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PI Call

• Annual report
  • JE doing final edits
  • additional info section needs polishing
  • JE will ask Kelly if we can submit on 3/3

• Kelly visiting UO on Thursday

• Budget issues
  • No-cost extension
    • KP runs out in Fall
    • JG has 5 months extra
    • JE doesn't know, will try to figure it out
    • MW has 7 months extra
  • How to handle multiple over-lapping project ending at different times?
  • Grant writing
    • Not sure if MMI continuing at Moore
      • JG will ask Kelly
      • a small amount (e.g. one year) of additional funding will help the project get done
    • NIH
      • Oral microbiome RFA - maybe just sequencing, not analysis?
    • NSF head meeting with UCD genome faculty
      • JE will ask about opportunities there
    • Sloan's built-environment microbiome projects
      • JE will talk to Paula about possible computational component
      • JG already has small grant from them for data collection
    • A lot of the funding is for data collection/sequencing
      • need to partner or lead on data projects
      • good to collect data, since data of others often has limitations
    • A field guide of microbes (theory + sequencing)
      • DOE: carbon fixation, bioremediation, etc (but JGI already doing it?)
      • NIH: human microbiome
      • Google: pathogens
    • What component of the air is metabolically active habitat vs. conduit?
    • How to fund this kind of thing?
      • pitch to a foundation (find right person to pitch it to their board)
      • within agencies, there's a community process (workshops, white papers)