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Synthetic biology collaborations to support natural product discovery and exploitation in South East Asia

Reference	BBS/OS/GC/000004
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Paul Race
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Colin Lazarus, Professor Thomas Simpson, Dr Marc van der Kamp, Professor Chris Willis
Institution	University of Bristol
Department	University of Bristol Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	19,645
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	27/10/2016
End date	28/02/2017
Duration	4 months

Abstract

Visits to partner countries will aim to build on existing links with natural product researchers and nucleate new collaborative activities. We intend to visit institutions in three countries, Thailand, China and Vietnam. Visits will last 3-4 days each and will allow us to appraise existing research infrastructures and capabilities, identify microbial culture collections, gain a deeper understanding of where collaborative activities could deliver benefit, and obtain a clearer understanding of major research challenges that may be addressable in the natural product space by Bristol based researchers. The culmination of our scoping activities will be a 2-day workshop hosted at the University of Bristol. This event will comprise 1 day of short talks by PIs, PDRAs and PDRA students highlighting research capabilities in Bristol, example natural product based projects currently being undertaken, and example presentations for international visitors; ½ day of short talks by visiting researchers on challenges in developing countries and opportunities to address these through research; ½ day focused discussion between PIs from host and partner countries to identify and develop further funding opportunities and further explore areas of complementarity.

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	GCRF Scoping Workshops for Synthetic Biology (GCRF SWSB) [2016]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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