From left to right: Ali Boehm, Freddy Bunbury, Gina Chaput, Jessica Fletcher and Jonathan Fresnedo [above]; Andrew Gajigan, Betül Kaçar, McKenzie Kuhn, Tami McDonald and Alex Michaud [below]
Below find a list of the first 10 researchers accepted for 2023. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next review will be conducted in March. You can also find more information about the scientists and their proposals here.
| Name | Affiliation | Proposal Title |
| Boehm, Alexandria | Stanford University | Diversity and activity of chemoautotrophic nitrifier communities across physicochemical gradients in the subterranean estuary |
| Bunbury, Freddy | Carnegie Institution for Science | Photosynthesis at high temperatures: genetic and phenotypic underpinnings of thermotolerance in cyanobacteria |
| Chaput, Gina | University of California at Davis | The assembly rules of the seagrass microbiome: Host, priority and priming effects on Zostera marina microbiome as a comparative system for terrestrial and aquatic plants |
| Fletcher, Jessica | University of Colorado at Denver | Zinc tolerance in the Pinus contorta-Suillus tomentosus ectomycorrhizal system |
| Fresnedo Ramirez, Jonathan | Ohio State University | Biopolymer prediction in Taraxacum kok-saghyz to support inulin-derived biofuels |
| Gajigan, Andrian | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | Genomics and metatranscriptomics profiling of a novel dinoflagellate-giant virus system |
| Kaçar, Betül | University of Wisconsin at Madison | High-throughput resurrection of ancestral nitrogenase enzymes |
| Kuhn, McKenzie | University of New Hampshire | Identifying the genetic basis of complex phenotypes and climate adaptation in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) |
| McDonald, Tami | St. Catherine University | Extremophile ecophysiology: How algae are adapted to life in the world’s driest desert |
| Michaud, Alex | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | Ecology and adaptation of microorganisms immured in the West Antarctic ice sheet |