Are you interested in using EMSL's instrumentation for characterizing mineral-associated organic matter? Watch the recording of the June 26 webinar where our staff scientists discuss how to use a variety of resources to characterize (MAOM). These resources are available through the EMSL Exploratory Research call, which closes on Tuesday, July 2. Submit a letter of intent: www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-exploratory-resea…
Are you ready for Daylight Savings Time?
With the time shift to an hour ahead on March 10, you may feel overly tired or out of sync. That's a result of a change in your circadian rhythm, which is the 24-cycle that affects natural processes to help organisms, including humans, cope with the regular shift from day to night. Hear EMSL user Jennifer Hurley explain more about circadian rhythm.
Read about Hurley's project in which she is working to identify the times of day that filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa makes cellulase. Cellulase could help maximize the manufacturing of biofuel components: bit.ly/3Mz2CmB
Find out how EMSL's 3-D platforms can be used to study live cells! Watch the EMSL LEARN webinar presentation featuring EMSL staff talking about the NanoLive and Lattice Light Sheet.
Did you miss last week's webinar on the Multiomics Analysis Portal (MAP)? You can watch a recording on the EMSL website and learn how you can access MAP for analyzing, integrating, and visualizing your biological data.
Read about MAP: bit.ly/3ZWK0T0
MAP contacts:
Kelly Stratton, kelly.stratton@pnnl.gov
Lisa Bramer, lisa.bramer@pnnl.gov
EMSL developed a group of platforms called TerraForms to help scientists study soil despite its complexities.
Find out how TerraForms enables soil ecology research using synthetic soil environments and microfluidic technologies. Learn more about TerraForms and how to access it for your research on the EMSL website: bit.ly/3RSkg8s
What happens to orchards when they’ve reached the end of their lifespan and are no longer producing crops? Conventionally, orchards are burned. However, concerns about biomass burning and air quality have led to an alternative practice known as whole orchard recycling.
Hear microbiologist Amisha Poret-Peterson on EMSL's Bonding Over Science podcast as she talks about using nuclear magnetic resonance at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory to learn about the role and efficiency of microbial nitrogen in soils in in whole orchard recycling.
Read more: bit.ly/3LeRhaG
Listen to the latest episode of the Bonding Over Science podcast to hear how Swedish researcher Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is using EMSL's artificial intelligence resources to understand protein folding.
In addition to this version, all the podcast episodes are available on your favorite streaming platform.
Link to Podbean: bondingoverscience.podbean.com/
Read the accompanying feature article on Wittung-Stafshede's project on the EMSL website: bit.ly/3KIdbmx
Do you want to learn about the most advanced tools in data science for omics from world-class researchers? We've got you covered! Check out all of the recorded presentations from the 2023 EMSL Summer School: Demystifying Multiomics with Data Science on the YouTube playlist.
When you're done, head over to the EMSL website to view the slides from each day's presentations: www.emsl.pnnl.gov/learn/summer-school
🔥 New podcast alert! It's a hot episode all about wildfire research!
Listen in as University of California, Irvine's Steven Allison explains how his research could help us understand severe events, like wildfire patterns, and how they affect soil microbiomes.
bit.ly/3JSkxn3
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory is using a dual anonymous peer review process to evaluate research proposals submitted to the open call for Exploratory Research. (Letters of intent for this call are due July 6, 2023).
Get the details on this call: bit.ly/43or4xt
Learn about this process and the efforts to reduce bias in the evaluations of scientific research proposals: bit.ly/3qx3lws
EMSL, or the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, is a national scientific user facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. EMSL provides integrated experimental and computational resources to address the complex environmental molecular science challenges facing DOE and the nation.
EMSL offers the global scientific community a diverse range of capabilities and expertise. Access to EMSL's capabilities is gained through a peer-reviewed proposal process. If a proposal is accepted and the scientist publishes in the open literature, there typically is no charge for using the EMSL instrumentation and capabilities. EMSL provides a variety of proposal opportunities throughout the year.
EMSL is funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.