{"id":11525,"date":"2017-08-01T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:21:22","slug":"new-frontiers-special-issue-congrats-to-c-debi-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/announcement\/new-frontiers-special-issue-congrats-to-c-debi-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"New Frontiers Special Issue; Congrats to C-DEBI Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Message from the Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In tribute to the late <strong>Dr. Katrina J. Edwards<\/strong>, who pioneered C-DEBI and the study of microbes that \u201crust the crust\u201d, a special issue of twenty-two papers,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fmicb.2017.01368\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fmicb.2017.01368\/full\">Recent Advances in Geomicrobiology of the Ocean Crust<\/a>, has been published in Frontiers in Microbiology.\u00a0Editors <strong>Beth Orcutt<\/strong>, <strong>Jason Sylvan<\/strong> and <strong>Cara Santelli<\/strong> are just a few of the many in our community inspired by her achievements in the exploration of the deep biosphere.<\/p>\n<p>And a round of hearty congratulations to our C-DEBIers at (or formerly at) the University of Delaware: <strong>Dr. Jen Biddle<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Rosa Leon Zayas<\/strong> and <strong>Christopher Petrone<\/strong>.\u00a0Jen Biddle and her co-investigators have been awarded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.udel.edu\/udaily\/2017\/july\/keck-foundation-grant-supports-deep-dive-into-microbes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.udel.edu\/udaily\/2017\/july\/keck-foundation-grant-supports-deep-dive-into-microbes\/\">a prestigious $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to explore how environmental factors may affect the genetics of microbes<\/a>.\u00a0Rosa Leon Zayas,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/award\/metagenomic-and-metatranscriptomic-analysis-of-the-tonga-trench-a-comparative-study-of-microbial-diversity-and-metabolic-potential-from-surface-waters-to-below-seafloor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/award\/metagenomic-and-metatranscriptomic-analysis-of-the-tonga-trench-a-comparative-study-of-microbial-diversity-and-metabolic-potential-from-surface-waters-to-below-seafloor\/\">a former C-DEBI postdoctoral fellow<\/a>, begins her tenure track position at Willamette University in the Department of Biology this fall.\u00a0And Chris Petrone\u2019s C-DEBI education grant\u00a0Project VIDEO,\u00a0developed with Lisa Tossey, Jen Biddle and Rosa Leon Zayas, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseagrant.org\/project-video-recognized-national-honors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.deseagrant.org\/project-video-recognized-national-honors\">won two national awards for audiovisual communications and electronic media<\/a>. Congratulations to all of you and the C-DEBIers who contributed to the guest 15 Second Science spots!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Jan Amend<br \/>\nC-DEBI Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message from the Director: In tribute to the late Dr. Katrina J. Edwards, who pioneered C-DEBI and the study of microbes that \u201crust the crust\u201d, a special issue of twenty-two papers,\u00a0Recent Advances in Geomicrobiology of the Ocean Crust, has been published in Frontiers in Microbiology.\u00a0Editors Beth Orcutt, Jason Sylvan and Cara Santelli are just a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"organization":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=11525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}