Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
Awards Listing for Fiscal Years 2003, 2002 and 2001

Fiscal Year 2003 Awards National Science Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (yrs)
Benson, David 0333173	University of Connecticut	Sequencing of the Frankia CcI3 Genome, a Nitrogen-Fixing Plant Symbiotic Actinomycete	$914,922	3
Birren, Bruce 0333269	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Finishing the Draft Genome of Magnaportha grisea	$1,300,000	1
Cary, Craig 0333203	University of Delaware	Genomic Sequencing of Two Globally Ubiquitous Members of the Epsilon Proteobacteria Found in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments	$374,524	1
Clark, Theodore 0333246	Cornell University	Gene Discovery and Mapping Tools for Ichthyophthirius: A Complementary DNA Resource	$499,755	2
Eisen, Jonathan 0240361	The Institute for Genomic Research	Shotgun Sequencing of Tetrahymena thermophila	$2,567,000	2
Eisen, Jonathan 0243492	The Institute for Genomic Research	Complete Genome Sequencing of the Extremely Halophilic Archaea Haloferax volcanii	$247,185	1.5
Gardner, Malcolm 0333240	The Institute for Genomic Research	Genome Sequencing of the Protistan Parasite Perkinsus marinus	$1,656,540	2
Giovannoni, Stephen 0307223	Oregon State University	SGER: Sequencing a Pelagibacter (SAR11)	$99,598	1
Gordon, Jeffrey 0333284	Washington University School of Medicine	Comparative Microbial Genome Analysis of the Human-Bacteroides Symbiosis	$1,993,732	3
Graves, Michael 0333197	University of Massachusetts, Lowell	Algal Virus Genomics	$309,227	3
Gunsalus, Robert 0333294	University of California, Los Angeles	Sequencing and Analysis of the Syntrophus aciditrophicus Genome	$449,779	2
Hendrix, Roger 0333112	University of Pittsburgh	Sequences of Exceptionally Large Bacteriophage Genomes	$642,764	3
Iandolo, John 0333273	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Sequencing and Annotation of the Bdellovibrio Strain W Genome	$281,000	2
Karam, Jim 0333130	Tulane University	Sequencing Genomes of the T4-like Myoviridae	$285,000	1
Martin-Carnahan, Amy 0334247	University of Maryland, Baltimore	Aeromonas hydrophila Under the Auspices of the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program	$499,999	2
Nelson, Karen 0333190	The Institute for Genomic Research	Salinibacter ruber: A Bacterium that Behaves Like a Haloarchaean	$349,973	2
Nester, Eugene 0333297	University of Washington	Genome Sequencing of Agrobacterium biovar Type Strains	$1,039,782	2
Nusbaum, Harris 0333274	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Phytophthora	$457,000	1
Sadowsky, Michael 0333161	University of Minnesota – Twin Cities	Complete Genomic Sequencing of Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1	$699,245	2
Smith, Kerry 0333210	Clemson University	The Genome Sequence of Methanosaeta concilii – An Educational Tool	$276,247	2
Taylor, Donald 0333308	University of Alaska, Fairbanks	Coupling Diversity with Function: Metagenomics of Boreal Forest Fungi	$800,000	2
Fiscal Year 2002 Awards National Science Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (yrs)
Bhattacharya, Debashish 0236631	University of Iowa	An EST Approach to Understanding Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer	$789,987	2
Delong, Edward 0236541	Monterey Bay Aquariam Research Institute	The Cenarchaeum Symbiosum Genome Project: Genome Sequence from a Psychrophilic Archaeon, the Ocean's Single-Most Abundant Microbes	$759,642	2
Hoover, Timothy 0237224	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.	Genome Sequencing of the Budding Bacterium Hyphomonas neptunium	$325,000	2
Nierman, William 0236595	Institute of Genomic Research	Sequencing of the Genome of Myxococcus xanthus	$1,150,000	2
Read, Timothy 0242162	Institute for Genomic Research	Sequencing of Plasmids from the Bacillus Cereus Group- Mapping the Evolution of B. Anthracis Virulence Plasmids pv01 and pv02	$998,715	2
Reysenbach, Anna-Louise 0236856	Portland State University	Genome sequencing and Comparative Analysis of the Chemolithoautotrophic Thermophile, Persephonella marina and its Terrestrial Relative AZ-Eu1	$500,000	2
Tyler, Brett 0242131	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Genome Sequencing of Phytophthora sojae	$1,000,000	2
Ward, Naomi 0237365	Institute of Genomic Research	Genome Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of Acidobacterium capsulatum and Verrucomicrobium spinosum	$1,100,000	2
Fiscal Year 2001 Awards National Science Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing
Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (yrs)
DasSarma, Shiladitya 0135595	University of Maryland Biotech Institute	Genomic Biodiversity in Hypersaline Environments	$600,000	3
Dean, Ralph 0136064	North Carolina State University	Genome Sequence of Magnaporthe grisea	$700,000	2
Farman, Mark 0135462	University of Kentucky	Comparative Genomics of Telomeres in Pathogenic and Saprophytic Fungi	$793,000	3
Karam, Jim 0138236	Tulane University	Sequencing Genomes of the Myoviridae	$495,600	3
Moran, MaryAnn 0135210	University of Georgia	A Genomic Approach to Sulfur Biotransformations in the Ocean: The Genome Sequence of a Marine Roseobacter	$882,593	3
Schmidt, Thomas 0135880	Michigan State University	Phylogeny to Function: Genomic Analysis of Dominant, Uncultured Soil Bacteria	$651,170	3
Sogin, Mitchell 0135272	Marine Biological Lab	Microsporidia and the Next Generation of Genome Scientists	$1,078,381	4
Young, Ryland 0135653	Texas A & M	Phages of Agronomic Bacteria: A Student-Based Genomics Approach	$250,000	4

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