Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry

普林斯顿大学的弗朗索瓦·m·莫雷尔、沃德、格罗夫斯、斯皮罗和斯蒂费尔；伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的Moffett；扬和齐尔斯特拉在罗格斯大学；以及加州大学的Bruland、Butle和Haygood，他们的跨学科合作旨在阐明环境中微量元素的功能、命运和影响的分子机制，得到了化学系的支持。该奖项包括普林斯顿大学、罗格斯大学和埃克森美孚公司在碳氢化合物降解方面的合作，加州大学三个校区、伍兹霍尔海洋研究所和罗格斯大学在铁和trichodesium方面的合作，以及麦吉尔大学和普林斯顿大学在从海洋硅藻中分离金属酶方面的合作。该团队将专注于重要的天然金属酶和金属结合化合物在分子水平上的结构和功能，并创造新的工具来在环境中研究它们。加强对环境中金属的地方和全球影响的了解，将导致对开发更好的污染控制、缓解和补救技术所必需的基本知识有更精确和预测性的了解和建立。普林斯顿大学、罗格斯大学、加州大学三个校区、伍兹霍尔海洋研究所和埃克森美孚的研究人员之间的跨学科合作，为参与这项工作的学生和博士后研究人员提供了独特的跨学科培训机会。环境分子科学研究所（EMSI）奖项授予跨学科的大学、工业和/或国家实验室的科学家团队，他们致力于在分子水平上提高对自然过程和人类活动在环境中产生的过程的基本理解。这些奖项的重点是具有互补研究兴趣的团队之间的合作研究，并为学生创造广泛的教育经验。

Francois M. Morel, Ward, Groves, Spiro and Stiefel at Princeton; Moffett at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Young, and Zylstra at Rutgers; and Bruland, Butle, and Haygood at The University of California are supported by the Division of Chemistry for their interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at elucidating the molecular mechanisms of the function, fate, and effect of trace elements in the environment. This award includes collaborations between Princeton, Rutgers and ExxonMobil to work on hydrocarbon degradation, among three University of California campuses, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Rutgers to work on iron and Trichodesmium, and between McGill and Princeton to work on the isolation of metalloenzymes from marine diatoms. The team will be focusing on the structure and function of important natural metalloenzymes and metal-binding compounds at the molecular level and creating new tools to study them in the environment. Enhanced understanding of the local and global effects of metals in the environment will lead to a more precise and predictive understanding of and establish the basic knowledge necessary to develop better technologies for pollution control, mitigation and remediation. The interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers at Princeton, Rutgers, three University of California campuses, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Exxon-Mobil offer unique interdisciplinary training opportunities for the students and postdoctoral researchers involved with this work. Environmental Molecular Science Institute (EMSI) awards are given to interdisciplinary teams of university, industrial and/or national laboratory scientists working on problems aimed at increasing fundamental understanding of natural processes and processes resulting from human activities in the environment at the molecular level. The emphasis in these awards is on collaborative research among teams with complementary research interests and the creation of broad educational experiences for students.