The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently announced it had been awarded federal funding for a new building to house a new research centre to investigate how interactions among microbes, water, soil, and plants shape ecosystems. Research in the building could help address many of today's energy, water, and food Challenges.BioEPIC (for Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center) would integrate research in the prediction of biological and environmental processes-from microbes to watersheds - now underway in the Lab's Biosciences Area and Earth and Environmental Sciences Area.This includes the Ecosystems and Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies (ENIGMA) Scientific Focus Area, the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area, the Terrestrial Ecosystems Science Scientific Focus Area(TES), and the Microbial Community Analysis and Functional Evaluation in Soils (m-CAFEs) project.
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