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Community Science Campaigns

Access EMSL staff members' expertise, instruments, and resources through a series of Community Science Campaigns. These campaigns leverage the collective power of the research community to tackle significant biological, environmental, and computational challenges faced in creating an energy-secure future.

Through these campaigns, EMSL hosts open sampling calls (see information below) and facilitates the development of capabilities to support Department of Energy Office of Science research priorities using the Lab's expertise in three Science Areas:

Upon conclusion of each campaign, data from each proposal call will be made available to the public for free through EMSL's Science Central database. 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    

Currently open:

MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY         
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         
 

RHIZO CRITICAL         
Critical Minerals Biogeochemistry in the Rhizosphere – Ultramafic Soils  

FY27 Call Opens June 3, 2026:

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

FY27 Call Opens June 3, 2026:

 

 

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