all pervasive on Earth. It is now possible to routinely sequence microbial genomes. However, the function of most genes encoded on these genomes remains elusive, severely limiting our understanding of most ecosystems. This project seeks to develop new methods to assign function to uncharacterised genes, by correlating changes in metabolite abundance with gene expression in a model permafrost thaw peatland. Determining the function of uncharacterised genes has widespread implications for microbial ecology and its numerous real-world applications, from determining soil greenhouse gas emissions to understanding human intestinal flora.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 22-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $368,600.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Ecology | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Bioinformatics | Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Soils not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Bioinformatics | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Microbial Ecology | Microbiology | Soils not elsewhere classified

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