Exploring the Black Box of Archaeal Methane Metabolism

这个项目的目的是建立在关于古细菌中古老微生物如何处理甲烷（一种重要的温室气体）的新发现的基础上。该项目希望通过跨学科的方法，产生关于这些新型古菌如何能够通过代谢途径产生/消化甲烷和其他非甲烷碳底物的新数据。该项目的预期成果包括改进培养这些古老微生物的技术，研究它们如何处理甲烷，并了解它们如何促进全球碳循环。这将提供重要的好处，例如了解如何在厌氧环境中操纵新型古菌的甲烷和非甲烷化合物的循环。

This project aims to build on new discoveries about how ancient microorganisms belonging to the Archaea that process methane, a significant greenhouse gas. This project expects to generate new data about how these novel Archaea are able to generate/digest methane and other non-methane carbon substrates through metabolic pathways using an interdisciplinary approach. Expected outcomes of this Project include improved techniques to grow these ancient microorganisms, investigate how they process methane, and understand how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. This will provide significant benefits, such as understanding the how the cycling of methane and non-methane compounds by novel Archaea can be manipulated in anaerobic environments.