Following are the approved user proposals for FICUS JGI-EMSL-NEON, fiscal year 2021.
FY 2021 Facilities Integrating Collaboration for User Science (FICUS) JGI-EMSL Plan
| Proposer | Affiliation | Proposal Description |
| Bailey, Vanessa | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Characterization of simplified soil communities with high and low carbon use efficiency across differing moisture treatments |
| Bhatnagar, Jennifer | Boston University | Plant-mycorrhizal-decomposer interactions under climate change: the role of shifting plant carbon allocation |
| Blanchard, Jeff | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Integrative analysis of multi-omic data across NEON eco-climatic regions |
| Glass, N. Louise | University of California, Berkeley | Nuclear cooperation, sharing of public goods and coordination of plant biomass utilization: probing functions unique to multinucleate syncytial fungi |
| Hatzenpichler, Roland | Montana State University | Ecophysiology, inter-domain interactions, and biogeochemical impact of an aerobic methane-producing freshwater bacterium |
| Heyduk, Karolina | University of Hawaii | Characterizing the molecular and metabolic regulation of drought-tolerant CAM photosynthesis |
| Mouser, Paula | University of New Hampshire | Membrane adaptations in response to environmental and engineered perturbations: Implications on attachment and carbon cycling in the deep terrestrial subsurface |
| Selbmann, Laura | University of Tuscia (Italy) | Metabolic processes and trophic interactions in Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities |
| Swaminathan, Kankshita | HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology | Characterization of self-incompatibility in the bioenergy grass Miscanthus |
| Ziels, Ryan Michael | University of British Columbia (Canada) | Resolving carbon fluxes within microbial communities inhabiting full-scale bioenergy facilities |