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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.

Appendix C

URoL-Funded Projects

Project Name PI Name Co-PI Name
URoL: Epigenetics 1: Control by noncoding RNA Xiaojun Tian
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 2: Revealing how epigenetic inheritance governs the environmental challenge response with transformative 3D genomics and machine learning Ayan Chakrabartim, R. Keith Slotkin Malia Gehan, Ulugbek Kamilov, Tao Ju, Sona Pandey, Blake Meyers, Christopher Topp
URoL: Epigenetics 1: Characterization and dissection of DNA methylation and animal color changes in an African cichlid Sebastian Alvarado Wei Fang
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 2: Phase separated genome compartments as drivers of epigenetic phenotypes Geeta Narlikar, Stavros Lomvardas Carolyn Larabell
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 2: Predicting phenotypic and eco-evolutionary consequences of environmental-energetic-epigenetic linkages Ross Cunning, Jose Eirin-Lopez, Holly Moeller, Hollie Putnam, Steven Roberts Roger Nisbet
URoL: Epigenetics 2: Reverse engineering human epigenetic machinery in yeast Jef Boeke Matthew Maurano
URoL: Epigenetics 2: Robustness and adaptability of the dynamic epigenome: A multiscale approach Kaushik Ragunathan Ahmad Khalil, Ryan Bailey, Julie Biteen, Peter Freddolino
Collaborative Research: CYBORG cells: Modular integration of synthetic organelles into living cells Mary Elting, Jane Maienschein, Fred Chang, Saad Bhamla
Collaborative Research: Booting up a mirror cell Neal Devaraj, Farren Isaacs
Collaborative Research: Bottom-up construction of a synthetic neuron and programmable neuronal network Allen Po-Chih Liu, Taekjip Ha, Moumita Das, Sindy KY Tang, Barbara Harthorn, Chongli Yuan
Collaborative Research: ProteoCell: The fat-free cell Cheryl Kerfeld, Giovanna Ghirlanda, Barbara Harthorn, Christine Keating, Millicent Sullivan, Vincent Noireaux
Collaborative Research: Life with an RNA genome Jef Boeke, Erika Szymanski, Kaihang Wang, Joel Bader
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 2: Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations: From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels of biological organization Michael Dillon, Jeffrey Lozier Janna Fierst, James Strange, Franco Basile
URoL: Epigenetics 1: Influence of environmental change on the epigenome and phenotypic plasticity in purple sea urchins Marie Strader Katherine Buckley
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 1: Novel epitransciptomics tools to understand and modulate interactions of modified RNAs with protein readers and erasers Lydia Contreras, Phanourios Tamamis
URoL: Epigenetics 2: Profiling and functional dissection of the epitranscriptome in archaeal extremophiles Thomas Santangelo Schraga Schwartz, Todd Lowe, Gregory Robb, Jordan Meier
URoL: Epigenetics 1: Genomic and epigenetic determinants of nuclear morphology and mechanics Eric Richards Jan Lammerding
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.
Project Name PI Name Co-PI Name
URoL: Epigenetics 2: Connecting cell fate and epigenome drift through physical models of chromatin structure and dynamics Timothy Downing Andrew Spakowitz, Alistair Boettiger, Elizabeth Read
URoL: Epigenetics 2: Learning the rules of dynamic epigenetic regulation Georg Seelig Jeffrey Nivala
Collaborative Research URoL: Epigenetics 2: Epigenetic pathways to regulate homeostatic resilience: Model-based discovery of rules across diverse mammals Diane Genereux, Valery Forbes, Allyson Hindle, Elinor Karlsson Bruce Birren
MTM 2: The rules of microbiota colonization of the mammalian gut Georg Gerber Harris Wang
URoL: MTM 1: Chemistry of cnidarian symbiosis: microbiomes role in association, morphogenesis, and protection Sandra Loesgen Mark Martindale, Virginia Weis
Collaborative Research: URoL: Epigenetics 2: Epigenetics in development and evolution of primate brains William Hopkins, Soojin Yi, Chet Sherwood
Collaborative Research: MTM 2: Searching for general rules governing microbiome dynamics using anaerobic digesters as model systems Jizhong Zhou, Mathew Leibold, Qiang He, Alan Hastings Daliang Ning
MTM 1: Experimental framework for marine fish microbiomes through synthetic communities and multi-omic approaches Eric Allen Pieter Dorrestein
MTM 2: Drivers of functional redundancy across microbiomes Barbara Campbell Vidya Suseela, Feng Luo, Anna Seekatz, Sharon Bewick
MTM 1: Network properties of fungal-bacterial interactions: Predictive modeling and functional analysis of the Hawaiian Drosophila gut microbiome Joanne Yew Laura Tipton
Collaborative Research: MTM 1: Microbial genomic, transcriptomic, and survival response to common built environment lighting Jonathan Eisen, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg
MTM 2: Combining structural informatics and crosslinking mass spectrometry to predict the key protein-protein interactions shaping symbiotic microbial communities Peter Freddolino Vincent Young, Philip Andrews, Yang Zhang
URoL: MTM 2: Defining the ecological and genomic properties that underlie microbiome sensitivity and resilience Rebecca Vega Thurber Maude David, Ryan Mueller, Xiaoli Fern, Thomas Sharpton
MTM 1: The sandy beach microbiome: physical, chemical and biological controls on diversity and function Alexandria Boehm Christopher Francis
Emerging Frontiers: Collaborative Research: MTM 2: Marine invertebrate microbiome assembly, diversification, and coevolution Kent Hatch, Purushotham Bangalore, Zachary Freedman, Robert Thacker Richard Hardy
Collaborative Research: MTM 2: Microbially-mediated epigenetic modifications alter host phenotypes Julie Hotopp, Irene Newton Richard Hardy
Collaborative Research: MTM 2: Using successional dynamics, biogeography, and experimental communities to examine mechanisms of plant-microbiome functional interactions Leonora Bittleston, Zachary Freedman, Erica Young, Benjamin Baiser
Collaborative Research: MIM: Defining the rules governing microbiome interactions critical for providing key ecosystem functions using a model diazotroph community Elizabeth Kujawinski, Eric Webb Mak Saito, Cameron Thrash, Naomi Levine
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.
Project Name PI Name Co-PI Name
Collaborative Research: MIM: Gut-inhabiting fungi influence structure and function of herptile microbiomes through horizontal gene transfer and novel metabolic function Joseph Spatafora, Jason Stajich, Donald Walker Kerry McPhail
Collaborative Research: MIM: Learning how mucus shapes and maintains microbiomes Sujit Datta, Katharina Ribbeck, Jessica Mark Welch
Collaborative Research: MIM: The impact of the fungal microbiome in metal tolerance and soil biogeochemical transformations Gregory Bonito, Jose Cerrato, Debora Rodrigues Adam Brown
Collaborative Research: MIM: Using multilayer interaction networks to predict microbiome assembly and function Elena Litchman, Mason Porter Christopher Klausmeier, Shannon Manning
MIM: A thermodynamic theory of microbiome assembly, adaptation and evolution evaluated using modular microbial environments Eoin Brodie Jinyun Tang, Frances Hellman, Lydia Sohn, Adam Deutschbauer
MIM: Deciphering and optimizing cross-domain interactions to increase productivity in high pH-high alkalinity microalgae communities Robin Gerlach Huyen Bui, Ross Carlson, Matthew Fields
MIM: Discovering in reverse—using isotopic translation of omics to reveal ecological interactions in microbiomes. Jane Marks Bruce Hungate, Toby Hocking, James Caporaso, Mary Power
MIM: Elucidating the rules of cooperation and resiliency in microbial communities through stochastic graph grammars Devaki Bhaya, Todd Treangen Luay Nakhleh, Santiago Segarra
MIM: Machine learning, systems modeling, and experimental approaches to understand the universal rules of life of microbiota using marine time series data Fengzhu Sun Yan Liu, Emily Zakem, Jinchi Lv, Jed Fuhrman
MIM: Microbial division of labor in polysaccharidedegrading communities Stephen Lindemann
MIM: Systematic dissection of complex synthetic gut bacterial communities Kerwyn Huang
MIM: Using machine learning and a model watershed to understand how microbes govern food web architecture and efficiency Anthony Amend Nicole Hynson, Matthew Medeiros, Peter Sadowski
Emerging Frontiers: Synthetic cells that can learn without evolution James Carothers Emma Frow, Irene Chen, Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Matthew Lakin
URofL: EN: Does re-wilding lead to re-wiring of gene expression and species interaction networks? Daniel Bolnick Tina Eliassi-Rad, Samuel Scarpino, Miaoyan Wang
URoL: EN Converging on the rules of emergence for preventing land use-induced spillover Raina Plowright Elizabeth Shanahan, Andrew Hoegh, Agnieszka Rynda-Apple, Isabella Cattadori
URoL: EN Quantifying the phytochemical landscape through Indigenous Knowledge, interaction diversity, genomics, and network dynamics Lora Robinson Tod Swanson, Lee Dyer, Christopher Jeffrey, Deena Schmidt
URoL: EN: Learning the rules of neuronal learning Pamela Abshire Ricardo Araneda, Timothy Horiuchi
URoL: EN: Toward a unified theory of regulatory functions and networks across biological and social systems Hyejin Youn Chuqiao Yang, Geoffrey West, Sidney Redner, Christopher Kempes
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: URoL-Funded Projects." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27020.
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