Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093106

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093106

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Oxygenating the Earth: using innovative techniques to resolve the timing of the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis in cyanobacteria. The early Earth was a hostile place with little oxygen in the atmosphere. Then cyanobacteria ('blue-green algae') invented oxygen-releasing photosynthesis. That profound event affected many fundamental processes, from the course of evolution to the formation of ore deposits. However, estimates of when these bacteria originated are disputed with uncertainties of hundreds of millions of years. We will resolve those uncertainties. We have developed new analytical techniques that we will apply to well-preserved 2.7-2.8 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. We will couple that approach to the use of the latest genetic techniques to reveal the origins of living cyanobacteria.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $715,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Genetics | Geochemistry | Palaeontology | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Secondary education | Uranium

Other Keywords

Geochemistry | Iron Ores (I.E. Ferrous Ores) | Microbial Genetics | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Palaeontology | Secondary education | Uranium

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