Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center (BioEPIC) is a four-story, 71,000-square-foot building that offers a dedicated research environment for approximately 200 researchers engaged in the study of how microbial communities interact with plants and soil to influence the environment and vice versa across scales of space and time. The research building will feature abundant natural lighting throughout wet and dry laboratories, research office spaces, a rooftop greenhouse, and conference and collaboration spaces.
Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art technology, including a cryo-electron microscopy facility, innovative sensors and advanced computing, and controlled ecosystems like EcoPODs, which allow scientists to replicate the plant-soil-microbe-atmosphere interactions of the natural environment within enclosed chambers about the size of a Mini Cooper standing on its end.
