Quaking aspen trees in autumn colors near Gothic, Colorado. (Courtesy of Benjamin Blonder)
Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
“We’re very excited to start working with this years’ crop of CSP recipients, over half of which are first-time PIs on a JGI proposal,” said Tanja Woyke, JGI’s deputy of User Programs. “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of important scientific questions relevant to the DOE mission, and we look forward to facilitating their success. “
The CSP Annual Call is focused on large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) missions in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You can learn more about this year’s recipients on our Twitter.
Samples were collected from across a permafrost age gradient from the Fox permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. (Courtesy of Mary-Cathrine Leewis)
This year’s annual CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, understanding natural communities important for carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and climate change; and biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts. Learn more about the program, including how to apply, here on our website.
The approved proposals start October 1, 2022. See the full list of awardees below:
Approved FY2023 Proposals
| Name | Affiliation | Title |
| Blonder, Benjamin | University of California at Berkeley | Identifying the genetic basis of complex phenotypes and climate adaptation in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) |
| Chen, Jay | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Leveraging Natural Variations to Uncover Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Differential Biosynthesis of Terpenes in Populus |
| DeAngelis, Kristen | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Soil microbial stress-biogeochemistry metabolism adapts under climate change across seasons |
| Dinneny, Jose | Stanford University | Understanding the mechanisms of metabolic exchange in the rhizosphere |
| Humphries, Jacqueline | Amyris, Inc. | A high-throughput, multi-omics approach to identifying new gene expression modules for industrial bioproduction in alternative fermentation hosts |
| Krasovec, Marc | National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) | Phytoplankton spontaneous mutation rate |
| Leewis, Mary-Cathrine | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Life in Ancient Permafrost: using an isotope and ‘omics approach to determine how microorganisms survive and metabolize in subzero temperatures across geologic time |
| Lofgren, Lotus | Duke University | Functional roles of secondary metabolism in ectomycorrhizal fungi |
| Majumder, Erica | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Characterization of plastic deconstruction metabolic pathways in microbial communities derived from enrichments of plastic debris in soil and landfill samples |
| Nagy, Laszlo | Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | A genome-wide view of the evolution of the most widely used lignocellulose-degrading Basidiomycota |
| Nunn, Brook | University of Washington | Investigating the interactions of a phytoplankton community and its microbiome on a 4-hour timescale to reveal emerging and predictive properties across an algal bloom and bust cycle |
| Ohm, Robin | Utrecht University | Functional genomics of the lignocellulose-degrading fungus Schizophyllum commune: regulatory networks, sustainable fungal materials and fungal defense |
| Pawlowska, Teresa | Cornell University | Unraveling the mechanisms behind the role of endosymbiotic bacteria in community structuring and evolution of Mucoromycota fungi |
| Saleska, Scott | University of Arizona | Primary succession of plant and microbial life: untangling inter-organismal interactions on a model early-successional landscape |
| Wakao, Setsuko | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Evolutionary genomics of biomineralizing stramenopiles with impacts on global carbon cycling and biogeochemistry |
| Weimer, Bart | University of California, Davis | The role of carbohydrate and nitrogen fixation for sustainable plant microbiome interactions |
| Wilbanks, Elizabeth | University of California Santa Barbara | The role of population distributed immunity in the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bacteria and phage |
| Wilhelm, Steven | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Direct resolution of virus-host interactions using bulk single-celled labeling and application to deep community metatranscriptomics |
| Wolfe, Marnin | Auburn University | Clover Genomics for Sustainable Bioenergy Mixtures |