Connecting genomes to physiology and response in marine photosynthetic eukaryotes: Systems biology of the green alga Micromonas
EMSL Project ID
47672
Abstract
We propose to develop a model system for addressing microbial responses to abiotic and biotic interactions. Our goal is for this system to provide insights on marine and freshwater photosynthetic eukaryotes, plants and, at the molecular level, gene function and pathways. Most important, given the onset of climate change and limited understanding of how earth systems will move forward under current perturbations, is our focus on an alga with broad ecological relevance to global carbon cycling, the green alga Micromonas. With comparative genome analysis of two species recently having been published, Micromonas is in a prime position to be developed into a powerful model system for understanding the role of photosynthetic microbes in carbon cycling. The fulfillment of this objective is currently being funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research through its Microbial Communities in Carbon Cycling FOA (DE-PS02-09ER09-25). Therefore, this is proposal is being submitted as Resource Owned User Proposal.
Project Details
Start Date
2012-09-24
End Date
2014-09-30
Status
Closed
Released Data Link
Team
Principal Investigator
Related Publications
Waltman P, J Guo, E Reistetter, SO Purvine, C Ansong, MJ van Baren, CH Wong, CL Wei, RD Smith, SJ Callister, J Stuart, and AZ Worden. 2016. "Identifying Aspects Of The Post-transcriptional Program Governing The Proteome Of The Green Algal Micromonas ." PLoS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155839