Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL160100170

Funded Activity Summary

Scaling in biology: size control at the cell, organelle and organism level. This project aims to decipher the universal mechanisms that coordinate growth with division and thereby dictate the size of the cell. It would investigate this question from the triangulating perspective of evolution using yeast and animal models. It plans to interrogate the complex sub-networks that govern cell size using novel genome-scale reagent sets for systematic genetics and other approaches. It would integrate this data in predictive mathematical models of size control that illuminate how the cell processes size-related information, and how size mechanisms evolve to impact form and function in biology. This research is expected to have commercial applications in biotechnology processes and bioengineering.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: Start date not available

End Date: End date not available

Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships

Funding Amount: $2,887,531.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Synthetic Biology | Systems Biology | Biologically Active Molecules

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Human Pharmaceutical Products not elsewhere classified | Veterinary Pharmaceutical Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Biologically Active Molecules | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Human Pharmaceutical Products not elsewhere classified | Synthetic Biology | Systems Biology | Veterinary Pharmaceutical Products not elsewhere classified

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