The Neuer group’s latest achievement has been featured in a Biodesign Institute news story and on ASU Now, as the first laboratory group to receive a research grant in the new Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics. This center’s mission involves the study of the structure and function of complex microbial systems, with the Neuer Lab’s focus being on the oceanic microbiome.
The $687,521 National Science Foundation’s Biological Oceanography grant will allow the Neuer group, in collaboration with Associate Professor Dr. Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, to expand upon their research on the aggregation of pico-phytoplankton by incorporating both laboratory and field investigations – which will help shed light to the potential contribution that the eukaryotic fraction of pico-phytoplankton may have on the oceanic biological carbon pump in oligotrophic ocean regions.
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