Christer Jansson

Novel NMR Approaches for Detecting Methane/Enzyme Interactions and Biochemical Transformations in Vivo and in Vitro

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Steven Yannone

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Identifying alternative transportation fuels and reducing atmospheric greenhouse gasses are critical global challenges and central aspects of DOE missions. Methane is an abundant energy source in the…

EPICON: Epigenetic Control of Drought Acclimation in Sorghum

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Genetic manipulation of crops to increase the presence or intensity of desirable traits has been critical to increasing agricultural productivity. These changes have primarily involved modification…

RhizoCon: Does the Rhizospheric Microbiome Influence the Plant Metabotype? A Plant Gnotobiotics ApproachRhizoCon

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Most eukaryotes form close interactions with microorganisms which are essential for the performance and survival of the host. Thus, in nature, eukaryotes and prokaryotes can be considered as…

Molecular Phenotyping of Plants & Microbes (MolPheno) for the PRedicting Ecosystem Resilience through Multiscale and Integrative Science (PREMIS) initiative

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kim Hixson

This proposal aims to provide the fundamental molecular characterization necessary to develop a model which ultimately links phenotypic measurements to the soil biogeochemistry associated with…

EPICON: Epigenetic Control of Drought Acclimation in Sorghum

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Genetic manipulation of crops to increase the presence or intensity of desirable traits has been critical to increasing agricultural productivity. These changes have primarily involved modification…

Multimodal Chemical Imaging Across Scales to Visualize Metabolic Pathways in Live Plants and Microbial Systems

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Scott Lea

We will develop a novel spectral imaging platform (“BioImager”) that may be used to image and identify biomolecules involved in both microbial and plant metabolic processes through different chemical…

EPICON: Epigenetic Control of Drought Acclimation in Sorghum

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Genetic manipulation of crops to increase the presence or intensity of desirable traits has been critical to increasing agricultural productivity. These changes have primarily involved modification…

The role of Fe(oxyhydr)oxides in regulating the biogeochemical cycling of Zinc; an essential micro-nutrient

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Eugene Ilton

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose to study the influence of Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides on the biogeochemical cycling of Zn, an essential micronutrient. The work is specifically focused on incorporation of Zn into the…

GoBrachy: Developing a Metabolite-Trait Association Network Model for Carbon Allocation in Brachypodium

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Aboveground biomass (AGBM) and belowground biomass (BGBM) of Brachypodium lines will be harvested at week seven and parallel lines will be allowed to grow to senescence (B. distachyon) or longer (B…

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 Phenotyping of Brachypodium to Provide Metabolic and Functional Linkages to the Plant-Atmosphere-Soil-Systems (iPASS) Model

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kim Hixson

This proposal aims to provide the fundamental molecular characterization necessary to develop a model which ultimately links phenotypic measurements to the atmospheric processes and soil…

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…

PhenoAccess: Physiological Phenotyping of Brachypodium Accessions

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Amir Ahkami

Although the effects of elevated CO2 on plant growth, physiology and metabolism has been investigated thoroughly, the underlying integrated organismal, cellular and molecular mechanisms of these…

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…

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…

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…

EPICON: Epigenetic Control of Drought Acclimation in Sorghum

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christer Jansson

Genetic manipulation of crops to increase the presence or intensity of desirable traits has been critical to increasing agricultural productivity. These changes have primarily involved modification…

Persistence Control SFA

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Robert Egbert

Emergent genomic tools present transformational opportunities for the U.S. bioeconomy, including potential to design synthetic rhizosphere microbiomes to generate secure, sustainable, stress-tolerant…

PRedicting ecosystem Resilience through Multiscale and Innovative Science (PREMIS) Initiative: Molecular Phenotyping of Plants & Microbes (MolPheno)

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kim Hixson

The MolPheno project will establish molecular (metabolite and protein) profiles from plants exposed to fresh water-replete or -deprived conditions. Metabolite profiling will include tissue-specific…

Multimodal Chemical Imaging Across Scales to Visualize Metabolic Pathways in Live Plants and Microbial Systems

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Scott Lea

We will develop a novel spectral imaging platform (“BioImager”) that may be used to image and identify biomolecules involved in both microbial and plant metabolic processes through different chemical…

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),…

Persistence Control SFA

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Robert Egbert

Emergent genomic tools present transformational opportunities for the U.S. bioeconomy, including potential to design synthetic rhizosphere microbiomes to generate secure, sustainable, stress-tolerant…

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…

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…

Reprogramming Plant Gene Regulatory Networks for Source-to-Sink Carbon Allocation

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Amir Ahkami

The regulation of carbon partitioning between source and sink tissues plays a critical role in plant growth and development. Plant productivity is enhanced by sink strength and source activity, which…

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…

Advancement of the molecular microscope to enable high-resolution dynamic imaging and unprecedented spatial metabolomic information of living systems

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Christopher Anderton

The ability to capture and visualize the complex metabolic behavior of living organisms in situ is a bioanalytical grand challenge that has yet to be fully realized. Ambient ionization mass…

Novel NMR approaches for detecting methane/enzyme interactions and biochemical transformations in vivo and in vitro

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Steven Yannone

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Identifying alternative transportation fuels and reducing atmospheric greenhouse gasses are critical global challenges and central aspects of DOE missions. Methane is an abundant energy source in the…

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…

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