Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Linking Genetics and Mineralization of Iron-oxidizing Microbes at Midocean Ridges

拟开展的研究的目的是研究嗜酸性微生物铁氧化的遗传基础，阐明其与羟基氧化铁生物矿化的关系，并开发一种监测环境中生物铁氧化的方法。 这项工作将涉及注释的第一个可用的基因组之一的好氧嗜酸性铁氧化剂和确定组件的铁氧化电子传递和多糖合成途径，使用geonomic分析和蛋白质分离和表征技术。

The objective of the proposed research is to study the genetic basis of neutrophilic microbial iron oxidation to elucidate its relation to iron oxyhydroxide biomineralization and develop a means to monitor biological iron oxidation in the environment. This work will involve annotating one of the first available genomes of aerobic neutrophilic iron oxidizer and identifying components of the iron oxidation electron transport and polysaccharide synthesis pathways using geonomic analysis and protein isolation and characterization techniques.