Research Summaries: Genomic Science Annual PI Meeting, February 2021

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Lead PI	PI Organization	Presenter	Poster Abstract Title	Research Area
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Sevanto	Influence of Microbial Surface Litter Decomposer Communities on CO2 Emissions from Natural Soils	Environmental Microbiology
Emerson	University of California	Emerson	Infective Viruses and Inert Virions: Illuminating Abundant Unknowns in Terrestrial Biogeochemical Cycles	Microbiome
Amador-Noguez	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Jacobson	In vivo thermodynamic analysis of glycolysis in Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum using 13C and 2H tracers	Microbial Physiology
Church	Harvard Medical School	Pawlowski	In situ sequencing for deciphering spatial taxonomic structures of plant-associated microbial communities	Technology Development
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Wang	Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency of C4 Energy Crops: A Dynamic Modeling Analysis	Plant Feedstock
Long	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Lee	Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency of C4 Bioenergy Crops in Fluctuating Lights	Biosystems Design
Zerbe	University of California	Tiedge	Improved Biofuel Production through Discovery and Engineering of Terpene Metabolism in Switchgrass	Sustainability
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Kim	Impacts of physical proximity and metabolite diffusion on algal-bacteria interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Donohue	Michigan State University	Wang	Impact of genome assemblies, genotyping methods, variant types, and ploidy levels on genomic prediction in switchgrass	Computational Biology
Guarnieri	University of California	Guarnieri	IMAGINE BioSecurity: Integrative Modeling and Genome-Scale Engineering for Biosystems Security	Biosystems Design
Taylor	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Klein	Identifying traits that underpin the genetic basis of drought tolerance in bioenergy poplar	Plant Genomic Research
Egbert	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Ogden	Identifying persistence control strategies in plant-growth promoting soil bacteria with RB-TnSeq, CRISPRi, and proteomics	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sarkar	Identifying growth-coupled genetic loci using integrated metabolic modeling in populus	Plant Feedstock
Egbert	University of California	Balakrishnan	Identifying growth harness actuator genes for Pseudomonas putida	Computational Biology
Chapple	Purdue University	Olson	Identification of the tyrosine- and phenylalanine-derived soluble metabolomes of sorghum	Plant Genomic Research
Kirst	University of Florida	Kirst	Identification of the Minimal Genetic Toolkit Required for Nitrogen Fixation Using Comparative Genomics and Single-Cell Transcriptomics	Biosystems Design
Dinneny	University of Michigan	Yan	Identification of Cell-type Marker Genes from Plant Single-cell RNA-seq Data Using Machine Learning	Computational Biology
Fox	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Smith	Identification and Characterization of a New Set of Monocot BAHD Monolignol Transferases	Biosystems Design
Winkler	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Johnston	Hydrogel Beads to Encapsulate Sediment Microbes as a Strategy to Quantify Climate Impacts on Microscale Biogeochemical Activity	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Blazewicz	Historic Precipitation Regimes Influence Microbial Population Dynamics in Response to Seasonal Rewetting in Mediterranean Grassland Soil	Environmental Microbiology
Church	Harvard University	Schubert	High-Throughput Pooled Functional Screens via in vivo Production of Single-Stranded DNA, Toward Applications in Photosynthetic Microbial Hosts	Technology Development
Taga	University of California	Alvarez-Aponte	High-Throughput Isolation of Bacteria to Dissect Corrinoid Based Interactions in Soil	Environmental Microbiology
Rhee	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Thomas	High-Throughput Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map of Plants	Plant Genomic Research
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Kuehl	High Throughput Isolation and Microbial Community Enrichment Platforms	Environmental Microbiology
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Washburn	High Throughput Bioengineering Using a Microfluidic Platform	Technology Development
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	DiFazio	High Resolution Analysis of Recombination Rates in Populus trichocarpa	Plant Feedstock
Solomon	Purdue University	Hooker	High quality anaerobic fungal genome assemblies and annotation for study and optimization of lignocellulose conversion	Biosystems Design
Wang	Auburn University	Wang	Harnessing Methanotroph-Photoautotroph Interactions for Biogas Conversion	Microbiome
Antonopoulos	Argonne National Laboratory	Mann	Grammar and Language of CRISPR/Cas-Targetable Sites in Escherichia coli, Shigella, Pseudomonas, and Salmonella: A Comprehensive Survey	Biosystems Design
Jamann	University of Illinois	Singh	Genomic regions associated with pathogenicity in Exserohilum turcicum identified by linkage mapping in a biparental population	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Cuevas	University of Georgia	Cuevas	Genomic dissection of anthracnose resistance response in the sorghum nested association mapping populations	Plant Feedstock
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Wang	Genome-wide association studies of drought stress and water use efficiency related traits in switchgrass	Sustainability
Adams	University of Georgia	Rodionov	Genome-Scale Metabolic and Regulatory Network Reconstruction of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii Leads to the Reconstruction of Predictive Models for Bioproduct Generation	Computational Biology
Adams	University of Rhode Island	Rodionov	Genome-Scale Metabolic and Regulatory Network Reconstruction of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii Leads to the Reconstruction of Predictive Models for Bioproduct Generation	Environmental Microbiology
Juenger	University of Texas	Edwards	Genetic signatures influencing host-microbiome interactions in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)	Microbiome
Anderson	University of Minnesota	Tandukar	Genetic improvement of seed yield and oil content in field pennycress	Plant Genomic Research
Leakey	UUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Quach	Genetic Designs Targeting Accumulation of Vegetative Lipids, Multiplexing of Editing Reagents for "In Context Promoter Bashing" and Gaining Insight on Roots Exudates Impact on Shaping the Root Microbiome in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench	Plant Feedstock
Fagnan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Fagnan	Genesearch: A Sequence Similarity Search Service for Genomics Workflows	Computational Biology
Northen	University of California	Coker	Generating a Stable, Reproducible Rhizosphere Microbial Community	Microbiome
Jansson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Bhattacharjee	Fungal Nutrient Acquisition and Transport in Soil Micromodels is Regulated by Organic Acid Chelation and Specific Membrane Transporters	Environmental Microbiology
Gill	University of Colorado	Lacerda	Functional genetic screening in the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus	Metabolic Engineering
Bruns	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Steindorff	Functional and comparative genomics of pyrophilous fungi	Environmental Microbiology
Jiao	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Park	From Sequence to Cell to Population: Secure and Robust Biosystems Design for Environmental Microorganisms	Biosystems Design
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	de Raad	From natural carbon to a defined medium: Characterization of carbon utilization of FRC isolates	Environmental Microbiology
Wrighton	Colorado State University	Narrowe	From Genomes to Methane Emission: Targeting Critical Knowledge Gaps in Wetland Soils	Biogeochemistry
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Mazarei	Field experiments of switchgrass GWAS population for increased sustainability: nitrogen-use efficiency and rust disease resistance	Plant Feedstock
Wheeler	University of Montana	Krause	FATHMM: Frameshift Aware Translated Hidden Markov Models	Computational Biology
Gill	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Doosthosseini	Extension of Genetic Circuit Design Optimization to Industrially- relevant Organisms	Biosystems Design
Long	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Maitra	Extending the Use of Time-domain 1H-NMR for Rapid and Non- invasive Quantification and Characterization of In-situ Lipids in Transgenic Bioenergy Crops	Biosystems Design
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Pham	Expression of fungal laccases in Pichia pastoris and characterization using lignin depolymerization	Deconstruction
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Robinson	Exploring Mechanisms of Bacterial-Fungal Interactions Using Ralstonia pickettii Genomes Obtained from Diverse Monosporascus Isolates	Microbiome
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Gu	Exploring Catalytic Conditions for C-C Bond Cleavage of Lignin- Based Compounds	Lignin Valorization
Whitman	University of California	Bruns	Experimental pyrocosms demonstrate key features of the autecology of post-fire fungi	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	Ohio State University	Pratama	Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of viral identification, taxonomy, and auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) curation	Environmental Microbiology
Kirst	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Irving	Evolution of root nodule symbiosis and engineering of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Populus sp.	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Gilcher	Evolution of Cellulose Structure throughout gamma-Valerolactone-Assisted and Enzymatic Biomass Deconstruction	Deconstruction
Abraham	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Moore	Establishment, Spread, and Impact of Non-Native Microbes in Non-Model Perennial Plants	Environmental Microbiology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Kuch	Enzymatic Deconstruction of Cellulosic Biomass	Deconstruction
Juenger	University of Oklahoma	Bartley	Environmental and Genetic Effects on Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) Biomass Composition across Diverse Environments	Plant Feedstock
Coates	University of California	Metcalfe	Environmental and Biological Constraints on Dissimilatory Phosphite Oxidizing Microorganisms	Environmental Microbiology
Peter	University of Florida	Peter	Enhanced Resistance Pines for Improved Renewable Biofuel and Chemical Production	Plant Genomic Research
Eloe-Fadrosh	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Duncan	Enhanced metadata standards supported by the National Microbiome Data Collaborative	Microbiome
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Yan	Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica to Produce 3-acetyl-1,2-diacyl- sn-glycerol	Conversion
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Cai	Engineering Vegetative Lipids in a Fast-Growing and High-Biomass Arabidopsis Line	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Otoupal	Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for Bioproduction of Polyketide Synthase and p- Coumarate Derived Compounds	Deconstruction
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Vuu	Engineering Plants with Novel Metabolic Pathways as a Production Platform for Bioproducts	Plant Feedstock
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Wang	Engineering Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharide O-Acetyltransferases with Altered Specificity	Deconstruction
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Martin	Engineering of the Non-Model Yeast Issatchenkia orientalis to Produce Organic Acids	Conversion
Gill	University of Colorado	Freed	Engineering of Regulatory Networks for Complex Phenotypes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae	Biosystems Design
Tabita	Ohio State University	North	Engineering of Enhanced Microbial Anaerobic Ethylene Synthesis Through Predictive Modeling and Metagenomic Functional Gene Discovery	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	University of British Columbia	Mahon	Engineering naringenin into the lignins of transgenic poplar	Lignin Valorization
Baxter	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Cousins	Engineering Enhanced Photosynthesis and Water Use Efficiency in Sorghum	Biosystems Design
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Greenhalgh	Engineering DXS for Improved Flux into the MEP Pathway	Metabolic Engineering
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Bleem	Engineering a Cytochrome P450 System for Oxidative Demethylation of Lignin-Related Aromatics	Lignin Valorization
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Lupini	Endo-hyphal Microbiome: A Core of Bacteria Associated with the Nitrogen Cycle	Microbiome
Tullman-Ercek	Northwestern University	Abrahamson	Employing Bacterial Microcompartments To Create Privileged Redox Pools for Biofuel Production	Metabolic Engineering
Doty	University of Washington	Sher	Elucidation of the Roles of Diazotrophic Endophyte Communities in Promoting Productivity and Resilience of Populus Through Systems Biology Approaches	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Salvachua	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Salvachua	Elucidation of Aromatic Catabolic Pathways in White-Rot Fungi	Lignin Valorization
Alonso	University of North Texas	Yadav	Elucidating the Temporal and Spatial Organization of Storage Lipids using 13C-labeling in Developing Embryos of pennycress, a Promising Source for Aviation Fuel	Metabolic Engineering
Eveland	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Eveland	Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Drought Resilience in Sorghum	Plant Genomic Research
Dantas	Washington University	Anthony	Elucidating Aromatic Utilization Mechanisms in Engineered Rhodococcus opacus Strains for Lignin Valorization	Lignin Valorization
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Bahri	Effects of Claviceps spp./Epicoccum andropogonis Inoculation on Switchgrass Phenotypic Traits	Plant Feedstock
Orphan	University of California	Philosof	Ecology, Diversity, and Biogeochemical Contribution of Viruses in Methane-Rich Sediments	Environmental Microbiology
Papoutsakis	University of Delaware	Foster	Dynamic Modeling of a Synthetic Clostridia Triple Co-culture for Producing Medium-Chain Fatty Acids from Glucose	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Fenster	Dynamic Control of Aromatic Catabolism, In Situ Efflux Pump Engineering, and High-Throughput Functional Genomics in P. putdia KT2440 Enabled by CRISPR-Cas9	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	Michigan State University	Tejera Nieves	Drought Caused a 33% Reduction in Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Biomass with Minimum Effects on Net CO2 Assimilation	Sustainability
Dinneny	Stanford University	Dinneny	Divergence in stress tolerance mechanisms across the Brassicaceae family highlight strategies for maintaining growth and physiological balance under extreme environments	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	Michigan State University	Fan	Disruption of Brachypodium distachyon Lichenase Alters Metabolism of Mixed-linkage Glucan and Starch	Plant Genomic Research
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Dubinkina	Discovering Transcription Regulation Networks in Bioenergy-Relevant Yeast Species	Conversion
Mohimani	Carnegie Mellon University	Cao	Discovering peptidic natural products by integrating computational mass spectrometry and genome mining	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Ghosh	Disc Milling of Fermented Corn Stover to Increase its Accessibility to Fermentation by Clostridium thermocellum	Deconstruction
Allison	University of California	Scales	Differential Response of Microdiversity to Simulated Global Change Within a Bacterial Genus	Microbiome
Jamann	University of Illinois	Adhikari	Differential Regulation of Maize and Sorghum Orthologs in Response to the Fungal Pathogen Setosphaeria turcica	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Allison	University of New Hampshire	Morrison	Diel Activity of Microbial Communities in Surface Soil Litter	Microbiome
Young	Vanderbilt University	Zuniga	Development of untargeted metabolomics approaches to study bacterial-fungal co-cultures	Microbial Physiology
Long	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Chan	Development of Sustainable Transformation of Miscanthus x giganteus to Improve Photosynthesis	Biosystems Design
Westpheling	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Westpheling	Development of emerging model microorganisms: Megasphaera elsdenii for biomass and organic acid upgrading to fuels and chemicals	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Kaplan	Development of Automated Workflows and Data Processing to Enable the Conversion of Bioenergy Crops into Biofuels and Bioproducts	Technology Development
Yeates	University of California	Gallagher-Jones	Development and Deployment of Enabling Technologies at the UCLA-DOE Institute	Computational Biology
Wheeldon	University of California	Wheeldon	Developing the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus as a thermotolerant bioproduction host	Metabolic Engineering
Davison	University of Cincinnati	Nickels	Developing next-generation modeling techniques to analyze biomembrane neutron scattering data	Microbial Physiology
Sedbrook	Sandia National Laboratories	Chopra	Developing mutant resources for pennycress to domesticate and improve crop resilience	Plant Genomic Research
Allen	Colorado State University	Kassaw	Developing episome-based gene expression platforms in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Biosystems Design
Coates	Texas Tech University	Sadeghi	Determination of Phosphite (HPO3-2) by a New IC/MS/MS Method Using an 18O-abeled HPO3-2 Internal Standard	Environmental Microbiology
Blaby	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Blaby	Delivering the goods: leveraging functional genomics to understand cofactor trafficking	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Parrell	Deletion of the ntrYX two Component System in Rhodobacter sphaeroides Causes the Generation of Diverse Extracellular Membrane Structures	Microbial Physiology
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Dibaeinia	Deep Learning of Transcriptional Regulation in Issatchenkia orientalis	Computational Biology
Lu	Montana State University	Lu	Deciphering genetic and physiological mechanisms that enhance nitrogen use efficiency and seed oil accumulation in camelina	Sustainability
Dunbar	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Campbell	Cycles of Wetting and Drying Reduce Carbon Efflux and Litter Decomposition in Soil Microcosms	Biogeochemistry
Umen	University of Missouri	Umen	Curation and Characterization of Conserved Green Lineage Proteins	Plant Genomic Research
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Ceja-Navarro	Cross-Kingdom Characterization of Community Dynamics and C flow in Grassland Soils	Microbiome
Nuccio	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Nuccio	Crosstalk: Interkingdom interactions in the mycorrhizal hyphosphere and ramifications for soil C cycling	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Antonopoulos	Argonne National Laboratory	Weinberg	CRISPR-Act: AI-guided Prediction of a CRISPR Kill Switch Under Diverse Physiological Conditions	Biosystems Design
Ane	University of Wisconsin-Madison	MacIntyre	Creating representative microbial communities to promote biological nitrogen fixation on sweet sorghum	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Lu	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Shin	Co-consumption of mixed sugars through the division of labor (DOL) in a synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae consortium	Biosystems Design
Sullivan	The University of Arizona	AminiTabrizi	Coupled Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Analyses Reveal Active Dynamics of Infection in Virocells	Microbiome
Taga	University of California	Hallberg	Corrinoids as model nutrients to probe microbial interactions in a soil ecosystem	Environmental Microbiology
Blumwald	University of California, Davis	Rubio-Wilhelmi	Contribution of Serine Biosynthesis and Degradation to Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism During Salinity stress in Poplar	Plant Feedstock
Steen	University of Tennessee	Royalty	Contribution Evenness: A functional redundancy metric for microbiallyâmediated biogeochemical rates and processes	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Stone	Continuous hydrodeoxygenation of neat poplar lignin oil to jet-range aromatic hydrocarbons with molybdenum carbide	Conversion
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Hestrin	Context Dependent Mycorrhizal Resource Exchange in Bioenergy Cropping Systems	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Church	Harvard Medical School	Nyerges	Construction of a Synthetic 57-Codon E. coli Chromosome and Tools for Microbial Genome-Scale Recoding	Biosystems Design
Maeda	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Maeda	Constructing the Nitrogen Flux Maps (NFMs) of Plants	Plant Genomic Research
Adams	University of Tennessee	Kelly	Cone Penetrometer 3-D Characterization of Y-12 Site to Determine the Hydrological, Geological and Biogeochemistry Best Sites for ENIGMA Subsurface Observatories	Environmental Microbiology
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Yang	Comparison of Actively Growing (RNA) and Potentially Active (DNA) Soil Microbial Communities in Miscanthus x giganteus	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Cornell University	Wattenburger	Comparing In-Situ, Individual Bacterial Growth Rates in Cropped and Successional Soils Using a 16S rRNA Internal Standard	Microbiome
Juenger	University of Texas at Austin	MacQueen	Community Resources to Study Switchgrass Adaptation Using Genome-Wide Association	Plant Genomic Research
Adams	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Kainer	Combining Multi-omics with Random Walks to Explore the Function of Candidate Genes	Biosciences Division Microbiology
Jewett	Northwestern University	Brown	Closing the Carbon Cycle: Design, Optimization and Scaling-Up Production of Carbon-Negative Platform Chemicals	Biosystems Design
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Vanacloig	Chemical genomic profiling of hydrolysates and toxins: implications for yeast strain engineering	Deconstruction
Davison	University of Tennessee	Liang	Chemical and Morphological Structure of Solubilized Lignin Extracted via Ethanol, Tetrahydrofuran, and Î³-Valerolactone Pretreatments from Wild Type and Transgenic Switchgrass	Deconstruction
Tyo	Northwestern University	Dinh	Characterizing Thiamine Diphosphate Dependent Enzymes for Promiscuous C-C Bond Formation Catalysis	Metabolic Engineering
Hancock	Pennsylvania State University	Starr	Characterizing the degradation of cellulose by combinations of cellulolytic enzymes	Deconstruction
Donohue	Michigan Technological University	Chipkar	Characterizing fungal inhibitors in drought-stressed switchgrass	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Morris	Characterizing algicidal bacteria and their mechanisms in antagonistic algal-bacterial interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Brisson	Characterizing Algal Exo-Metabolites and Their Impacts on Algae and Associated Bacteria	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Marschmann	Cell Size Constraints on Microbial Ecophysiology and Implications for Soil Carbon Cycling	Environmental Microbiology
Allen	University of California, San Diego	Moosburner	Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of GS-GOGAT genes in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Microbial Physiology
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Kakouridis	Carbon Transported by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Soil Alters the Characteristics of Soil Organic Carbon as well as the Soil Microbial Community	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Winkler	University of Washington	Candry	Bridging Scales: Conceptualizing microbe-climate links in wetland ecosystems	Environmental Microbiology
Carlson	Pennsylvania State University	Carlson	Breeding Resilient, Disease-Resistant Switchgrass Cultivars for Marginal Lands	Plant Feedstock
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Schadt	Bio-Scales Pilot Project: Defining gene function and its connection to ecosystem processes	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Cheng	Biorefinery of Lignocellulosic Carbohydrates: Production of Lipid and Ethanol through Engineered Microbial Conversion	Conversion
Martienssen	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Ernst	Biological Design of Lemnaceae Aquatic Plants for Biodiesel Production	Biosystems Design
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Yee	Bioinformatic Guided Enrichments to Develop Representative Rhizosphere Communities	Biosystems Design
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Fossum	Belowground Allocation and Dynamics of Recently-Fixed Plant Carbon in a California Annual Grassland Soil	Environmental Microbiology
Solis-Lemus	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Shen	Bayesian Conditional Auto-Regressive LASSO Models to Learn Sparse Networks with Predictors	Computational Biology
Abraham	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Vasileva	Bacterial quantitative trait-loci (QTL) mapping - a novel method for identification of genetic determinants affecting establishment of allopatric bacteria	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Yoo	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Soto	Automated knowledge harvesting from literature text, tables, and figures using natural language processing and machine learning	Computational Biology
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Garcia Martin	ART: A machine learning Automated Recommendation Tool for synthetic biology	Conversion
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Yuan	Application of Base Editing Technology in Poplar	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	Princeton University	Geissler	Analysis of Carbon Capture in Lignocellulosic Biorefineries	Sustainability
Roux	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Roux	An Integrated Machine-Learning Framework for Reliable Host Prediction of Uncultivated Phages	Environmental Microbiology
Jiao	University of Maryland	VanArsdale	An Electrochemical Model of Rhizosphere ROS Generation to Analyze Commensal Engineering Strategies	Biosystems Design
Yeates	University of California	Braybrook	Advancing the molecular understanding of growth in algae and plants	Plant Genomic Research
Sedbrook	University of Minnesota	Marks	Advancing field pennycress as a new oilseed biofuels feedstock that does not require new land commitments - Improving pennycress stand establishment	Sustainability
Boyle	University of California, Davis	Metcalf	Advanced Metabolic Modeling of Diurnal Growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	Metabolic Engineering
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Bindschedler	Adaptive hydrophobic and hydrophilic surface response of fungi to changing growth conditions	Environmental Microbiology
Evans	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Evans	Accessing advanced cryo-EM at EMSL	Technology Development
Ane	University of Florida	Vermerris	A Systems Understanding of Nitrogen-Fixation on the Aerial Roots of Sorghum	Sustainability
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Streich	A Rapid Semi-Automated Phenotyping System to Capture the Highly Useful Diameter at Breast Height In Populus trichocarpa	Computational Biology
Cannon	University of California	Cannon	A Physics-Based Model of Fungal Metabolism and its Regulation	Computational Biology
Tabita	Ohio State University	Murali	A Nitrogenase-like Methylthio-alkane Reductase Complex Catalyzes Anaerobic Methane, Ethylene, and Methionine Biosynthesis	Metabolic Engineering
Blaby	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Grosjean	A New Structural Paradigm In Heme Binding - A Novel Family Of Plant Heme Oxidases	Plant Genomic Research
Taylor	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Bailey-Bale	A new 15 acre field plantation for CBI harnessing the natural diversity of Populus trichocarpa and determining the genetic basis of drought tolerance	Plant Feedstock
Cannon	University of California	Britton	A Multiscale Model of Fungal Growth & Metabolism	Computational Biology
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deng	A mass spectrometry based high-throughput platform to study lignin modifying enzymes	Technology Development
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Enright	A High-Efficacy CRISPR Interference System for Gene Function Discovery in Zymomonas mobilis	Metabolic Engineering
Egbert	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Handakumbura	3D Cartography of the Sorghum Rhizosphere	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Mouser	University of New Hampshire	Colosimo	'Omics Analyses of the Hydraulically Fractured Shale Isolate Halanaerobium Highlights Membrane Modifications that Underpin Adaptation Under Deep Subsurface Biogeochemical Drivers	Environmental Microbiology
Davison	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Pingali	Visualization of plant cell wall polymers using neutron scattering and deuterium labelling in planta	Deconstruction
Pett-Ridge	Ohio State University	Zablocki	Virus Activity in Soil Revealed Through SIP-Metagenomics	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	Ohio State University	Sun	Viral ecology through time and along a permafrost thaw gradient	Environmental Microbiology
Buckley	Cornell University	Barnett	Using Metagenomic Stable Isotope Probing to Identify Genomic Signatures of Bacterial Life History Strategies	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Romero	Using Iterative Random Forest to Predict the Progeny of Crosses in Populus trichocarpa	Computational Biology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Mutalik	Using high-throughput technologies to understand mechanisms of predation	Environmental Microbiology
Marx	University of Idaho	Marx	Using Gene Editing and an Accumulated Bioproduct as a Reporter for Genotypic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Growth-v-Production for Methylobacterium extorquens Conversion of Aromatics to Butanol	Microbial Physiology
Schilling	University of Minnesota	Simpson	Using aggregated field collections data and the novel R package "fungarium" to investigate fungal traits	Environmental Microbiology
Jansson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Lipton	Unveiling the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Microbiome Response to Soil Rewetting	Environmental Microbiology
Tfaily	University of Arizona	Graf Grachet	Untargeted metabolomics by high resolution LC-MS/MS revealed different metabolic profiles of oaks (Quercus spp.)	Technology Development
Alonso	University of North Texas	Sagun	Unravelling the Role of Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Proteins in the Modulation of Neutral Lipid Droplet Abundance	Plant Genomic Research
Tas	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Tas	Understanding the microbial controls on biogeochemical cycles in permafrost ecosystems	Environmental Microbiology
Abraham	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Tannous	Understanding the establishment of Sphaerulina musiva and development of genetic approaches to enhance poplar disease control	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Gao	Understand the Nanoarchitecture of Native and Engineered Plant Cell Wall via Multi-dimensional Solid-state NMR	Plant Feedstock
Orphan	California Institute of Technology	Sharma	Uncovering Syntrophies within Methane-Oxidizing Microbial Consortia in Sediments: Synthesizing Insights from the Subcellular to the Population Scales	Environmental Microbiology
Eisenstein	University of Maryland	Eisenstein	Transgenic Poplar Lines Reveal Host Genes Involved in Defense Against Rust	Plant Feedstock
Jonikas	Princeton University	Wang	Transforming our understanding of chloroplast-associated genes through comprehensive characterization of protein localizations and protein-protein interactions	Plant Genomic Research
Rao	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Woodruff	Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analysis of Nitrogen and Carbon Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Rhodotorula toruloides	Metabolic Engineering
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Dukovski	Towards integrated rhizosphere microbial community modeling through bottom-up COMETS genome-scale metabolic simulations and top-down data analysis	Biosystems Design
Church	Harvard Medical School	Narasimhan	Towards genetic incorporation of an Orthogonal Ribosome-tRNA pair and D-amino-acids in E.coli.	Biosystems Design
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Eid	Towards an Efficient Multiallelic Gene Editing Platform for Highly Polyploid Sugarcane	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chen	Title: An semi-automated workflow for high-throughput and quantitative proteomic analysis of metabolic engineered microorganisms	Technology Development
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Callaghan	Thermodynamic analysis of C. thermocellum glycolysis using deuterated water (2H2O) during high substrate loading fermentations	Conversion
Hungate	West Virginia University	Morrissey	The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization	Biogeochemistry
Juenger	University of Texas at Austin	Lovell	The switchgrass genome: polyploidy and introgressions facilitate climate adaptation and biomass yield	Plant Genomic Research
Muchero	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Muchero	The Plasminogen-Apple-Nematode (PAN) domain is a key negative regulator of Jasmonic Acid and Ethylene-mediated defense responses in plants.	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Hungate	Northern Arizona University	Propster	The Phylogenetic Organization of Tundra Bacterial Growth in Response to Short-Term and Long-Term Warming	Environmental Microbiology
Eloe-Fadrosh	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Vangay	The National Microbiome Data Collaborative community survey on microbiome research data	Microbiome
Schnell	Michigan State University	Shachar-Hill	The metabolic origins of non-photorespiratory CO2 release during photosynthesis: A metabolic flux analysis	Metabolic Engineering
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Sokol	The Influence of Drought on Carbon-Use Efficiency and Soil Carbon Formation in Rhizosphere and Detritusphere Microbial Communities	Environmental Microbiology
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Mitros	The Genome of the Perennial Biomass Grass Miscanthus sinensis	Plant Genomic Research
Northen	University of California	Adams	The Filamentous Fungus Trichoderma atroviride as a Model System for Understanding Fungal Genetics, the Plant-Fungal Symbiosis, and Interactions With Diverse Bacteria	Biosystems Design
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Valenzuela	The Development, Progress, and Cross-Campaign Investigation of the Abiotic Influences on Denitrification Processes Partitioned Between Synthetic Communities	Environmental Microbiology
Baxter	University of Rhode Island	Kausch	The Development of Transgenic Lines and Improved Technologies for the Analysis of Photosynthetic and Water Use Efficiencies in Sorghum	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Coates	The development of an automated platform for the use of Polyketide Synthases for Biofuels and Sustainable Chemical Production	Conversion
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Li	Testing Unifying Theories of Ozone Response in C4 Bioenergy Grasses	Plant Feedstock
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Bartling	Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of a biorefinery utilizing reductive catalytic fractionation	Conversion
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Trotter	Technologies for High-Throughput characterization of environmental isolates	Environmental Microbiology
Northen	University of California	Diamond	Techniques for in situ DNA delivery and targeted editing within microbial communities	Biosystems Design
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Andeer	TEAMS: Advancing microbiome science through high-throughput, automated EcoFAB experiments	Microbiome
Baxter	University of Minnesota	Voytas	Targeted Mutagenesis and Programmed Transcriptional Regulation in Setaria and Sorghum	Technology Development
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Gushgari-Doyle	Targeted Isolation Using Field-Informed Approaches	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Navid	System-level analysis of metabolism of Kordia algicida and its interaction with Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Computational Biology
Michener	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Allemann	Systems metabolic engineering of Novosphingobium aromaticivorans for lignin valorization	Lignin Valorization
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Seo	Systems Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium thermocellum for Direct Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass to Designer C4-derived Esters	Conversion
Adams	North Carolina State	Crosby	Systems Biology-Based Optimization of Extremely Thermophilic Lignocellulose Conversion to Bioproducts	Microbial Physiology
Avalos	Princeton University	Montano Lopez	Systems Biology of Isobutanol Production in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae	Metabolic Engineering
Bennetzen	University of Georgia	Bennetzen	Systems analysis of the beneficial associations of sorghum with arbuscular mycrorrhizal fungi studied with genetics, genomics, imaging and microbiomics	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Pakrasi	Washington University	Banerjee	Systems analysis of a fast growing N2-fixing cyanobacterium for production of advanced biofuels and nitrogen-containing petrochemical replacement compounds	Microbial Physiology
Lu	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	xin	Systematic Evaluation of the Stability of the synthetic LAB-Yeast Consortium	Biosystems Design
Papoutsakis	University of Delaware	Otten	Syntrophic Co-Cultures of Clostridium Organisms to Produce Higher Alcohols and Other C6-C8 Metabolites	Computational Biology
Betenbaugh	University of California	Zuniga	Sustainable production of biofuels by consortia of Synechococcus elongatus and Aspergillus species.	Computational Biology
Niyogi	University of California	Mosley	Structural Gene Organization in Chromochloris zofingiensis Can Drive Advancements in Synthetic Biology	Biosystems Design
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Zhang	Strain dynamics and functional diversity of 22 high-quality single cell genomes from ENIGMA ground water	Environmental Microbiology
Burnum-Johnson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Burnum-Johnson	Spatiotemporal mapping of the origin of linolenic acid in signaling transduction cascades during leaf deconstruction	Environmental Microbiology
Cameron	University of Colorado	Gates	Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Photosynthetic Metabolism in Single-Cells at Sub-Cellular Resolution	Biogeochemistry
Moran	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Moran	Spatially resolved proteomic analysis to reveal controls on rhizosphere microbial recruitment and track carbon exchange between plants and microorganisms	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Zhalnina	Spanning laboratory ecosystem scales: insights into environmental complexity with EcoFABs andEcoPODs	Biosystems Design
Jewett	Northwestern University	Rybnicky	Spacer2PAM: an R Package for CRISPR Protospacer Adjacent Motif Prediction from Spacer Sequences	Biosystems Design
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Santos-Medellin	Soil Viral Community Composition Differs Spatially and in Response to Wet-up in Mediterranean Grasslands	Microbiome
Jansson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Wu	Soil Moisture Impacts Composition, Activity and Ecosystem Functions of Soil DNA and RNA Viruses	Environmental Microbiology
Dunlop	Boston University	Tague	Single Cell Chemical Imaging with Stimulated Raman Scattering for Biofuel Production Screening	Biosystems Design
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Field	Simulating landscape-scale impacts of switchgrass nitrogen use efficiency	Environmental Microbiology
Egbert	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Elmore	Serine integrase-assisted genome engineering (SAGE) enables efficient, iterative site-specific genome engineering in bacteria	Biosystems Design
Hungate	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Stone	Scaling of 18O-informed Microbial Growth Rates Links Microbial Activity to Soil Carbon Flux	Microbiome
Miller	Argonne National Laboratory	Edirisinghe	Scalable Computational Tools For Inference Of Protein Annotation And Metabolic Models In Microbial Communities	Computational Biology
Betenbaugh	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Jenkins	Revealing Metabolic Exchange and Optimizing Carbon Transformation in Co-Culture for Applications to Sustainable Biosynthesis	Metabolic Engineering
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Sharma	Responsiveness of Miscanthus and Switchgrass Yields to Stand Age and Nitrogen Fertilization: A Meta-regression Analysis	Sustainability
Adams	University of Washington	Hunt	Resolving Biotic and Abiotic Controls of Nitrous Oxide Flux in a Subsurface Site Contaminated with High Nitrate Concentrations	Environmental Microbiology
Taga	University of California	Nicolas	Reliable bioinformatic prediction of cobamide biosynthesis by core biosynthesis genes and taxonomy	Environmental Microbiology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Hayes	Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Medium Chain Fatty Acid Production from Lignocellulosic Stillage using Anaerobic Microbial Communities	Computational Biology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Perez	Redundancy in Aromaric O-demethylation and Ring Opening Reactions in Novosphingobium aromaticivorans and their Impact in Biological Conversion of Lignin	Lignin Valorization
Abraham	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Yang	Real-time molecular detection systems for CRISPR-Cas genome engineering tools	Biosystems Design
Young	Vanderbilt University	Ellis	Rapid Strain Phenotyping and Metabolic Flux Analysis to Accelerate Engineering of Microorganisms	Technology Development
Jewett	Northwestern University	Cowden	Rapid Prototyping of Novel Bioproduct Pathways in an Acetogen through Integrated Computational Modeling and High-throughput Candidate Screening	Biosystems Design
Egbert	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	McDermott	Rapid Functional Annotation Using Degenerate Kmers	Computational Biology
Antonopoulos	Argonne National Laboratory	Antonopoulos	Rapid Design and Engineering of Smart and Secure Microbiological Systems	Biosystems Design
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Hofmockel	Quantitative Analysis of the Fate of Microbial Residues in Biofuel Soils	Microbiome
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Von Haden	Quantifying Root Carbon Rhizodeposition from Bioenergy Cropping Systems in the Midwest United States	Biogeochemistry
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Park	Pseudomonas putida soil isolates that metabolize C5 sugars and lignin-derived aromatics	Deconstruction
Trinh	University of Tennessee	Walker	Proteomic Analysis of Robust Yarrowia lipolytica Isolates Reveals Key Processes Impacting Sugar Utilization and Lipid Degradation during Growth on Biomass Hydrolysate	Metabolic Engineering
Church	Harvard University	Guo	Programming high-order combinatorial genetics with Cas9-mediated gene drive approach for cellular engineering	Technology Development
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Baral	Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of High Performance Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a Jet fuel Blendstock	Deconstruction
Coates	University of California	Ewens	Prevalence of autotrophy and the characterization of carbon reduction in dissimilatory phosphite oxidizing microbes	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	University of California	Sachdeva	Prevalence and Automated Curation of Local Errors from Metagenomic Assembled Genomes	Environmental Microbiology
Jansson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Song	Prediction of Spatial Assemblies in Soil Microbiomes Governed by Interspecies Interactions and Environmental Gradients	Environmental Microbiology
Church	Harvard Medical School	Filsinger	Precise genome editing in new microbial species using SSAP libraries and broad-host recombineering methods	Biosystems Design
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Dove	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Temporal dynamics of the Populus microbiome across scales	Microbiome
Doktycz	Columbia University	Schaefer	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Structural basis for a bacterial Pip system plant effector recognition protein	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Carper	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Simplified community approach to investigate multiple levels of selection in a host-microbiome relationship	Microbiome
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Villalobos Solis	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Protein post-translational modifications in a 10-member microbial community from the Populus rhizosphere offer critical insights into how microbes adapt to changing environments	Technology Development
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Webb	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Microbial responses to the chemical environment of the rhizosphere	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Abraham	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Metaproteomics reveals shifts in microbial activity and regulation in assembling communities as they respond to environmental variation	Microbiome
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Khalid	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: In situ chemical monitoring and imaging of Populus and its root microbiome using engineered devices with a porous membrane	Technology Development
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lu	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Functional characterization of Populus proteins involved in plant-microbe interactions	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Wang	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Formation and characterization of emergent microbial communities	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	University of Tennessee	Miller	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Exploring plant-microbe associations uisng Random Walk with Restart on multiplex networks	Computational Biology
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Christel	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Determining the rate and consequences of horizontal gene transfer in the rhizosphere by simulating lateral spread of salicylate catabolism genes	Microbiome
Doktycz	Duke University	Ke	Plant-MIcrobe Interfaces: Comparative genome evolution of Populus root endophytes	Microbiome
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Rush	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Characterizing the perception of lipochitooligosaccharides signaling in fungi	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Chen	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Beneficial mycorrhization mediated by a lectin receptor-like kinase	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Bhatnagar	Boston University	Policelli	Plant-Mycorrhizal-Decomposer interactions and their impacts on terrestrial biogeochemistry	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Donohue	Michigan State University	Kim	Plant-soil-microbial interactions in detritusphere and its impact on N2O emission	Sustainability
Eveland	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Cosi	PhytoOracle: Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Phenomic Data Processing at Scale	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Wright	Physiological responses of Populus trichocarpa genotypes to drought	Sustainability
Adams	University of Oklahoma	Ning	Physical size matters in groundwater bacterial community assembly	Environmental Microbiology
Baxter	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Baxter	Phenotyping for water use efficiency and related traits in C4 grasses Setaria and Sorghum	Biosystems Design
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Lin	Phenotypic Characterization of Brachypodium distachyon and a Synthetic Community for Dissecting Plant-Microbial Community Interactions in Fabricated Ecosystems (EcoFAB)	Biosystems Design
Donohue	Michigan State University	Zahorec	Perenniality Drives Soil Microarthropod Community Differences Across Three Potential Bioenergy Cropping Systems	Sustainability
Peay	Stanford University	Van Nuland	Patterns of diversity in the North American Populus mycobiome	Microbiome
Semrau	Iowa State University	DiSpirito	Oxygen Generation via Water Splitting by a Novel Biogenic Metal Binding Compound	Environmental Microbiology
Schnell	Michigan State University	Abdullah	Overexpression of the Phosphatidylcholine: diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase (PDCT) Gene Has Increased Carbon Flux Toward Triacylglycerol (TAG) Synthesis in Camelina (Camelina sativa) Seeds	Metabolic Engineering
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Trieu	Optimizing Miscanthus Regeneration and Transformation	Plant Feedstock
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Liang	Optimizing Measurement Methods for N2 Fixation in Miscanthus x giganteus	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Long	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Anaokar	Optimizing Lipogenic Factors for Vegetative Oil Accumulation	Biosystems Design
Blaby	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Xie	Optimizing hydroponic growth system for metal stress studies of bioenergy crops	Plant Genomic Research
Alexander	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Alexander	Optimal Experimental Design (OED) of Biological Systems	Computational Biology
Varala	Purdue University	Varala	Novel seed lipid regulators identified by gene network inference	Plant Genomic Research
Salis	Pennsylvania State University	Harris	Non-Repetitive Promoters and Ribosome Binding Sites to Control Clostridium autoethanogenum Gene Expression Levels during Syngas Fermentation	Technology Development
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Hartman	Nitrogen Delivery Efficiency in the Mississippi River Basin	Sustainability
Evans	Michigan State University	Smercina	Nitrogen Addition Impacts on Structure and Function of the Switchgrass Root-associated Diazotrophic Community	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Hancock	Pennsylvania State University	Haviland	Nanoscale Dynamics of Cellulase TrCel7A Digesting Cellulose	Deconstruction
Rhee	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Jackson	Nanoparticle-Mediated Transformation of Sorghum towards the Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map	Biosystems Design
Eloe-Fadrosh	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hu	Multi-omics workflows to support data integration for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative	Microbiome
Trinh	University of Tennessee	Walker	Multi-OMICs Profiling Reveals Key Genes and Cellular Processes Underlying Ionic Liquid Robustness in Yarrowia lipolytica	Metabolic Engineering
Jewett	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Chirania	Multi-omics analyses reveal temperature-induced metabolic changes in the industrially relevant microbe Clostridium autoethanogenum affecting its product profile	Biosystems Design
Salis	Pennsylvania State University	Liew	Multiplex Genome Engineering for Bioproduction of 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid and 1,3- Propanediol from Waste Gases	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Choudhary	Multiple Ions in Ionic Liquid for Lignocellulosic Biomass Processing - A Boon or a Bane	Deconstruction
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Gambacorta	Multiomics analysis of mitochondrial versus cytosolic compartmentalization of the isobutanol pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Metabolic Engineering
Niyogi	University of California	Jeffers	Multifactorial Nutrient-Dependent Proteomics Elucidates Lipid Accumulation and Regulation of Photosynthesis	Biosystems Design
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Wang	Modifying terpenes for the development of biofuels and bioproducts	Conversion
Zhao	Pennsylvania State University	Suthers	Model-driven Metabolic Engineering and 13C-Metabolic Flux Analysis for Non-model Yeast Organisms	Metabolic Engineering
Arkin	Argonne National Laboratory	Faria	ModelSEED release 2: High Throughput Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Reconstruction and Analysis in KBase	Computational Biology
Jewett	Northwestern University	Martin	Modeling Tools to Predict Metabolic Network Behavior in Non- Model Systems	Computational Biology
Allen	University of California, San Diego	Zheng	Modeling carbon metabolism of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum during nitrogen starvation and during high light and low light conditions	Metabolic Engineering
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Addison	Modeling and NMR Methods to Probe Spatial Arrangements in Biomolecules: Towards predictive models of plant cell wall structure	Deconstruction
Young	Vanderbilt University	Wang	Mitigating guanidine toxicity and manipulating circadian clock for enhanced ethylene production in engineered cyanobacteria	Metabolic Engineering
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Morales	Microscopic methods to identify, locate, and study endofungal bacteria	Microbiome
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Shao	Microscale thermophoresis as a powerful tool for screening glycosyltransferases involved in cell wall biosynthesis	Plant Feedstock
Weston	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Weston	Microbiome transfer and synthetic community approaches for determining the genetic and environmental factors underlying mutualism within a Sphagnum peatmoss system	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Mouser	University of New Hampshire	Adhikari	Microbial Osmotolerance Mechanisms in Hydraulically Fractured Shale Elucidated Through Metagenomics Analysis	Environmental Microbiology
Lloyd	University of Tennessee	Sipes	Microbial organic matter degradation in the active layer of Svalbard permafrost	Biogeochemistry
Bouskill	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chacon	Microbial metabolic feedbacks following hydrological perturbation	Environmental Microbiology
Orphan	University of Georgia	Gupta	Microbial dynamics and syntrophic interactions at the pore scale: towards an integration of reactive transport and microbial cell models	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	DeVan	Microbial driven variation in carbon flow & stabilization during root litter decomposition	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Babilonia	Microbial Control of Mineral-Bound Carbon	Environmental Microbiology
Semrau	University of Michigan	Kang-Yun	Methanotrophs Produce Diverse Chalkophores to Compete for Copper	Environmental Microbiology
Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Beliaev	Meta-Transcriptomic Network Analysis of Inter-Species Interactions in a Cyanobacterial-Methanotroph Coculture	Biosystems Design
Schnable	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Mural	Meta-Analysis Identifies Pleiotropic Loci Controlling Phenotypic Trade-offs in Sorghum	Computational Biology
Lloyd	University of Tennessee	Lloyd	Metagenomic binning of high latitude (79Â°N), mineral permafrost active layer	Environmental Microbiology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Martien	Metabolomic and Proteomic Analysis of Zymomonas mobilis During Nitrogen Fixation Reveals Metabolic Remodeling of Biofuel Producing Pathways	Microbial Physiology
Yeates	University of California	Gunsalus	Metabolism in Microbial Communities and the Associated Biochemistry of Polymer Deconstruction	Microbial Physiology
Chapple	Purdue University	Simpson	Metabolic Source Isotopic Pair Labeling and Genome-Wide Association Are Complementary Tools for the Identification of Metabolite-Gene Associations in Plants	Plant Genomic Research
Zhao	Princeton University	Shen	Metabolic regulation in Issatchenkia orientalis revealed by integrative omics	Technology Development
Winkler	University of Oklahoma	Pan	Metabolic Modeling of Synthetic Estuarine Wetlands Microbial Communities in response to Climate Change	Microbial Physiology
Niyogi	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Meagher	Metabolic Model of Chromochloris zofingiensis, an Emerging Model Green Alga for Sustainable Fuel Production	Metabolic Engineering
Long	University of Florida	Cao	Metabolic Engineering of Energycane for Hyperaccumulation of Triacylglycerol and Improved Biomass Production	Biosystems Design
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Smith	Mechanism across scales: integrating laboratory and field studies for microbial ecology as illustrated by the ENIGMA SFA	Environmental Microbiology
Baxter	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Zhao	Mathematical modeling strategies to study the impact of drought on plant growth and metabolism in Setaria and sorghum.	Computational Biology
Allen	University of California, San Diego	Smith	Mapping transcription factor-mediated remodeling of diatom metabolism in response to shifting environmental conditions	Microbial Physiology
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Kang	L-malic Acid Production from Xylose by Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Metabolic Engineering
Dunlop	Boston University	Lin	Live-cell imaging of E. coli biofuel synthesis by spectroscopic stimulated Raman scattering microscopy	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Sener	Lignin Valorization by Integrating Chemical Depolymerization and Microbial Funneling	Lignin Valorization
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Lin	Lignin manipulation via plant synthetic biology to produce a biodegradable polyester precursor with concurrent improvement in biomass quality for biofuel production	Plant Feedstock
Whitman	University of California	Fischer	Life After Fire: Microbial Community Dynamics Over Time in Fire-Affected Soils	Environmental Microbiology
Kirst	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Knaack	Leveraging temporal change in chromatin accessibility to predict regulators of N-fixing symbiosis in Medicago with dynamic regulatory module networks (DRMNs)	Computational Biology
Zhao	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Sasaki	Leveraging comparative population genomics to dissect the mechanisms of multi-stress tolerance of I. orientalis	Biosystems Design
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Wood-Charlson	KBase Partners with SFA Developers to Increase Functionality of Tools and Analysis	Computational Biology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mechan Llontop	Investigating the Interplay between the Phyllosphere Microbiome, Epicuticular Wax, and Root Mucilage on Sorghum Resilience to Water and Nitrogen Limitation.	Microbiome
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Sato	Investigating the Effects of Environmental Stress on Feedstock Quality and Biofuel Production by Field-to-Fuel Optimization Research Pipeline	Plant Feedstock
Jansson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	McClure	Interspecies Interactions During Chitin Decomposition in a Naturally Enriched Model Soil Microbial Consortium	Environmental Microbiology
Sedbrook	University of Minnesota	Sedbrook	Interrogating pennycress natural and induced variation to improve abiotic stress tolerance and oilseed bioenergy crop resilience	Sustainability
Gill	University of Colorado	Gal-Oz	Integration of Random Barcode Transposon Sequencing Applications into KBase	Biosystems Design
Zengler	University of California	Moyne	Integration of Experimental and Modeling Approaches to Understand, Predict, and Modulate Rhizosphere Processes for Improved Bioenergy Crop Productivity	Metabolic Engineering
Schnell	North Carolina State University	Wilson	Integration of a Synthetic CO2 Fixation Cycle into Camelina sativa	Metabolic Engineering
Henry	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Scheibe	Integrating BER Facilities and Resources for Multi-Omics to Reactive Transport Modeling Workflows	Computational Biology
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Banerjee	Integrated Pseudomonas putida Strain Design For Maximizing Biomass Conversion To Biofuels And Bioproducts	Conversion
Stuart	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Brodie	Integrated Experimentation and Trait-based Model Exploration of Algal-Bacterial Interaction Mechanisms	Environmental Microbiology
Skolnick	University of Missouri	Gao	Integrated deep-learning computational approach to proteome annotation	Computational Biology
Leakey	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Berardi	Innovations to the DayCent Biogeochemical Model to Better Simulate Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Bioenergy Crop Systems with Increasing Climate Variability	Sustainability