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Sequencing Plans for 2011

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Proposer Affiliation Project Description
Algae
Kerfeld, Cheryl DOE JGI Genome and Transcriptome Analyses of Two Extremely Acidophilic and One Neutrophilic Eukaryotic Algal Species with Diverse Mechanism for CO2 Acquisition
Lovejoy, Connie Laval University, Canada Small planktonic single celled eukaryotes from the Arctic Ocean
Plants
Muehlbauer, Gary University of Minnesota Whole genome shotgun sequencing of the barley genome
Vogel, John USDA-ARS Surveying natural diversity of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
Fungi
de Vries, Ronald CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, the Netherlands Comparative analysis of Aspergilli to facilitate novel strategies in fungal biotechnology
Goodwin, Stephen Purdue University Sequencing of pathogens and extremophiles in the Dothideomycetes
Hibbett, David S. Clark University Community proposal to sequence a diverse assemblage of saprotrophic Basidiomycota (Agaricomycotina)
Jeffries, Thomas Forest Products Laboratory Yeasts of Biotechnological, Taxonomic and Physiological Interest
Martin, Francis INRA, France Exploring the Genome Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Understand the Evolution and Functioning of Symbiosis in Woody Shrubs and Trees
Pisabarro, Antonio Public University of Navarre, Spain Comparative transcriptomics pipeline for saprophytic basidiomycota
Pringle, Anne Harvard University Comparative transcriptomics of closely related saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal Amanita species.
Spatafora, Joseph Oregon State University Phylogenomics and the origin and diversification of Kingdom Fungi
Turgeon, Gillian Cornell University Cochliobolus: expanded and deepened
Turk, Martina University of Ljubljana, Slovenia The varieties of the black yeast-like fungus Aureobasidium pullulans: evolution and use in biotechnology
Bacteria/Archaea
Bertilsson, Stefan Uppsala University, Sweden Genome wide diversity and population genetics in uncultured aquatic bacteria: single cell genomics of the freshwater SAR11 group and the ubiquitous Actinobacteria ac1 lineage
Chistoserdova, Ludmila University of Washington Genomes of fifty methylotrophs isolated from Lake Washington
Eichorst, Stephanie Los Alamos National Laboratory Populating the branches of the Phylum Acidobacteria with relevant soil strains
Eisen, Jonathan DOE JGI Continuation of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea pilot project
Kalyuzhnaya, Marina University of Washington Coupling function to genomics via single-cell phenotyping and genome sequencing
Liu, Wen-Tso University of Illinois Single cells genomics for uncultured Archaea dominating in a terrestrial subsurface aquifer abundantly containing methane
Sievert, Stefan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Shedding Light on the Dark:  Single-cell Genomics of Uncultivated Epsilonproteobacteria Inhabiting the Subseafloor Biosphere at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Stepanauskas, Ramunas Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Generating reference genomes for marine ecosystem research: Single cell sequencing of ubiquitous, uncultured bacterioplankton clades
Tsiamis, George University of Ioannina, Greece Unraveling the unique microbial diversity of the Etoliko lagoon in Western Greece through a single cell genomics approach
Metagenomes
Bryant, Donald Penn State University Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of anoxygenic, chlorophototrophic microbial mat communities in Yellowstone National Park
Campbell, Barbara University of Delaware Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of carbon cycling in Delaware coastal waters
Dionisi, Hebe Patagonian National Research Center, Argentina Microbial Community Structure and Metabolic Potential of Chronically Polluted Marine Sediments from Cold Regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Distel, Dan Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation, Center for Marine Research The complete shipworm microbiome: a comparative genomic and metagenomic analysis of lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities from multiple species of wood-boring bivalves.
Girguis, Peter Harvard University Linking mantle to microbe: a community-wide effort to ally hydrothermal vent microbial identity and ecology to geochemical cycles via metagenomics
Hallam, Steven University of British Columbia, Canada Microbial Systems Ecology of Expanding Oxygen Minimum Zones in the Eastern Subtropical North Pacific Ocean
Kerfeld, Cheryl DOE JGI Metagenomic Sequencing for Understanding Microbial Carbon Cycling by Biological Soil Crusts of Arid Lands
Macalady, Jennifer Penn State University Uncultivated and novel microbial lineages in terrestrial subsurface biofilms from a sulfidic aquifer
McMahon, Katherine University of Wisconsin High-resolution temporal and spatial dynamics of microbially-mediated carbon processing revealed though time-series metagenomics in freshwater lakes
Moran, Mary Ann University of Georgia Transcriptional analysis of a marine bacteria-phytoplankton binary model system
Muyzer, Gerard Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Metagenomics of microbial communities from soda lakes and soda solonchak soils
Tringe, Susannah DOE JGI Microbial community impact on carbon sequestration in managed wetland “carbon farming”