Following are the approved user proposals for CSP, FICUS JGI-EMSL-NEON and CSP New Investigator calls.
Community Science Program
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 |
CSP New Investigator
Proposer | Affiliation | Proposal Description |
Evans, Rebecca | Washington State University | Metagenomes of the developing soils of Mount St Helens responding to nitrogen deposition and invasive species and the impact on soil carbon storage and cycling |
Fairbanks, Dawson | University of Arizona | Determining seasonal trait based microbial responses to moisture pulse events in the Jemez River Basin Critical Zone |
Fulweiler, Robinson | Boston University | Relating microbial community function to methane emissions in temperate seagrass meadows |
Garrigues Cubells, Sandra | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (Netherlands) | Study of the functional conservation and diversity of fungal transcriptional regulators involved in plant biomass degradation. |
Geddes, Barney | North Dakota State University | Elucidating the genetic determinants of rhizobial effectiveness at symbiotic nitrogen fixation |
Glassman, Sydney | University of California, Riverside | Using metagenomics to elucidate microbial mechanisms of altered carbon and nitrogen cycling post-fire in southern California Chaparral |
Jackrel, Sara | University of California, San Diego | Bacterial drivers of the Home-Field Advantage and the role of locally accelerated litter decomposition in the carbon cycle |
Prenni, Jessica | Colorado State University | Investigating the Relationship Between Cover Crop Species Diversity, the Composition and Function of the Soil Microbiome, and Soil Health |
Sandaa, Ruth-Anne | University of Bergen (Norway) | Metatranscriptomic analysis of the different steps in a marine giant virus-algae infection |
Su, Wei Wen | University of Hawaii at Manoa | RNA-seq analysis of Yarrowia lipolytica to decipher synthesis of acetyl-CoA derived oleochemicals from waste lipid feedstock for biomanufacturing of biofuels and bioproducts |
Vimercati, Lara | University of Colorado at Boulder | Transcriptomic studies of the polyextremophilic yeast Naganishia friedmannii exposed to freeze-thaw stress |
Xie, Meng | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Exploring transcriptional responses to iron bioavailability in Populus |