Research and Projects

Currently active awarded grants and contracts

Federal Grants (PI or Co-I)

Active Proposals
  1.   National Science Foundation-Engineered Living Systems (ELiS), Title: EFRI ELiS: Bioweathering dynamics and ecophysiology of microbially catalyzed soil genesis of Mars regolith.
  2.  Department of Energy, Title: From viromes to virocells: dissecting viral roles in terrestrial microbiomes and nutrient cycling.
  3. Department of Energy, Title: A volatile environment: How volatile mediated plant and microbial interactions extend the rhizosphere and enhance soil carbon storage
  4.   Department of Energy, Title: Uncovering the microbial networks that degrade plant-derived phenolic compounds and their role in peatland soil carbon sequestration: revisiting the ‘enzyme latch’ hypothesis.
  5.  Department of Energy, Title: Gatekeepers of Arctic carbon loss: landscape-scale metabolites-to-ecosystems profiling to mechanistically map climate feedbacks. National Institute of Health, Title: The Impact of Bacteriophage Therapy on Wound Infection Dynamics.
  6. National Science Foundation, Title: Collaborative Research: GCR: Growing a new science of landscape terraformation: The convergence of rock, fluids, and life to form complex ecosystems across scales.
  7.  National Science Foundation, Title: BII-Implementation: The EMERGE Institute, integrating research and training to characterize Emergent Ecosystem Response to Change.
  8.  Heising-Simons Foundation   Title: Canary Compounds: Early Indicators of Permafrost Thaw
Past Proposals
  1.  Department of Energy Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research, Title: Overcoming systems biology bottlenecks: a pipeline for metabolome data processing analyses and multi-omics integration.
  2.  EMSL Large-Scale Research Proposal, Title: Deciphering plant-plant, plant-microbe, and plant-soil interactions driving biological invasion in a southwestern desert grassland.
  3.  Federal Emergency Management Agency. Women Fire Fighters Study: Evaluation of Exposures and Toxicity, 
  4.  United States Department of Agriculture, Project: Collaborative proposal: Getting to the Root of Drought: Unlocking Plant-Soil-Microbiome Interactions in the Rhizoshere that Regulate Drought Responses.
  5.   Department of Energy, Title: Virus in Soils: Key Modulators of Microbiomes and Nutrient Cycling?
  6. National Science Foundation, Title: National Science Foundation: SitS: Sniffing the Soil Volatilome: Decoding Microbial Interactions in Soil Systems using Subsurface Sensors.
  7.  National Science Foundation, Title: NRT-URoL: BRIDGES -Building Resources for Interdisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences.
  8.  Grantham Foundation, Title: Towards virus therapy of a climate-critical ecosystem.
  9.  BIO5 Rapid grants. Title: Combining machine learning and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for biomarker discovery.