Integrons, mobile gene cassettes and pathogencity in Vibrio cholerae

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/488502

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bacteria are remarkably adaptive and evolve in ways that plants and animals do not. One of these ways is Lateral Gene Transfer or LGT, which is a process allowing bacterial cells to share genes. Such mobile genes can greatly influence the extent to which pathogenic bacteria can cause disease. One notable example is Vibrio cholerae where many strains can be benign but some can give rise to cholera pandemics. Here, we will investigate this phenomenon in this important bacterium.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $550,285.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Infectious Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cholera | Infectious disease | Lateral gene transfer | Vibrio cholerae | epidemiology of disease | functional genomics | integrons | structural biology

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