Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100321 [ 2014 - 2018 ]

Research Grant

Researchers Dr David Wacey

Brief description This project will provide new insights into the origin of life on Earth, life’s diversification through the Precambrian, and the co-evolution of life and early Earth environments. It will be discipline-leading in that it will take the study of early life to the sub-micrometer and hence sub-cellular level. This will facilitate new opportunities for identifying the types of life present during early Earth history, their metabolisms, cellular chemistry and interactions with their environment. The project will also provide new search engines and more robust assessment criteria for life on other planets, and help to resolve specific scientific controversies, for example, the validity of claims for cellular life from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks.

Funding Amount $767,444

Funding Scheme Future Fellowships