Andrew Long, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Simon Roux, Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, Sarah M Schwenck, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Frank J Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Steven James Hallam, University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Osvaldo Ulloa, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Matthew B Sullivan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Jennifer Brum, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Akbar Adjie Pratama¹, Benjamin Bolduc¹, Ahmed A Zayed¹, Simon Roux² and Matthew B Sullivan¹, (1)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, Walnut Creek, CA, United States

Maureen Berg¹, Danielle Goudeau¹, Katherine D McMahon², Senay Yitbarek³, Donald Bryant⁴, Jennifer Thweatt⁵, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh¹, Rex Malmstrom⁶ and Simon Roux⁷, (1)Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, State College, PA, United States, (6)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (7)Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, Walnut Creek, CA, United States

George Muscatt¹, Eleanor Jameson², Gary Bending² and Andrew Millard³, (1)University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (2)University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences, Coventry, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leicester, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, Leicester, United Kingdom

Wei Li¹, Christina Davis², Brent Craig Christner³, Amanda Achberger⁴, Trista J Vick-Majors¹, Alexander B Michaud¹, John C Priscu⁵ and the SALSA Science Team, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)Louisisana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (5)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States

Elaina Thomas^1,2, Rika Anderson², Viola Li², Jenni Rogan² and Julie A Huber³, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Luke Hillary¹, Evelien Adriaenssens², Davey Jones³ and James E McDonald³, (1)Bangor University, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom, (2)Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, United Kingdom, (3)Bangor University, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom

Ignacio de la Higuera¹, George Kasun², Ellis Torrance² and Ken Stedman¹, (1)Portland State University, Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Biology Department, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Portland State University, Center For Life in Extreme Environments, Biology Department, Portland, OR, United States

Christine Ling Sun¹, Akbar Adjie Pratama¹, Consuelo Gazitua², Ahmed A Zayed¹, Dylan R Cronin¹, Lindsey Marie Solden¹, Benjamin Bolduc¹, Virginia Isabel Rich¹ and Matthew B Sullivan¹, (1)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Viromica Consulting, Santiago, Chile

Kristopher Kieft¹, Zhichao Zhou¹, Andy Montgomery², Kimberley Hunter², Hannah Choi², Samantha Benton Joye², Anna-Louise Reysenbach³ and Karthik Anantharaman¹, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bacteriology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Portland State University, Environmental Biology, Portland, OR, United States

Alexander Truchon¹, Andrea Dame², Matthias Fischer³, Jeffrey Blanchard¹ and Ulli Mersdorf³, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomolecular Mechanisms, Heidelberg, Germany

Pooja Yadav¹, Amanda Quattrone², Yuguo Yang¹, Jacob Owens¹, Rebecca Kiat³, Thirumurugen Kuppusamy⁴, Susana Moyer¹, Sabrina Russo¹ and Karrie A Weber^1,5, (1)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Complex Biosystems, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (4)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, United States, (5)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States