Grants

From time to time the CTBMB offers grants to its members. In the past these have focussed on enabling researchers to adopt new technologies such as Nanopore sequencing and single-cell sequencing. There are no grant rounds open currently. Any future grant opportunities will be advertised through the CTBMB newsletter and social media (Follow @CTBMB_JCU on Twitter).

Our current grant offer is Long-read Sequencing for Research in the Tropics : Round 3 PacBio!
Due date is 15th July 2023.  See PacBio project details for info on how to apply.

Past Grants

Successful Projects

  • Dr Kelly Condon: Unravelling the Vibrio spp. soup associated with mass mortality in an Australian prawn hatchery.
  • Dr Bruna Luz: Whole genome of Tubastrea coccinea
  • Paul O'Brien: Investigating the sponge metagenome using long-read sequencing
  • Erika Gress: First high-quality transcriptome of a Black Coral (Antipatharia)

Single-cell Grant Description  (PDF, 277 KB)

Successful Projects

  • Dr Margaret Jordan and Ms Annie Willson: EOMES role in MS pathogenesis is via monocyte-mediated cytotoxicity
  • Dr Andreas Kupz: Investigating the impact of novel live attenuated tuberculosis vaccines on trained immunity in lung immune cells
  • Dr Martha Cooper, Jamie Brady and Prof. Denise Doolan: Pilot study to assess heterogeneity of the human NK cell response to experimental P. falciparum malaria.
  • Dr Bruna Luz: Single-cell approach in Scleractinia
  • Dr Roland Ruscher: Molecular pathways underlying the anti-inflammatory effects of hookworm-secreted proteins in human Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Successful Projects

  • Madalyn Cooper and Alyssa Budd: Nanopore genome skimming of the critically endangered largetooth sawfish
  • Sandra Infante-Villamil, Dr Roger Huerlimann, Dr Kelly Condon, Prof. Dean Jerry: Characterisation of low complexity but potentially high-risk bacterial communities in early developmental stages of Black tiger prawn hatcheries
  • Dr Jenny Elliman: Aquatic invertebrate disease causing organisms
  • Dr Alanna Sorenson: De novo genome assembly of KRX E. coli strain for crucial in vivo bacterial replication termination data
  • Dr Peter Cowman: Surviving 50 million years on tropical reefs – a genome for Zanclus cornutus, a monotypic reef fish
  • Dr Paul O’Brien, A. Prof. David Bourne, Dr. Nicole Webster: Host-Microbe coevolution in coral reef invertebrates