JGI announces first round of 2023 New Investigator awardees

January 19, 2023

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers.

a collage of reward recipients — *From left to right: Ali Boehm, Freddy Bunbury, Gina Chaput, Jessica Fletcher and Jonathan Fresnedo [above]; Andrew Gajigan, Betül Kaçar, McKenzie Kuhn, Tami McDonald and Alex Michaud [below]*

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community Science Program.

Below find a list of the first 10 researchers accepted for 2023. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next review will be conducted in March. You can also find more information about the scientists and their proposals here.

Name	Affiliation	Proposal Title
Boehm, Alexandria	Stanford University	Diversity and activity of chemoautotrophic nitrifier communities across physicochemical gradients in the subterranean estuary
Bunbury, Freddy	Carnegie Institution for Science	Photosynthesis at high temperatures: genetic and phenotypic underpinnings of thermotolerance in cyanobacteria
Chaput, Gina	University of California at Davis	The assembly rules of the seagrass microbiome: Host, priority and priming effects on Zostera marina microbiome as a comparative system for terrestrial and aquatic plants
Fletcher, Jessica	University of Colorado at Denver	Zinc tolerance in the Pinus contorta-Suillus tomentosus ectomycorrhizal system
Fresnedo Ramirez, Jonathan	Ohio State University	Biopolymer prediction in Taraxacum kok-saghyz to support inulin-derived biofuels
Gajigan, Andrian	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	Genomics and metatranscriptomics profiling of a novel dinoflagellate-giant virus system
Kaçar, Betül	University of Wisconsin at Madison	High-throughput resurrection of ancestral nitrogenase enzymes
Kuhn, McKenzie	University of New Hampshire	Identifying the genetic basis of complex phenotypes and climate adaptation in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
McDonald, Tami	St. Catherine University	Extremophile ecophysiology: How algae are adapted to life in the world’s driest desert
Michaud, Alex	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	Ecology and adaptation of microorganisms immured in the West Antarctic ice sheet

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JGI announces first round of 2023 New Investigator awardees

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers.

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