Beyster Family Fund and Life Technologies Foundation-funded Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, 2009-2011

Microbial communities in a range of aquatic environments provide key ecological services while also potentially harboring dangerous pathogens. During 2009-2011, microbial communities from aquatic communities in close contact with humans were collected and characterized using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Sampled environments include coastal sites in the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, extensive surveys of the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas, along with the Black Sea, Lake Constance, Lake Banyoles, Lake Ciso, and Lake Redon.