Functional and structural analysis of microbial expansin-related proteins that transform lignocellulosic biomass
Lead Institution
University of Toronto
Principal Investigator
Emma Master
Project type
FICUS Research
Tracking the degradation of fresh particulate organic matter in permeable riverbed sediments using FT-ICR-MS and metagenomic/transcriptomic sequencing
Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Eric Roden
Project type
FICUS Research
Illuminating soil biogeochemical responses to press and pulse disturbances in a coastal ecosystem
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jianqiu Zheng
Project type
FICUS Research
Plastic Degrading Microbial Communities from Insect Larvae Guts
Lead Institution
University of Delaware
Principal Investigator
Mark Blenner
Project type
FICUS Research
Resolving taxon-specific contributions to nutrient cycling in soil microbial communities through stable isotope enabled multi-omics
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Amy Zimmerman
Project type
FICUS Research
Belowground genotype-phenotype controls on nitrogen use efficiency of a sorghum bioenergy crop
Lead Institution
University of Arizona
Principal Investigator
Laura Meredith
Project type
FICUS Research
Beneficial Partners: Context Dependent Mycorrhizal Resource Exchange in Bioenergy Cropping Systems
Lead Institution
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Erin Nuccio
Project type
FICUS Research
Assessing the contribution of sediment bioirrigation to the oxidative removal of methane from a fluvial wetland.
Lead Institution
Marine Biological Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Emil Ruff
Project type
FICUS Research
Quantifying Differential Expression and Identifying Bottlenecks in Methanogenic Pathways
Lead Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal Investigator
Zaida Luthey-Schulten
Project type
FICUS Research
Dissecting intraspecies diversity in fungal wood decay
Lead Institution
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Principal Investigator
Ronald de Vries
Project type
FICUS Research
Integrated biogeochemical modeling of microbial consortia mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane in dynamic methane hydrate-bearing sediments
Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Frederick Colwell
Project type
FICUS Research
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
Mapping the metabolism of nutrient and carbon exchange in the plant-microbe symbiosis
Lead Institution
West Virginia University
Principal Investigator
Jonathan Cumming
Project type
FICUS Research
Coupling Microbial Communities to Carbon and Contaminant Biogeochemistry in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Stegen
Project type
FICUS Research
Uncovering the composition and function of the aquatic microbiome for duckweeds
Lead Institution
University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
Sarah Lebeis
Project type
FICUS Research
Integrated genomic/transcriptomic/secretomic study of plant-fungal interactions between pines and their symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi in the mushroom genus Suillus
Lead Institution
Duke University
Principal Investigator
Rytas Vilgalys
Project type
FICUS Research
Microbial controls on biogeochemical cycling in deep subsurface shale carbon reservoirs
Lead Institution
Colorado State University
Principal Investigator
Kelly Wrighton
Project type
FICUS Research
Decoding DOM degradation: how does carbon source and sunlight exposure alter microbial metabolism and expression of genome-encoded metabolic degradation of permafrost organic matter?
Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Byron Crump
Project type
FICUS Research
Sensing External Metals by Outer Membrane Beta-Barrel Proteins
Lead Institution
Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Thomas DiChristina
Project type
FICUS Research
Elucidating the Influences of Engineered N-glycosylation Motifs in Bacterial Biomass Hydrolyzing Enzymes upon Heterologous and Native Gene Expression, Secretion and Degradation in Aspergillus niger
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jon Magnuson
Project type
FICUS Research