Objectif Marine ecosystems and the fossil fuel petroleum oil are major natural resources whose use necessitates sustainable practices. Oil is toxic and its mining, transport and use results in much pollution, particularly of marine ecosystems. Some marine microorganisms degrade oil and play a crucial role in reducing its pollution impact thereby constituting a major factor in the sustainability equation, but we know almost nothing about them, and are not able to rationally influence their beneficial activity. In order to fill this critical knowledge gap, and elucidate the identity and functional roles of the most important degraders, the biogeography and phylogenetic and functional diversity of oil-degrading bacteria, the structure and function of oil-based microbial communities in which they act, population dynamics and degradation rates of such communities in response to oil pollution, will be studied and the potential for rational intervention to enhance their beneficial activities assessed Champ scientifique natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriologyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energypetroleumnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geography Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Thème(s) 1.1.4.-3. - Key action Sustainable Marine Ecosystems Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinateur NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Spianata San Rainerie 86 98122 MESSINA Italie Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (5) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH Grèce Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 46,7 km Athens-Sounion Avenue 19013 ANAVYSSOS Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS Russie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 1-st Dorozhny proezd 1 113545 MOSCOW Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Spielmannstrasse 7, Biozentrum 38106 BRAUNSCHWEIG Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Israël Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Ramat Aviv 69978 RAMAT - AVIV Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Wivenhoe Park John Tabor Laboratories CO4 3SQ COLCHESTER Voir sur la carte Liens Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée
