Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grant

Organization - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grant Amount - $4,705,729
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will support research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. Edward F. DeLong on the dynamics of the composition and gene expression patterns of planktonic microbial communities. Outcomes for this grant include a deeper understanding of how Bacterial and Archaeal populations change in space and time in natural and perturbed marine systems, how microbes communicate with each other in ocean environments, and how widely distributed genes of important ecological function impact marine biogeochemical cycles.


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