Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220102820

Funded Activity Summary

Glycan-based prebiotic approaches to increase food safety in Australia. Since the launch of the first Australian Animal Sector National Antimicrobial Resistance Plan (2018) several approaches have been suggested to reduce the use antibiotics in agriculture, however no alternatives to antibiotics have been suggested or trialled. In this proposal we aim to develop a novel glycan-based prebiotic strategy to reduce Campylobacter jejuni colonisation in chicken and poultry by disrupting important glycan-glycan interactions. Outcomes of this proposal is a cost-effective antibiotic- and vaccine-independent animal feed supplement strategy that will decrease the risk of human food-borne illness and therefore promoting food safety and public health in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2022

End Date: 28-02-2025

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $523,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships | Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Poultry | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Poultry | Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling) | Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy

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