Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
The Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometer (nanoDESI) is used for a variety of environmental research projects that are relevant to atmospheric aerosol chemistry, aquatic and soil chemistry, and mass spectrometry imaging of biological samples. This resource is available to researchers worldwide through the EMSL User Program.
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Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy for Atmospheric Research
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's scanning electron microscope offers a variety of detectors and an integrated custom-built platform for atmospheric research. These resources are available to the research community through open calls for proposals.
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Ice Nucleation Chamber
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) has a custom-built ice nucleation chamber that researchers can use to study properties of atmospheric particles or aerosols in situ, under user-defined conditions. The chamber can be accessed through the EMSL User Program's open calls for proposals.
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Single Particle Mass Spectrometry
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's single particle mass spectrometer, miniSPLAT, is used to characterize in situ and real-time physicochemical properties of individual particles, with unparalleled sensitivity, sizing precision, mass-spectral quality, and temporal resolution.
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Photoacoustic Spectrometer
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's Photoacoustic Extinctiometer (PAX) measures optical properties of aerosols in real-time. PAX is available to researchers through the EMSL User Program.
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Microscopy
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory offers Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometry instrumentation for studying atmospheric chemistry, biological processes, and bioenergy production. This resource is available through the EMSL User Program.
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Cell-Free Expression Pipeline
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's cell-free expression pipeline provides fast access to proteins or heteromeric complexes of interest.
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Cryogenic Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopy
The cryogenic focused ion beam-scanning electron microscope (cryo-FIB-SEM) is a semi-automated instrument that provides pseudo-three-dimensional imaging of thick samples with ~10-nm resolution or…
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Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)'s Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) allows collection and enrichment of unique populations of cells, or single cells, from a heterogenous culture.
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Laser Capture Dissection Microscope
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's laser capture dissection microscope is available to the scientific community through open calls for proposals. The microscope allows researcher to collect samples of unique populations of cells based on specific morphology or fluorescent labeling.
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Nanodroplet Processing in One Pot for Trace Samples (NanoPOTS)
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory offers a microfluidic sample preparation platform called Nanodroplet Processing in One Pot for Trace Samples, or nanoPOTS, for proteomics profiling of biological samples.
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Super Resolution Fluorescence Microscope
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory offers super resolution fluorescence microscopy instrumentation for analyzing cell-cell and cell-environment interactions and in-situ cellular processes.
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Soil Incubation
The Soil Incubation Laboratory at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory offers environmental chambers and incubators for conducting controlled lab studies on soils, sediment, and other environmental samples.
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cellenONE
cellenONE is a single-cell isolation and dispensing platform that is used for transcriptomics and proteomics research. Scientists can access and apply cellenONE to their research by submitting a proposal to an open call at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL).
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Controlled Combustion System
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's controlled combustion system mimics real-life combustion conditions around aerosols produced and improves understanding of aerosol formation, properties, and the effects on ecosystem.
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Size and Time-Resolved Aerosol Collector
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s multifunctional size and time-resolved aerosol collector (STAC) is used to investigate how aerosol physicochemical properties evolve.
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Activity-Based Probes
Activity-based probes are available to researchers through the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) User Program to help gain spatio-temporal understanding of functional proteins in biochemical processes.
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Graph Identification of Proteins in Tomograms (GRIP-Tomo)
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is developing a capability that will allow scientists to mine data for patterns using the algorithm of graph identification of proteins in tomograms (GRIP-Tomo), which will improve protein identification and faster structure determination.
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TerraForms
TerraForms is a group of platforms of custom-designed synthetic environments, microfluidics technologies, and in-house instrumentation to simulate soil properties and visualize soil microbial and plant community dynamics.
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TerraForms: Pore-Scale Micromodels
Pore-scale micromodels simulate soil porosity and aggregate size distribution on a microfluidic platform.
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