Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347711

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0347711

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Taxonomic discrimination and compositional analysis of microalgae using Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The project aims to develop an automated system using infrared spectroscopy that can rapidly and inexpensively identify algae and quantify their chemical composition. The system, which would be based on statistical models developed from infrared spectral information, has the potential to enable rapid identification of blue-green algae at the strain level, allowing new algal blooms to be rapidly compared with those known to be toxic. Compositional analysis using infrared spectroscopy has the potential to measure all major classes of macromolecules simultaneously and precisely, at the single cell level, in a non-destructive manner that does not involve polluting chemicals.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 28-07-2003

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $193,035.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Analytical Chemistry | Analytical Spectrometry | Phycology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Scientific instrumentation |

Other Keywords

Analytical Chemistry | Analytical Spectrometry | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Microbial Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Phycology | Scientific instrumentation

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