Project: Phytoplankton Exometabolites

The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) is focused on understanding marine chemical currencies. This project examines exometabolites released from representative taxa of marine phytoplankton to better characterize the composition of labile marine dissolved organic matter and understand the biological sources of these metabolites to the marine environment. Specifically, this project integrates novel metabolomics, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics methods to identify extracellular metabolites and link them with their production pathways under environmentally relevant conditions.