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30 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £11,231,304   

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Anaerobic quaternary amine degradation: from single bacterium to salt marsh ecosystem.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor JC Murrell, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr K Purdy, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2012 - 31 Dec 2015
Value:
£333,421
NERC Reference:
NE/I027061/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Archaeogenomics of Sorghum domestication and adaptation

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor RG Allaby, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor DQ Fuller, University College London, Institute of Archaeology
Co-Investigator:
Dr G Barker, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
3 Mar 2014 - 2 Mar 2017
Value:
£636,149
NERC Reference:
NE/L006847/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Biogeochemical cycling of N-osmolytes in the surface ocean

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor DJ Scanlan, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Nov 2014 - 31 Oct 2017
Value:
£355,587
NERC Reference:
NE/M002233/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant



Elucidating the consequences of picocyanobacterial lipid remodelling for global marine primary production estimates

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor DJ Scanlan, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Birmingham, Sch of Biosciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2021 - 30 Sep 2024
Value:
£441,688
NERC Reference:
NE/V000373/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Event/Action
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Active
Programme:
Standard Grant


Extreme rainfall: Unravelling the importance of new climate-rhizosphere feedbacks across contrasting land use systems

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor GD Bending, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor CJ van der Gast, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Healthcare Science
Co-Investigator:
Professor NP McNamara, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Soils and Land Use (Lancaster)
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Feb 2017 - 30 Sep 2019
Value:
£247,597
NERC Reference:
NE/P014224/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (RP) - NR1
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Soil Security

Horizontal gene transfer of cyanobacterial carbon fixing machinery: Implications for the rise of modern atmospheric oxygen

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr RJ Puxty, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor TM Lenton, University of Exeter, Geography
Co-Investigator:
Dr P Sanchez-Baracaldo, University of Bristol, Geographical Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor DJ Scanlan, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr R Mushinski, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor L Liu, University of Liverpool, Biochemistry & Systems Biology
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2027
Value:
£885,145
NERC Reference:
NE/Z00019X/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Authorisation
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Approved
Programme:
Pushing the Frontiers


Is bacterial DMS consumption dependent on methylamines in marine waters?

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor H Schaefer, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Birmingham, Sch of Biosciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Aug 2018 - 31 Aug 2021
Value:
£254,498
NERC Reference:
NE/R010404/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant



Microbial degradation of dimethylsulfoxide in the marine environment

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor H Schaefer, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Birmingham, Sch of Biosciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
31 Mar 2014 - 30 Sep 2017
Value:
£380,542
NERC Reference:
NE/L006448/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence & ecology of microbial communities in the 'Plastisphere'

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor EMH Wellington, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr J Christie-Oleza, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Feb 2019 - 31 Jan 2024
Value:
£489,406
NERC Reference:
NE/S005501/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Highlights

New approaches to resolving community metaproteomes: ComProt

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor EMH Wellington, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr J Pandhal, University of Sheffield, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Co-Investigator:
Prof. C Quince, Earlham Institute, Research Faculty
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
Value:
£50,401
NERC Reference:
NE/S013539/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (RP) - NR1
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Omics


Quantifying the impact of anthropogenic nutrient imbalance on C flux from freshwater lakes: cellular mechanisms, community assembly and modelling

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr RJ Puxty, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor DJ Scanlan, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Dec 2022 - 31 Oct 2023
Value:
£613,820
NERC Reference:
NE/X005062/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Transfer Decision
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Active
Programme:
Highlights

Resolving the fate and studying the impact of pharmaceutical wastes on the environment and local community of a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr L Song, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr R Thompson, University of Warwick, Mathematics
Co-Investigator:
Professor H Lambert, University of Bristol, Social Medicine
Co-Investigator:
Prof. C Quince, Earlham Institute, Research Faculty
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2024
Value:
£842,406
NERC Reference:
NE/T013230/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Event/Action
Scheme:
Directed - International
Grant Status:
Active
Programme:
AMR India

Revealing a mechanistic understanding of the role of viruses and host nutrient status in modulating CO2 fixation in key marine phototrophs

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor DJ Scanlan, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr A Millard, University of Leicester, Genetics
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Aug 2016 - 31 Jan 2020
Value:
£386,246
NERC Reference:
NE/N003241/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

SIMbRICS: Sea Ice Microbiology and the Role In Cycling of Sulfur (DMS, DMSP, DMSO, MT)

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor H Schaefer, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor Y Chen, University of Birmingham, Sch of Biosciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor JD Todd, University of East Anglia, Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 Mar 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
Value:
£304,055
NERC Reference:
NE/S002596/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (RP) - NR1
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
MOSAiC

Stable Isotope Probing-metagenomics of river microbial populations degrading the aromatic pollutant para-nitrophenol (PNP)

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor H Schaefer, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor GD Bending, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
3 Sep 2012 - 2 Apr 2013
Value:
£50,774
NERC Reference:
NE/J014168/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Small Grants


The tree phyllosphere microbiome - an overlooked and important sink for carbon monoxide?

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor H Schaefer, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor GD Bending, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Prof. C Quince, Earlham Institute, Research Faculty
Co-Investigator:
Professor JA Covington, University of Warwick, Sch of Engineering
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Period of Award:
1 May 2023 - 30 Apr 2026
Value:
£645,350
NERC Reference:
NE/X001245/1
Grant Stage:
Awaiting Event/Action
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Active
Programme:
Standard Grant


Unravelling the diversity and function of fine root endophytes

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor GD Bending, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Prof. C Quince, Earlham Institute, Research Faculty
Co-Investigator:
Professor M Tibbett, University of Reading, Sch of Agriculture Policy and Dev
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
2 Sep 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
Value:
£610,341
NERC Reference:
NE/S010270/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Using next generation sequencing to reveal human impact on aquatic reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria at the catchment scale

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor EMH Wellington, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Mr A Mead, Rothamsted Research, Intelligent Data Ecosystems
Co-Investigator:
Dr T Alam, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School
Co-Investigator:
Dr JD Moore, John Innes Centre, Cell and Develop Biology
Grant held at:
University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
4 Jun 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
Value:
£488,611
NERC Reference:
NE/M011674/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
EM&HH


30 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £11,231,304   

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