Approved Proposals FY07 Following are the approved user proposals for fiscal year 2007. Community Science Program (CSP) Plans Large Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Aquilegia formosa Hodges UC Santa Barbara Brachypodium distachyon (Poaceae) Vogel USDA-ARS Gossypium (cotton) Paterson Univ. of Georgia Manihot esculenta (cassava) Fauquet Danforth Plant Science Ctr. Small Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Cryphonectria parasitica (chestnut blight fungus) Nuss Univ. of Maryland Biotech. Inst. Reef-building corals and dinoflagellate symbionts (ESTs from Acropora palmata, Montastraea faveolata, and Symbiodinium clade A and clade B) Medina Univ. of California, Merced Fragilariopsis cylindrus (a diatom) Mock Univ. of Washington Guillardia theta and Bigelowiella natans Archibald Dalhousie Univ. Heterobasidion annosum Stenlid Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Three species of Neurospora (N. discreta, N. tetrasperma FGSC2508, N. tetrasperma FGSC2509) Taylor Univ. of California, Berkeley Peronosporomycete mtDNAs (26) Hudspeth Northern Illinois Univ. Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) Pisabarro Public Univ. of Navarre Riftia pachyptila (deep-sea tubeworm) Girguis Harvard Univ. Switchgrass Tobias USDA-ARS Tetranychus urticae (two-spotted spider mite) Grbic Univ. of Western Ontario Thellungiella halophila Schumaker Univ. of Arizona Mating loci from Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Umen Salk Inst. Bacteria and Archaea Organism Proposer Affiliation Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus 5a2 and Encarsia symbiont Cand. Cardinium hertigii Horn Univ. of Vienna Actinobacteria (Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 and Micrococcus luteus) Jansson Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Beggiatoa alba Mueller Morgan State Univ. Burkholderia (B. ambifaria IOP40-10, B. ambifaria MEX-5, B. graminis C4D1M, B. sp. SEMIA 6167, B. sp. strain H160, B. sp. strain 144F, B. sp. strain CCGE1001, B. sp. strain CCGE1003, B. cepacia ATCC 25416) Tiedje Michigan State Univ. Anaerobic benzene-degrading methanogenic consortium (Chloroflexi, Desulfobacterium sp., Desulfosporosinus sp., Methanomicrobiales-like sp., Methanosaeta sp., Methanosarcinales-like spp) Edwards Univ. of Toronto Crenothrix polyspora enrichment Wagner Univ. of Vienna Cyanothece strains Pakrasi Washington Univ. Dechlorinating community (KB-1) (Dehalococcoides, Geobacter, Methanosarcina, Spirochete, Sporomusa) Edwards Univ. of Toronto Lithifying mat communities of marine stromatolites (Desulfovibrio sp. H0407_12.1Lac, Schizothrix gebeleni sp.A and sp. B, Solentia sp., Sulfate Reducing Bacterium sp. B, and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria) Decho Univ. of South Carolina Candidatus Endomicrobium trichonymphae, Elusimicrobium minutum Pei191 Brune Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Symbiont from the basal clade of the Frankiaceae Benson Univ. of Connecticut Six freshwater iron-oxidizing bacteria (Gallionella ferruginea capsiferriformans ES-2, Leptothrix cholodnii SP-6, Rhodobacter sp. str. SW2, Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1, and Sideroxydans lithotrophicus, Acidovorax delafieldii 2AN) Emerson Amer. Type Culture Collection Microbiome resident in the foregut of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) McSweeney CSIRO Methanomicrococcus blatticola Hackstein Radboud Univ. Nijmegen Methylocella silvestris BL2, Methylocapsa acidiphila B2, and Beijerinckia indica subsp. indica Dunfield Inst. of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand Pedomicrobium manganicum Mackenzie, Univ. of Texas, Houston Microbial community (plasmid mobilome) in wastewater treatment plant van der Meer Univ. of Lausanne Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii (strains WSM1325 and WSM2304) Reeve Murdoch Univ. Near-shore anoxic basin: Saanich Inlet Hallam Univ. of British Columbia Thauera sp. MZ1T Sayler Univ. of Tennessee Thermolithobacter ferrireducens Wiegel Univ. of Georgia Haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (Thioalkalivibrio sp. HL-EbGR7, and T. sp. K90 mix) Muyzer Delft Univ. of Technology