Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102353

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170102353

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How sponges and bacteria maintain productivity on coral reefs. This project aims to listen in on conversations between a Great Barrier Reef sponge and its bacterial symbionts. Coral reefs thrive in nutrient-poor tropical seas by efficiently retaining and recycling essential elements. Marine sponges help coral reefs by co-operating with metabolically diverse bacterial symbionts via largely unknown mechanisms. Using an advanced genome-enabled sponge, invertebrate biology, microbiology, genomics and metabolomics, this project seeks to reveal genomic and metabolic details of the partnership, which could inform environmental restoration, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-04-2017

End Date: 30-03-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $485,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Invertebrate Biology | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments |

Other Keywords

Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Invertebrate Biology | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)

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