Plant and microbial metabolomics

Funding total

£6.5M

Phase 1: to establish one or two centres of excellence offering complementary metabolomic technologies
Phase 2: to promote and enable the use of metabolomic technologies in research that addresses fundamental and strategic questions about plants or microorganisms

To establish one or two sustainable centres of excellence in metabolomics
To establish a training network in metabolomic technologies
To provide a metabolomics service for the microbial and plant science communities
To increase research activity in metabolomics in the UK
To establish centres of innovation and technology development

To expand the science base in metabolomics by applying metabolomic technologies to biological questions that are not amenable to, or which complement, conventional biochemical and molecular approaches
To enhance - at an integrative, holistic level - knowledge of the underlying physiological processes in plants and microorganisms that are relevant to the understanding of, for example, the derivation of quality attributes in food materials or the interactions of crop plants with pathogens and pests
To promote and enable the use of metabolomics in research that addresses fundamental and strategic questions about plants or microorganisms

Brian Harris
brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413249
fax: 01793 413234