Current Research - UNSW Environmental Microbiology Initiative

Genomics of Microorganisms from Specific Environments

Organism	Environment	Characteristics	Genome agencies	Start date	Status
Methanogenium frigidum	Ace Lake, Antarctica	Archaea, anaerobic methanogen	AGRF Molecular Dynamics JCVI	2000	Draft, draft published 2003^a
Methanococcoides burtonii	Ace Lake, Antarctica	Archaea, anaerobic methanogen	JGI UNSW	2001	Closed, draft published 2003^a
Halorubrum lacusprofundi	Deep Lake, Antarctica	Archaea, aerobic halophile	JGI	2005	Draft, slated for closure
Sphingopyxis alaskensis	Resurrection Bay, Alaska	Bacteria, oligotroph ultramicrobacterium	JGI	2004	Closed
Photobacterium angustum	Botany Bay, Sydney	Bacteria, copiotroph	JCVI UNSW	2005	Draft, slated for closure
Acidianus sp.	Papua New Guinea, Volcano	Archaea, extreme thermophilic acidophile	JGI	2007	Funded
Diverse cold adapted microorganisms from Antarctic lakes; multiple water & sediment samples	Ace, Deep and Organic Lakes, Antarctica	Archaea and Bacteria: from all trophic levels throughout the lakes	JGI JCVI	2007 2007	Funded Funded
Diverse cold adapted microorganisms from the Southern Ocean; multiple water samples	Southern Ocean as far South as Casey Bay	Archaea and Bacteria: from cold ocean waters	JCVI	2007	Funded

^a Saunders, N.F.W., Thomas, T., Curmi, P.M.G., Mattick, J.S., Kuczek, E., Slade, R., Davis, J., Franzmann, P.D., Boone, D., Rusterholtz, K., Feldman, R., Gates, C., Bench, S., Sowers, K., Kadner, K., Aerts, A., Dehal, P., Detter, C., Glavina, T., Lucas, S., Richardson, P., Larimer, F., Hauser, L., Land, M. and Cavicchioli, R. 2003. Mechanisms of thermal adaptation revealed from the genomes of the Antarctic Archaea, Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii. Genome Research 13: 1580-1588.

AGRF: Australian Genome Research Facility; JCVI: J. Craig Venter Institute; TIGR: The Institute of Genome Research; JGI: Joint Genome Institute