Our Purpose
BioEPIC, a cutting-edge 73,000 square-foot facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, drives collaborative breakthroughs on the interplay between microbes, plants, and soil, with our environment and climate. Within the building, a greenhouse, advanced fabricated ecosystems, new sensor technologies, and powerful data integration and simulation tools enable scientists to unravel ecosystem processes from lab to field across Earth’s ecosystems. BioEPIC is located in the heart of the Lab’s main campus, adjacent to the Integrative Genomics Building.
BioEPIC integrates existing research by Berkeley Lab scientists studying plant-soil-microbe interactions funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental (BER) program. Co-locating these efforts in a space designed to promote collaboration, with world-class laboratory capabilities and field infrastructure, enables new science, and accelerates the translation of environmental biology from laboratory to field.
