Recent News
Baer receives prestigious AVS award
Don Baer, Lead Scientist for Interfacial Chemistry at the Department of Energy’s EMSL, has received the 2009 Albert Nerken Award from the AVS. Full story
EMSL Reaches Out with Facebook
Recently, EMSL launched a Facebook page, making it one of the first national scientific user facilities to reach out through this popular social networking site. On Facebook, a free-to-use website, people connect with their friends, share information, join groups, and become fans of corporate and nonprofit pages. The networking site currently has more than 200 million active users worldwide. Using Facebook, EMSL is raising awareness and interest about the instruments and expertise available at the user facility. Full story
Tips for Nanomapping
An international team used surface science and imaging capabilities at the Department of Energy's EMSL to determine the location, with nanoscale resolution, of MtrC and OmcA - two Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 surface proteins that can affect environmental quality. The team's research was featured on the May 1, 2009 cover of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Full story
A Winning Combination
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used resources at the Department of Energy’s EMSL to develop an innovative approach that integrates two fundamental proteomic strategies for protein identification and characterization by mass spectrometry. The approach overcomes the limitations of the traditional top-down and bottom-up strategies, allowing for high-throughput analysis of protein isoforms and genetic variance through amino acid modifications, such as acetylation and phosphorylation. Full story
Mixing Things Up
New results afforded by use of resources at the Department of Energy’s EMSL demonstrate the importance of accounting for complex organic liquid mixtures in flow and transport models. Basing its experiments on a real-world scenario, a research team measured the surface and interfacial tensions of carbon tetrachloride based nonaqueous-phase liquids and a wastewater solution both composed of chemicals known to have been discharged at the DOE’s Hanford Site in Richland, Washington. The surface and interfacial tensions of liquids contaminating the environment are of particular importance because they affect the ability of those solutions to migrate in the subsurface. Full story
Match Game
Post-transcriptional regulation plays an unexpectedly prominent role in the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella’s ability to infect its host, as indicated by a new study conducted by researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oregon Health Sciences University, and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. Full story
