Recent News
Students selected as SERCh finalists
EMSL interns Julie Rausch and Daniel Katz were selected as finalists for DOE’s Science and Energy Research Challenge. The Challenge, which showcases the research projects of DOE-funded students and interns at national laboratories and universities, will take place November 8-9, 2009, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Full story
All Dried Up
A soil desiccation pilot test is being prepared at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site located in Richland, Washington to determine if the mobility of 99Tc and NO3, both byproducts of plutonium production, can be limited via desiccation. To support the pilot test and to help demonstrate the efficacy of desiccation as a remediation treatment, a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, EMSL, and Auburn University conducted laboratory-scale experiments to study the effects of temperature and humidity in model systems. The team then validated PNNL’s STOMP subsurface flow and transport simulator against their data to demonstrate its accuracy in predicting the behavior of field-scale systems. Full story
A Hairpin Turn
Researchers have developed a promising new strategy for antiviral development with the help of nuclear magnetic resonance capabilities at the Department of Energy’s EMSL. Using HIV-1 as a system of study, EMSL users from the University of Washington, University of Zurich, and Case Western Reserve University demonstrated a rational, structure-based method for designing and optimizing antiviral peptides. The team’s successful results with HIV-1, reported in a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article, give reason to be optimistic that the approach will be adaptable for a range of viral strains. Full story
Wysocki Selected for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry
EMSL user Professor Vicki Wysocki won the American Society for Mass Spectrometry's Award for Distinguished Contribution. Full story
EMSL contributes to PNAS paper, Nature highlight
EMSL resources contributed to recent work to relate genotype to phenotype in ten closely related Shewanella strains. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article "Comparative systems biology across an evolutionary gradient within the Shewanella genus" and highlighted in Nature.
EMSL Capability Video: FIB-SEM
Learn more about the capabilities of our focused ion beam scanning electron microscope. EMSL experts Lax Saraf and Bruce Arey describe how the instrument can provide site-specific analysis and slicing capabilities with high resolution of biological and material science samples. This video is to be the first in a series of capability videos produced at EMSL. Watch the video and read the transcript [pdf, 73KB].
