Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year.

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™

Testing soil C accrual mechanisms and identifying microbes associated with decomposition of mineral associated soil C for design of sustainable bioenergy cropping systems

Lead Institution

Michigan State University

Principal Investigator

Lisa Tiemann

Project type

BRC Research

The demand for energy from biofuel production is increasing, prompting concerns about the environmental impact and long-term sustainability of bioenergy cropping systems. One of the potential…

Role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae on soil water flux and switchgrass-water relations under drought

Lead Institution

Michigan State University

Principal Investigator

Binod Basyal

Project type

BRC Research

The majority of terrestrial plants form root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) which are well studied for their benefits to host plants under drought conditions. These benefits range…

Fate of plant-originated C contribution of switchgrass to soils with contrasting pore size distributions

Lead Institution

Michigan State University

Principal Investigator

Alexandra Kravchenko

Project type

BRC Research

This proposal requests analysis of a set of samples from a 13C and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) labeling experiment. The goal of the experiment is to assess the fate of the C assimilated by the…

Pseudomonas putida KT2440 Fluxomics

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Thomas Eng

Project type

BRC Research

13C Metabolic Flux Analysis (13C MFA) has provided critical information needed to constrain genome scale metabolic models, which can yield non-intuitive solutions to improve metabolite flux towards a…