Research Summaries: Genomic Science Annual PI Meeting, February 2022

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Lead PI	Abstract Poster Title	Presenter	PI Organization	Research Area
Adams	Linking Community Composition and Resource Utilization	de Raad	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Zhao	Multi-omic investigation of lipid accumulation mechanisms in R. toruloides	Deewan	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Microbial Biosystems Design
Arkin	KBase: A case study illustrating the derivation and testing of mechanistic connections between geochemistry and the microbiome	Dehal	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Semrau	Structural and redox requirements for dioxygen generation coupled to metal reduction by methanobactins: implications for greenhouse gas emissions	Dershwitz	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Environmental Microbiology
Gilbert	Does Predation by Protists Mediate the Effects of Temperature and Nutrient Additions on Microbial Food Webs?	DeWitt	Duke University	Environmental Microbiology
Tyo	High-throughput Screening for Caboligase Activity in ThDP-dependent Enzymes	Dinh	Northwestern University	Metabolic Engineering
Baxter	Advanced Phenomic Approaches to Improving Water-Use Efficiency in Bioenergy Grasses	Dinneny	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Biosystems Design
Leakey	Automated high-throughput genome editing of TAG-related genes in plants	Dong	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Doty	Elucidation of the Roles of Diazotrophic Endophyte Communities in Promoting Productivity and Resilience of Populus through Systems Biology Approaches	Doty	University of Washington	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Temporal dynamics of the Populus microbiome across scales	Dove	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbiome
Arkin	How KBase Supports Education	Dow	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Northen	Spatio-temporal genome-scale metabolic modeling of the rhizosphere microbiome	Dukovski	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Miller	Scalable Computational Tools For Inference Of Protein Annotation And Metabolic Models In Microbial Communities	Edirisinghe	Other	Computational Biology
Egbert	Catabolism of Methyl-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate (MHPP), a Model Substrate for Metabolic Addiction with Unexpected Implications for p-Coumaric Acid Catabolism in Pseudomonas flourescens	Elmore	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Emerson	Evidence for Active, Dynamic Viral Communities in Wet Soils across Habitats	Emerson	University of California - Davis	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Investigating Microbial Ecophysiology of Aerobic and Anaerobic Microbes Through the ENIGMA Environmental Atlas	Enalls	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Donohue	Genome-scale CRISPRi Enables Functional Annotation of the Zymomomas mobilis Genome	Enright	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Microbial Physiology
Martienssen	Biological Design of Lemnaceae Aquatic Plants for Biodiesel Production	Ernst	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/HMMI	Plant Genomic Research
Coates	The Global Prevalence and Biogeochemical Impact of Ancient Phosphorus-Oxidizing Bacteria	Ewens	University of California, Berkeley	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Dynamic Control of Aromatic Catabolism, In Situ Efflux Pump Engineering, and High-Throughput Functional Genomics in P. putdia KT2440 Enabled by CRISPR-Cas9	Fenster	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Technology Development
Allison	Litter Microbial Trait-Based Strategies in Response to Drought	Finley	University of California - Irvine	Environmental Microbiology
Whitman	A mechanistic approach to parsing pyrophilous lifestyles of fungal and bacterial isolates	Fischer	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Environmental Microbiology
Egbert	Simplified Microbial Communities Provide Diverse Complementation Potential for Genome-reduced Microorganisms	Fonseca-Garcia	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Fox	Additions to the BAHD Acyltransferase Toolbox	Fox	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Plant Genomic Research
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Plant mechanisms shaping poplar root microbiota	Fracchia	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Gauthier	Optimizing enzymes for plastic upcycling using machine learning design and high throughput experiments	Fram	Dana-Farber Cancer Inst.	Deconstruction
Leakey	Cell-type specific analysis reveals the spatial and temporal transcriptome of the Sorghum bicolor stem	Fu	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Gill	Enhancement of the Random Barcode Transposon Sequencing Applications within KBase	Gal-Oz	University of Colorado - Boulder	Technology Development
Skolnick	Genome-scale structural prediction of protein sequences and complexes with deep learning	Gao	Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta	Computational Biology
Keasling	Understand the Nanoarchitecture of Native and Engineered Plant Cell Wall via Multi-dimensional Solid-state NMR	Gao	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Engineering and optimization of lignin catabolic pathways in Rhodosporidium toruloides	Garcia	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Donohue	Economic and Environmental Analysis of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS) Systems	Geissler	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Sustainability
Adams	Characterization of a Nitrate-Respiring, Multi-Metal-Resistant Bacillus Species Highly Abundant in Heavily Contaminated ORR FRC Subsurface	Goff	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Leakey	Impact of Sugarcane Cultivation on C and H2O Fluxes in Southeastern United States following Conversion from Grazed Pastures	Gomez-Casanovas	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Biogeochemistry
Eveland	PhytoOracle: Modular, Scalable Phenomic Data Processing Pipelines	Gonzalez	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Genomic Research
Sedbrook	Root adaptive responses for improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in Pennycress	Griffiths	Illinois State University	Plant Genomic Research
Yeates	Metabolism in Microbial Communities and the Associated Biochemistry of Polymer Deconstruction	Gunsalus	University of California - Los Angeles	Environmental Microbiology
Orphan	Transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism in Camelina sativa	Gupta	Michigan State University	Plant Biosystems Design
Schnell	Understanding Syntrophies within Methane Oxidizing Microbial Consortia: integrating Genome Scale Metabolic Models and Reactive Transport	Gupta	California Institute of Technology	Environmental Microbiology
Taga	Impact of Corrinoids on Soil Community Assembly in a Grassland Soil	Hallberg	University of California - Berkeley	Environmental Microbiology
Jiao	Characterization of Toxins and Their Cognate Inactivators as Kill Switch Actuators in Plant-Beneficial Pseudomonas fluorescens	Halvorsen	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Egbert	Spatially-resolved Multi-omics Analyses Reveal Key Taxa Responding to Root Depth in the Sorghum Rhizosphere	Handakumbura	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Chain	Development of a model root-associated microbial consortia to investigate the roles of bacterial-fungal-plant interactions in the heat- and drought-tolerant grass Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)	Hanson	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Microbiome
Arkin	KBase: Significant Improvements to the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase in 2021	Henry	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Stuart	Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediate Plant and Bacterial Response to Water Limitation in a Marginal Soil	Hestrin	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Hofmockel	Distribution of soil microbial necromass accumulation controlled by microbe-mineral interactions	Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Biogeochemistry
Solomon	Developing anaerobic fungal tools for efficient upgrading of lignocellulsic feedstocks	Hooker	University of Delaware	Microbial Biosystems Design
Gill	Genome-Scale CRISPRi in the Rapidly Growing Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002	Hren	University of Colorado - Boulder	Microbial Biosystems Design
Leakey	Leveraging Population Genomics Analysis of Issatchenkia orientalis for Engineering a Better Strain for the Production of Lignocellulosic-biomass-based Bioproducts	Hsieh	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Deconstruction
Jiao	Learning Protein Fitness Models from Evolutionary and Experimental Data	Hsu	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Niyogi	Metabolite Excretion and Metabolic Flux Analysis in Chromochloris zofingiensis, an Emerging Model Green Alga for Sustainable Fuel Production	Hu	University of California - Berkeley	Microbial Biosystems Design
Eloe-Fadrosh	Standardized Workflows for Microbiome Omics Data Analysis	Hu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbiome
Zengler	Experimental Approaches to Understand Rhizosphere Processes for Improved Bioenergy Crop Productivity	Hu	University of California - San Diego	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Maeda	Development and usage of atomic mapping for estimation of nitrogen fluxes in plant metabolic networks	Huss	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	A media optimization pipeline for improving TRY with machine learning	Incha	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Sedbrook	Tolerance to Heat Stress in Natural Variants and CRISPR Gene-Edited High Oleic Acid Lines of the Oilseed Plant Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense).	Jaikumar	Illinois State University	Sustainability
Jarboe	Novel Systems Approach for Rational Engineering of Robust Microbial Metabolic Pathways	Jarboe	Iowa State University	Metabolic Engineering
Jardine	The Scent of Senescence: Cell Wall Ester Modifications and Volatile Emission Signatures of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress	Jardine	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Niyogi	Mineral Nutrition and Energy Pathways Regulate Lipid Accumulation and Photosynthesis	Jeffers	University of California - Berkeley	Microbial Biosystems Design
Winkler	N2O Formation and Organic Nitrogen Utilization in Wetland Microbial Communities	Johnston	University of Washington	Environmental Microbiology
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Network integration uncovers gene-targets involved in plant- microbial interactions	Jones	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Leakey	A New Bioenergy Model that Simulates the Impacts of Plant-Microbial Interactions, Soil Carbon Protection, and Mechanistic Tillage on Soil Carbon Cycling	Juice	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Biogeochemistry
Chain	Bacterial Communities in Association to Specific Tissues in Wild Morels	Junier	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Microbiome
Tuskan	Rapid domestication of poplar using genomic selection and P. trichocarpa X P.deltoides hybrids	Kainer	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Long	Improving Energycane by Metabolic Engineering for Hyperaccumulation of Lipids and RNAi Suppression of Flowering	Kannan	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Biosystems Design
Pett-Ridge	Microbes Persist: Towards Quantitative Theory-Based Predictions of Soil Microbial Fitness, Interaction and Function in KBase	Karaoz	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Rhee	Systematic Identification of Subcellular Location of Sorghum Metabolic Enzymes	Karia	Carnegie Institution for Science	Plant Genomic Research
Allen	CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) for Dynamic Regulation of Gene Expression in Diatoms	Kassaw	J. Craig Venter Institute	Microbial Biosystems Design
Kirst	Two Shifts in Evolutionary Lability Explain Many Independent Origins of Nitrogen-Fixing Nodulation Symbiosis in A Single Clade of The Plant Tree of Life	Kates	University of Florida	Plant Biosystems Design
Stephanopoulos	Improving Bioprocess Robustness by Cellular Noise Engineering	Katsimpouras	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Metabolic Engineering
Baxter	Improvement of Sorghum Transformation and Genome Editing for the Development of Stable Lines for the Analysis of Photosynthetic and Water Use Efficiencies	Kausch	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Biosystems Design
Northen	Evaluating Plant-Microbe Interactions, Persistence and Movement of Microbial Communities Across Scales	Khasanova	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Stuart	Microscale Characterization Tools for Algal-Bacterial Interactions and Cell Sinking	Kim	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbiome
Donohue	Multiple-approaches to engineer mixed-linkage glucan in sorghum	Kim	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Plant Feedstock
Kirst	Single-cell discovery of nodulation regulators in Medicago and evaluation of the functional role of homologs in Populus	Kirst	University of Florida	Plant Biosystems Design
Kirst	Dynamic change in chromatin accessibility predicts regulators of nodulation in Medicago truncatula	Knaack	University of Florida	Computational Biology
Leakey	Investigation of xylose metabolism in Rhodosporidium toruloides using a modular cloning kit (RT-EZ)	Koh	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Maeda	Comprehensive Characterization of Multi-Substrate Specificity of Aminotransferase Family Enzymes	Koper	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Plant Genomic Research
Dunbar	Microbially-Drive Carbon Flow Persists During Surface Litter Decomposition	Kroeger	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Discovery, characterization, and metabolic engineering of Rieske non-heme iron monooxygenases for guaiacol O-demethylation	Kuatsjah	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Donohue	Building a Molecular Understanding of Biomass Deconstruction	Kuch	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Deconstruction
Hungate	SynThetic BiolOgy Driven Approach to Repurpose PolyaMides (STORM)	Kucharzyk	Battelle Memorial Inst	Microbial Biosystems Design
Jarboe	Mutations for Improved Enzyme Functionality at High Temperatures and Low pH	Kumar	Iowa State University	Computational Biology
Zengler	Metabolic modeling of a rhizosphere microbial community	Kumar	University of California - San Diego	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Church	A rapid biosensor engineering platform by translatable fluorogenic amino acids	Kuru	Harvard University	Technology Development
Lu	Germination and Seed Size Variability in Camelina	Lachowiec	Montana State University	Plant Genomic Research
Tuskan	Employing rapid, accurate, high-precision phenotyping in poplar, switchgrass, and bacteria	Lagergren	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Zengler	Reconstruction of a genome-scale community metabolic model of a microbial co-culture to enable next generation biochemical production	Lastiri-Pancardo	University of California - San Diego	Microbial Biosystems Design
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: A high-throughput bioassay to investigate bacterial-provided benefits to heat stress	Lee	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Guarnieri	IMAGINE BioSecurity: Biocontainment Efficacy of Toxin-Antitoxin Cassettes in Laboratory and Industrial S. Cerevisiae	Li	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Jewett	Rapid Prototyping for Development of A Novel Gas-to-1,3-Butanediol Bioprocess	Liew	Northwestern University	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Multifaceted Adaptive Laboratory Evolution Approaches for Improving Host Phenotypes	Lim	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Metabolic Engineering
Lu	Understanding Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Oilseed Traits in Camelina by High Resolution Genome Sequencing and Whole-genome Resequencing	Lim	Montana State University	Sustainability
Lin	Developing, Understanding, and Harnessing Modular Carbon/Nitrogen-Fixing Tripartite Microbial Consortia for Versatile Production of Biofuel and Platform Chemicals	Lin	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Microbial Biosystems Design
Northen	A rapid Brachypodium distachyon transformation method using leaf whorl explants	Lin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Biosystems Design
Jamann	Novel quantitative trait loci for leaf blight resistance in sorghum aids in understanding of	Lipps	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Hofmockel	Profiling of the Microbiome Metabolic Response to Soil Rewetting	Lipton	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Abraham	Developing detection and countermeasure tools for CRISPR-based genome engineering tools in plants	Liu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant Biosystems Design
Blaby	Cryo-EM Structure of a Zinc Uptake Transporter in the Closed State	Liu	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Chain	Comparative Genomics of Intracellular Mollicutes-related Bacterial Endosymbionts of Fungi	Longley	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Juenger	Exploring Switchgrass Genetic Diversity with Multiple Reference Genomes	Lovell	University of Texas - Austin	Sustainability
Adams	ENIGMA Long Read Sequencing and Assembly for Microbial Genomes: Current Capabilities and Future for Metagenomics and KBase Integration for Assembly	Lui	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Chapple	Identification of novel tryptophan-derived metabolites and associated genes of Arabidopsis by integrating PODIUM and mGWAS	Luo	Purdue University	Plant Genomic Research
Schoeniger	Phage Factory: Creating a phage for any bacterial species	Mageeney	Sandia National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Long	Bridging the Gap between Academic and Commercial Biofuel Production: Pilot-scale Processing of Transgenic Energycane for Lipid and Sugar Recovery	Maitra	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Biosystems Design
Antonopoulos	Guiding Data-Driven Integrative Design of Secure Biological Systems with Artificial Intelligence Techniques	Mann	Argonne National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Pett-Ridge	Trait-based modeling approach to carbon use efficiency	Marschmann	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Ranjan	Design and -omics exploration of synthetic communities	Marsh	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Jewett	Dynamic Kinetic Models Capture Cell-Free Metabolism for Improved Metabolic Engineering	Martin	Northwestern University	Computational Biology
Marx	Converting Methoxy Groups on Lignin-Derived Aromatics from a Toxic Hurdle to a Useful Resource: A Systems-Driven Approach	Marx	University of Idaho	Metabolic Engineering
Hofmockel	Coordination of species roles during chitin decomposition in a model soil microbial consortium	McClure	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Egbert	Discovery of Bacterial Species and Molecular Mechanisms Driving Growth on the Plant Root Metabolite Sorgoleone	McClure	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Donohue	Role of the Phyllosphere microbiome in Sorghum Resilience	Mechan Llontop	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Microbiome
Boyle	Agent-Based Modeling of Algae Reveals Impact of Self-Shading on Metabolism	Metcalf	Colorado School of Mines	Computational Biology
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Determining the rate and consequences of horizontal gene transfer in the rhizosphere by simulating lateral spread of salicylate catabolism genes	Michener	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Tullman-Ercek	Employing Bacterial Microcompartments To Create Privileged Redox Pools for Biofuel Production	Mills	Northwestern University	Metabolic Engineering
Baxter	Leveraging multi-omics data and pan-genomic sequence variation in Setaria viridis and Sorghum bicolor for candidate gene discovery and nomination for crop improvement.	Mockler	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Biosystems Design
Solomon	Plastic degradation and upcycling by the gut microbiome of yellow mealworms	Monteiro	University of Delaware	Microbial Biosystems Design
Moon	Engineering novel microbes for upcycling waste plastic and solving climate crisis	Moon	Washington University in St. Louis	Microbial Biosystems Design
Abraham	Introductions of plant growth promoting bacterial strains differentially modify growth and health of Populus biofeedstocks	Moore	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbiome
Chain	Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques to Measure Bacterial:Fungal Interactions	Morales	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Technology Development
Moran	Spatial plasticity in plant-microbe interactions in response to applied nutrient heterogeneity in soil	Moran	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Peter	Enhanced Resistance Pines for Improved Renewable Biofuel and Chemical Production	Morgan	University of Florida	Plant Feedstock
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Investigating how interactions and local environments in the rhizosphere influence microbial responses and behavior	Morrell-Falvey	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Stuart	A novel algicidal bacterium threatens diatom productivity and incorporates algal-derived carbon and nitrogen	Morris	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbiome
Niyogi	Synthetic Biology in Oleaginous Green Algae	Moseley	University of California - Berkeley	Plant Biosystems Design
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Modulation of microbial community dynamics by contrasting regulation of salicylic acid and jasmomic acid-ethylene signaling pathways	Muchero	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Physiology
Tullman-Ercek	Engineering bacterial microcompartments in Clostridium autoethanogenum to overcome bottlenecks in sustainable production of synthetic rubber	Mueller	Northwestern University	Metabolic Engineering
Adams	Mobile Genetic Elements In The ORFRC: Native Plasmids And Viral Genomes	Mukhopadhyay	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Hofmockel	Three Feet Deep: Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Organic and Mineral Soil Carbon Cycling	Naasko	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Juenger	A Generalist-Specialist Tradeoff between Switchgrass Cytotypes Impacts Climate Adaptation and Geographic Range	Napier	University of Texas - Austin	Plant Genomic Research
Docktycz	Plant-microbe interfaces: Interrogating poplar fungal microbiome interactions using meta- transcriptomics and constructed communities	Nash	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbiome
Stuart	System-Level Analysis of Metabolism in a Novel Algicidal Bacterium	Navid	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Jewett	Unearthing Enzyme Promiscuity with Cheminformatics to Design Biosynthetic Pathways Towards Novel Biomolecules	Ni	Northwestern University	Computational Biology
Davison	Applying new models to describe biomembrane structure and solvent partitioning in living cell membranes and membrane mimics	Nickels	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Alexander	Optimal Experimental Design (OED) of Biological Systems	Niu	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Metabolic Engineering
Abraham	Explainable-AI driven feature engineering of CRISPR-Cas9 sgRNA efficiency leads to quantum biological insights into genome editing	Noshay	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Nuccio	Crosstalk: Interkingdom interactions in the mycorrhizal hyphosphere and ramifications for soil C cycling	Nuccio	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Church	Construction of a Synthetic 57-Codon E. coli Chromosome and Tools for Microbial Genome-Scale Recoding	Nyerges	Harvard University	Microbial Biosystems Design
Dinneny	Mining Innovative Strategies for Stress-resilient Growth in Extremophyte Relatives of Brassicaceae Oil Crops	Oh	Stanford University	Plant Genomic Research
Wrighton	Genomes to Ecosystem Function: Targeting Critical Knowledge Gaps in Soil Methanogenesis and Translation to Updated Global Biogeochemical Models	Oliverio	Colorado State University	Microbiome
Keasling	LigCHIP Technology for Bond-Specific Analysis of Lignocellulose Deconstructing Enzymes	Onley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Technology Development
Donohue	Can Perennial Bioenergy Cropping Systems Promote Negative N2O Fluxes?	Ozlu	Michigan State University	Sustainability
Solis-Lemus	Identifying microbial drivers in biological phenotypes with a Bayesian Network Regression model	Ozminkowski	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Computational Biology
Blaby	Time-series analysis of phenotypic and transcriptomic responses to nutrient stress in two bioenergy crops	Paape	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Abraham	Understanding the role of the Plasminogen-Apple-Nematode domain in host-plant invasion by pathogens.	Pal	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Keasling	Microbiomes that metabolize lignin fragments obtained by chemical pretreatment of biomass	Park	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Leakey	Metabolic Engineering of Triacylglycerols in Vegetative Tissues of Sorghum	Park	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Donohue	Effects of Chloramphenicol Treatment on Cellular Storage Granules and Membrane Structures in Rhodobacter sphaeroides	Parrell	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Microbial Physiology
Schoeniger	Design, delivery and expression of synthetic genetic elements in diverse microorganisms	Patel	Sandia National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Schnell	The impact of LIP36 seed-specific expression on seed and oil yields in Camelina sativa and its associated transcriptome and metabolome changes	Abdullah	Michigan State University	Metabolic Engineering
Lloyd	Ten Pseudomonas spp. from Svalbard Active Layer are using amino acids for energy	Paul	University of Tennessee	Biogeochemistry
Tuskan	Modeling and NMR approaches to probe spatial arrangements in biomass: Towards better and more predictive models of plant cell wall structures	Addison	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Semrau	Microbial competition for copper can enhance greenhouse gas emissions	Peng	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Environmental Microbiology
Michener	Systems metabolic engineering of Novosphingobium aromaticivorans for lignin valorization	Allemann	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Donohue	Engineering Novosphingobium aromaticivorans to Stoichiometrically Convert S-type Aromatics into PDC	Perez	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Metabolic Engineering
Allen	Genome-wide mapping of cis-regulatory elements and regulation of nitrate assimilation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Allen	J. Craig Venter Institute	Microbial Biosystems Design
Leakey	Using Cross-Scale Data to Constrain an Agro-Ecosystem Model to Produce Estimates of Miscanthus Production at a Field-Scale	Petersen	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Sustainability
Adams	Biofilm Distribution in a Porous Medium Reactor Simulating Shallow Subsurface Conditions	Altenburg	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Keasling	Integrated chemical and biological catalysis for the valorization of ionic liquid-based biorefinery lignin	Pham	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Taga	Corrinoids, a Class of Model Metabolites, Differentially Impact Isolation of Soil Bacteria	Alvarez-Aponte	University of California - Berkeley	Environmental Microbiology
Orphan	Characterization of viral assemblages in methane-saturated sediments and their Spatio-temporal Dynamics	Philosof	California Institute of Technology	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	Nutrient Limitation Drives Dynamics of Host-virus Interactions	AminiTabrizi	Ohio State University	Environmental Microbiology
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Quantification of Populus transcriptomic response to colonization by select bacterial symbionts	Piatkowski	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Long	Enhancing Vegetative Oil Content through Optimized Lipogenic Factors	Anaokar	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Biosystems Design
Keasling	High-Throughput Screening of Wild Type and Engineered Plants using the JBEI Feedstocks-To-Fuels (F2F) Pipeline	Pidatala	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Northern	The Development of Plant and Soil Fabricated Ecosystems (EcoFABs) for Standardized Microbiome Experiments	Andeer	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Davison	Noncellulosic biopolymer morphology and structural changes during real-time reaction studies.	Pingali	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Antonopoulos	Rapid Design and Engineering of Smart and Secure Microbiological Systems	Antonopoulos	Argonne National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Bhatnagar	Plant-Mycorrhizal-Decomposer Interactions and Their Impacts on Terrestrial Biogeochemistry	Policelli	Boston University	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Development of an experimental approach to achieve spatially resolved plant root-associated metaproteomics using an agar-plate system	Appidi	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Sullivan	Viral ecogenomics across a permafrost thaw gradient	Pratama	Ohio State University	Microbiome
Guarnieri	IMAGINE BioSecurity: Mesocosm based methods to evaluate biocontainment strategies and impact of industrial microbes upon native ecosystems.	Arnolds	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Davison	Solid state NMR characterization of lipid membrane and organic solvent induced effects	Pu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Donohue	Improving Iron-Sulfur Cluster Stability in Zymononas mobilis to Increase Terpenoid Production	Askenasy	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Metabolic Engineering
Adams	The ENIGMA Subsurface Observatory: A high resolution approach to studying a shallow contaminated groundwater system	Putt	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Avalos	Monochromatic control of bacteria/yeast consortia for fuel and chemical production	Avalos	Princeton University	Metabolic Engineering
Varala	Infernet: Gene Function Inference By Leveraging Large, Organ-Specific Expression Datasets And Validation Of Non-Redundant Regulators	Ranjan	Purdue University	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	Carbon Conserving Redox Balanced Co-Utilization of Aromatics and Sugar by Engineered Pseudomonas putida	Awasthi	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Jewett	Mechanistic Insights into Cell-free Gene Expression from an Integrated -Omics Analysis of Extract Preparation Methods	Rasor	Northwestern University	Microbial Biosystems Design
Chain	A Bioinformatic Pipeline to Identify and Classify Potential Microbial Signatures from Fungal Sequencing Data Integrated with a Searchable Database of Described Interactions	Babinski	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Rellan-Alvarez	Improving candidate gene discovery by combining multiple genetic mapping datasets	Rellan-Alvarez	North Carolina State University	Plant Genomic Research
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Towards a rhizosphere on a chip for understanding physical and chemical transitions in multi-kingdom systems	Retterer	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Physiology
Wang	Elucidating the Evolution of Interspecies Metabolic Interactions within a Methanotroph-Cyanobacteria Coculture using Dynamic Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling	Badr	Auburn University	Microbiome
Allen	Unravelling xanthophyll pigment biosynthesis in algae	Bai	J. Craig Venter Institute	Microbial Biosystems Design
Juenger	Enrichment of Soil Bacterial Taxa in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) Cropping Systems Across a Latitudinal Gradient	Ricketts	University of Texas - Austin	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Keasling	Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of lignin depolymerized products from plant hydrolysates	Baidoo	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Technology Development
Donohue	Lipid Membrane Remodeling during Ethanol, Isobutanol, and Lignocellulosic Hydrolysate Stress in Zymomonas mobilis	Rivera Vazquez	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Conversion
Egbert	Identifying Data-Driven Gene Targets to Control Bacterial Fitness	Balakrishnan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Northen	m-CAFEs Phage Engineering for Targeted Editing of Microbial Communities	Roberts	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Technology Development
Blumwald	The Combined Effect of Abiotic Stresses Reveals Unique Cell Type-Specific Molecular Changes in Poplar	Balasubramanian	University of California - Davis	Plant Biosystems Design
Adams	Genome-scale metabolic and regulatory network reconstruction of Pyroccous furiosus	Rodionov	University of Georgia - Athens	Metabolic Engineering
Pakrasi	Development of Anabaena 33047, a fast-growing N2-fixing cyanobacterium, as a carbon neutral bioproduction platform	Banerjee	Washington University in Saint Louis	Microbial Biosystems Design
Keasling	Structural characterization of lignin degrading enzyme PmdC, involved in the synthesis of polymer precursor 2-pyrone 4,6 dicarboxylic acid (PDC)	Rodrigues	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Keasling	Multiproduct Cellulosic Biorefinery Enables Market-Competitive Gasoline and Jet Fuel Blendstocks	Baral	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Sustainability
Gill	Design and Engineering of Synthetic Control Structures	Romero-Suarez	University of Colorado - Boulder	Microbial Biosystems Design
Allison	Bacterial Community Response to Environmental Change Varies With Depth in the Surface Soil	Barbour	University of California - Irvine	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Drought stress alters plant-microbe interactions but is contingent on host genetic background.	Roth	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sustainability
Juenger	Modeling Environmental Influences on Biomass Composition of Diverse Switchgrass Genotypes	Bartley	University of Texas - Austin	Plant Feedstock
Roux	Phage diversity and activity associated with seasonal changes in a model montane soil ecosystem	Roux	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of a biorefinery utilizing reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF)	Bartling	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sustainability
Neidle	Design, Detect, Evolve: Engineering Syringol Degradation in ADP1	Baugh	University of Georgia - Athens	Metabolic Engineering
Northen	Targeted DNA Editing Within Microbial Communities	Rubin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Bennetzen	Systems analysis of the beneficial associations of sorghum with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi studied with genetics, genomics, imaging and microbiomics	Bennetzen	University of Georgia - Athens	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Beyond symbiosis, fungi can specifically perceive and use lipochitooligosaccharides to organize and modulate the development of microbial communities	Rush	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Physiology
Leakey	Sustainable Production of Acrylic Acid via 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid from Lignocellulosic Biomass	Bhagwat	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Sustainability
Trinh	Understanding Robustness of Yarrowia lipolytica for Undetoxified Biomass Hydrolysate Utilization	Ryu	University of Tennessee	Conversion
Blaby	Understanding poplar and sorghum micronutrient stress by integrating functional genomics with molecular-level experimentation	Blaby	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Abraham	Understanding microbial establishment in the rhizosphere using quantitative trait-locus mapping and CRISPR Cas editing	Sacko	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Hofmockel	Visually Mapping Phenotypes and Community Interactions at the Microbial Scale	Sadler	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Pett-Ridge	SIP-OMICS: A Semi-Automated Pipeline for Isotopically-Targeted Community Analysis and Metagenomics	Blazewicz	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Alonso	Identification of Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Proteins that Influence Lipid Droplet Formation and Modulate Neutral Lipid Accumulation	Sagun	University of North Texas	Plant Genomic Research
Dunbar	Microbial regulation of soil water repellency to control soil degradation	Boak	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Salvachua Rodriguez	Cross-kingdom Comparative Genomics of Aromatic Catabolic Pathways in Fungi and Bacteria	Salvachua Rodriguez	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Tuskan	Deploying docking calculations alongside kinetic model parameterization to elucidate mechanisms controlling metabolism in Clostridium thermocellum	Boorla	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Conversion
Zanghellini	Designing Novel Enzymes for Complete Degradation of Recalcitrant Polyamides	Sangha	Arzeda Corp	Computational Biology
Bouskill	Climate history dictates microbial metabolic response to drought stress: from semi-arid soils to tropical forest precipitation gradients	Bouskill	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Sedbrook	Pennycress as an Emerging Bioenergy Crop: How Does the Microbiome Impact Performance and Resilience Factors in the inland Pacific Northwest?	Sanguinet	Illinois State University	Microbiome
Firestone	Spatial Turnover of Soil Viral Communities and Genotypes Overlain by Cohesive Responses to Moisture in Grasslands	Santos-Medellin	University of California - Berkeley	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Dynamic Phaeodactylum tricornutum Exometabolites Shape Surrounding Bacterial Communities	Brisson	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbiome
Zhao	Population phenomics of Issathenkia orientalis for creation of a safer and more robust chassis for next-generation industrial biotechnology	Sasaki	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Conversion
Baxter	Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Engineer Water Use Efficiency, Photosynthetic Efficiency, and Biocontainment	Brophy	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Biosystems Design
Donohue	Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Sato	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Metabolic Engineering
Jewett	Phylogenomics of Solvent-Producing Clostridium Species To Enable Carbon-Negative Production of Acetone and Isopropanol	Brown	Northwestern University	Microbial Biosystems Design
Docktycz	Bio-Scales: Defining gene function and its connection to ecosystem processes	Schadt	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbiome
Dunbar	Constructing microbial networks from Genome Scale Metabolic Models.	Brunner	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Identification of genes controlled by a plant-responsive transcription factor in the Populus endophyte Pseudomonas GM79	Schaefer	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Tuskan	Candidate genes for lignin structure identified through genome-wide association of naturally variant Populus	Bryant	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Olson	Comparison of Michaelis-Menten and Elementary Decomposition Rate Kinetics for Predicting Enzyme Progress Curves	Schroder	Dartmouth University	Biogeochemistry
Burley	RCSB Protein Data Bank: Connecting genes to structures to ecosystems	Burley	Rutgers University	Computational Biology
Church	Genetic Tools for Photosynthetic Microbes; Toward Genome-scale Engineering	Schubert	Harvard University	Technology Development
Guarnieri	IMAGINE BioSecurity: Biocontainment of Genetically Engineered Cyanobacteria	Sebesta	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Cahill	Direct measure of amino acid distribution across Populus trichocarpa roots in a rhizosphere-on-a-chip habitat	Cahill	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Technology Development
Schnell	High-Throughput Detection of T-DNA Insertion Sites for Multiple Transgenes in Complex Genomes	Sederoff	Michigan State University	Plant Biosystems Design
Amador-Noguez	Application of a Novel 2H Isotope Tracer Approach to Characterizing Metabolic Thermodynamics in C. thermocellum	Callaghan	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	Linking Microbial Funneling to Hydrogenolysis-Based Lignin Depolymerization to Produce 2-Pyrone-4,6-Dicarboxylic Acid from Phenolic Monomers	Sener	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Lignin Valorization
Dunbar	Nitrogen Availability Strongly Affects Carbon Cycling by Sub-Surface Microbial Communities	Sevanto	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Microbiome
Donohue	Analysis of SI Engine Alternative Fuels for Mixture Formation Behavior Related to Particulate Matter Formation with a Representative Gasoline Surrogate: Application to 2-Methyl-3-Buten-2-ol (Methyl Butenol, MBO)	Shen	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Sustainability
Leakey	Refining Metabolic Engineering Strategies for Hyperaccumulation of Triacylglycerol in Oilcane	Cao	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Young	Accelerating Strain Phenotyping with Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Untargeted Molecular Analysis of Intact Microbial Colonies	Shepard	Vanderbilt University	Metabolic Engineering
Mohimani	HypoNPAtlas: an Atlas of hypothetical natural product for mass spectrometry database search	Cao	Carnegie Mellon University	Computational Biology
Nicolas	Functional genomics of replicating microbes and viruses following rewetting of a Mediterranean grassland soil	Sieradzki	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Dynamics of nitrate reduction through process partitioning in a synthetic community	Carr	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Leakey	Optimization of Solvent-Free Enzymatic Esterification of Free Fatty Acids using Taguchi Design of Experiments	Singh	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Conversion
Weston	Microbiome transfer and synthetic community approaches for determining the genetic and environmental factors underlying mutualism within a Sphagnum peatmoss system	Carrell	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Schnell	A mitochondrial carrier protein from Chlamydomonas alter the root architecture in Camelina.	Singhal	Michigan State University	Plant Genomic Research
Yeates	Enabling Structure Determination of Challenging Samples with new cryo Electron Microscopy Methods	Castells Graells	University of California - Los Angeles	Technology Development
Northen	The Twin Ecosystems Project: A New Capability for Field and Laboratory Ecosystems Coupled by Sensor Networks and Autonomous Controls	Ceja-Navarro	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Northen	Rhizosphere Biogeography of Brachypodium distachyon and Microbial Plant-Growth Promoting Traits	Chakraborty	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Long	Sustainable Improvement of C4 Photosynthesis in Bioenergy Grasses	Chan	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Biosystems Design
Donohue	A High Solids Field-To-Fuel Research Pipeline to Identify Interactions Between Feedstocks and Biofuel Production	Chandrasekar	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Deconstruction
Church	A workflow for the systems-level analysis, design, and engineering of genomically recoded organisms	Chiappino-Pepe	Harvard University	Computational Biology
Northern	Examining Molecular Mechanisms Selecting for Rhizosphere Bacteria	Chiniquy	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Donohue	Characterizing fungal inhibitors from drought-stressed switchgrass	Chipkar	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Plant Genomic Research
Jewett	Temperature drives substantial metabolic changes in the gas fermenting Clostridium autoethanogenum as revealed by multi-omics characterization	Chirania	Northwestern University	Microbial Biosystems Design
Jiao	Sequence Entanglement with Post-Entanglement Modifications Enhances Functionality and Biosecurity of Entanglement Pairs	Chlebek	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Leakey	High Throughput Screening of Mutant Libraries for Producing Medium Chain Fatty Acids Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microbial Colonies	Choe	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	One-pot deconstruction and conversion of dry and ensiled sorghum	Choi	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Tuskan	Identification and validation of a key gene contributing to the differential flowering time of switchgrass ecotypes	Choi	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Pett-Ridge	The biogeographic distribution of genomic traits between soil microbial communities	Chuckran	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Leakey	Analyzing Lipid Synthesis and Turnover Using Stable Isotopes	Clark	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Schoeniger	Expanding the Utility of Integrases for Genome Editing and Stabilizing Gene Modules in Target Bacteria	Clark	Sandia National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Stuart	Siderophore-Producing Phycosphere Bacteria Alleviate Iron Limitation Stress in Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Coffey	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbiome
Cole	Defining the Influence of Environmental Stress on Bioenergy Feedstocks at Single-Cell Resolution	Cole	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Sedbrook	The Impact of Waterlogging on Pennycress Morphology and Yield and Modeling Effective Water Availability of Pennycress Natural Populations	Combs-Giroir	Illinois State University	Sustainability
Baxter	Engineering enhanced photosynthesis and water use efficiency in Sorgh	Cousins	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Biosystems Design
Hofmockel	The Soil Lipidome is a Robust Indicator of the Microbial Community Response to Rewetting Following a Summer Drought	Couvillion	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Schoeniger	Repurposing Cas13 for Precise Translational Inhibition and Activation	Cress	Sandia National Laboratory	Technology Development
Cuevas	Genetic mapping of sugarcane aphid resistance in sorghum line SC112-14	Cuevas	USDA-ARS-Mayaguez	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	Field testing of transgenic Sorghum variants, overexpressing 4 types of aromatic compounds	Dalton	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Rhee	Nanoparticle-Mediated Transformation of Sorghum towards the Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map	Davis	Carnegie Institution for Science	Plant Genomic Research
Tuskan	Catalytic Upgrading of Bioderived Alcohols to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)	Davison	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Technology Development
Burnum-Johnson	Spatiotemporal Mapping of Perturbations in a Naturally Evolved Fungal Garden Microbial Consortium	Burnum-Johnson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Cannon	Principles of Fungal Metabolism, Growth and Bacterial Interactions	Cannon	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Cannon	Metabolic Modeling and Engineering of Enhanced Anaerobic Microbial Ethylene Synthesis	Cannon	Ohio State University	Microbial Biosystems Design
Tuskan	Transient delivery of Cas9 using Agrobacterium for genome editing	Chappell	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Dhaeseleer	Probabilistic Annotation and Ensemble Metabolic Modeling in KBase	D'haeseleer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Declining Carbohydrate Solubilization with Increasing Solids Loading During Fermentation of Cellulosic Feedstocks by Clostridium thermocellum: Documentation and Diagnostic Tests	Kubis	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Conversion
Tuskan	Integrating synthetic biology and polysaccharide synthesis for designer polymers with tunable properties	Smith	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Pett-Ridge	Soil habitats and water limitation shape microbial traits correlated with formation of mineral-associated organic matter	Sokol	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Hofmockel	Omics-enabled global gapfilling (OMEGGA) for phenotype-consistent metabolic network reconstruction of microorganisms and communities	Song	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Adams	From fast to furious phenotyping of microbes: advancing the understanding of microbial diversities and gene functions using droplet microfluidics and high throughput sequencing	Song	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Keasling	Comparison of Isoprenol Production from Sorghum Biomass Hydrolysates using Engineered Microbial Hosts	Srinivasan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Conversion
Lloyd	High enzyme stability as a feature to enable slow microbial life in the subsurface	Steen	University of Tennessee	Environmental Microbiology
Hungate	Temperature sensitivity of soil bacterial networks from the Arctic to the Tropics	Stone	Northern Arizona University	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Systems biology approaches uncover distinct genes controlling switchgrass biomass and height	Sullivan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Zhao	Examining organic acid production and model-driven strategies in Issatchenkia orientalis	Suthers	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Guarnieri	Combinatorial Biocontainment Design and DNA Barcode Genotyping	Suzuki	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Abraham	Development of CRISPR-Cas editing tools in Sphaerulina musiva towards controlling its establishment and pathogenicity in Populus ecosystems	Tannous	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Adams	Energy and Carbon Optimized Conversion of Lignocellulose to Biobased Chemicals by Extreme Thermophiles	Tanwee	University of Georgia - Athens	Metabolic Engineering
Tas	Microbial controls on biogeochemical cycles in permafrost ecosystems	Tas	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbiome
Tuskan	Understanding the genetic basis of drought tolerance In Populus trichocarpa	Taylor	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Tfaily	MetaboDirect: An analytical pipeline for FT-ICR mass spectrometry data	Tfaily	Arizona Board of Regents, The University of Arizona	Computational Biology
Guarnieri	Modeling Bacterial Metabolism and Expression to Develop Biocontainment Strategies	Tibocha-Bonilla	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Zerbe	Improved Biofuel Production through Discovery and Engineering of Terpene Metabolism in Switchgrass.	Tiedge	University of California - Davis	Plant Genomic Research
Leakey	Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis for succinic acid production	Tran	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Juenger	Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation of P. hallii	Trieu	University of Texas - Austin	Plant Genomic Research
Trinh	Controlling Selectivity of Modular Microbial Biosynthesis of Designer Acetate Esters through Proteome Reallocation	Trinh	University of Tennessee	Microbial Biosystems Design
Pett-Ridge	Environmental conditions shape active viral community structure and virus-host dynamics in soil ecosystems	Trubl	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Mouser	Environmental and Engineered Factors Influence Membrane Features of Shale Taxa	Ugwuodo	University of New Hampshire	Environmental Microbiology
Umen	Curation and Characterization of Conserved Green Lineage Proteins	Umen	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Genomic Research
Jiao	Redesigning the Escherichia coli genome with a 19-Amino Acid Alphabet	Urtecho	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Technology Development
Keasling	High Throughput Bioengineering Using a Microfluidic Platform	Vaidyanathan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Technology Development
Adams	Investigating the abiotic control of denitrification processes using synthetic communities and laboratory simulations	Valenzuela	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Jiao	Programmed Lysis of Cells in Response to Electrogenetic Inputs	VanArsdale	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Tuskan	Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping: a novel method for dissecting the genetic basis of complex phenotypes in bacteria	Vasiliva	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Northen	The Filamentous Fungus Trichoderma atroviride as a Model System for Understanding Fungal Genetics, the Plant-Fungal Symbiosis, and Interactions with Diverse Bacteria	Villalobos	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Lloyd	Comparative metagenomics of Arctic landscapes	Vishnivetskaya	University of Tennessee	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Utilization of Lignocellulosic Biofuel Conversion Residue by Diverse Microorganisms	Wadler	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Microbial Physiology
Adams	Diurnal and Seasonal Fluctuations with the Subsurface: A 17-Week Survey of Groundwater and Sediment in 27 Contaminated Wells	Walker	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Winkler	Experimental models bridging single cell-to-ecosystem scales to evaluate climate-wetland feedback mechanisms	Wang	University of Washington	Environmental Microbiology
Betenbaugh	Metabolic flux analysis of an engineered sucrose-secreting strain of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus	Wang	Johns Hopkins University	Metabolic Engineering
Adams	High-Throughput Genetic Analysis of Rhodanobacter Reveals Genes Important for Metal Tolerance	Wang	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Dinneny	Cell type specific abiotic stress responses among closely related Brassicaceae species reveal how stress tolerance in extremophytes differ from stress-sensitive models	Wang	Stanford University	Plant Genomic Research
Jonikas	Transforming our understanding of chloroplast-associated genes through comprehensive characterization of protein localizations and protein-protein interactions	Wang	Princeton University	Plant Genomic Research
Davison	Effect of Cyrene Pretreatment on Switchgrass Lignin Structure	Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Deconstruction
Adams	A Field-Scale Omics-Enabled Groundwater Reactive Transport Model	Wang	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Genome-wide association studies of drought stress and water use efficiency related traits in switchgrass	Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sustainability
Tuskan	Continuous hydrodeoxygenation of lignin to jet-range aromatic hydrocarbons	Webber	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lignin Valorization
Antonopoulos	CRISPR-Act: AI-guided Prediction of a CRISPR Kill-switch Across Physiological Contexts	Weinberg	Argonne National Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Westpheling	Development of emerging model microorganisms: Megasphaera elsdenii for biomass and organic acid upgrading to fuels and chemicals.	Westpheling	University of Georgia - Athens	Metabolic Engineering
Wheeler	Tools for Faster and More Sensitive Sequence Annotation, and Visualization of Those Annotations	Wheeler	University of Montana	Computational Biology
Gilbert	Predicting complex microbial temperature responses across scales	Wieczynski	Duke University	Environmental Microbiology
Aristilde	Probing Lignin Deconstruction and Catabolism in Soil Pseudomonas species	Wilkes	Northwestern University	Deconstruction
Arkin	Science Focus Areas use KBase to share new tools and data	Wood-Charlson	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Hofmockel	Functional and structural characterization of soil viral auxiliary metabolic genes	Wu	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Microbiome
Eveland	Using Molecular Genetics and Precision Phenotyping to Map Gene Function Contributing to Drought Resilience in Sorghum	Xiao	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Plant Genomic Research
Blaby	Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms linking secondary cell wall biosynthesis and iron homeostasis in Populus	Xie	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Guarnieri	IMAGINE BioSecurity: Metabolic Modeling-Enabled Biocontainment Redesign in Microbial Chasses	Xiong	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Microbial Biosystems Design
Tuskan	UAV- based sustainability traits modeling of field-grown switchgrass GWAS population	Xu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sustainability
Alonso	Using 13C-labeling to Unravel the Temporal and Spatial Production of Seed Oil in Developing Embryos of Pennycress, a Promising Source for Sustainable Aviation Fuel	Yadav	University of North Texas	Plant Genomic Research
Leakey	Metabolic Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica to Produce 3-acetyl-1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol	Yan	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Comparing In Planta and Microbial Production of Bioproducts	Yang	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Sustainability
Leakey	Responses of Total (DNA) and Metabolically Active (RNA) Microbial Communities in Miscanthus x giganteus Cultivated Soil	Yang	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Environmental Microbiology
Blumwald	Transgenic poplar analysis of native and synthetic inducible promoters for sensing abiotic stress and tissue specificity from poplar cis-regulatory elements.	Yang	University of California - Davis	Plant Biosystems Design
Docktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Identification of PtLecRLK1-based signaling cascade in Laccaria bicolor root colonization	Yao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Yoo	Automated knowledge harvesting from literature text, tables, and figures	Yoo	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Computational Biology
Leakey	Gene duplication and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) via adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) of engineered Yarrowia lipolytica enabled the efficient utilization of sugars in lignocellulosic hydrolysate	Yook	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Conversion
North	High Throughput Screening of Enzymes that Bolster Anaerobic Ethylene Synthesis	Young	Ohio State University	Metabolic Engineering
Young	Systems biology to enable modular metabolic engineering of fatty acid production in cyanobacteria	Young	Vanderbilt University	Metabolic Engineering
Leakey	Engineering Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Accumulation in Plant Vegetative Tissues	Yu	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Feedstock
Lu	Genetic Engineering of Camelina to Improve Seed Oil Yield	Yu	Montana State University	Sustainability
Keasling	Isoprenol production in P. putida KT2440	Yunus	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Metabolic Engineering
Whitman	A community-based approach to understanding fungal and bacterial responses to wildfire	Zeba	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Environmental Microbiology
Zhang	A gene-editing system for large-scale fungal phenotyping in a model wood decomposer	Zhang	University of Minnesota	Microbial Biosystems Design
Bennetzen	Adaptive GWAS using MINE for discovery of structural equations in the AMF-Sorghum Project	Zhang	University of Georgia - Athens	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Leakey	Determining Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Mix of Nitrogen Rate and Stand Age in Miscanthus and Switchgrass Production	Zhang	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Sustainability
Blaby	Characterization of a Novel Zinc Chaperone in Arabidopsis	Zhang	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	Characterization and Stress Response of Monolignol p-Hydroxybenzoyltransferase in Poplar	Zhao	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Plant Feedstock
Allen	Modeling carbon metabolism of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum during nitrogen starvation and during high light and low light conditions	Zheng	J. Craig Venter Institute	Metabolic Engineering
Lu	Camelina growth impacted by bacteria and nitrogen stress	Zheng	Montana State University	Sustainability
Leakey	Genomics of Winter-hardiness and Yield in Diverse Miscanthus Germplasm	Zheng	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Plant Genomic Research
Keasling	Deep Neural Network-Guided Design of Orthogonal Trans-Elements for Plant Synthetic Biology	Zhou	The Joint Bioenergy Institute	Plant Biosystems Design
Chain	Development of untargeted metabolomics approaches to study bacterial-fungal co-cultures	Zuniga	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Microbiome
Schnell	The impact of LIP36 seed-specific expression on seed and oil yields in Camelina sativa and its associated transcriptome and metabolome changes	Abdullah	Michigan State University