The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has received $5.2 million in 2012 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations Marine Microbiology Initiative, according to a press release. The money will fund three projects aimed at better understanding the complex role that marine microbes play in the ocean ecosystem and to better assess the oceans health and productivity.

Their work will look for answers to questions regarding the flow of nutrients through microbial food webswho eats and secretes what, where, and whenand the resulting biogeochemical transformations.

The support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is critical to enabling a fundamental understanding of microbes contribution to ocean health and productivity, says WHOI President and Director Susan Avery. There is so much more to know about marine microbes genetic diversity, how they secure nutrients, what other organisms they interact with, and the biogeochemical changes they bring about in the ocean. These new projects will contribute toward the ultimate goal of a comprehensive understanding of marine microbial communities.

The funded projects at WHOI include:

The introduction of improved instrumentation for geochemical analysis and powerful new molecular biology techniques for studying genomes and gene and protein expression has given us new ways of looking at how microbes function in the marine environment, says Ajit Subramaniam, program director for the Marine Microbiology Initiative. With Moore Foundation support, we want to enable multidisciplinary teams of scientists to identify and quantify nutrient pools in the ocean, and decipher the genetic and biochemical bases of microbial metabolism.

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The astrobiology community deeply mourns the loss of Dr. Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a "third domain" of life. He died on Sunday, December 30th at his home. He was 84.

In 1977, Dr. Woese and his colleagues overturned a universally held assumption about the basic structure of the tree of life. Microbes known as archaea are as distinct from bacteria as plants and animals are, they wrote in a published paper. Prior to this finding, scientists had lumped archaea together with bacteria and asserted that the tree of life had two main branches -- bacteria (called prokarya), and everything else (eukarya). Their discovery added archaea as a third main branch of the evolutionary family tree.

Dr. Woese was born on July 15, 1928, in Syracuse, N.Y. He earned bachelor's degrees in math and physics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, was a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Yale and worked as a biophysicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. before he joined the microbiology faculty at the University of Illinois in 1964. He was also a professor at the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology.

"Carl was truly a man of vision, creativity and passion, with a deep love of this university," said Gene Robinson, director of the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology in a statement. "Carl not only rewrote the textbook in evolutionary biology, but his discovery also has given us the tools today to study the human microbiome, the incredibly diverse and complex assemblages of microorganisms in our bodies that contribute so much to both health and disease."

Woese received a number of awards for his research: a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1984, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, the Leeuwenhoek Medal (microbiology's premier honor from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1992, a National Medal of Science in 2000 and many more.

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Carl R. Woese, 84, a Syracuse native and the microbiology professor credited with discovering the third domain of life, died Sunday at his Illinois home due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

Woese was born July 15, 1928 to Gertrude and Carl Woese, and the family lived at 256 Robineau Road. His father was an executive of Haberle Brewing Co. and founder of the Robeson & Woese engineering firm.

Woese earned bachelors degrees in math and physics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, was a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Yale and worked as a biophysicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, before joining the microbiology faculty at the University of Illinois in 1964. He was also a professor at the universitys Institute for Genomic Biology.

It is truly impossible to adequately describe or to categorize his contributions to the University of Illinois, to biology and to the world during his long and distinguished career here. The campus community has lost one of our giants this week, University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise said in release.

In 1977, Woese and his colleagues published two papers overturning a universally held assumption that the tree of life had just two branches bacteria (called prokarya), and everything else (eukarya). Their discovery added archaea, as a third main branch of the evolutionary family tree. Archaea resemble bacteria, but are biochemically and genetically different, and are often abundant in environments that are hostile to all other life forms.

Dr. George E. Fox, professor of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, was a co-discoverer with Woese of the micro-organisms they originally called archaeabacteria. He said, I think it was a very important discovery. It sometimes goes under the name of the third form of life. It was a fundamental discovery in microbiology.

Woese received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation genius award, the National Medal of Science, the Leeuwenhoek Medal awarded once every 10 years and several other honors.

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Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a third domain of life, died Sunday at his home in Urbana. He was 84.

In 1977, Mr. Woese and his colleagues overturned a universally held assumption about the basic structure of the tree of life. Microbes, now known as archaea, are as distinct from bacteria as plants and animals are, they wrote in a published paper. Prior to this finding, scientists had lumped archaea together with bacteria and asserted that the tree of life had two main branches bacteria (called prokarya), and everything else (eukarya). Their discovery added archaea as a third main branch of the evolutionary family tree.

We are all saddened at the passing of Dr. Woese and our collective thoughts are with his family, Chancellor Phyllis Wise said in a press release. It is truly impossible to adequately describe or to categorize his contributions to the University of Illinois, to biology and to the world during his long and distinguished career here. The campus community has lost one of our giants this week, she said.

Mr. Woese was born on July 15, 1928, in Syracuse, N.Y. He earned bachelors degrees in math and physics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, was a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Yale and worked as a biophysicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., before he joined the microbiology faculty at the UI in 1964. He was also a professor at the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology.

Carl was truly a man of vision, creativity and passion, with a deep love of this university, said Gene Robinson, director of the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology in a statement. Carl not only rewrote the textbook in evolutionary biology, but his discovery also has given us the tools today to study the human microbiome, the incredibly diverse and complex assemblages of microorganisms in our bodies that contribute so much to both health and disease.

Woese received a number of awards for his research: a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1984, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, the Leeuwenhoek Medal (microbiologys premier honor from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1992, a National Medal of Science in 2000 and many more.

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The winners of Olympus' annual live sciences photography competition are in, with the top 10 submissions revealing an entire world of microscopic wonder.

It's the 10th year of Olympus' BioScapes international digital-imaging competition - where photographers from around the globe can send in their photos and videos of a world that usually goes unseen by human eyes. Captured via light microscope, the images are of live science specimens studied in laboratories - and entrants can use any magnification, lighting and brand of equipment.

Hidenao Tsuchiya, Olympus America's vice president and general manager for the Scientific Equipment Group, said of the competition:

Microscope images forge an extraordinary bond between science and art. We founded this competition to focus on the fascinating stories coming out of today's life science research laboratories. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today - work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world.

This year's winner was Ralph Grimm, a teacher from Jimboomba, Queensland, a small town about 45 kilometres south of Brisbane. Grimm's work in microbial imaging has won multiple awards and accolades in the past, including honourable mentions and "image of distinction" awards in this year's Nikon Small World competition. His winning BioScapes entry is a 58-second video - the first video to win the competition - capturing the rapid movements of pond-dwelling colonial rotifers' cilia, with their red eyes clearly visible.

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