Following are the approved user proposals for fiscal year 2020, including CSP and FICUS JGI-EMSL.
Community Science Program
| Proposer | Affiliation | Proposal Description |
| Alcami, Antonio | Spanish National Research Council (Spain) | Diversity of DNA and RNA viruses in Antarctica |
| Anderson, Rika | Carleton College | Microbial and Viral Mediation of Biogeochemical Cycles from Source to Sink in Hydrothermal Vent Systems |
| Bowler, Chris | Institut de Biologie (France) | New Diatom Genome Sequences from the Most Abundant Genus in the Global Ocean |
| Brodie, Eoin | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Scaling Microbial Traits from Genomes to Watersheds Through Combined Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging, Soil Biogeochemistry, and Metagenome Assembled Genomes |
| Bushley, Kathryn | University of Minnesota | Defensive Mutualisms Between Fungal Root Endophytes and Soybean |
| Cullen, Daniel | Forest Products Laboratory | Mechanisms of Wood Decay by Soft Rot Fungi |
| diCenzo, George | Queen’s University (Canada) | Constructing a Functional and Regulatory Gene Atlas of a Nitrogen-Fixing Legume Symbiont to Instruct Genome Annotation and Synthetic Biology Applications |
| Dick, Richard | The Ohio State University | Exploring Microbial Roles in Plant Drought Tolerance in the Sahel |
| Gerlach, Robin | Montana State University | Deciphering Cross-Domain Interactions in High-Productivity, High-pH, High-Alkalinity Microalgae Communities |
| Hanson, Thomas | University of Delaware | Groundtruthing And Expanding Our Metabolic Understanding of Important C And S Cycling Microbes |
| Hess, Matthias | University of California, Davis | Detangling the Inter-Organismal Interactions During Anaerobic Biomass Degradation And Methane Production in the Rumen Ecosystem |
| Hori, Chiaki | Hokkaido University (Japan) | Elucidating the Plant-Microbe Interactions of the Wood Decay Fungus Perenniporia Fraxinea, a Serious Pathogen Of Hardwood Trees. |
| Juenger, Tom | University of Texas at Austin | Resequencing a Fast-Neutron Mutant Population of a C4 Perennial Grass (Panicum hallii) |
| Kliebenstein, Daniel | University of California, Davis | Pangenomic Comparison of Structural Variation Driving Recurrent Network Evolution in Brassicaceae Metabolism |
| Mock, Thomas | University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) | The International Arctic Ice Drift Experiment MOSAiC: Seasonal Changes of Microbial Communities Across the Arctic Ocean |
| Polle, Juergen | Brooklyn College of CUNY | Exploring the Diversity of Parasitic and Commensal Chytrids of Microalgae |
| Rodrigues, Jorge | University of California, Davis | Is the Soil Aggregate a Biogeofunctional Island? Unifying Two Theories to Explain Multiple Biological Processes |
| Selbmann, Laura | University of Tuscia (Italy) | Shed Light in The daRk lineagES of the Fungal Tree Of Life (FTOL) Acronym: (STRES) |
| Sullivan, Matt | The Ohio State University | Inferring Virus-Host Interactions Through Multi-Omics High-Resolution Time Series |
| Uehling, Jessie | University of California, Berkeley | Evaluating the Role of Fungal Endosymbionts in Fungal Mating and Evolution |
| Woods, Daniel | University of California, Davis | Genetic Tools in Brachypodium Distachyon to Identify Genes Regulating Bioenergy Relevant Traits in Grasses |
| Wrighton, Kelly | Colorado State University | Creating the GROW (Genome Resolved Open Watershed) Database: Leveraging Distributed Research Networks to Understand Watershed Systems |
| Ziels, Ryan | University of British Columbia (Canada) | Mapping Methanogenic Metabolic Networks in Full-Scale Bioenergy Facilities Using Functionally-Targeted Multi-Omics |
| Zuccaro, Alga | University of Cologne (Germany) | Host-Specific Regulation of Effector Gene Expression In Mutualistic Root Endophytic Fungi |
FY 2020 Facilities Integrating Collaboration for User Science (FICUS) JGI-EMSL Plans
| Proposer | Affiliation | Proposal Description |
| Beliaev, Alex | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Understanding Genomic Underpinnings of High-Biomass Productivity Phenotypes in Industrially Relevant Microalgae |
| Brodie, Eoin | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Beyond the Rhizosphere: Microbial Functional Traits Through the Whole Soil Profile and Their Response to Warming |
| Chain, Patrick | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Bacterial:Fungal Interactions in Soil: Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of Nutrient Exchange Between Soil Microbes and the Resulting Consequences for C/N Cycling |
| Crump, Byron | Oregon State University | Sunlight Exposure Replaces the Function of Microbial Enzymes Needed to Degrade DOM |
| Dunbar, John | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Carbon Cost of Plant-Microbe Interactions Under Drought |
| Gerlach, Robin | Montana State University | Deciphering Interactions Hypothesized to Lead to High Productivity in High Ph-High Alkalinity Phototrophically Driven Microbial Communities |
| Hallam, Steven | University of British Columbia | Expanding the Functional Metagenomics Toolkit with CRAGE and CRISPR-Cas9 In Taxonomically Diverse Microbial Host Chassis |
| Liao, Hui-ling | University of Florida | Discover Ectomycorrhizal Fungi-Triggered Macro- and Micronutrient Reactions and Movements: From Cell to Ecosystem Function |
| McDermott, Jason | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Prediction of Response in Soil Microbiome Carbon Utilization to Changing Moisture Conditions |
| Merchant, Sabeeha | University of California, Berkeley | Gene Function Discovery in Photosynthesis: A Multi-Omics Approach |
| Tfaily, Malak | University of Arizona | Rhizosphere Effects on Soil Organic Matter Decomposition and Microbial Activity in a Tropical Rainforest Under Drought: Unearthing Aggregate- to Ecosystem-Scale Contributions to Carbon Cycling Through Whole-Ecosystem Stable Isotope Labeling |