Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100389

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100389

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Alternative splicing in apicomplexan parasites. The project intends to provide a detailed picture of how alternative splicing is regulated in four biologically diverse apicomplexan parasites, and to explain why parasites need this molecular trick to survive. Alternative splicing is an important means by which organisms increase the diversity of proteins encoded by their genome. Although this mechanism is well studied in humans, little is known about the extent of this phenomenon in other organisms, nor how the process is regulated. The project plans to test if alternative splicing is required to transition between different life stages, just as alternative splicing is required for tissue differentiation in animals, and describe how alternative splicing contributes to apicomplexan proteome diversity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $336,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches) | Genomics | Genetics | Microbiology not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of Animal Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Control of Animal Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches) | Genetics | Genomics | Microbiology not elsewhere classified

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