Along with my research intern, Maggie Ginoza, I have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to sequence the virome of Winogradsky columns, the soil ecosystem model I use to study microbial and viral communities. We’ve gotten a good amount of publicity, check out these links:
https://experiment.com/projects/the-dirt-on-viruses-discovering-the-role-of-viruses-in-soil
http://alums.vassar.edu/news/features/2014-2015/150501-going-viral.html
http://miscellanynews.org/2015/04/22/features/internet-a-new-frontier-for-research-funding/
