Coordinator | David Knies, M.Sc. | |
Partners | KIT Karlsruhe, Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven, University of Bielefeld |
Description |
Emiliania huxleyi is a species of calcifying algae that fixates calcium carbonate in form of coccoliths, regularly structured plates with a high specific surface. Goal of the ZeBiCa2 project is to understand E. huxleyi’s central metabolism and its connection to the calcification process. To achieve this, we create a genome scale reconstruction from the annotated genome of E. huxleyi. The analysis of networks of this scale requires methods such as flux balance analysis, rely on a steady-state assumption for the metabolism. Since algae, as all photosynthetic organisms, follow a diurnal cycle of storage metabolite production and consumption, their metabolism can never be considered to be in a steady state. One objective at the Institute for System Dynamics is to expand these methods to account for diurnal cycles. |
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The project is funded by the BMBF.
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