The Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) projects:
| 2013 | ||
| Banfield, Jillian | UC Berkeley | Development of a pipeline for high-throughput recovery of near-complete and complete microbial genomes from complex metagenomic datasets |
| Pan, Chongle | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Thomas, Brian | UC Berkeley | |
| Quake, Stephen | Stanford University | New methods to isolate single cells for characterizing complex environmental samples |
| Magnuson, Jon | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Development and implementation of high-throughput methods for fungal culturing and nucleic acid isolation |
| Shendure, Jay | University of Washington | Accurate gene synthesis with tag-directed retrieval of sequence-verified DNA molecules |
| Stocker, Roman | MIT | Accelerated cell sorting by combining labeling with heavy water, Raman microspectroscopy, microfluidics, and flow cytometry |
| Wagner, Michael | University of Vienna, Austria | |
| Wing, Rod | Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) | Generation of high-quality genomic DNA from plants and other organisms, large insert libraries, and high quality physical maps for improved physical map and sequence level-assemblies |
| 2014 | ||
| Blainey, Paul | Broad Institute (AGI) | Microfluidic platform for high-sensitivity DNA library construction from microbial cells and gDNA |
| 2016 | ||
| Fuchs, Bernhard | Max Planck Institute-Bremen (Germany) | Targeted microbial population genomics by fluorescence in situ hybridization and flow cytometric sorting |
| Pett-Ridge, Jennifer | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | SIP-Omics: Development of a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline for targeted metagenomics & metatranscriptomics |
| van den Engh, Ger | Center for Marine Cytometry | Development of flow sorting for microbial genome discovery |
| 2018 | ||
| Alper, Hal | University of Texas at Austin | Pre-optimized cell free lysates for rapid prototyping of genes and pathways |
| Jewett, Michael | Northwestern University | |