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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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iTopS: integrative topological scores with functional molecular modeling

Lead Institution
University of Kansas Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Mihaela Sardiu
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The objective of this project is to produce a novel computational prototype to synthesize and visualize the structural models of higher-order protein complexes derived from the existing empirical…

Ward Jones MONet Request

Lead Institution
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Principal Investigator
Melissa Ward Jones
Project type
MONet
Climate warming is benefitting high latitude agriculture by increasing air temperatures and the growing season length. However, permafrost (perennially frozen ground) thaw is accelerating and causing…

Becklin MONet Request

Lead Institution
Syracuse University
Principal Investigator
Katie Becklin
Project type
MONet
Climate change is altering the timing of important developmental events, such as when plants emerge, flower, and senesce during the growing season. These phenological events determine the timing of…

PI Goemann MONet Request

Lead Institution
Montana State University
Principal Investigator
Hannah Goemann
Project type
MONet
Just as humans rely on a healthy gut microbiome for resilience to illness, plants rely on a healthy root microbiome for resilience to environmental abiotic stress (heat, drought). To achieve a…

Ricketts MONet Request

Lead Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Ricketts
Project type
MONet
Switchgrass is a potential bioenergy feedstock and has adapted to a wide range of environments by exhibiting a variety of trait combinations that has resulted in multiple ecotypes across its range…

Characterization of soil functions following forest conversion

Lead Institution
United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
Principal Investigator
Carl Trettin
Project type
MONet
The objective of this proposal is to characterize changes in soil functions associated conversion of the forest cover type from loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) to longleaf pine (Pinus palustris). This…

Soil mineralogy control on SOC stability in soils

Lead Institution
United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Principal Investigator
Zamir Libohova
Project type
MONet
Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) pools and stability are influenced by interactions between climate, management, and soil properties. Numerous studies have determined the size and stability of SOC pools by…

Waldbauer MONet Request

Lead Institution
University of Chicago
Principal Investigator
Jacob Waldbauer
Project type
MONet
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and Arctic soils currently store twice as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. These two facts make understanding how Arctic soil…

Redlins MONet Request

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Alexander Redlins
Project type
MONet
Hydraulic redistribution (HR) is the passive movement of water within the soil profile via biological pathways (namely roots and fungal hyphae) from wetter areas to drier areas. The translocation of…

AlphaEnzyme: predicting enzyme functions directly from AlphaFold encoding

Lead Institution
Kent State University
Principal Investigator
Qiang Guan
Project type
Exploratory Research
Predicting the function of enzyme (represented as an enzyme commission number, or EC number) is one of the central tasks in annotating genomes and metagenomes. It is crucial for understanding the…

Detailed Analysis of Sulfur Isotopic Signatures via Atom Probe Tomography

Lead Institution
University of Toronto
Principal Investigator
Daniel Gregory
Project type
Exploratory Research
Pyrite is the end sink of sulfur in organic rich sedimentary environments. It is important both because sulfate is important for respiration of many organisms at low oxygen concentrations and because…