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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.™ 

 

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Soybean Proteomics

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Gary Stacey
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Soybean is the major source of vegetable oil and, therefore, a major source for biodiesel production. In recognition of this fact, the Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute recently completed a…

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Lead Institution
Michigan Technological University
Principal Investigator
Rudy Luck
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The reaction between an oxygen atom and an olefin to form an epoxide remains an important research area in industrial and synthetic chemistry, because epoxides are the main ingredients in epoxy…

Secondary Organic Aerosol Production in Biomass Combustion Plumes

Lead Institution
Colorado State University
Principal Investigator
Jeffrey Collett
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this research project is to identify chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) produced in smoke plumes from biomass combustion. The project will focus on identifying new…

Molecular analysis of initiation factor complexes contain eIF3

Lead Institution
University of California, Davis
Principal Investigator
Suzanne Miyamoto
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The large multi-subunit eukaryotic initiation factor eIF3 is an essential component of translation initiation in all cells. In mammalian cells it is responsible for recruiting the eIF2-GTP-tRNA(i…

Burkholderia Proteomoics

Lead Institution
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School
Principal Investigator
Steven Schutzer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Burkholderia mallei, a biothreat agent, is the causative bacterial agent of glanders. Currently, there is no rapid discriminating diagnostic assay, no vaccine, and no reliable therapy. Gaps in our…

High-k oxides and their mixed oxide systems

Lead Institution
University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Investigator
Chintalapalle Ramana
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The miniaturization of silicon (Si) electronic devices is forcing silicon oxide (SiO2), the conventional gate dielectric, to face its size-limits where its leakage current and reliability are of…

Characterization of Mercury Reduction by Fe(II) Minerals

Lead Institution
Rutgers University
Principal Investigator
Nathan Yee
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Mercury is a key contaminant of concern found in Department of Energy sites. Because the chemical form of Hg strongly affects its toxicity and subsurface transport, there is significant interest in…

Functional Materials for Separation and Sensing

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jay Grate
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A large number of mission areas of the US. DOE demand functional materials that will meet the operational requirements of targeted applications. Indeed, innovative solutions to pressing national…

DNA methylation-dependent patterns of histone post-translational modification

Lead Institution
Indiana University - Bloomington
Principal Investigator
Craig Pikaard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In eukaryotes, chromosomal DNA does not exist as a naked molecule, but is complexed with proteins to form chromatin. As a first step in chromatin formation, 167 bp of DNA is wrapped around a histone…