| Proposer |
Affiliation |
Project Description |
| Acinas, Silvia |
ICM-CSIC, Spain |
Microbial metagenomics and transcriptomics from a global deep-ocean expedition |
| Andresson, Olafur |
University of Iceland |
Sequencing of the three cultured partners of the lichen Lobaria pulmonaria and the sequencing of the transcriptomes from the natural tripartite lichen under selected and controlled conditions. |
| Banfield, Jill |
University of California, Berkeley |
Terabase sequencing for comprehensive genome reconstruction to assess metabolic potential for environmental bioremediation |
| Brodie, Eoin |
DOE JGI |
Mediterranean Grassland Soil Metagenome (MGSM): Enabling a systems view of soil carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry under a changing climate. |
| Brutnell, Thomas |
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
Development of sequence-based community tools for Setaria viridis-a model genetic system for C4 grasses |
| Bucking, Heike |
South Dakota State University |
Exploring the transcriptome of perennial grasses in association with beneficial microorganisms to increase biomass production and environmental sustainability of bioenergy production |
| Cary, Stephen |
University of Delaware |
Understanding terrestrial microbial biocomplexity in an Antarctic desert landscape: resolving universal drivers of community structure and function in a trophically simple system |
| Crouch, Jo Anne |
USDA-ARS |
Genomic signatures of pathogenicity and endophytism in five species of grass-associated Colletotrichum impacting the health and production of bioenergy feedstocks, agriculture and the environment |
| Dangl, Jeff |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Plant associated metagenomes--Microbial community diversity and host control of community assembly across model and emerging plant ecological genomics systems. |
| DeAngelis, Kristen |
University of Massachusetts |
Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils |
| Dubilier, Nicole |
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany |
Understanding novel pathways for energy and carbon use in bacterial symbionts of gutless marine worms |
| Emerson, David |
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences |
Single cell genome sequencing of biomineralizing bacteria |
| Fierer, Noah |
University of Colorado |
Cross-site metagenomic analyses to assess the impacts of experimental nitrogen additions on belowground carbon dynamics |
| Fredrickson, Jim |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Microbial Interactions in Extremophilic Mat Communities |
| Gilbert, Jack |
Argonne National Laboratory |
Creating a successional model for carbon remediation in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Gross, Stephen |
DOE JGI |
The Agave Microbiome: Exploring the role of microbial communities in plant adaptations to desert environments |
| Hazen, Samuel |
University of Massachusetts |
Creating a multi-functional library of grass transcription factors for the energy crop model system Brachypodium distachyon |
| Hess, Matthias |
Washington State University |
Expression profile of biomass-degrading fungi inhabiting the cow rumen |
| Kelly, William |
AgResearch, New Zealand |
The Hungate 1000. A catalogue of reference genomes from the rumen microbiome. |
| Kerfeld, Cheryl |
DOE JGI |
Enhancing Bacterial Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Synthesis of Building Blocks for the Carboxysome, A Metabolic Module for CO2 Fixation |
| Kyrpides, Nikos |
DOE JGI |
Genomic Encyclopedia of Type Strains, Phase I: the one thousand microbial genomes (KMG) project |
| Laplaze, Laurent |
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France |
Transcriptome Analysis of Salt Tolerance in Casuarina trees |
| Martin, Francis |
INRA, France |
Metatranscriptomics of Soil Forest Ecosystems |
| McKay, Robert |
Bowling Green State University |
Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of the Lake Erie ‘dead zone’: a seasonal source of greenhouse gases |
| McMahon, Katherine |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Dynamics of microbial carbon processing pathways across a decade in a freshwater eutrophic lake revealed through metagenomic sequencing |
| Mock, Thomas |
University of East Anglia, UK |
Sea of Change: Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Communities in the Arctic Ocean |
| Mohn, William |
University of British Columbia, Canada |
Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of forest soil communities across North America |
| Moran, Mary Ann |
University of Georgia |
The Genetic Basis for Heterotrophic Carbon Processing in the Sea |
| Murray, Alison |
Desert Research Institute |
Lake Vida brine microbial community (LVBMCo) genomics and transcriptomics - a window into diversity, adaptation and processes in extreme cold |
| Gerard Muyzer |
Delft University of Technology |
Genome sequencing of 100 strains of the haloalkaliphilic chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio |
| Nealson, Kenneth |
University of Southern California |
Life at the edge: community cooperation and success in a very extreme (ultrabasic and ultra-reducing) environment |
| Ohm, Robin |
DOE JGI |
Towards functional genomics: development of Schizophyllum commune as a model system to study lignocellulose degradation |
| Pester, Michael |
University of Vienna, Austria |
Targeted metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of a sulfate-reducing rare biosphere member and potentially novel sulfate reducers that impact methane emission from peatlands |
| Powell, Amy |
Sandia National Laboratories |
A Phylogenomic Framework to Investigate Fungal Thermophily |
| Pukkila, Patricia |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Functional genomics in the model mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea |
| Rodrigues, Jorge |
University of Texas at Arlington |
Profiling metagenomic consequences of Amazon deforestation at different spatial scales |
| Schadt, Christopher |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Defining the Populus Microbiome: Role of Genotype by Environment Interactions in Shaping the Rhizosphere Microbiome of Populus trichocarpa |
| Schrenk, Matthew |
East Carolina University |
Metagenome-enabled Investigations of Carbon and Hydrogen Fluxes within the Serpentinite-hosted Subsurface Biosphere |
| Spatafora, Joseph |
Oregon State University |
1000 Fungal Genomes |
| Stepanauskas, Ramunas |
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences |
Dark ocean microbial single cell genomics |
| Wing, Rod |
University of Arizona |
Empowering functional plant genomics with genomes and transcriptomes of the top 20 Brassicales |
