Approved Proposals FY08 Following are the approved user proposals for fiscal year 2008. Community Science Program (CSP) Plans Large Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Eucalyptus tree Myburg Univ. of Pretoria Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) Bennetzen Univ. of Georgia Porphyra purpurea (a marine red alga) Brawley Univ. of Maine Small Eukaryotes Organism Proposer Affiliation Agaricus bisporus (a leaf-litter degrading homobasidiomycete ) Challen Univ. of Warwick Heterodera glycines (Soybean Cyst Nematode) Lambert Univ. of illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marchantia polymorpha Bowman Monash Univ. and Univ. of California Davis Paxillus involutus (an ectomycorrhizal fungus) Tunlid Lund Univ. Phaeocystis antarctica: A dominant phytoplankter and ice alga in the Southern Ocean Berg Stanford Univ. Phaeocystis globosa Allen The Inst. for Genomic Research ESTs for Pines and Other Conifers Dean Univ. of Georgia Tetrahymena thermophila strain SB210 Collins Univ. of California Berkeley Metagenomes Organism Proposer Affiliation Type I Accumulibacter McMahon Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Anammox bacteria (Scalindua marina, Brocadia fulgida, and Anammoxglobus propionicus) Jetten Radboud Univ. A biogas-producing microbial community Wu Univ. of California Davis Extreme microbial habitats across the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem Inskeep Montana State Univ. Isolates Organism Proposer Affiliation Allochromatium vinosum DSM 180(T) Dahl Univ. of Bonn Uncultivated methane-oxidizing archaeon ANME-1 Hallam Univ. of British Columbia Budding and non-budding stalked bacteria from aquatic environments (Asticcacaulis biprosthecum, Asticcacaulis excentricus, Brevundimonas subvibrioides, Herschia baltica, Hyphomicrobium denitrificans, and Rhodomicrobium vannielii) Brun Indiana Univ. Diaphorobacter sp. strain TPSY, Ferrutens nitratireducens strain 2002, and Azospira suillum strain PS Coates Univ. of California Berkeley Frankia strains (EuI1c, BCU110501, R43, BMG5.12, and AmMr) Tisa Univ. of New Hampshire Haloalkaliphilic sulfate-, thiosulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacteria (Desulfonatronovirga dismutans ASO3-1, Desulfovibrio alkaliphilus AHT2, and Dethiobacter alkaliphilus AHT1) Muyzer Delft Univ. of Technology Halothiobacillus neapolitanus and Thiomonas intermedia Heinhorst Univ. of Southern Mississippi Thermophilic or hyperthermophilic methanoarchaea within the Methanococcales (Methanothermococcus okinawensis IH1, Methanotorris igneus Kol 5, Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70, Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86, Methanocaldococcus infernus ME, Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7, and Methanocaldococcus strain FS406-22) Whitman Univ. of Georgia Type I and Type II methanotrophic bacteria (Methylomicrobium album BG8 and Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b) Stein Univ. of California Riverside Two Micromonosporas (aurantiaca and L5) Hirsch Univ. of California Los Angeles Natrialba magadii ATCC 43099 Maupin-Furlow Univ. of Florida Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans CB1190 Mahendra Univ. of California Berkeley Selenospirillum indicus Bini Rutgers Univ. Starkeya novella Kappler Univ. of Queensland Thermovibrio ammonificans DSM 15698 Vetriani Rutgers Univ. Variovorax paradoxus strains (S110 and EPS) Han Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Zymomonas mobilis strains: Zymomonas mobilis strains: subsp. mobilis ATCC 10988, ATCC 29191, ATCC 31821 (ZM4), CP4; subsp. pomaceae ATCC 29192; sp. NCIB 11163 Pappas Univ. of Athens