Following are the approved user proposals for fiscal year 2020.
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 |