INSITE’s vision is to discern key indicators of climate change through a microbial lens and develop useful methods that predict the potential for biodiversity loss- thereby offering insight for informed responses to alleviate such devastation.
The specific goal of Theme II is to extend the results of Theme I’s focus on the immediate impact of climate change on fitness and acclimatization to understand how our model systems will adapt and evolve to new environmental conditions over long-term exposure.
The goal of Theme III is to create a generalizable framework that combines short-term acclimatization (Theme I) and long-term adaptability data and models (Theme II) to predict the effect of climate change across the closed-open-complex symbiosis spectrum for all species.