Joanne Emerson

University of California, Davis

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Projects

Evaluating viral activity and infection dynamics during wet-up of dry grassland soils

Lead Institution

University of California, Davis

Principal Investigator

Joanne Emerson

Project type

Exploratory Research

After months of dryness, the first heavy rainfall in Mediterranean climates drives a predictable pulse of CO2 emissions and soil microbial activity each year. Responsive microbial populations begin…

Testing soil simulated environments to probe phosphorus contained in concentrated viral clusters

Lead Institution

University of California, Davis

Principal Investigator

Joanne Emerson

Project type

Limited Scope

By shunting phosphorus (P) to new viral particles during infection, soil viruses likely contribute substantially to soil P cycling. Like other viruses, soil viruses are presumed to be…

Systems-level insights into carbon transformations in thawing permafrost by parallel high-resolution organic matter and microbial community characterizations

Lead Institution

The Ohio State University

Principal Investigator

Virginia Rich

Project type

FICUS Research

A fundamental challenge of modern environmental science is to understand how earth systems will respond to climate change. A parallel challenge in biology is to understand how information encoded in…