Microbial Network Organisation

Project Information

MINOS

Grant agreement ID: 250254

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2010

End date 31 May 2015

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 2 499 937,00

EU contribution € 2 499 937,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Norway

Objective

The project faces the problem of handling complexity in the microbial part of the marine pelagic food web. The basic idea is that there is a generic structure created by the interactions between three fundamental life strategies - competition, defense and predation/parasitism. This generic structure links the life strategies to central system features such as biodiversity, biogeochemistry, population dynamics and evolution. The structure repeats itself and excert control over phenomena from microdiversity within prokaryotic species to basin scale biogeochemistry. It thus it thus creates self-similarity as in fractal theory, generating complexity and intricate patterns at many levels from simple rules. The project has a theoretical part where individual based models will be used to represent life strategies, adaption and evolution at the cell level - allowing microbial diversity to evolve as a product of the models. The theoretical work will be challenged with experimental work at two levels: the effect of host-virus interactions on biodiversity within microbial communities, and the effect of predation on structuring the balance between communities of osmotrophic microorganisms (bacteria and phytoplankton).

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology › bacteriology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biological behavioural sciences › ethology › biological interactions
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geochemistry › biogeochemistry

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Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-AG-LS8 - ERC Advanced Grant - Evolutionary, population and environmental biology

Call for proposal

ERC-2009-AdG
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Funding Scheme

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Host institution

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN

• EU contribution: € 2 499 937,00
• Address: MUSEPLASSEN 1 ; 5020 Bergen ; Norway
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Tron Frede Thingstad (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN

Norway

• EU contribution: € 2 499 937,00
• Address: MUSEPLASSEN 1 ; 5020 Bergen
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Tron Frede Thingstad (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data