ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0990972

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT0990972

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Developing an Essential Research Platform for the Molecular Engineering of Photosystem II. Sunlight reaching the earth is used by plants and algae to drive photosynthesis and to store chemical energy. Possibly the most fundamental contribution photosynthesis makes to earth is to generate gaseous oxygen, the result of solar driven water-splitting chemistry. However, the mechanism behind water-splitting is not exactly known. In this proposal we will construct a new model cyanobacteria host to study water splitting. The host organism will be genetically modified to enable mechanistic questions of water oxidation to be tested and will provide new and pure forms of isolated protein. This model organism will provide team of international researchers with a remarkable tool new to study photosynthesis.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-12-2009

End Date: 30-11-2013

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $686,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Genetic Technologies: Transformation, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Etc. | Other Physical Sciences | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Biophysics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Renewable energy | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal) |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Biophysics | Chemistry Of Catalysis | Genetic Technologies: Transformation, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Etc. | Other Physical Sciences | Renewable energy | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal)

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