Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102353 [ 2017-04-26 - 2021-03-30 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Jens Krömer (Chief Investigator) ,  Professor Bernard Degnan (Chief Investigator) ,  Professor Bernard Degnan (Chief Investigator) ,  Professor Sandie Degnan (Chief Investigator) ,  Professor Sandie Degnan (Chief Investigator)
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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

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