The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) located at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a National User Facility sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Science. A breadth of microbes and plants are investigated at EMSL for both basic and applied research with an emphasis on the production of biobased products. As more organisms enter the “post-genomic era”, researchers are asking questions that require advanced capabilities in mass spectrometry, light and electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance and computational biology to reveal critical pathways for bioproduction of biofuel feedstocks and commodity chemicals, as well as interrogate how changes to their local environment can influence biosystem dynamics. Users of EMSL have access to all of these multimodal capabilities housed in 1 building in order to generate the fundamental knowledge of complex biosystems across scales. This talk will highlight several active user projects and showcase the highly integrative approaches being used to advance our understanding of biological design principles relevant to bioenergy applications.<br/>

DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory: Accelerating biological research for biobased product production

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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