Vimal Kumar Balasubramanian

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…

RhizoMap: metabolic imaging of the rhizosphere through time and space

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dusan Velickovic

Current EMSL technologies for molecular imaging of rhizosphere rely on either analyzing root that has been removed from the soil or on probing microfluidic devices that mimic rhizosphere environment …

Development of Atmospheric Pressure Environmental (APE) Chamber for Chemical Imaging of Aerosol, Plant, and Soil Samples

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Zezhen Cheng

Maintaining low-pressure (∼2×10−6-10 Torr) inside the Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) chamber is the major challenge in pressure- and/or relative humidity (RH)-sensitive sample (e.g…

Activity-based probes (ABPs) for studying the molecular mechanism of root exudation

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Vimal Kumar Balasubramanian

Evolving a symbiotic plant-microbe relationship in the rhizosphere (root-soil interface) is essential for sustainable bioenergy feedstock production. Such a relationship is facilitated by plant small…

A 3D printed SubTap platform for high-throughput plant-microbe interaction studies

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Arunima Bhattacharjee

High-throughput (HTP) mass spectrometry will provide a holistic analysis of microbial and plant community interactions. The recently developed 3D printed SubTap platform (through a collaborative work…

Preserving plant tissue section integrity and introducing ionic organic matrices to strengthen plant MALDI MSI capability at EMSL

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Dusan Velickovic

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is the most utilized capability for spatial metabolomics in EMSL. Still, it can be significantly improved to…

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…

Next generation microfluidics platform for high throughput single cell proteomics

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ying Zhu

The project aims to improve both sensitivity and throughput in single cell proteomics through the development of a microfluidic platform that leverages current technology. A hybrid picowell/nanowell…

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…

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