Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451436

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451436

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Environmental regulation of opsin expression and spectral tuning in the vertebrate retina. Exciting new evidence shows that the vertebrate visual system is extraordinarily plastic and that the colour and brightness of the ambient light regulates both the spatial and temporal expression of visual pigments (opsin) genes and the degree of spectral filtering in the retina. Based on findings that more than one visual pigment can be co-expressed in a single photoreceptor type, we plan to manipulate the light environment in order to identify and quantify the effect of different lighting regimes by morphological, spectral and molecular techniques in a concerted effort to understand the regulation of opsin expression.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $210,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Physiology | Gene Expression | Genetics | Animal Anatomy And Histology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders |

Other Keywords

Animal Anatomy And Histology | Comparative Physiology | Gene Expression | Genetics | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders

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