Matthew Sullivan

The Ohio State University

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Projects

Bringing the viral "unknown" to light through wild community and model system characterization

Lead Institution

The Ohio State University

Principal Investigator

Matthew Sullivan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Ocean microbes drive the biogeochemistry that fuels the planet, and their viruses impact microbes through mortality, horizontal gene transfer, and directly manipulating microbial metabolisms. However…

Building the phage-host-environment interaction data to scale from genes-to-ecosystems: Towards predictive modeling of wild microbial and viral community dynamics

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Melissa Duhaime

Project type

FICUS Research

Ocean microbes and viruses are now at the forefront of Earth System studies. The enormous numbers of ocean viruses (typically >10^5 ml-1, usually ten for every microbial cell) are driving…