Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093175

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093175

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The only constant is change: ecology and evolution of phage-host interactions in a model ecosystem. Microorganisms underpin life on Earth, but our understanding of their diversity and activity is limited by our inability to grow most of them in the laboratory. Recently, new techniques have emerged that allow access to the genetic information of all microorganisms by directly sequencing DNA and RNA from the environment. In this research we will further develop these frontier technologies, promoting this new area of science in Australia. We will apply these techniques to microbial communities involved in wastewater treatment in order to understand the interactions between microorganisms and the viruses that infect them. Understanding this interaction will have important implications for optimising these treatment processes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-03-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $750,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Genetics | Microbial Ecology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Land and water management | Waste management and recycling | Electricity, gas and water services and utilities |

Other Keywords

Electricity, gas and water services and utilities | Land and water management | Microbial Ecology | Microbial Genetics | Microbiology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Waste management and recycling

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