Approved Proposals FY06 Following are the approved user proposals for fiscal year 2006. Community Science Program (CSP) Plans Large Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella (pink shepherd’s-purse) Weigel Max Planck Inst. for Developmental Biology Mimulus guttatus (monkey flower) Willis Duke Univ. Sorghum bicolor Paterson Univ. of Georgia Small Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (frog-infecting chytrid fungus ) Taylor UC Berkeley Bicyclus anynana (a butterfly) Long UC Irvine Campanulales (Grammathotheca bergiana, Isotoma petraea, Lobelia anceps, L. angolenis, L. baumannii, L. cardinalis, L. erinus, L. galpinii, L. gregoriana, L. inflata, L. jasionoides, L. malowensis, L. laxa, L. linearis chloroplast, L. patula, L. siphilitica, L. spicata, L. thermalis, L. boninensis, L. morogoroensis chloroplast L. holstii chloroplast, Monopsis alba, M. debilis, M. flava, M. stellaroides, Pratia angulata, P. nummularia, Wimmerella hederacea chloroplast, Carpodetus serratus Chloroplast, Cyphia volubilis chloroplast, Cyphia dentariifolia chloroplast, Cyphia angustiloba, Cyphia crenata Chloroplast, Cyphia digitata chloroplast, Cyphia tortilis chloroplast, Cyphia phyteuma chloroplast, Cyphia belfastica chloroplast, Brighamia insignis chloroplast, Porterella carnosula, Cyanea fissa chloroplast) Knox Indiana Univ. Ciona intestinalis (sea squirt) Lemaire CNRS, France Crassostrea gigas (oyster) Hedgecock Univ. of Sourthern California Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus Buss Yale Univ Ictalurus punctatus and I. Furcatus (catfish) Liu-J Auburn Univ. Melampsora larici-populina (poplar rust) Martin Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Lake Malawi cichlid fish (Metriaclima zebra, Labeotropheus fuelleborni, Melanochromis auratus, Copadichromis conophorus, Rhamphochromis esox) Kocher Univ. of New Hampshire Mycosphaerella fijiensis (cause of black Sigatoka ) Goodwin USDA-ARS, Purdue Univ Mytilus californianus (California mussel) Gracey Stanford Univ. Ostreococcus (green unicellular alga, low-light strain) Palenik UC San Diego Parhyale hawaiensis and Jassa slatteryi (amphipod crustaceans) Patel UC Berkeley Petrolisthes cinctipes (porcelain crab) Stillman San Francisco State Univ. Phycomyces blakesleeanus Corrochano Univ. of Seville Phytophthora capsici (root and crown rot) Kingsmore Natl. Ctr. for Genome Resources Piromyces sp. E2 (a chytrid fungus) Baker, S Pacific Northwest Natl. Lab. Trichoderma virens Ebbole Texas A&M Univ. Triphysaria versicolor (a parasitic wildflower) Yoder UC Davis Xanthoria parietina (a lichen fungus) Crittendon Univ. of Nottingham Bacteria and Archaea Organism Proposer Affiliation Acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli AAC00-1, Acidovorax JS42, Thermotoga RQ2, and Acidovorax symbiont (Verminephrobacter eiseniae EF01-2) Stahl Univ. of Washington Verrucomicrobia (Akkermansia muciniphila, Chthoniobacter flavus Ellin428, bacterium Ellin 514, Opitutus terrae, and Victivallis vadensis ATCC BAA-548) Smidt Wageningen Univ. Alaskan soil microbial community Handelsman Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison Antarctic marine bacterioplankton Murray Desert Research Inst. Bacillus coagulans 36D1 Shanmugam Univ. of Florida Two caulobacter (Caulobacter sp. K31 and Maricaulis maris MCS10) Stephens Santa Clara Univ. Crenarchaeote community (phylotype C1b.A1) Simon Oregon Health & Science Univ. Euryarchaeota community Baker, B UC Berkeley Six archaea (Halorubrum lacusprofundi ATCC 49239, Methanocorpusculum labreanum Z, Methanoculleus marisnigri JR1, Staphylothermus marinus F1, and Thermofilum pendens Woese/ Anderson Univ. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Thermotogales (hyperthermophiles including Fervidobacterium nodosum Rt17-B1, Petrotoga mobilis SJ95, Thermosipho melanesiensis BI429, Thermotoga lettingae TMO, Thermotoga naphthophila, and Thermotoga petrophila RKU-1) Noll Univ. of Connecticut Hypersaline microbial mats Pace Univ. of Colorado Korarchaeota community (Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum OPF8, two others) Stetter/ Elkins Univ. Regensberg, Diversa Corp. Nitrosomonas (isolate IS-79 and oligotropha Nm45) Norton Utah State Univ. Polynucleobacter necessarius STIR1 and Polynucleobacter sp. QWL-P1DMWA-1 pol_q Hahn Instit. for Limnology, Austria Salinispora tropica CNB-440 and S. arenicola CNS205 (marine actinomycetes) Jensen Scripps Inst., UC San Diego Sinorhizobium medicae WSM 419 Reeve Murdoch Univ. Termite gut microbial community Leadbetter Caltech Terephthalate (TA) degrading community Liu/ Hugenholtz Natl. Univ. of Singapore Hyperthermophilic Archaeal Species (Thermoproteus neutrophilus V24Sta , Pyrobaculum aresenaticum DSM 13514, P. calidifontis, P. islandicum, Caldivirga maquilingensis IC-167) Lowe UC Santa Cruz Opitutaceae bacterium TAV2 (ex. Verrucomicrobium sp. TAV2) Schmidt/ Rodrigues Michigan State Univ.