Projects

Using the approaches of mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics and small interfering RNA (siRNA)-induced gene silencing to identify new insulin receptor signaling components in cultured adipocytes.

Lead Institution

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Principal Investigator

Zhen Jiang

Project type

Exploratory Research

Insulin is a hormone that plays key roles in the regulation of fuel (glucose, fatty acid and protein) metabolisms and gene expression in the human body. Impaired insulin signaling and actions lead…

Analysis of catalysts

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Douglas Elliott

Project type

Exploratory Research

use EMSL capabilities in imaging and analysis to better understand catalyst structures

Growth of vanadium oxides on anatase TiO2 (001)

Lead Institution

Yale University

Principal Investigator

Weiwei Gao

Project type

Exploratory Research

Anatase TiO2 (001) has been grown on LaAlO3 (001) by using oxygen plasma assisted MBE. About 30nm vanadium oxide was also deposited on anatase TiO2 (001) surface in O2 plasma environment. XPS/UPS…

Investigating interactions between soil microbial communities and soil organic matter dynamics along climate and vegetation gradients

Lead Institution

Michigan State University

Principal Investigator

Jessica Miesel

Project type

FICUS Research

Soils hold globally-important stocks of organic matter, with critical relevance for nutrient cycling and climate change. As the primary agents of decomposition, soil microbes play a key role in soil…

A day in the life of Chlamydomonas and its neighbors: Systems analysis of a microbial phototroph-heterotroph symbiosis

Lead Institution

University of California, Berkeley

Principal Investigator

Sabeeha Merchant

Project type

FICUS Research

Phytoplankton, which rely on the sun for energy, are responsible for roughly half of global primary productivity. These organisms dramatically change their metabolic strategy in the night when…

Effects of plant functional diversity on the ecosystem responses to forest harvesting

Lead Institution

Institute of Microbiology of the CAS

Principal Investigator

Petr Baldrian

Project type

FICUS Research

Forests are important ecosystem that help to maintain the global C balance largely due to C storage in soils, but also play multiple additional roles including the important economic role as the…

Functional and structural analysis of microbial expansin-related proteins that transform lignocellulosic biomass

Lead Institution

University of Toronto

Principal Investigator

Emma Master

Project type

FICUS Research

This project brings together functional genomics, structural biology, and advanced techniques in material science, to evaluate the untapped potential of microbial expansin-related proteins in the…

Tracking the degradation of fresh particulate organic matter in permeable riverbed sediments using FT-ICR-MS and metagenomic/transcriptomic sequencing

Lead Institution

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Principal Investigator

Eric Roden

Project type

FICUS Research

The hyporheic zone, where groundwater and river water mix within riverine corridors, represents a highly active zone of biogeochemical cycling in which key transformations of many critical elements…

Illuminating soil biogeochemical responses to press and pulse disturbances in a coastal ecosystem

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jianqiu Zheng

Project type

FICUS Research

Coastal ecosystems are undergoing dramatic transitions as sea level rise accelerates and precipitation and storm regimes change. Depending upon the intensity and duration of seawater exposure,…

Belowground genotype-phenotype controls on nitrogen use efficiency of a sorghum bioenergy crop

Lead Institution

University of Arizona

Principal Investigator

Laura Meredith

Project type

FICUS Research

Plant-microbe interactions drive nitrogen (N) transformations in soil, and a detailed understanding of these inter-organismal interactions is needed to enhance crop productivity and N use efficiency,…

Beneficial Partners: Context Dependent Mycorrhizal Resource Exchange in Bioenergy Cropping Systems

Lead Institution

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Erin Nuccio

Project type

FICUS Research

The development of environmentally sustainable sources of energy is a grand challenge of the 21st century. Plant feedstocks are promising renewable sources for liquid transportation fuels, and the…

Assessing the contribution of sediment bioirrigation to the oxidative removal of methane from a fluvial wetland.

Lead Institution

Marine Biological Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Emil Ruff

Project type

FICUS Research

Wetlands are among the largest natural sources of the greenhouse gas methane. While the net fluxes of methane to the atmosphere are relatively well understood, the amount of methane-derived carbon…

Auger electron microscopy for use in classifying the oxide content in an electrospark deposition coating of Zirconium.

Lead Institution

Portland State University

Principal Investigator

Graham Tewksbury

Project type

Exploratory Research

The electrospark deposition process can deposit a variety of metal or cermets on virtually any electrically conductive substrate. This process can produce metallurgical bonding with a very small…

Investigation of Ba-based NOx storage-reduction catalyst by Raman spectrometer (PNNL Title: Mechanisms of sulfur poisoning of NOx adsorber materials, Scope # 43315).

Lead Institution

Seoul National University

Principal Investigator

Do Heui Kim

Project type

Exploratory Research

NOx storage-reduction (NSR) catalysts are used in engines operating alternatively under lean and rich conditions to reduce the fuel consumption of vehicles. Typical NSR catalysts consists of a NOx…

Structural characterization of Nanoporous Thin Films

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Zdenek Dohnalek

Project type

Exploratory Research

The adsorptive/reactive properties of nanoporous thin films of metals and oxides grown via ballistic deposition technique are being studied in our laboratory. We propose to utilize a variety of ex…

Cellular Response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection: Global Quantitative Proteome AMT Tag Measurements of Cellular Protein Expression

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Eric Chan

Project type

Exploratory Research

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Chemical Characterization of Heterogeneous Inclusions in Soot Particles

Lead Institution

Stanford University

Principal Investigator

Hai Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

The objective of the work proposed herein is to characterize the heterogeneous inclusions and their influence on the hydroscopic properties of Diesel and laboratory-generated soot. Laboratory soot…

Surface Studies of Electroctalysts in Methanol Fuel Cells

Lead Institution

Neah Power Systems

Principal Investigator

Kwang Kim

Project type

Exploratory Research

Neah Power Systems is developing small methanol fuel cells based upon a silicon architecture for mobile electronics such as laptop computers and PDAs. Neah's silicon architecture is expected to…

Temperature-Dependent Yield of Frenkel Pairs Generated by Valence Excitation in NaCl

Lead Institution

Osaka University

Principal Investigator

Katsumi Tanimura

Project type

Exploratory Research

The dynamics of formation of self-trapped excitons (STEs) and Frenkel pairs upon band-gap excitation have been studied in NaCl by femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy at temperatures ranging from 6…

Passive Film Stability in Alloy 22

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Donald Baer

Project type

Exploratory Research

This program activity will involve the testing of Haynes Alloy 22 to determine if a build up of S will lead to the breakdown of a possive film. This is among the most stable alloys known and it is…