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Albert Rivas-Ubach

Institution
Spanish National Research Council - CSIC
ORCID
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Projects

Dynamics of Microbiomes in Space (DynaMoS)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janet Jansson
Microorganisms were the first colonizers of our planet and they have since evolved over billions of years to utilize the resources that are available to them. Of all of Earth’s habitats, soil is the…

Rhizosphere processes at molecular to core scale

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nancy Hess
The amount of C in soil far exceeds the C content of atmosphere as well as the amount C stored above ground as plant biomass. The C fluxes between atmosphere and biomass are huge, many orders of…

Centralized Metabolomics Molecular Reference Database

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Yuri Eberlim de Corilo
Reference databases, both in-silico and molecular standard-based, are vital components in all metabolomics data annotation workflows. However, these databases are often decentralized or have…

Using metabalomics to understand the fate of pollen in the atmosphere

Lead Institution
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator
Allison Steiner
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The release of pollen from vegetation represents a major seasonal, pulsed source of organic matter to the atmosphere of great biological and societal importance. While pollen grains themselves are…

Chemical Imaging and Molecular Characterization of Primary Biological Particles.

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Alex Guenther
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of the proposed project is to conduct in-depth studies of Primary Biological Aerosol Particles (PBAP) for predictive understanding of their environmental impact. The ultimate goal is to…

High-throughput rhizosphere biosensor development

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Joshua Elmore
The development of robust quantitative in situ bacterial biosensors that report on inter-organismal rhizosphere signaling, soil conditions, and plant health remains a pivotal goal for the research…

InterCom

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christer Jansson
We intend to identify how molecular interactions at the intercellular level participate in controlling carbon assimilation, allocation and transformation in the plant-microbe-soil system (Fig. 1),…

1000 Soils Research Campaign

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nancy Hess
Project type
MONet
To more fully understand the cycling of carbon, carbon-based nutrients and key elements from the molecular to basin scale across variations in soil chemistry, the Environmental Molecular Sciences…

Metabolic Responses of Eelgrass to Environmental Stressors

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nicholas Ward
Seagrass is recognized as a critical habitat for a variety of ecosystem services such as fisheries, pollutant detoxification, and sequestration of “blue” carbon. EPA and WA Dept of Ecology have made…

Integrated Pennycress Resilience Project (IPReP)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pubudu Handakumbura
Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development as a winter annual oilseed bioenergy crop for the 80 million-acre U.S. Midwest Corn Belt and other temperate regions including the Pacific Northwest…

3D Root Cartography of Molecular-Microbe Interactions

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christer Jansson
We intend to develop a pipeline for simultaneous 3D spatial imaging of metabolites and microorganisms on plant roots, generating a molecular and microbial 3D-cartography of the root system. By…

C4 Photosynthesis in Space (C4Space)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pubudu Handakumbura
C4 plants like maize (Zea mays) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) have a more efficient photosynthesis than C3 plants such as wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rice (Oryza sativa) due to a CO2-concentrating…

Dynamics of Microbiomes in Space (DynaMoS)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janet Jansson
Microorganisms were the first colonizers of our planet and they have since evolved over billions of years to utilize the resources that are available to them. Of all of Earth’s habitats, soil is the…

Exploring Genotypic Diversity for Functional Trait Variance

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Bryan Stanfill
By establishing genome-phenome maps for Brachypodium and Setaria, we will seek to unravel how information in the plant genome translates to traits and responses at the plant and experimental…

Consortium for Advanced Sorghum Phenomics (CASP)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christer Jansson
The mission of the proposed project is to accelerate breeding of biomass sorghum to maximize terminal compositional (e.g., lignocellulosic) yield under drought and saline field conditions using novel…

A Multi-Omics Data Exploration and Integration Web Application

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Lisa Bramer
In the biological and environmental sciences, data are being generated at an unprecedented rate. There are many scientific discoveries pertinent to DOE missions that are waiting to emerge from high…

Molecular studies in the Phyllosphere

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Alex Guenther
Aerosol radiative forcing, both direct effects and indirect impacts by modifying clouds, is the largest single source of uncertainty in simulations of global climate change [IPCC, 2007]. Climate…

The Effects of Earthworms on Ecosystem Multifunctionality (E3M)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christer Jansson
In a collaborative endeavor between EMSL and the CNRS Ecotron facility in Monpellier, France, we are launching a pilot project, E3M, to explore how Ecotron’s Macrocosm platform with ecosystem-scale…

Molecular studies in the Phyllosphere

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Alex Guenther
This proposal will facilitate EMSL laboratory access for Alex Guenther to conduct research in support of the EMSL Atmospheric Aerosol Systems Science Theme Leadership area. Aerosol radiative forcing,…

Dynamics of Microbiomes in Space (DynaMoS)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janet Jansson
We propose to examine the population dynamics and community interactions of naturally co-adapted soil microbial consortia using multi-omics analysis, correlative molecular networking and metagenomics…

Atmospheric Ecometabolomics

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Alex Guenther
Compounds such as alpha-pinene, isoprene, ethene and methanol are well known to sub-disciplines in both geosciences and biology. They are known as biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) to…

Dynamics of Microbiomes in Space (DynaMoS)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Janet Jansson
Microorganisms were the first colonizers of our planet and they have since evolved over billions of years to utilize the resources that are available to them. Of all of Earth’s habitats, soil is the…

Metabolomics of tropical forest soils and changes in response to nitrogen deposition.

Lead Institution
Centro de Investigacion Ecologica y Aplicaciones Forestales (CREAF)
Principal Investigator
Josep Penuelas
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Tropical forests play a key role for mitigating climate change threats by sequestring anthropogenic carbon and are one of the most sensitive systems for global change scenarios. P is very limited in…

Optimization of LC-MS-based metabolomics pipeline

Lead Institution
Spanish National Research Council - CSIC
Principal Investigator
Albert Rivas-Ubach
The demand for LC-MS untargeted metabolomics analyses within EMSL user program has substantially increased during the past few years. As user facility and leading institution in mass spectrometry…

Incubator project for a plant-aerosol interactions research campaign

Lead Institution
University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator
Alex Guenther
The metabolomes of many living organisms are a diverse array of molecules. Some of them are released into the atmosphere where they react with oxidants that determine the atmospheric abundance of…