Project Grant 2049299
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $899,999 Project Grant through its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) on May 1, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research to characterize a novel blue copper ferritin protein in marine phytoplankton and explore how this protein may provide an ecological advantage in iron-limited ocean environments. The research aims to advance the understanding of how iron limitation impacts marine ecosystems and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $456,072 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography for collaborative research titled "Functional Genomic Investigations of Iron and Carbon Cycle Coupling in Select Keystone Marine Bacteria Heterotrophs." The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of integrated Earth system processes through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050)....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems provides $1.6 million to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funds the development of new molecular genetic tools by the J. Craig Venter Institute to define phenotypes in the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, which can cause harmful algal blooms. Two subawards totaling $100,000 each were provided to the University of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $824,656 project grant to the University of Washington (UW) to investigate the impact of iron availability on heterotrophic bacterial carbon consumption in the mesopelagic ocean's "twilight zone". The 3-year project, starting on May 1, 2025 and ending on April 30, 2028, will utilize a combination of laboratory studies and field experiments to test three related hypotheses on how iron and carbon...
- This National Science Foundation Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $650,992 to North Carolina State University supports research to assess the role of marine bacteria and viruses in producing and cycling vitamin B1 and related compounds in the surface ocean. The 3-year project will conduct laboratory experiments to estimate the fluxes of these vital compounds from key bacterial groups and the impacts of temperature changes, which are critical for understanding plankton...
- This Project Grant award for $699,493.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to study the role of viruses in microbial carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The key objectives are to identify the diversity, mechanisms, and rates of virus-induced carbon cycling in this deep ocean ecosystem. The research combines metagenomics, stable isotope probing, and microscopy techniques to...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $597,248 supports research into applying novel approaches to link microbial growth efficiency, function, and energy transfer in the ocean. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will further understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will conduct research from September 2023 to August 2026 to...
- This $300,785 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project to characterize the chemical composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter released by marine nitrifying microorganisms. The project aims to determine how this material contributes to carbon cycling in the deep ocean, which may help improve biogeochemical models and inform potential marine carbon dioxide removal activities. The research will...
- This three-year, $586,609 National Science Foundation project grant in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, to apply novel methods for understanding microbial growth efficiency, function, and energy transfer in the ocean. The research aims to identify ecological conditions and microbial taxa accounting for variance in microbial growth efficiency along light and nutrient gradients. It uses data...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $279,809 to the University of California Irvine to quantify the relationship between environmental conditions and the particulate carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus ratios of marine microorganisms. Over the three-year period from February 2022 to January 2025, the researchers will characterize the distribution of biomass stoichiometric traits for...
The J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. was awarded a three-year, $516,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research investigating the functional genomics of iron and carbon cycle coupling in keystone marine bacteria heterotrophs. The research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences by exploring the genomic basis of critical biogeochemical interactions between iron utilization and carbon cycling pathways in select marine microbes. The grant will support research activities conducted from June 2021 through May 2024 in La Jolla, California to examine these microbes' roles in ocean carbon sequestration and nutrient recycling processes.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $516.2k | 5/13/21 |