©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.The goal of this project is to explore potential microbial P uptake mechanisms in marine sediments beneath the North Atlantic Gyre and their effects on the relative distribution of organic P compounds as a function of burial depth and changing redox conditions. We use a combination of metagenomic analyses and solution 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P NMR) to investigate (1) the presence of microbial functional genes pertaining to P uptake and metabolism and (2) the possible P substrates for the deep biosphere in these oligotrophic sediments.
NSF C-DEBI Award #156246 to Dr. Adina Paytan
NSF C-DEBI Award #157598 to Dr. Delphine Defforey
Principal Investigator: Adina Paytan
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Barbara J. Cade-Menun
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AGR GC)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Delphine Defforey
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Brandi Kiel Reese
Texas A&M, Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC)
Co-Principal Investigator: Jason Brent Sylvan
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Benjamin Tully
University of Southern California (USC)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Laura Zinke
University of Southern California (USC)
Contact: Adina Paytan
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations [C-DEBI]