Objetivo In the last years, Protists (Protozoa) gained a significant attention from the scientific community because of their role as Trojan horses respect to opportunistic pathogens of humans and animals. Although this role is nowadays well established and accepted for some Protists like Acanthamoeba, little is known for other groups of possible hosts. Recently, members of the coordinating unit of Pisa got evidences that many of the natural occurring bacterial symbionts of ciliates have a strong phylogenetic affiliation to human and animal (especially fish) pathogens like Rickettsia (Vannini et al., 2005; Ferrantini et al., 2009; Ferrantini et al., in prep) and Francisella (Schrallhammer et al., in prep.). These observations raised the question whether ciliates may also represent natural reservoirs for potentially pathogenic bacteria especially in tropical regions where the environmental conditions favor microbial growth and fast evolution. Furthermore tropical countries are predicted as the Hot Spot for emerging infectious diseases and zoonosis due to hygienic standards lower than in Western countries and the living together of humans with their farmed animals. Aim of the present project is to set up an international research network that, starting from the collection of novel isolates especially from tropical regions, performs a complete ecological, functional and evolutionary genomic investigation on symbiotic bacteria retrieved from ciliates that shows phylogenetic affinities to pathogenic ones. Units from the proposed network posses expertise that ranges from the traditional morphological investigation to advanced ultrastructure, ecology, functional biology, molecular phylogeny, comparative genomics and postgenomics. Aim of the research network will be to coordinate the research activities of the involved units into joined projects and to transfer know-how to the younger researcher to allow them to re-establish the acquired competences in their home laboratories. Ámbito científico natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological morphologycomparative morphologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyprotozoology Programa(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" Convocatoria de propuestas FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación MC-IRSES - International research staff exchange scheme (IRSES) Coordinador UNIVERSITA DI PISA Aportación de la UE € 221 400,00 Dirección LUNGARNO PACINOTTI 43/44 56126 Pisa Italia Ver en el mapa Región Centro (IT) Toscana Pisa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Sandra Cecconi (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2 SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES La participación finalizó Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección PLACE EUGENE BATAILLON 2 34095 MONTPELLIER Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Jean-Michel Portefaix (Mr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART Alemania Aportación de la UE € 109 800,00 Dirección KEPLERSTRASSE 7 70174 Stuttgart Ver en el mapa Región Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Stuttgart, Stadtkreis Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Hans-Dieter Görtz (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER Francia Aportación de la UE € 18 000,00 Dirección RUE AUGUSTE BROUSSONNET 163 34090 MONTPELLIER Ver en el mapa Región Occitanie Languedoc-Roussillon Hérault Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Jean-Michel Portefaix (Mr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN Alemania Aportación de la UE € 84 600,00 Dirección HELMHOLTZSTRASSE 10 01069 Dresden Ver en el mapa Región Sachsen Dresden Dresden, Kreisfreie Stadt Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Claudia Hawke (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos