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Community Science Campaigns

Access the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) through a series of Community Science Campaigns. These campaigns leverage the collective power of the research community to tackle significant biological and environmental challenges faced in creating an energy-secure future.

Through these campaigns, EMSL will host open sampling calls and facilitate the development of capabilities to support Department of Energy Office of Science research priorities using the Lab's expertise in three science areas:

  • Functional and Systems Biology (FSB)
  • Environmental Transformations and Interactions (ETI)
  • Computing, Analytics, and Modeling (CAM)

Upon conclusion of each campaign, data from each proposal call will be made available to the public for free through EMSL's Science Central. Additionally, capabilities developed will be accessible to researchers as part of future open calls for proposals.

 

Functional and 
Systems 
Biology (FSB)

 

Environmental Transformations and Interactions (ETI)

 

Computing, 
Analytics, and 
Modeling (CAM)

Uncover biochemical pathways connecting gene functions to phenotypic responses in microbial, fungal, and root-associated communities Strengthen mechanistic and predictive understanding of the molecular underpinnings driving environmental processes Advance data analytics, visualization, modeling, and simulation to accelerate scientific discovery

CAMPAIGNS

1,000 FUNGAL PROTEINS 
1,000 Fungal Proteins: Database of Standardized Fungal Protein Characterizations 
 

MICROBIAL BIOECONOMY 
Harnessing Microbial Production to Advance Bioeconomy and Biotechnology 
 

METAL-BINDING BIOMOLECULES 
Discovery and Characterization of Critical Metal-Binding Small Molecules and Proteins 
 

 

CAMPAIGNS

SOILS-AI 
Soil Organic Indicators at Large Scale for Artificial Intelligence 
 

SOILS PACWEST 
Supporting Energy–Human–Earth System Modeling 
 

RHIZO CRITICAL 
Critical Minerals Biogeochemistry in the Rhizosphere – Ultramafic Soils 
 

UNCONVENTIONAL CRITICAL 
Biogeochemical Processes Governing Critical Mineral Recovery in Mineral Dominated Systems

 

CAMPAIGNS

MASS SPEC MOLECULAR ANNOTATION 
Advancing High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Processing with AI 
 

MASS SPEC MOLECULAR SIMULATION 
Integrating High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Simulation 
 

BRIDGING SOIL SCALES 
AI-enabled Pore-scale Modeling for Critical Mineral and Metal Applications 
 

INTEGRATED DATA MODELS 
Enabling AI-ready Data on the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform 
 

PATHWAY DISCOVERY 
Multi-omics Data Integration and Interactive Visualization 
 

METABOLIC MODELING 
Enabling Automated and Autonomous Robust, High-Quality Systems Biology Modeling