Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE200100181 [ 2020-06-09 - 2024-07-31 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Allison van de Meene (Chief Investigator) ,  Devi Stuart-Fox (Chief Investigator) ,  Dougal McCulloch (Chief Investigator) ,  Geoffrey Ian McFadden (Chief Investigator) ,  Kim Johnson (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Crossing the biology meso-nanoscale divide by scanning electron microscopy. This project aims to establish complementary scanning electron microscope (SEM) facilities at The University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University to advance research into crops, disease, neurosciences and coral reefs. SEMs are rapidly evolving instruments that permit high resolution imaging of visible size samples such as parts of plants and animals. The potential innovations, applications and benefits to society are far reaching, with the facility expected to impact the development of drought and salinity tolerance in crops, production of fibres by plants, resilience of Great Barrier Reef corals to warming, advances in medicinal agriculture, control of important diseases of livestock and humans, and sensory processing and ocular disease.

Funding Amount $1,050,000

Funding Scheme Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

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