Project: C-CoMP Model Bacteria Physiological Studies

The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) is focused on understanding how marine microorganisms determine the fate of labile carbon in the surface ocean. To study these chemical-biological dynamics across a variety of scales and in response to changing environmental conditions, the physiology of marine bacteria that drive chemical exchange must be explored in depth using a variety of microbiological, molecular biological, and integrative ’omics (e.g. proteomics, metabolomics, and genomics) methodologies. This project has been created to host data generated via these methods to investigate the physiological mechanisms underpinning the biogeochemical functions of model marine bacteria.