Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102353]Researchers: Jens Krömer (Chief Investigator) , Professor Bernard Degnan (Chief Investigator) , Professor Sandie Degnan (Chief Investigator) , Prof Dr Andreas Schmid (Partner Investigator)
Brief description How sponges and bacteria maintain productivity on coral reefs. This project aims to listen in on conversations between a Great Barrier Reef sponge and its bacterial symbionts. Coral reefs thrive in nutrient-poor tropical seas by efficiently retaining and recycling essential elements. Marine sponges help coral reefs by co-operating with metabolically diverse bacterial symbionts via largely unknown mechanisms. Using an advanced genome-enabled sponge, invertebrate biology, microbiology, genomics and metabolomics, this project seeks to reveal genomic and metabolic details of the partnership, which could inform environmental restoration, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
Funding Amount $485,500
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102353
- ARC : DP170102353