Research Summaries: Genomic Science Annual PI Meeting, February 2020

February 24 – 26, 2020

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Meeting Introduction: PDF Todd Anderson, Director, Biological Systems Science Division, DOE BER

Lead PI	PI Organization	Presenter	Poster Abstract Title	Research Area
Allison	University of California, Irvine	Finks	Prolonged drought alters plant-litter decomposition via changes in bacterial communities and substrate availability	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Chaves	Genome shuffling and bacterial quantitative trail locus (QTL) mapping in Pseudomonas putida	Technology Development
Alonso	University of North Texas	Arias	Natural Variation of Pennycress Metabolome and Transcriptome, an Emerging Crop for Aviation Biofuel	Plant Feedstock
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Galanie	High-throughput functional characterization of Populus trichocarpa UDP-glycosyltransferases	Plant Genomic Research
Alonso	University of North Texas	Ortiz	Functional Analysis of Candidate Genes Involved in Oil Storage and Stability in Pennycress	Plant Genomic Research
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Holwerda	Lignocellulose-Fermenting Microbiomes: A "Compass" for Biofuel Process Development	Conversion
Amador-Noguez	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Jacobson	In vivo thermodynamic analysis of glycolysis in C. thermocellum and T. saccharolyticum using 13C and 2H tracers	Microbial Physiology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Kainer	Rapid domestication of poplar using genomic selection and machine learning	Computational Biology
Anderson	University of Minnesota	Frels	Investigating Seed Size and Oil Content in Pennycress, Thlaspi arvense	Plant Genomic Research
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Labbe	The role of beneficial microbes in stress management of Populus	Sustainability
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Allen	KBase: The Systems Biology Knowledgebase for Predictive Biological and Environmental Research in an Integrated Data Platform	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Li	Catalytic Upgrading of n-Butanol to Fully Synthetic Jet Fuel	Conversion
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chivian	KBase: Microbiome and Phylogenomics Capabilities	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Lynd	Improving Clostridium thermocellum Product Titers by Increasing the Thermodynamic Driving Force of its Glycolytic Pathway	Conversion
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Edirisinghe	KBase : Omics driven discovery of novel functional capabilities in biological systems	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Pendergast	QTL mapping and candidate gene discovery of metabolomic signatures in switchgrass	Plant Feedstock
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Faria	Large Scale Model-Driven comparison of Metagenome Assembled Genomes from Diverse Environments	Environmental Microbiology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Prates	AkiraProt: An Ensemble Workflow for Proteome-Wide Structural Analysis	Computational Biology
Arkin	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Weisenhorn	KBase: Leveraging Amplicon Analysis Tools to Generate Testable Hypotheses From Complex Natural Communities	Microbiome
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sarkar	SNPeffect: Identifying Functional Roles for SNPs using Metabolic Networks	Computational Biology
Arkin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Kumar	NWChem Computational Modeling of Metabolites in KBase	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Smith	Enzymatic Synthesis of Xylan Microstructures	Conversion
Arkin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Zucker	The 2019 KBase Fungal Biochemistry Curation Jamboree: Insights and Lessons Learned	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Wang	Characterization of drought tolerance and water-use efficiency related traits in switchgrass	Sustainability
Avalos	Princeton University	Avalos	Genetically Encoded Biosensors for Mitochondrial and Cytosolic Biosynthesis of Branched- Chain Higher Alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Microbial Physiology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Werner	Investigating the spatial organization of aromatic catabolism in P. putida KT2440	Lignin Valorization
Banfield	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Sachdeva	Rapid automated curation of genomes from metagenomes and integration into KBase	Microbiome
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Xie	Functional genomic and cross-species studies uncover novel regulators of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	Plant Genomic Research
Bart	University of Missouri	Bart	Optimizing Tradeoffs Implicit During Bioenergy Crop Improvement: Understanding the Effect of Altered Cell Wall and Sugar Content on Sorghum-associated Pathogenic Bacteria	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Tuskan	University of Colorado	Eckert	Engineering CRISPR-Cas Systems for Genome Editing in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 and Clostridium thermocellum	Metabolic Engineering
Baxter	Carnegie Institution for Science	Rhee	New Computational Pipelines to Prioritize Candidate Genes for Optimal Biomass Production under Drought in C4 Plants Setaria viridis and Sorghum bicolor	Computational Biology
Tuskan	University of Georgia	Illa-Berenguer	Building a suite of CRISPR/Cas9 tools for efficient switchgrass gene editing	Plant Genomic Research
Baxter	Stanford University	Dinneny	Using synthetic genetic circuits to tightly control root architecture	Biosystems Design
Tyo	Northwestern University	Biggs	Prospecting thiamine diphosphate-dependent carboligases and characterizing their promiscuity to create novel metabolic pathways from primary metabolites	Metabolic Engineering
Baxter	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Leakey	Phenomics of stomata and water use efficiency in C4 species	Biosystems Design
Tyo	Northwestern University	Dinh	Using machine learning to model promiscuous activity of thiamine diphosphate-dependent carboligases and side reactions in the E. coli metabolome	Computational Biology
Baxter	University of Minnesota	Voytas	Targeted Mutagenesis and Programmed Transcriptional Regulation in Setaria and Sorghum	Biosystems Design
Umen	University of Missouri	Umen	Deep Green: Structural and Functional Genomic Characterization of Conserved Unannotated Green Lineage Proteins	Plant Genomic Research
Baxter	University of Rhode Island	Kausch	The Centrality of the Development of Transgenic Lines for the Analysis of Photosynthetic and Water Use Efficiencies in Sorghum	Plant Genomic Research
Varala	Purdue University	Varala	Infernet: Gene Function Inference By Leveraging Large, Organ-Specific Expression Datasets And Validation Of Non-Redundant Regulators	Plant Genomic Research
Baxter	Washington University in St. Louis	Cousins	PEPC kinetics and the efficiency of C4 photosynthesis in Sorghum bicolor	Biosystems Design
Wang	Auburn University	Badr	Dynamic Genome-Scale Metabolic Network Modeling for a Novel Methanotroph-Cyanobacteria Coculture	Conversion
Betenbaugh	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Jenkins	Optimizing Carbon Metabolism in Co-Culture for Applications to Sustainable Biosynthesis	Metabolic Engineering
Wang	San Diego State University	Bray	Tuning C1-metabolism for efficient utilization of biogas in synthetic photoautotroph-methanotroph binary consortium	Conversion
Betenbaugh	Vanderbilt University	Zuniga	Metabolic Flux Analysis of Sucrose-Secreting Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus	Metabolic Engineering
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
Bhatnagar	Boston University	Bhatnagar	Ectomycorrhizal fungi: mediators of plant-microbial interactions and terrestrial biogeochemistry	Plant-Microbe Interactions
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
Blaby-Haas	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Blaby-Haas	Developing a molecular-level model of cofactor-trafficking in chloroplasts	Plant Feedstock
Wheeldon	University of California, Berkeley	Wheeldon	Developing the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus as a thermotolerant bioproduction host	Metabolic Engineering
Blaby-Haas	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Xie	Understanding poplar and sorghum micronutrient stress by integrating functional genomics with molecular-level experimentation	Plant Feedstock
Whitman	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Whitman	Dissection of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Post-Fire Soil Environments using a Genome-Informed Experimental Community	Environmental Microbiology
Blumwald	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Blumwald	Molecular Regulation of Cell-type Specific Responses to Abiotic Stresses in Poplar	Biosystems Design
Winkler	University of Washington	Winkler	Integrating single-cell wetland microbiome structure, function, and activity to ecosystemscale biogeochemical fluxes	Environmental Microbiology
Blumwald	University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture	Stewart	Rational design and testing of osmotic-stress inducible synthetic promoters from poplar cis-regulatory elements	Biosystems Design
Wrighton	Argonne National Laboratory	Versteeg	Coupling KBASE with PFLOTRAN	Technology Development
Bouskill	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Bouskill	Microbial environmental feedbacks and the evolution of soil organic matter	Environmental Microbiology
Yeates	UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics	Loo	Microbial Metabolism, Chemistry, and Communities under Study at the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics	Environmental Microbiology
Boyle	Colorado School of Mines	Boyle	Enabling Predictive Metabolic Modeling of Diurnal Growth Using a Multi-Scale Multi-Paradigm Approach	Metabolic Engineering
Yeates	UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics	Pellegrini	Transcriptomic analyses of bulk and single cell Chalmydomonas RNA-seq data reveal new gene functions and cell state heterogeneity	Plant Genomic Research
Buckley	Cornell University	Barnett	Harnessing Metagenomic Stable Isotope Probing to Uncover the Carbon Cycling Capacity of Soil Microbes	Environmental Microbiology
Yeates	UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics	Rodriguez	New Atomic Imaging Technology Development at the UCLA-DOE Institute	Computational Biology
Buckley	Cornell University	Wilhelm	Phenolic acid-degrading populations of Paraburkholderia prime decomposition in forest soils	Environmental Microbiology
Yeates	UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics	Sherkanov	Innovations in Enzyme and Pathway Engineering for Cell-Free Production of Biofuels and High-Value Chemicals	Biosystems Design
Burley	Rutgers University	Westbrook	RCSB Protein Data Bank: Making connections from genes to ecosystems	Computational Biology
Young	Vanderbilt University	Babele	Rapid flux phenotyping to accelerate metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria	Metabolic Engineering
Burnum-Johnson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Burnum-Johnson	Spatiotemporal Mapping of Lignocellulose Decomposition by a Naturally Evolved Fungal Garden Microbial Consortium	Environmental Microbiology
Young	Vanderbilt University	Wang	Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for enhanced production of ethylene and free fatty acids	Metabolic Engineering
Busby	Oregon State University	Busby	Identifying Plant Genes Associated With Pathogen Antagonism in Populus trichocarpa	Microbiome
Zerbe	University of California, Berkeley	Tiedge	Improved Biofuel Production through Discovery and Engineering of Terpene Metabolism in Switchgrass	Plant Genomic Research
Cannon	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Cannon	Learning Regulation And Optimal Control Of Enzime Activities And Application To Systems Biology Data Of Neurospora Crassa	Computational Biology
Zhao	Princeton University	Xiao	Evidence for Metabolic Channeling of Glucose into the Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway to Drive NADPH Production in Rhodosporidium toruloides	Metabolic Engineering
Cannon	University of California, Berkeley	Cannon	Elucidating Principles of Bacterial-Fungal Interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Zhao	The Pennsylvania State University	Dinh	Genome-scale Model Reconstruction and 13C-Metabolic Flux Analysis for Non-model Yeast Organisms Rhodosporidium toruloides IFO0880 and Issatchenkia orientalis SD108	Metabolic Engineering
Carlson	Penn State University	Carlson	Breeding Resilient, Disease-Resistant Switchgrass Cultivars for Marginal Lands	Plant Feedstock
Zhao	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Schultz	Exploring Oleaginous Yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides as a Platform Organism for Production of Chemicals and Fuels	Metabolic Engineering
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Kelliher	Investigating Chloroplast Signal within the Hyphae of Diverse Fungi	Environmental Microbiology
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Morales	Resolving Intracellular Chloroplast in Fungi from Sequence to Slide	Microbiome
Chain	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Robinson	Examinations of the Fungal Genus Monosporascus Reveal its Potential as an Experimental Model for Studying Bacterial-Fungal Interactions	Microbiome
Chain	Penn State University	Flynn	Integrating read-based microbiome taxonomy classification tools into KBase	Microbiome
Chapple	Purdue University	Chapple	Coupling Metabolic Source Isotopic Pair Labeling And Genome Wide Association For Metabolite And Gene Annotation In Plants	Plant Genomic Research
Church	Harvard Medical School	Filsinger	Characterizing the portability of RecT-mediated oligonucleotide recombination	Technology Development
Church	Harvard Medical School	Garruss	Deep Mutational Learning of Protein Function for New Intracellular Biosensors	Computational Biology
Church	Harvard Medical School	Nyerges	Parallelized in vivo Construction of a Synthetic 57-Codon E. coli Genome	Biosystems Design
Church	Harvard Medical School	Pawlowski	Uncovering spatial taxonomic structures of synthetic microbial communities using subcellular RNA sequencing	Technology Development
Church	Harvard University	Schubert	High Throughput Functional Variant Screens via In-vivo Production of Single-stranded DNA	Technology Development
Church	Harvard University	Stork	Genetic Code Expansion in Bacillus subtilis	Technology Development
Coates	University of California, Berkeley	Ewens	Revealing the Prevalence and Diversity of a "Rare" Phosphorus Metabolism through Selective Enrichments and Genome Resolved Metagenomics	Environmental Microbiology
Coates	University of California, Berkeley	Gomberg	The Lineages of Dissimilatory Phosphite Oxidation Genes Indicate an Ancient, Vertically Transferred Metabolism	Environmental Microbiology
Comai	Pacific Southwest Research Station	Comai	Discovery and characterization of disease resistance loci using a unique gene copy number variant population	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Coruzzi	New York University	Eshel	EvoNet: A Phylogenomic and Systems Biology approach to identify genes underlying plant survival in marginal, low-Nitrogen soils	Computational Biology
Cuevas	University of Florida	Cuevas	Genome-wide association analysis of anthracnose resistance response in the NPGS sweet sorghum collection	Plant Genomic Research
Dantas	Washington University in St. Louis	Anthony	Elucidating aromatic tolerance and utilization in adaptively evolved Rhodococcus opacus strains for lignin valorization	Lignin Valorization
Dantas	Washington University in St. Louis	Roell	Characterizing growth and metabolism of Rhodococcus opacus PD630 on real lignin breakdown products	Lignin Valorization
Davison	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Petridis	Polymer and structural science behind valorizing lignin using solvents	Lignin Valorization
Davison	University of Cincinnati	Elkins	Precision Labeling of Membrane Fatty Acids in Bacillus subtilis and the Impacts on the Cellular Proteome and Lipidome	Microbial Physiology
Davison	University of Tennessee	O'Neill	Pectin- lignin interactions in plant cell walls and model composites	Deconstruction
DeAngelis	University of Massachusetts	DeAngelis	Drivers and Mechanisms of Long-Term Soil Response to Chronic Warming	Environmental Microbiology
DeLucia	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Shanklin	Energizing the Machinery of Storage Lipid Synthesis in Plant Vegetative Tissues	Plant Feedstock
DeLucia	Iowa State University	Lee	Development of High Throughput Primer Design and Quantification for Nitrogen Cycle Genes in Bioenergy Crop Soils	Plant-Microbe Interactions
DeLucia	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Yoshikuni	Leveraging Comparative Population Genomics to Dissect the Mechanisms of Issatchenkia orientalis Fluconazole Resistance	Biosystems Design
DeLucia	University of Florida	Kannan	Gene Targeting and Targeted Mutagenesis for Genetic Improvement of Oilcane	Plant Feedstock
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Burnham	Assessing Biological Nitrification Inhibition in the Rhizosphere of Field-Grown Bioenergy Sorghum	Plant-Microbe Interactions
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Kent	Linking Microbial Community Structure and Function for Sustainable Production of Bioenergy Crops	Plant-Microbe Interactions
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Kim	A role for differential RCA isoform expression in C4 bioenergy grass thermotolerance?	Plant Feedstock
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Lee	Rewiring Metabolism to Construct a Yeast Strain Capable of Producing 2,3-butanediol Without Ethanol and Glycerol Production	Conversion
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Majeed	Effectiveness of Payments for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation to Induce Low Carbon Bioenergy Production	Sustainability
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Mishra	Towards a fully automated algorithm driven platform for biosystems design	Biosystems Design
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Moore	An Ecosystem-Scale Comparison of Sorghum, Maize, and Miscanthus as Three Bioenergy Crop Candidates	Biogeochemistry
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Nguyen	Coarse-grained Modeling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Physiology	Conversion
DeLucia	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Varela	Application of Spatially Adjusted Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Sorghum Biomass Prediction Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	Plant Feedstock
DeLucia	University of Nebraska	Park	Metabolic Engineering of Triacylglycerols with Specialized Fatty Acids in Sorghum	Plant Feedstock
DeLucia	West Virginia University	Ridgeway	Quantifying the Plant-Microbial Interactions Controlling Soil Organic Matter Formation in Bioenergy to Improve Model Representations of Sustainability	Sustainability
Dinneny	Stanford University	Dinneny	Discovering Innovations in Stress Tolerance Through Comparative Gene Regulatory Network Analysis and Cell-Type Specific Expression Maps	Plant Genomic Research
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Cregger	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Temporal Variation in Plant-Microbe Interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Demerdash	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Application of machine-learned protein-metabolite binding prediction models to plant-microbe interfaces	Computational Biology
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Doktycz	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Pathway prediction and production through cell-free synthetic biology	Metabolic Engineering
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Jacobson	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Systems biology approaches to understanding a plant's adaptation to and regulation of the phytobiome	Computational Biology
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Morrell-Falvey	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Identification of gene products involved in plant colonization by Pantoea sp. YR343 using a plant-responsive diguanylate cyclase	Environmental Microbiology
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Pelletier	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Simplified community approach to investigate the dynamic host-microbiome relationship	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Tschaplinski	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Metabolomics of non-host switchgrass plants expressing a poplar lectin receptor-like kinase in response to the mycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor	Plant Genomic Research
Doktycz	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Yang	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Experimental characterization of protein movement from plants to ectomycorrhizal fungus	Plant Genomic Research
Doktycz	University of Tennessee	Hettich	Plant-Microbe Interfaces: Identification and characterization of Proteolytic Cleavage Product (PCP) peptides that function as key signaling molecules for Plant-Microbe Interactions	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	Michigan State University	Bell-Dereske	Stability of Switchgrass Leaf Microbiome in the Face of Natural Aerial Colonizers	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Donohue	Michigan State University	Bibik	Pathway Engineering and Re-targeting Boosts Production of High-Value Bioproducts in Plants	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	Michigan State University	Cordova	Associative nitrogen fixation (ANF) in high-yielding switchgrass varieties	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Donohue	Michigan State University	Han	MPK6-MYB46 Regulatory Module Suppresses Plant Biomass Formation During Salt Stress	Plant Feedstock
Donohue	Texas A&M University	Oliver	Sorghum Dw2 controls stem growth by regulating PLDÎ´/endomembrane activity and cell proliferation	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	University of British Columbia	Unda	Incorporation of protocatechuaic acid (3, 4-dihydroxybenzoate) conjugates into the lignin of transgenic poplar	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Askenasy	Engineering of the Enzymes IspG and IspH from Zymononas mobilis to Increase Terpenoid Production	Microbial Physiology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Chew	Designing Mixed-Solvent Environments for Acid-Catalyzed Biomass Conversion Processes	Deconstruction
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Courtney	Model-driven analysis of mutant fitness experiments improves genome-scale metabolic models of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Fortney	Systems Level Comparison of Medium Chain Fatty Acid Production	Microbial Physiology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Gupta	Data-driven design and engineering of biomolecules: mRNA and DNA	Computational Biology
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Karlen	Microbial conversion of chemically depolymerized lignin into valuable compounds	Lignin Valorization
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Kontur	Microbial Valorization of Lignin: Using Novosphingobium aromaticivorans to Break the Bonds in Lignin and Convert Lignin Deconstruction Products into Value-added Chemicals	Lignin Valorization
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Krause	Using Fungal Diversity to Improve Biofuel Conversion	Metabolic Engineering
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	O'Neill	Integrated Spatially Explicit Optimization of Biofuel Supply Chains and Landscape Design Considering Biomass Supply Uncertainty	Sustainability
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Sato	Crabtree-like aerobic xylose fermentation through increased metabolic flux and altered sugar signaling pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Conversion
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Smith	Using the Zip-Lignin Strategy to Build the Optimal Sorghum Biofuel Crop	Plant Feedstock
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Tilhou	Accelerating Yield Improvement in Switchgrass through Genomic Prediction of Floral Anthesis	Plant Genomic Research
Donohue	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Wadler	Engineering Streptomyces to Capture Value from Lignocellulosic Biofuel Conversion Residue	Metabolic Engineering
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Albright	Organism interactions and substrate range are the primary mechanisms linked to divergent carbon flow during litter decomposition	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Devan	Role of geographic scale in likelihood of microbial-driven functional variation during litter decomposition	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Hutchinson	Merging fungal and bacterial community profiles via an internal control	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Kroeger	Microbial Community Composition Controls Carbon Flux Across Litter Types in Short-Term Litter Decomposition	Environmental Microbiology
Dunbar	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Sevanto	Influence of microbial surface litter decomposer communities on CO2 emissions from natural soils	Environmental Microbiology
Dunlop	Boston University	Lin	High-speed spectroscopic stimulated Raman scattering microscopy for measuring biofuel synthesis	Biosystems Design
Dunlop	Boston University	Tague	Single Cell Chemical Imaging with Stimulated Raman Scattering for Biofuel Production Screening	Biosystems Design
Dyer	US Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center	Abdel-Haleem	Genomics and Phenomics to Identify Yield and Drought Tolerance Alleles for Improvement of Camelina as a Biofuel Crop	Plant Feedstock
Egbert	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Egbert	Genome remodeling to control the persistence of engineered functions in soil microbes	Biosystems Design
Eisenstein	University of Maryland	Eisenstein	Transgenic Poplar Lines to Probe Host Genes Involved in Defense Against Rust	Plant Feedstock
Evans	Michigan State University	Kittredge	Relic DNA dynamics mask the resilience of switchgrass bacterial communities to extreme drying rewetting	Microbiome
Evans	Michigan State University	Smercina	Free-living Nitrogen Fixation in the Switchgrass Rhizosphere	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Evans	Michigan State University	Ulbrich	Soil Microbes Affect Switchgrass Germination More than Seedling Growth Under Drought	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Eveland	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	Eveland	Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Drought Resilience in Sorghum	Plant Feedstock
Fagnan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Schulz	Cultivation-independent expansion of the Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses	Environmental Microbiology
Fagnan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Vangay	The National Microbiome Data Collaborative: Empowering the Research Community to More Effectively Harness Microbiome Data	Microbiome
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Baker	Unravelling Rhizosphere-Microbial Interactions in the Rhizosphere of Alamo Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) under Abiotic Stresses	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Ceja-Navarro	Multitrophic and Metabolite Responses to Drought in Grassland Soils	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Firestone	Connecting switchgrass-microbe-soil interfaces for sustainable bioenergy crop production on marginal soils: stable-isotope labeling, genomics and exometabolomics	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hao	Spectroscopic Diagnosis of Plant Phosphorus Availability and Relationship to Tissue Chemistry and Productivity of a Bioenergy Feedstock	Sustainability
Firestone	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Wang	Succession of Rhizosphere Biotic Communities During Switchgrass Establishment in Marginal Soils	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	University of California, Berkeley	Emerson	Cross-Kingdom Interactions: the Foundation for Nutrient Cycling in Grassland Soils	Microbiome
Firestone	University of California, Berkeley	Kakouridis	Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Transport Water to Host Plants	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	University of California, Berkeley	Sieradzki	Microbial and Viral Niche-Differentiation in Time-Resolved Metatranscriptomes from Rhizosphere and Detritusphere Soil	Environmental Microbiology
Firestone	University of Oklahoma	Kuang	Effects of Switchgrass Cultivation on Deep Soil Carbon Stock and Long-term Carbon Dynamics in Marginal Lands	Sustainability
Fox	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Fox	Creation of an Acyltransferase Toolbox for Plant Biomass Engineering	Plant Genomic Research
Gardner	University of Maryland	Gardner	Using Systems Biology to Untangle the Complex Physiology of Bacterial Xylan Utilization	Microbial Physiology
Gibert	Duke University	Gibert	Protist Predation Mediates The Temperature Response Of Microbial Communities	Environmental Microbiology
Gill	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Freed	Engineering of Regulatory Networks for Improved C3-C4 Alcohol Tolerance and Production in E. coli and S. cerevisiae	Biosystems Design
Gill	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Bassalo	A "Marionette" S. cerevisiae Strain to Control Metabolic Pathways	Metabolic Engineering
Gill	University of Colorado	Gal-Oz	Towards Integration of "Cello", the Computer-Aided Design Platform for Genetic Circuits, into KBase	Biosystems Design
Gill	University of Colorado	Habib	Design and engineering of native regulatory networks in non-model microbes	Biosystems Design
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Anderton	Fungal hyphal networks play a key role in soil microbiome micronutrient acquisition and transport during drought	Microbiome
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Graham	Viral diversity: decoding hidden potential for metabolic functions in soils	Microbiome
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Hofmockel	Controls on the Composition of Microbial Derived Necromass in Soil	Environmental Microbiology
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Jansson	Deconstructing the Soil Microbiome into Reduced-Complexity Functional Modules	Microbiome
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Lipton	Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Microbiome Response to Soil Rewetting	Microbiome
Hofmockel	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	McClure	Generation and Analysis of Reduced Complexity Model Soil Consortia	Microbiome
Hungate	Northern Arizona University	Hungate	Effects of Warming on Bacterial Growth and Element Fluxes in Soil	Microbiome
Hungate	Northern Arizona University	Schwartz	Measurement of Isotope Assimilation Rates into Microbial DNA Through Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing with Internal Standards	Environmental Microbiology
Jacobson	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Garvin	Peta- and Exa-scale for Arabidopsis in KBase	Computational Biology
Jamann	University of Illinois	Jamann	Conserved Genetic Mechanisms for Biotic Stress in Sorghum	Plant Feedstock
Jardine	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Dewhirst	Cell Wall O-Acetyl and Methyl Esterification Patterns of Leaves Reflected in Atmospheric Emission Signatures of Acetic Acid and Methanol	Plant Genomic Research
Jewett	LanzaTech Inc	Brown	Sequencing and Gene Mining the Largest Collection of Industrially used Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) Fermentation Strains	Biosystems Design
Jewett	LanzaTech Inc	Jensen	Establishing an Automated High-throughput Screening Platform	Biosystems Design
Jewett	LanzaTech Inc	Koepke	Accelerating Pathway Engineering of Non-Model Organisms Through Novel Cell-Free to In Vivo Workflows	Biosystems Design
Jewett	Northwestern University	Martin	Kinetic Modeling Tools Using Cell-Free Experiments to Predict Metabolic Network Behavior in Non-Model Systems	Computational Biology
Jewett	Northwestern University	Ni	Predicting Novel Biosynthetic Pathways with Generalized Enzymatic Reaction Rules	Computational Biology
Jewett	Northwestern University	Rybnicky	Determining Protospacer Adjacent Motif Preferences of Industrially Relevant Clostridial Type I-B CRISPR-Cas Systems	Biosystems Design
Jewett	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Giannone	Integrating Proteomic and Metabolomic Analyses to Optimize Cellular Extract Preparation for Enhanced Cell-Free Protein Synthesis	Biosystems Design
Jonikas	Princeton University	Jonikas	Transforming our understanding of chloroplast-associated genes through comprehensive characterization of protein localizations and protein-protein interactions	Plant Genomic Research
Juenger	Argonne National Laboratory	Ricketts	Ecosystem responses in switchgrass monoculture stands across a latitudinal gradient	Sustainability
Juenger	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Singer	Spatiotemporal dynamics of a microbiome on Panicum hallii under drought stress	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Juenger	University of Texas	Edwards	Host Genetics Control the Composition of Root-associated Microbiota in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)	Environmental Microbiology
Juenger	University of Texas	MacQueen	Genetics of Climate Adaptation Using Genome-Wide Association in Switchgrass	Sustainability
Juenger	University of Texas	Lovell	The Genomic Basis of Ecotype Evolution in Switchgrass	Plant Genomic Research
Juenger	University of Texas	Zhang	Using Machine Learning to Identify Cultivar x Site Interaction and Environmental Variable Affecting Aboveground Biomass	Sustainability
Keasling	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Liu	Lowering Lignin Recalcitrance and Producing Value Bioproducts in Poplar	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Achinivu	Distillable Ionic Liquids/Deep Eutectic Solvents for an Effective Recycling and Recovery Approach	Deconstruction
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Eudes	Production of Platform Chemicals in Bioenergy Crops: Stacking Low-Recalcitrance Traits with Co-Products	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Feist	Adaptive Laboratory Evolution as an Efficient Technology for Strain Construction	Technology Development
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Garcia Martin	ART: a machine learning Automated Recommendation Tool for synthetic biology	Computational Biology
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Gladden	Conversion of Ionic Liquid Pretreated Poplar into Jet Fuel	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Ha	High-Throughput Screening of Lignocellulosic Biomass Degrading Enzymes Utilizing Mass Spectrometry	Technology Development
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Hillson	Collaboration with the Experiment Data Depot	Biosystems Design
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Iwai	A Droplet Microfluidic Platform for Lab Automation	Technology Development
Keasling	Joint BioEnergy Institute	Lee	Redirecting metabolic flux via combinatorial multiplex CRISPRi-mediated repression for isopentenol production in E. coli	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Keasling	Engineered Polyketide Synthases as Platform for Synthetic Chemistry	Biosystems Design
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Mishra	Environmental Impacts of Biomass Sorghum Production in the Continental United States	Sustainability
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Mortimer	Sorghum Secondary Cell Wall Nanoarchitecture Can Be Revealed By Solid State NMR	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Mukhopadhyay	Genome-scale metabolic rewiring to achieve predictable titers, rates and yields of nonnative products at scale	Metabolic Engineering
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Petzold	An Automated Sample Preparation Workflow For High-throughput, Quantitative Proteomic Studies of Microbes	Technology Development
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Scheller	Field Testing of Engineered Switchgrass with Improved Biomass Yield and Sustainability Traits	Plant Feedstock
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Scown	Machine Learning to Predict Biomass Sorghum Yields under Future Climate Scenarios	Sustainability
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Singer	Catabolism of Lignin Oligomers by Soil-Derived Microbiomes	Deconstruction
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Singh	Towards Whole Biomass Utilization: Development of Ionic Liquid Technologies for Lignin	Deconstruction
Keasling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Yang	Carbon Footprint and Economics of Integrating Biogas Upgrading Process and Carbon Capture Technologies in Cellulosic Biorefineries	Sustainability
Kirst	University of Florida	Kates	Global-Scale Phylogenomics of the Nitrogen-Fixing Clade	Plant Genomic Research
Kirst	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Irving	Evolution of root nodule symbiosis & engineering of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Populus sp.	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Kirst	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Knaack	Deciphering N-fixing symbiosis signaling in Medicago with dynamic regulatory module networks (DRMNs)	Computational Biology
Lemaux	University of California, Berkeley	Lemaux	Lessons from the Field: How Sorghum and Its Microbiome Respond to Drought	Plant Feedstock
Lloyd	University of Tennessee	Lloyd	Arctic Microbial Permafrost Degradation	Biogeochemistry
Long	University of Florida	Luo	Towards Oil Cane: Engineering Energycane for Hyperaccumulation of Lipids and Improved Agronomic Performance	Biosystems Design
Long	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Lee	Increasing photosynthetic efficiency of energycane under fluctuating lights	Biosystems Design
Long	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Sobanska	Toward transgenic sustainable productivity increases in Miscanthus giganteus	Biosystems Design
Long	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Wang	Stem Parenchyma Cell-specific Gene Characterization in Energycane	Biosystems Design
Lowry	Michigan State University	Lowry	Identification of Adaptive Fungal Pathogen Resistance Loci in Switchgrass	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Lu	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Shin	Simultaneous consumption of mixed sugars through the division of labor (DOL) in a synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae consortium	Biosystems Design
Lu	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Xin	Dissecting the Social Interactions of Yeast-Lactic Acid Bacteria Consortia	Environmental Microbiology
Maeda	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Yoshikuni	Constructing the Nitrogen Flux Maps (NFMs) of Plants	Plant Genomic Research
Martienssen	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Martienssen	Biological Design of Lemnaceae Aquatic Plants for Biodiesel Production	Biosystems Design
Marx	University of Idaho	Vasdekis	Using Gene Editing and an Accumulated Bioproduct as a Reporter for Genotypic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Growth-vs-Production for Methylobacterium extorquens Conversion of Aromatics to Butanol	Biosystems Design
Michener	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Michener	Systems Metabolic Engineering of Novosphingobium aromaticivorans for Lignin Valorization	Biosystems Design
Mitchell	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Sedova	Structure to Function: Bringing Protein Structure and Ligand Screening to KBase	Computational Biology
Moran	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Moran	Evaluating Biogeochemical Processes Facilitated by Plant and Microbial Interactions within the Rhizosphere	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Mouser	University of New Hampshire	Mouser	Metabolic and membrane adaptations of the hydraulically fractured shale isolate Halanaerobium in response to temperature and growth rate fluctuations under continuous culture	Biogeochemistry
Muchero	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Muchero	Genome sequencing reveal structural and nucleotide-level divergence among immunosuppressing G-type Lectin Receptor kinases across multiple Salix species	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Niyogi	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Blaby	Genome-based Protein Function Discovery in the Eukaryotic Alga Chromochloris zofingiensisn	Biosystems Design
Niyogi	Colorado School of Mines	Metcalf	Genome-scale Metabolic Model of Chromochloris zofingiensis, an Emerging Model Green Alga for Sustainable Fuel Production	Metabolic Engineering
Niyogi	University of California, Berkeley	Jeffers	Elucidating Nutrient-Dependent Effects on Regulation of Photosynthesis and Metabolism	Biosystems Design
Noirot	Argonne National Laboratory	Noirot	Machine Learning Guided Design of Safeguards That Operate Under Various Bacterial Physiologies	Technology Development
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chiniquy	Fabricated Ecosystems (EcoFABs) design for controlled and reproducible habitats to investigate plant-microbe-soil interactions	Technology Development
Northen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Zhalnina	Designing Synthetic communities for dissecting plant-microbe interactions in fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs)	Technology Development
Northen	North Carolina State University	Nethery	m-CAFEs Applications of Targeted Editing in Microbial Networks	Technology Development
Northen	University of California, Berkeley	Rubin	Targeted DNA Editing Within Microbial Communities	Technology Development
Orphan	California Institute of Technology	Orphan	Methane and nutrient cycling by sediment-hosted archaeal-bacterial syntrophic consortia and their viral predators	Environmental Microbiology
Orphan	University of Georgia	He	Microbial Interactions at Micro-scale and Pore-scale Revealed by Process-based Reactive Transport Modeling	Environmental Microbiology
Pakrasi	Washington University in St. Louis	Banerjee	Systems analysis of a fast growing N2-fixing cyanobacterium for production of advanced biofuels and nitrogen-containing petrochemical replacement compounds	Microbial Physiology
Papoutsakis	Pennsylvania State University	Foster	Modeling growth kinetics and metabolism of Clostridium acetobutylicum/Clostridium ljungdahlii co-culture with cell fusion	Computational Biology
Papoutsakis	University of Delaware	Charubin	Syntrophic co-cultures of Clostridium organisms to produce higher alcohols and other C6-C8 metabolites	Metabolic Engineering
Peay	Stanford University	Peay	Symbiotic niche mapping reveals nutrient specialization and functional complementarity among ectomycorrhizal fungi	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Marschmann	Trait-based Modeling of Mineral-associated Soil Organic Matter Formation in Distinct Soil Habitats	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Pett-Ridge	Unearthing the Active Microbes, Viruses and Metabolites in Dynamic-Redox Tropical Soils with Quantitative SIP and Metagenomics	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Sokol	How Drought Modulates Formation and Persistence of Microbial-Derived Soil Carbon from Rhizosphere, Detritusphere, and Bulk Soil Microbial Communities	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	Northern Arizona University	Foley	Using Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing to Link Precipitation Regimes of Mediterranean-Grassland Ecosystems to Soil Microbial Ecophysiology	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	The Ohio State University	Sun	Viral Diversity and Potential Carbon Cycling Impacts Across a Soil Climate Gradient	Environmental Microbiology
Pett-Ridge	The Ohio State University	Zablocki	A Workflow for Generating and Polishing Nanopore Reads from Low Biomass Samples	Environmental Microbiology
Rhee	Carnegie Institution for Science	Rhee	High-Throughput Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map of Plants	Metabolic Engineering
Salis	Penn State University	Liew	Multiplex Genome Engineering for Bioproduction of 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid and 1,3- Propanediol from Waste Gases	Metabolic Engineering
Salis	Penn State University	Salis	A Thousand Highly Non-Repetitive Promoters for Controlling Transcription Rates in Clostridia during Syngas Fermentation	Metabolic Engineering
Salvachua	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Salvachua	White-Rot Fungi Utilize Lignin-Derived Compounds as a Carbon Source	Lignin Valorization
Schachtman	University of Nebraska	Ozersky	Data access, mining and visualization. Tools to accommodate an interdisciplinary project.	Sustainability
Schachtman	University of Nebraska	Schachtman	Approaches to the Development of Sustainable Energy Sorghum Biofuel Feedstocks in Drought Prone and Low Nitrogen Environments	Plant Feedstock
Schachtman	University of Nebraska	Tringe	Sorghum root microbiome dynamics under nutrient-limited and drought conditions	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Schachtman	Washington University in St. Louis	Cousins	Leaf Carbon Isotope Composition in Diverse Sorghum Lines	Plant Feedstock
Schilling	University of Minnesota	Anderson	Gene Regulatory Networks Enabling Fungi to Selectively Extract Sugars from Lignocellulose	Deconstruction
Schnell	Michigan State University	Schnell	A Systems Approach to Enhancing Seedling Establishment for Increased Yields in the Oilseed Crop, Camelina sativa	Biosystems Design
Sedbrook	Illinois State University	Sedbrook	Advancing Field Pennycress as a New Oilseed Biofuels Feedstock that Does Not Require New Land Commitments	Plant Feedstock
Semray	University of Michigan	Kang-Yun	Competition Between Methanotrophs for Copper	Environmental Microbiology
Solomon	Purdue University	Hillman	Genetic tools to optimize lignocellulose conversion in anaerobic fungi and interrogate their genomes	Biosystems Design
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Brisson	Characterizing algal metabolites and their role in biotic interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Dhaeseleer	Tools for Importing, Comparing and Merging Functional Annotations for Improved Metabolic Modeling in KBase	Computational Biology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Hestrin	Beneficial Partners: Mycorrhizal Resource Exchange in Bioenergy Cropping Systems	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Kim	Examining the role of physical proximity and diffusion of metabolites in algal-bacterial interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Carlson	Selective Carbon Sources Influence the End-Products of Microbial Nitrate Respiration	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Lee	Understanding Variation in the Switchgrass Microbiome Across Scales: Evidence for Both Host Filtering and Environmental Control	Plant-Microbe Interactions
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chakraborty	Applying Stable Isotopes for Source Fingerprinting of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Groundwater	Environmental Microbiology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Mayali	Categorizing metabolic exchange and signaling reveal distinct mechanisms of mutualistic algal-bacterial interactions	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Chandonia	The ENIGMA Data Clearinghouse: A platform for rigorous self-validated data modeling and integrative, reproducible data analysis	Computational Biology
Stuart	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Navid	System-level analyses of beneficial interactions in an algal-bacterial co-culture	Computational Biology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Deutschbauaer	Integrating Genomics, Physiology and Genetics of the Oak Ridge Field Research Site Microbiome	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	The Ohio State University	Solden	Viruses may manipulate the global carbon cycle through carbohydrate active enzymes	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Lui	A Method for Circularizing Microbial Genomes from Metagenomics Data	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	The Ohio State University	Sullivan	KBase Science GSP: Towards a Viral Ecogenomics Toolkit at KBase	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Northen	High throughput approaches for investigation of microbial interactions within synthetic microbial communities	Environmental Microbiology
Sullivan	The Ohio State University	Sullivan	The role of viruses in the carbon cycle along a permafrost thaw gradient	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Smith	Core Values: Spatial Variation in Microbial Function, Activity, and Community Assembly in Groundwater and Sediment from a Contaminated Subsurface Aquifer	Environmental Microbiology
Tabita	The Ohio State University	Cannon	Novel Microbial Routes to Synthesize Industrially Significant Precursor Compounds	Metabolic Engineering
Adams	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Valenzuela	A Multi-Laboratory Effort to Use Synthetic Communities to Discover, Characterize, and Dissect Key Microbial Processes Relevant to Field Observations	Environmental Microbiology
Tabita	The Ohio State University	North	Novel nitrogenase-like C-S lyases link bacterial anaerobic methionine salvage to ethylene and methane production	Microbial Physiology
Adams	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Walker	Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Groundwater and Sediment: Geochemistry, Microbial Communities and Activities in a Contaminated Aquifer	Bioimaging
Taga	University of California, Berkeley	Hallberg	Corrinoids as model nutrients to probe microbial interactions in a soil ecosystem	Environmental Microbiology
Adams	University of Georgia	Rubinstein	Systems Biology-Based Optimization of Extremely Thermophilic Lignocellulose Conversion to Bioproducts	Metabolic Engineering
Tas	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Tas	Microbial controls on biogeochemical cycles in permafrost ecosystems	Microbiome
Adams	University of Rhode Island	Zhang	Genome-scale metabolic and regulatory network reconstruction of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii	Metabolic Engineering
Taylor	University of California, Davis	Taylor	Understanding the genetic basis of drought tolerance in bioenergy poplar	Plant Feedstock
Adams	University of Rhode Island	Zhang	Integrating data and algorithms from the ENIGMA project into KBase	Computational Biology
Trinh	University of Tennessee	Trinh	Understanding and Harnessing the Exceptional Robustness of Yarrowia lipolytica for the Conversion of Biomass Hydrolysate into Designer Bioesters	Metabolic Engineering
Adams	University of Washington	Hunt	High nitrous oxide emissions from a nitrate contaminated subsurface indicate significant metabolic activity	Environmental Microbiology
Trinh	University of Tennessee	Walker	Understanding and Eliminating the Detrimental Effect of Thiamine Deficiency on the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica	Metabolic Engineering
Alexander	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Alexander	Optimal Experimental Design (OED) of Biological Systems	Biosystems Design
Tullman-Ercek	Northwestern University	Ikonomova	Employing Bacterial Microcompartments To Create Privileged Redox Pools for Biofuel Production	Metabolic Engineering
Allen	University of California, Berkeley	Allen	Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites and Characterization of Promoter Architecture in the model Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Microbial Physiology
Tuskan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Stone	High-throughput Reductive Catalytic Fractionation for Lignin Characterization in the Genome Wide Association Study of Poplar	Technology Development
Allen	University of California, Berkeley	Smith	Evolution and Metabolic Configuration of Nitrogen Flux in a Model Marine Diatom	Microbial Physiology
Tuskan	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Webb	Economic Impact of Yield and Composition Variation in Bioenergy Crops: Populus trichocarpa	Plant Feedstock
Allen	University of California, Berkeley	Zheng	Modeling carbon metabolism of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum during nitrogen starvation and during high light and low light conditions	Metabolic Engineering
Tuskan	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Yarbrough	Leveraging Super High Optical Resolution Microscopy to Probe the Interaction Zone Between Clostridium thermocellum and Biomass	Conversion
Allen	University of California, Berkeley	Zuniga	Temporal profiles unravel resource allocation mechanisms under nitrogen starvation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Computational Biology
Tuskan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Barros	Genetic engineering to produce C-lignin deposition in plant stems	Plant Feedstock