Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B505770/1
Isolation of single microbial cells.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr I Joint, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr G Tarran, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr S Archer, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Muhling, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Grant held at:
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNLISTED
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Environmental Genomics
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Abstract:
- Ecologists working with animals and plants are able to isolate the organisms from their environment and to make measurements that help us to understand the factors that lead to the ecological success of an organism. Microbial ecologists would also like to be able to take this approach but we are severely limited because of the difficult of isolating individual species and growing them in the laboratory. It is very difficult to separate individual microbes from the assemblages in which they grow and so most of the information that we have about microbial systems is based on the behaviour of mixed assemblages. If we could obtain pure laboratory cultures, then we would have a much better understanding of which microbes are present in an ecological niche, how they interact with each other and other microbes, how their physiology is controlled by the environment and how their activity influences major biogeochemical cycles. In this application, we propose to purchase equipment that will allow us to separate individual cells from natural assemblages and hence to tackle some of the outstanding problems in marine microbiology. We will use the equipment to develop laboratory cultures of important marine bacteria that have so far been elusive: we will determine the basic physiology of marine microbes: and we will test hypotheses of how protozoa detect and feed on marine bacteria.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B505770/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Capital Equipment Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Capital Equipment
This grant award has a total value of £351,350
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment |
|---|---|---|
| £4,799 | £52,799 | £293,750 |
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