CRC Partners: Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and The University of Queensland (UQ)
Targeting underexplored Australian marine microbes, this project will support the development of novel agrochemicals, specifically next generation antiparasitics for the Australian and global agriculture industry.
The project will explore novel chemical diversity encoded within the genomes of Australian marine microbes – bacteria and fungi – to discover the next generation antiparasitic leads for Boehringer Ingelheim to take into product development and commercialisation.
Built upon the existing Australian marine microbe library at the University of Queensland, the project will further optimise a high throughput platform of microbiological, chemical and biological profiling technologies, to fast-track the discovery and development toward potential commercialisation outcomes.
Shutterstock image of Lyngbya, a cyanobacterium (blue green alga) that forms filaments; light microscope image of living cells.
