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.™

Catalysis Research Campaign: An Integrated Multi-Capability Approach for Analysis of Catalytic Systems

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Charles Peden

Project type

Research Campaign

In this research campaign, advanced capabilities within the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be integrated for in-depth, molecular…

Membrane Biology Research Campaign: Use of synthetic biology to probe molecular machines in photosynthesis

Lead Institution

Washington University in St. Louis

Principal Investigator

Himadri Pakrasi

Project type

Research Campaign

We have shown in our previous EMSL collaborations our ability to develop systems-level models of cyanobacterial processes. In the present proposal, our objective is to characterize and…

Rhizosphere Research Campaign: The plant-soil interface - understanding dynamic interactions in the context of environmental change

Lead Institution

University of Missouri - Columbia

Principal Investigator

Gary Stacey

Project type

Research Campaign

The ultimate, long-term goal is to determine what drives source-sink relationships that control the cycling of plant nutrients belowground. To fully appreciate the complexities of this dynamic…

Pore-Scale Research Campaign: Development of Solute Transport Data Sets for Benchmarking Pore-Scale Numerical Simulators

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mart Oostrom

Project type

Research Campaign

Developing pore-scale transport predictive models in subsurface research is relevant to, among others, contaminant and colloidal transport, non-aqueous phase liquid dissolution, and deep…

Isoprene Research Campaign: Making Isoprene from Biomass Material using Bacillus Species

Lead Institution

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Principal Investigator

Birgitte Ahring

Project type

Research Campaign

The overarching goal of this project is to understand the pathway of isoprene production in Bacillus subtilis, to serve as the basis for genetically modifying the pathway to substantially increase…