2023 EMSL User Meeting
October 3 - 5, 2023
Overview
The 2023 EMSL User Meeting included keynote speakers, contributor talks, flash talks, tutorials, and poster sessions on biological cartography, spatially resolved integrative omics, and multimodal imaging.
Day 1
The 2023 EMSL User Meeting Day One focused on the following:
- Overview of EMSL, capabilities, and user program
- Spatially resolved mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry imaging
- Spatial and multimodal omics analysis of plant systems
Welcome and Overview
Revealing the Intricacies of Organism-environment Interactions using Spatial Metabolomics: A Path Toward Understanding Adaptation and Acclimation
A Systems Biology Approach to Reveal Cell-type Specific Molecular Responses to Combined Abiotic Stresses in Poplar
Integrating Multi-omic and Isotopic Tools to Map Nitrogen Metabolism in the Sorghum Rhizosphere
A New in situ Derivatization Workflow for Imaging Carbonyls, Phytohormones, and Other Hard to Detect Metabolites in Environmental Samples
In vivo Isotope Labeling of Plant Metabolites for Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Use of Single Cell Biology to Engineer Stronger, Healthier, & Better Crops
Small Multiples to Visualize, Interact w/ Ant Fungal Garden Multiomics Data
NanoSIMS analysis in plant systems
Day 2
The 2023 EMSL User Meeting Day Two focused on the following:
- Illuminating environmental processes using fluorescence microscopy tools
- Imaging environmental processes using advanced light sources
- Revealing microscale and nanoscale environmental processes and interactions using electron microscopy
EMSL enabled studies of plant receptor function
Mapping microbial biogenic gas activity in peat soils at multiple scales of measurement using minimally invasive hydrogeophysical methods
Spatial Metallomics and Metabolomics to Understand Metabolic Pathways of Plants and Cells involved in Bioenergy Processes
Cellulose hydrolysis studied by infrared nanospectroscopy
Fine root chemical plasticity in response to nutrient heterogeneity impacts root decomposition.
Deeper insights into calcium and potassium biogeochemical cycles from theory backed X-ray spectroscopy: An SSRL-EMSL collaboration
RhizoGrid root cartography spatially maps plant metabolite-microbe interactions in the Sorghum rhizosphere
Investigating the molecular processes controlling potassium translocation by fungi using synthetic soil habitats and synchrotron µ-XRF imaging
High-resolution X-ray microscope techniques for biological and environmental studies at the Advanced Photon Source.
The use of multi-modal imaging for understanding plant-microbe interactions
Molecular to micron scale investigations of colloids to understand field scale elemental transport
EMSL 1000 Fungal Proteins
Nanoscale defects and melting behaviors of ice revealed at atomic resolution
Demystifying the molecular mechanisms of glycoside hydrolases by glycoproteomics
Cross-scale analyses of soil, fungi, and carbon delivered by advanced analytical capabilities
Day 3
The EMSL User Meeting Day Three included workshops on the following:
- synthetic habitats and TerraForms
- mass spectrometry imaging
- lifecycle of an EMSL user proposal
- sample prep for imaging
