Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

10/22/2026

10/20/2026

We were honored to welcome the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science as we broke ground on EMSL's Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability (M2PC), a first-of-its-kind autonomous laboratory! 🎉

Located on the Richland, WA campus of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, M2PC will transform how researchers identify, grow, and optimize microbial investigations—decreasing experimental timeframes from years to months or even just weeks.

Learn more about M2PC: https://bit.ly/4jyz8Xs

10/09/2026

Autumn at EMSL 🍁

10/07/2026

Congratulations to Lisa Bramer, Kelly Stratton, and Yuri Corilo who, with first author David Degnan and colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published a 2024 article recognized by Wiley Analytical Science as one of the top 10 percent most-read papers from that year! 🎉

The article detailed FREDA, an open-source web application that helps scientists process, visualize, and analyze complex Fourier-transform mass spectrometry data through an intuitive interface.

📊 🧑‍🔬 🖥️

Learn more about their accomplishment: https://bit.ly/47DGBx3

09/30/2026

Congrats to the FY27 FICUS EMSL-ARM proposal call project awardees! 🎉

Three principal investigators and colleagues will utilize equipment and resources at EMSL and the ARM User Facility to study terrestrial–atmosphere processes and microphysical processes underlying cloud formation and precipitation. The P*s are:

🔹 Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
🔹 Claudio Mazzoleni, Michigan Technological University
🔹 Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona

Learn more about their projects: https://bit.ly/3Vm8Xcn

09/22/2026

Help us celebrate postdocs moving scientific discovery forward! 🎊

Postdoctoral researchers at EMSL bring new questions, specialized expertise, and fresh approaches to our fundamental scientific research—helping shape where our work goes next.

In recognition of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we asked six such researchers to share their experiences at our user facility.

📲 https://bit.ly/3TIKb5K

09/18/2026

Basic functional annotation and genome-scale metabolic modeling 🧬

Watch Amy Zimmerman, computational biologist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as she discusses gene calling, general functional annotation, and construction of genome-scale metabolic models at the recent EMSL 2026 Summer School.

Join Amy Zimmerman (Computational Biologist, Pacific Northwest Nati...

09/15/2026

The Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform (AMP2) at EMSL won a 2026 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine! 🏆

AMP2 is an AI-enabled autonomous platform developed by researchers and engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks.

Learn more about this first-of-its-kind system:

https://bit.ly/4h9S1gC 🤖

(Video description: Scenes from a tour of AMP2 including rows of oxygen-free chambers, robotic arms, and containers moving along tracks.)

09/08/2026

In chemist Jeremy Bougoure's EMSL 2026 Summer School presentation (https://bit.ly/4qYnPtl ), he discussed how Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (NanoSIMS) can be used to characterize the spatial distribution, chemical speciation, and surface associations of critical minerals and materials.

Join Jeremy on the EMSL Virtual Tour to learn even more about this sophisticated analytical technique, how it works, and how it can elevate users' research:

🎥 https://bit.ly/4iNGKok

08/25/2026

All recorded presentations from EMSL 2026 Summer School are available to watch on our YouTube channel! Join researchers as they explore methods utilized to uncover the molecular properties and behavior of critical minerals and materials.

📺 https://bit.ly/4qCHONW