Host-microbe cross talk in the early metazoan taxa Porifera and anthozoan Cnidaria
Title
Host-microbe cross talk in the early metazoan taxa Porifera and anthozoan Cnidaria
General information
The project focusses on two overarching aims: Do host mechanisms, especially phagocytosis, control bacterial colonization events in early branching metazoan taxa? Which role do bacteria-bacteria interactions play in the assembly of the microbiome? The new insights, which will be derived from in vitro and in vivo studies in both sponges and Nematostella, will unveil possibly ancient mechanisms of hostmicrobe cross talk. It also will provide insights into the patterns and successions that shape microbial colonization dynamics and discover conserved mediators, which have evolved early in evolution as controls of bacterial colonization.
Start
January, 2020
End
December, 2023
Funding (total)
305000
Funding (GEOMAR)
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Funding body / Programme
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DFG
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Coordination
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany
Contact
Partners
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
