Federation Fellowships - Grant ID: FF0344672

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0344672

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The first stage of vision: transduction and adaptation in retinal photoreceptors. The project aims to provide a detailed understanding of the molecular steps involved in the first stage of vision - the conversion of light into a neural signal in the rod and cone photoreceptors of the retina. The significance of this is that it will explain the initial events that enable us to see, and will help explain the deficits that occur when the process fails. The outcome will be a comprehensive understanding of how our photoreceptors respond with extreme sensitivity, yet great rapidity, and over an enormous range of light intensities, thus endowing us with our remarkable sense of vision.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Federation Fellowships

Funding Amount: $1,417,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Systems | Animal Physiology—Biophysics | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Biophysics | Biological sciences | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Neurosciences | Sensory Systems

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