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The Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory (SIMO) is improving understanding of the fate of terrestrial and marine-derived dissolved organic matter in the coastal ocean through a focus on bacterial community gene expression patterns. This project was funded in October, 2007 by the National Science Foundation.
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Current Research – Seasonal surveys of bacterioplankton community gene expression using direct mRNA retrieval and sequencing (metatranscriptomics). – Identification of bacterial functional assemblages driving marine carbon cycling using flow cytometric cell sorting and targeted DNA sequencing. – Seasonal surveys of bacterial and archaeal diversity by deep sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA genes. – Statistical and bioinformatic tool development for environmental sequence analysis. – Microarray-based studies of metabolism of carbon cycle-relevant compounds by model bacterioplankton. |
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The Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory is funded by the National Science Foundation
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number MCB-0702125. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.