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We celebrated our international community of staff and users last week on Flag Day by posting replicas of flags from their home countries in our hallway. There were 38 flags representing our staff and users. The display reminds me every year how diverse our community is and the importance of engaging with our users. We have several formal methods of engaging the user community and soliciting your input, such as last week's S&T advisory panel on the Biological Interactions and Dynamics science theme, our August user meeting and our biannual survey. I also appreciate hearing directly from our users. What more can we do to help advance your research? What do you value most about EMSL? How can we collaborate for accelerated impact? Please don't hesitate to e-mail me directly with your thoughts. - Allison	EMSL's 2012 Research Fellows. EMSL selected five scientists as Wiley Research Fellows in recognition of their strong contributions to the user facility. The scientists are: Scott Baker, PNNL; Nigel Browning, PNNL; Matthias Hess, Washington State University; Allan Konopka, PNNL; and Markus B. Raschke, University of Colorado, Boulder. Read more. Watch EMSL on YouTube. As part of the iDirector series, EMSL Director Allison Campbell talks with Mark Townsend, a machinist in EMSL's Machine Shop, about the shop's work with researchers to design and build instruments and tools to enhance their research. Award winning EMSL user. The Department of Energy selected EMSL user Sam Payne, PNNL computer scientist, to receive a $2.5 million Early Career Research Award. He will use the grant to advance his research identifying proteins used in biofuel production. Wiley Visiting Scientist Program deadlines are quarterly. EMSL is accepting applications for the Wiley Visiting Scientist Program with the next deadline of July 31. In addition to conducting their own research, Wiley visiting scientists are expected to actively contribute to the success of EMSL beyond their own specific research projects. Connect with us on LinkedIn. Find out what's happening, learn about job openings or start a discussion - get LinkedIn with EMSL. Plan to attend EMSL's 2012 user meeting. The EMSL User Meeting will be held Aug. 14-15 in Richland, Wash. Focused on biology, the meeting features science presentations, workshops and a poster session. Register now. For the first eight months of fiscal 2012, a total of 620 users benefitted from EMSL capabilities and expertise. This total includes 461 onsite and 159 remote users. To learn about EMSL's achievements, visit our News Center.
Check out EMSL's newest instruments EMSL is offering new capabilities for its users. The new instruments include: a NanoSIMS; an ETEM; EPR, HR-BB-SFG-VS and SFG-VS spectrometers; and custom-designed pore-scale micromodels. Read more. Team science at EMSL EMSL recently named three research efforts as Team Science Projects, a new classification of user proposals. The selected projects will address major scientific challenges related to oil recovery, carbon sequestration, biofuels, and energy storage and production. The first three projects include: Pore-scale modeling: Benchmarking strengths of models to accelerate progress Plant-based biomass: Identifying enzymes to convert plants to fuel Catalysis: New tools will enable studies in real-world environments to improve catalysts Read the full story. Science highlights Check out EMSL's Science Highlights. Here are some recent write-ups: Building it Better – Researchers question commonly held chemistry assumptions and improve chemists' ability to design and synthesize new organofluorine-based materials. Redox Ready – An EMSL research team found the metal organic framework, Cu-BTC, is redox capable, opening new doors for gas storage and catalysis applications. Annotating Plague – Researchers used one of EMSL's mass spectrometers to refine the genome maps of three pathogenic Yersinia bacteria strains, one of which causes bubonic plague. Registration open for 2012 user meeting Integration 2012: Discoveries at the intersection of biology, energy and environment - EMSL's annual user meeting will be held Aug. 14-15 in Richland, Wash. This year's meeting focuses on biology and the latest advancements as they pertain to challenges in energy and environment. Our featured speakers include: Jay Keasling, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute; Bill Margolin, professor in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School; and Len Pennacchio, deputy director of Genomic Technologies at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. The agenda also includes three concurrent workshops on the second day: Advancements in helium ion microscopy, one of EMSL's newest capabilities housed in its recently opened Quiet Wing Visualizing and mining transcriptomics data and hands-on sessions focused on STORM and FLIM Advancements in mass spectrometry, including discussions on top-down proteomics and metabolomics There will be a poster session with awards for top student posters, and a special event at a local winery featuring a seminar on the Science of Wine. The meeting is open to all members of the scientific community, including past and current users and interested researchers. Register now.
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