Andrew Allen

J. Craig Venter Institute

Projects

Systems Biology of Iron, Carbon, and NitrogenMetabolism in the Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Lead Institution

J. Craig Venter Institute

Principal Investigator

Andrew Allen

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Diatoms, which are responsible for up to 40% of the 45 to 50 billion metric tons of organic carbon production each year in the sea (Nelson et al., 1995), are particularly sensitive to Fe stress. Fe…