Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100483

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP200100483

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Regulating nutrient uptake in intracellular parasites. Parasites impose a major economic and medical burden on human societies. In order to grow and reproduce, parasites scavenge nutrients from their animal or human hosts. As they move within and between hosts they encounter different levels of nutrients; how they adapt to these differences is poorly understood. This project aims to investigate the mechanisms by which the model parasite Toxoplasma senses and responds to the nutrients in its environment, thereby shedding light on how they adapt to the different environments that they inhabit and, in the longer term, informing novel treatment strategies that aim to limit the parasites’ nutrient supply.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2020

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $460,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Infectious Agents | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Receptors and Membrane Biology | Cell Metabolism

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Infectious Diseases |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Cell Metabolism | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Infectious Agents | Infectious Diseases | Receptors and Membrane Biology

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