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Joint Interagency Phytoremediation Research Program Mitch Lasat, EPA Affiliation : National Science and Technology Council Participating Agencies: DOE, NSF, EPA, ONR, and SERDP Focus: Investigate the Mechanisms of Interactions Between Plants, Microorganisms, and
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Joint Interagency Phytoremediation Research ProgramMitch Lasat, EPA • Affiliation:National Science and Technology Council • Participating Agencies: DOE, NSF, EPA, ONR, and SERDP • Focus: Investigate the Mechanisms of Interactions Between Plants, Microorganisms, and • Contaminant Chemicals • Objective: Promote Phytoremediation of Contaminated Environment • Contacts:DOE- Dr. Paul Bayer (paul.bayer@science.doe.gov); ONR-Dr. Linda Chrisey, (chrisel@onr.navy.mil); EPA- Dr. Mitch Lasat, (lasat.mitch@epa.gov); NSF- Dr William Winner, (wwinner&nsf.gov) • Awards • Genetic and Molecular Dissection of Arsenic Hyperaccumulation • in the Fern Pteris vittata.Jo Ann Banks, Purdue University • Enhancement of Selenium Volatilization by Salicornia: Plant and • Microbial Interactions. Zhi-Qing Lin, Southern Illinois University • A Phytoremediation Strategy for Arsenic. • Richard B. Meagher, University of Georgia • Phytoremediation of Marine Sediments Contaminated with PAHs • and PCBs Using Eelgrass (Zostera marina). Michael Huesemann, • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Mechanistic Role of Plant Root Exudates in the Phytoremediation • of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Jason White, Connecticut • Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Connecticut • Evaluation of Monoterpene Producing Plants for • Phytoremediation of PCB and PAH Contaminated Soils. David • Crowley, University of California-Riverside • Physiological Mechanisms of Estuarine Sediment Oxidation by • Spartina Cordgrasses. Raymond Lee,Washington State University • The Molecular Basis for Heavy Metal Accumulation and • Tolerance in the Hyperaccumulating Plant Species, Thlaspi • caerulescens. Leon Kochian, Cornell University • Genome-Wide Hunt for Metal Hyperaccumulation Genes. • David E. Salt, Purdue University • Molecular Mechanism of Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi • goesingense. David E. Salt, Purdue University • Intraspecific Variation in Thlaspi caerulescens: The Key to Increasing • Metal Sequestration in Plants. Stephen D. Ebbs, Southern Illinois Univ • Are Plant Root-Mycobacterium Interactions Beneficial in Remediation • of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons? Anne J. Anderson, Utah State University • Molecular Genetics of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Stress • Responses and Remediation by Arabidopsis thaliana. Adan Colon- • Carmona, University of Massachusetts-Boston • Understanding and Enhancement of Arsenic Hyperaccumulation by a • Fern Plant.. Jean-Francois Gaillard, Northwestern University • Applications of 13C Tracer Studies and Stable Isotope Geochemistry to • Determine Rhizosphere Alteration of PAH Bioavailability in • Contaminated Geomedia. Elizabeth G. Nichols, North Carolina State • University • Involvement of an Endosymbiotic Methylbacterium sp. in the • Biodegradation of Explosive RDX and HMX Inside Poplar Tree • Populus deltoides). Jerald Schnoor, University of Iowa