The Marine Initiative

Justin Seymour, Martin Ostrowski, Mark Brown, Lev Bodrossy, Jodie van de Kamp, Andrew Bissett, Ana Lara-Lopez Seymour 2014 Emerging EOV: Microbial diversity and

Slides from Pier Buttigieg (via Ana Lara-Lopez) Evolution of the Marine Microbiome Initiative 2012

Australian Marine Microbe Initiative (AMMBI)

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PHB

MAI Evolution of the Marine Microbiome Initiative 2012 2014 Australian Marine Microbe BPA Marine Microbes Project Biodiversity Initiative (AMMBI) $1M

DAR

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NSI NSI

ROT PHB PHB KAI

MAI MAI Evolution of the Marine Microbiome Initiative 2012 2014 2018 Australian Marine Microbe BPA Marine Microbes Project Biodiversity Initiative (AMMBI)

Marine Microbes Project + Biomes of Australian DAR Soil Environments

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NSI NSI ROT

PHB PHB

KAI

MAI MAI Evolution of the Marine Microbiome Initiative 2012 2014 2018 Australian Marine Microbe BPA Marine Microbes Project Biodiversity Initiative (AMMBI)

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YON Marine Microbiome Initiative A new IMOS Facility! NSI NSI ROT • Sample processing & PHB PHB archiving KAI • DNA extractions MAI MAI Jodie van de Kamp Consortium of > 50 researchers from 10 universities and research institutes

Contributed $910K DNA extraction: $90,000 (Marine Microbes Init. Facility) Bioinformatic position: $560,000 (Bioinformatics Sub-Facility) Coastal microbial observatory support: $260,000 Andrew Bissett

Bioinformatics New IMOS Sub-Facility! • Genomics data processing Matt Smith • Workflows

NSI YON The Australian DAR Microbiome dataset Dark Ocean PHB contains ~5,000 marine samples from ROT 7 NRS and 13 KAI research voyages

MAI

Martin Ostrowski > 5,000 samples 169,635 bacterial zOTUs (“species”) 265,910 zOTUs (“species”) Call for proposals

TO NOTE: • This is not a grant opportunity • Co-investment (cash/in-kind) in necessary • Data are made publicly available immediately • The sequencing done by Bioplatforms Australia genomics facilities

Samples representative of important Australian environments to enhance the available resource Reviewed through Project Assessment Panel and Steering Committee

Criteria include • Scientific, economic, health, social relevance • A component of, or alignment with (inter)-national efforts • Commitment: co-investment both cash and in-kind, e.g. permits in place, sampling, resources to deliver contextual metadata • Track record following previous submissions • Specific interest and relevance to core partners (e.g. DNP, IMOS)

Contact information: Andrew Bissett | Science Leader | T: +61 2 6246 4820 | [email protected] Sophie Mazard | Project Manager | T: +61 2 9850 6286 | [email protected]

References:

Bissett et al (2016) Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database. Gigascience 5:21 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-016-0126-5 Brown et al (2018) Systematic, continental scale temporal monitoring of marine pelagic by the Australian Marine Microbial Biodiversity Initiative. Scientific Data 5:180130 https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.130