How do microbes respond to such a wide range of pressures? To study this question, the team will use strains of the genus Carnobacterium, which are psychrotolerant, facultatively anaerobic Gram-positive bacteria that grow at both low and high P extremes. Their working hypothesis is that bacteria adapt to the P environment by altering both their methylomes and transcriptomes,
Proposer: Wayne Nicholson, University of Florida