Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190100343

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190100343

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding sperm motion at surfaces. This project aims to reveal the biophysics of sperm motion at surfaces, using 3D imaging, advanced mathematical modelling, and microfluidics. This interdisciplinary project expects to generate new knowledge of sperm flagellar activity, using an innovative microfluidic approach to measure full dynamics of sperm motion in 3D and compare experimental observations with computational results. The project is expected to reveal the intraflagellar mechanisms that trigger the switch between 3D and 2D flagellar waveforms near surfaces. This should provide significant benefits, such as important insights into the biophysics of mammalian reproduction and the origin of flagellar motility in eukaryotes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2019

End Date: 31-10-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $460,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Interdisciplinary Engineering | Reproduction | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Reproduction

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