Current and Past projects
Enhancing expertise in bacterial taxonomy: Classical and molecular-based monographic research of the Aquificales-NSF-PEET

see the database at : Aquificales warehouse.

Diversity and distribution of thermoacidophiles at deep-sea hydrothermal vent. (NSF-OCE-0728391)
Collaborative Research: Evolution of environments within black smoker chimney walls: microbial colonization as functions of temperature, chemistry and time. (NSF) Proposal summary

Deployments of 2003

Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of the chemolithoautrotrophic Persephonella marina and it's terrestrial relative, Sulfurihydrogenibium azorense and Sulfurihydrogenibium yellowstonese

Closed genome sequence now available at: http://tigr.org. Please contact ALR for more informtion.

Teachers workshop

Genome sequencing of Hydrogenivirga strain L3 and "Aciduliprofundum boonei", from deep-sea vents along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center.

Funded by the Moore Foundation.

Metabolic Plasticity in Chemolithoautotrophic Thermophilic Aquificales: Models for the Evolution of Early Metabolisms on Earth?

NASA-Exobiology

Collaborative Research: Sampling and Initial Characterization of Hydrothermal Fluids, Deposits, Microfauna and Megafauna at Vent Fields along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center (NSF)

Links: Lau basin vents

Cruise May 05 pictures:

Fun

Outreach

Science pics

Other projects: microbial diversity -El Tatio-Chile
Past projects:

Interdependence of Microbial Activity and Rates of Geochemical Reactions: An Interdisciplinary Experimental Study Under Hydrothermal Conditions (NSF)

The Coupling of Biological and Geochemical Evolution in Earth's Earliest Ecosystems: Clues from Sulfur Isotope Biosignatures (NASA)

A tropical Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research on Microbial Diversity in Caterpillars (NSF)

A microbial inventory of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem thermal features (NSF). In collaboration with Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, University of New Mexico

Other projects: microbial diversity -Furnas-Azores
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