Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557987

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0557987

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A comparative genomics approach to understanding host-endosymbiont interactions. Australia's unique ecosystems are vulnerable to invasion by exotic pests that threaten agriculture and human health. The bacterial symbiont Wolbachia is found in many major pests of agricultural and medical importance. Our results will give insights into how Wolbachia spreads into host populations and improve its use as a tool to impair insect transmission of disease, e.g. as an agent to carry genes into an insect population that limit disease transmission. Our results will also make fundamental contributions to understanding host-parasite evolution, host-parasite communication, and insect developmental processes, and will be of interest to a large international community of researchers in this field.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 23-06-2005

End Date: 22-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $340,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Invertebrate Biology | Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified | Bacteriology | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Disease distribution and transmission | Control of pests and exotic species | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Bacteriology | Biological sciences | Control of pests and exotic species | Disease distribution and transmission | Genetics | Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified | Invertebrate Biology

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