Allison Thompson | Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Elucidating unifying principles of soil C-N coupling using a continental scale grassland experimental network

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

EMSL capabilities will be utilized for analysis of samples acquired from a continental-scale network of replicated, long-term grassland nutrient addition experiments, the Nutrient Network, to enhance…

Identifying and Quantifying Sources of Variability in FTICR

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Allison Thompson

Many EMSL users are requesting Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) soil organic matter (SOM) data. However, there are many circumstances where results are unexpected and experts…

MICROBES PERSIST: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF THE SOIL MICROBIOME

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and biosphere combined, yet the mechanisms that regulate soil C remain elusive. While plant roots are the initial source of carbon (C) that enters…

Software Development for High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Small Molecules: Enabling High-Throughput, Reproducible Data Processing and Annotation.

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yuri Eberlim de Corilo

Modern high-resolution mass spectrometry has dramatically increased the volume (distinct analytical techniques and polarity modes) and quality (higher resolving power, dynamic range, mass error…

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…

Imaging and Analysis of Root System Architecture with an Automated Non-invasive Phenotyping System

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Amir Ahkami

We will deploy a Non-invasive Automated Root Imager (NARI) System for the capture and image analysis of root traits to EMSL user community. The NARI system is partially assembled and once completed…

SyPro Poplar: Improving Poplar Biomass Production under Abiotic Stress Conditions: an
Integrated Omics, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering Approach

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Amir Ahkami

To engineer bioenergy crops that can grow in dry, marginal lands, this project will introduce into poplar trees tolerance to different environmental stresses such as water deficit, high soil salinity…

A User Interface Framework for Rigorous and Automated NMR Metabolomics Workflows

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Robert Young

NMR is powerful tool to study complex systems due to its non-destructive, quantitative, and global profiling capability making it an indispensable part of metabolomics research. EMSL's NMR…

Acquisition-Time Quality Control Workflow for FT-ICR MS Complex Mixture Analysis

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yuri Eberlim de Corilo

High throughput complex mixture analysis is hindered by challenges in automating data acquisition, namely ensuring that the data generated is of consistently high quality as required for automatic…

Tracing rhizosphere carbon exchange processes and nutrient interactions

Lead Institution

Michigan State University

Principal Investigator

James Moran

Rhizodeposition represents the largest flux of photosynthetically derived organic matter into soil for most terrestrial systems and, in so doing, serves as a major point of connection between…

Elucidation of the Roles of Diazotrophic EndoPopulus: Endophyte Communities in Promoting Productivity and Resilience of Populus through Systems Biology Approaches (EndoPopulus)

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Amir Ahkami

The plant microbiome, including microbial endophytes living within plants and the epiphytes living on the plant surface, has a profound influence on the productivity and resilience of the host plant…

Semi-Automated NMR Metabolite Profiling Software

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Javier Flores

NMR is powerful tool to identify and quantify metabolites in biological systems, and EMSL's NMR instrumentation makes automated data acquisition routine. However, the key downstream data…

Open OnDemand Proof of Concept Install

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Evan Felix

The project team aims to install and provide the Open OnDemand Interactive HPC web portal for use on EMSL MSC Supercomputing resources(https://openondemand.org/). This software ecosystem will…

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…

Dissection and Deciphering of the Soil Microbiome

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Janet Jansson

This proposal aims to address key gaps in our knowledge about the composition and functional roles of the tens of thousands of microbial species in soil. Although these microorganisms carry out…

The Influence of Crop Selection and Soil Properties on the Accumulation and Stabilization of Microbial Residues in Soil

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

EMSL Staff Proposal: The proposed research confronts the emerging paradigm that dead microbial cells, or necromass, are a major source of organic carbon in soil. Microbial necromass accumulation may…

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