Previous RICF recipients
| Facility | Project | Priority | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated Design Environment for Advanced Manufacturing (IDEA bio) Partners: Queensland Metabolomics and Proteomics nodes (AIBN, UQ St Lucia) | Expand and automate a high throughput fermentation facility (microbial phenomics) located at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and establish a virtual design lab for strain engineering to enable researchers and companies to rapidly optimise their bioprocesses for the development of new bioproducts. | Complex Biology | $1,100,000 |
| Facility | Project | Priority | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian National Fabrication Facility-Queensland Node Partners: The University of Queensland, Australian National Fabrication Facility (HQ), Griffith University – Nathan, Queensland Microtechnology Facility | Expansion of existing space and environmental control upgrades for the ANFF-Q cleanroom at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), to ensure users can continue to achieve high performance fabrication outputs. ANFF-Q nanoscience cleanroom capabilities are crucial to cementing Queensland as a world leader in nanoscience and engineering, and to secure Queensland nanoscience research and innovation efforts for everything from biomedical devices to clean energy and quantum engineering. In addition to capital investment in these areas, the project will fund continued support of highly skilled staff. |
Characterisation Advanced Fabrication and Manufacturing Advanced Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environmental Systems Complex Biology Therapeutic Development | $4,591,732 |
| Bioplatforms Australia-Queensland Node Partners: Metabolomics Australia (AIBN, UQ St Lucia), AGRF (Gehrmann Laboratories, UQ St Lucia), StemCore (AIBN, UQ St Lucia), QCIF Ltd | Optimising Queensland infrastructure investment in 'omics' sciences including supporting the Genomics Platform at the Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF) at UQ to maintain up-to-date infrastructure and capacity relevant to meet the emerging needs of the research community, including large-scale genomic analysis of patient cohorts and agricultural and environmental populations. Support for Proteomics and Metabolomics Platforms for cellular metabolism research and guiding cellular design to advance Queensland's bio future including advanced fabrication and manufacturing, complex biology, and therapeutic drug development. | Complex Biology | $3,739,200 |
| Microscopy Australia -Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis Partners: The University of Sydney / Microscopy Australia, Central Analytical Research Facility (QUT, Gardens Point) | Upgrade the cryo-electron microscopy and imaging mass spectrometry instruments at the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, UQ to deliver expanded instrumentation, capability and training for molecular imaging techniques to identify and localise molecules in biological and material samples to advance science and deliver industry solutions to support new breakthroughs in Queensland with broad applications including outcomes in cancer, infectious diseases, manufacturing, agriculture and supporting drug development. | Characterisation | $2,235,325 |
| Compounds Australia Partners: Griffith University, Therapeutic Innovation Australia Ltd | Implement upgraded acoustic compound management infrastructure within the Compounds Australia to transform compound management for Australian drug discovery researchers by underpinning high capacity storage that preserves compound integrity and enables faster turnaround times from compound plating request to assay-ready plate generation. This enabled a more responsive research service provision and ability to generate more microplates in the service of more requests from research users. | Therapeutic Development | $1,875,000 |
| National Imaging Facility-Queensland Node Partners: University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging (UQ, St Lucia), Herston Imaging Research Facility (Herston) |
Expand capabilities of the Queensland Node (Centre for Advanced Imaging) of the National Imaging Facility (NIF) towards the clinical research sector in molecular imaging, and radiotracer development by: 1. Development and translation of new diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals and theranostics via the establishment of a new radiochemistry and molecular imaging node at the Herston Imaging Research Facility (HIRF) 2. Proving and translation of the disruptive imaging technologies of ultra-high field and 13C hyperpolarized Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). 3. Engagement with the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) for creation of digitized 3-dimensional virtual collections and their access by researchers and the community. | Characterisation | $2,565,081 |
| Integrated Marine Observing System-Queensland Node Partners: University of Tasmania, Australian Institute of Marine Science (QLD Coastal Waters), JCU (GBR Microbiome Database), DES (Wave Buoy Receivers, Directional Waverider), DES/DAF (Fish tracking - QLD Acoustic Telemetry Array) | Enhance the level of scientifically robust information available to manage Queensland’s marine estate via:
| Earth and Environmental Systems | $3,550,178 |
| Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Partners: The University of Queensland, The Queensland University of Technology, James Cook University. TERN Trusted Data Repository (UQ, St Lucia), Campbell Flux Station (QUT, Samford Valley), Campbell Flux Station (JCU, Daintree), COSMOS Soil Moisture Metre (CSIRO, Brigalow), Flux Monitoring Sensor (JCU, Robson Creek) | Provision of new data cyber infrastructure capability to improve discoverability, usability and management of existing Queensland government agencies data using sematic-enabled data management practices. Funding provided for TERN to update field sensors for the purpose of supporting long-term terrestrial ecosystem monitoring at Queensland sites and the building of the Trusted Ecosystem Data Cyber Infrastructure system to provide TERN data users such as the Queensland Government with access to harmonised, integrated and standardised observation data. RICF funds were used to update field sensors for the purpose of supporting long-term terrestrial ecosystem monitoring at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Fletcherview and the Robson Creek FNQ SuperSites. | Earth and Environmental Systems | $1,668,100 |
| Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation Ltd (QCIF) Partners: The University of Queensland, BCCVL, EcoCloud, eRA (QCIF, UQ St Lucia), Specialised Compute (Polaris / St Lucia data centres) | QCIF developed the Queensland Data Analytics Platform (QDAP) to be accessible to researchers state-wide and deliver infrastructure to support cloud and high-performance computing, together with advanced data storage, and customised software platforms such as the Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory (BCCVL) and EcoCloud. QCIF provided a team of experts located at all member universities, who could personally support researchers to make the best use of QDAP, and delivered a comprehensive training program to ensure researchers became rapidly productive. QDAP also included specialised services that enabled the secure management and analysis of sensitive data sets. |
Digital Data and eResearch Platforms Platforms for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Characterisation Earth and Environmental Systems Complex Biology | $4,500,00 |