{"id":465,"date":"2018-08-21T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/?p=465"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:07:58","slug":"dr-yang-and-collaborators-awarded-nsf-dimensions-of-biodiversity-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/dr-yang-and-collaborators-awarded-nsf-dimensions-of-biodiversity-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yang and collaborators awarded NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang along with Drs. Kostas Konstantinidis, Frank Loffler, and Robert Sanford were awarded a 5-year $2 M NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant set to start on August 1! The overarching goal of the proposed study is to determine if the abundance and taxonomic diversity of N<sub>2<\/sub>O-reducing bacterial species (phylogenetic diversity), as well as the activity of diverse nosZ gene alleles (genetic diversity), can predict the N<sub>2<\/sub>O reduction rates and N<sub>2<\/sub>O emissions (functional diversity) of representative U.S. terrestrial ecosystems. The working hypothesis is that the taxonomic and the genetic diversity (i.e., <em>nosZ <\/em>alleles) in soils are largely <u>not<\/u> functionally redundant, but rather are tuned to different substrate concentrations (N<sub>2<\/sub>O in this case) or environmental conditions, and ultimately determine N<sub>2<\/sub>O emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang along with Drs. Kostas Konstantinidis, Frank Loffler, and Robert Sanford were awarded a 5-year $2 M NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant set to start on August 1! The overarching goal of the proposed study is to determine if &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/dr-yang-and-collaborators-awarded-nsf-dimensions-of-biodiversity-grant\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Yang and collaborators awarded NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/yang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}