• Number 400  |
• November 4, 2013

JGI & EMSL partner to study carbon cycling, biofuels production

Reflecting its vision of serving the scientific community as a next-generation genome science user facility, the DOE Joint Genome Institute has joined forces with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to provide complementary scientific resources to significantly expand genomic understanding to cellular function. The inaugural round of eight accepted proposals showcases the synergy between these two DOE user facilities. Five of the eight new DOE JGI-EMSL proposals going forward will focus on carbon cycling and three relate to improvements in biofuels production.

Each of these projects will tap the capabilities at both facilities to further the research in ways that would not otherwise be possible, and all are targeted for completion within an 18-month time window. 

From the depths of ocean dead zones, to wide swaths of forests, and rising up to the troposphere, where most weather changes occur, the DOE JGI 2014 Community Science Program (CSP) portfolio seeks to parse functional information extracted from complex ecosystems to address urgent energy and environmental challenges. These massive, data-intensive undertakings require interdisciplinary approaches, many leveraging additional expertise through a new inter-DOE-Facility partnership. For the full list of 37 projects that make up the CSP 2014 portfolio, including the JGI-EMSL projects, see http://bit.ly/CSP14-projects. The news release is here: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/News/news_13_10_28.html  

[David Gilbert, 925.296.5643,
degilbert@lbl.gov]