EAGER: Pioneering gene tree averaging for bacterial phylogenomics — NSF Award to University of Washington (WA, $299,758)
Bacteria are everywhere and essential for life. Bacteria in the ocean regulate global temperatures; bacteria in soil help plants grow; and bacteria in our bodies help us digest and extract nutrition from food. Bacteria change over time through evolution, but because bacteria can gain and lose genes, their evolutionary
| Award title | EAGER: Pioneering gene tree averaging for bacterial phylogenomics |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2415614 |
| Awardee | University of Washington |
| City | SEATTLE |
| State | WA |
| Amount obligated | $299,758 |
| Principal investigator | Amy Willis |
| Program | Innovation: Bioinformatics |
| Start date | 08/15/2024 |
| Abstract | Bacteria are everywhere and essential for life. Bacteria in the ocean regulate global temperatures; bacteria in soil help plants grow; and bacteria in our bodies help us digest and extract nutrition from food. Bacteria change over time through evolution, but because bacteria can gain and lose genes, their evolutionary histories may be hard to determine. This project will use recent advances in mathematics to develop a new method to estimate bacterial evolutionary histories. The method will be be |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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