DOE Funded Researchers Win R&D 100 Award for Design of GeoChip

Summary

A team of investigators led by Jizhong Zhou of the University of Oklahoma has been selected to receive an R&D 100 Award for development of the GeoChip, a tool for screening functional characteristics of complex microbial communities in the environment.  The GeoChip is microarray of DNA probes that allows detection of over 10,000 genes involved in functions of interest to DOE including metal reduction, stress tolerance, nutrient acquisition, and degradation of carbon compounds by wide range of microbes.  These microbial functions can be used to develop microbe-based remediation strategies.