{"id":184056,"date":"2024-04-16T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=184056"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:35:18","slug":"gso-professor-roxanne-beinart-awarded-international-research-grant-to-investigate-symbiotic-relationships-among-microorganisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/news\/gso-professor-roxanne-beinart-awarded-international-research-grant-to-investigate-symbiotic-relationships-among-microorganisms\/","title":{"rendered":"GSO Professor Roxanne Beinart awarded international research grant to investigate symbiotic relationships among microorganisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">April 17, 2024<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography associate professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/roxanne-a-beinart\/\">Roxanne Beinart<\/a>, has been honored with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfsp.org\/hfsp-news\/2024-research-grants-awardees\">Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Early Career Research Grant<\/a> for study titled &#8220;Deciphering the Evolution, Cellular Biology, and Biogeochemistry of Symbioses in Anaerobic Eukaryotes.&#8221; The 108 awardees from 23 nations represent \u201conly the most daring and truly pioneering\u201d life science research, according to HFSP.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"165446\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/publications\/aboard-gso\/beinart-research-delayed\/attachment\/beinart_deepsea-snails\/\" class=\"wp-image-165446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails.jpg 800w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails-364x212.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Beinart_deepsea-snails-500x292.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Deep sea snails are invertebrates that have evolved nutritional symbioses with bacteria<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/roxannecompressed-e1713294893178.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"182599\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/roxannecompressed-e1713294893178.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/roxanne-a-beinart\/attachment\/roxannecompressed\/\" class=\"wp-image-182599\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">GSO&#8217;s Dr. Roxanne Beinart<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beinart joins collaborators Filip Husnik from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan and Courtney Stairs from the Department of Biology at Lund University in Sweden. The intercontinentally collaborative research team will focus on examining the molecular nature of symbiotic relationships in eukaryotic (plants, animals, fungi) microorganisms, shedding light on the physical interactions and exchange of nutrients between cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HFSP Research Grants last for three years and on average, provide $400,000 USD per year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfsp.org\/hfsp-news\/2024-research-grants-awardees\">the release from HFSP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Beinart\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfsp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/195x265_Grant%20Award%20Booklet_2024_7.pdf\"> project<\/a> on page 14. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her study  will focus on examining the molecular nature of symbiotic relationships in eukaryotic (plants, animals, fungi) microorganisms, shedding light on the physical interactions and exchange of nutrients between cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":182599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[723,2944],"class_list":["post-184056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-roxanne-beinart","tag-symbiosis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184101,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184056\/revisions\/184101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}