Joint Interagency Phytoremediation Research Program Mitch Lasat, EPA

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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
Contaminant Chemicals Objective Promote
Phytoremediation of Contaminated
Environment Contacts DOE- Dr. Paul Bayer
(paul.bayer_at_science.doe.gov) ONR-Dr. Linda
Chrisey, (chrisel_at_onr.navy.mil) EPA- Dr. Mitch
Lasat, (lasat.mitch_at_epa.gov) NSF- Dr William
Winner, (wwinnernsf.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

• 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