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Founded in 1987, the EBI is a multidisciplinary research institute located on the University of Idaho Moscow campus with laboratories in the Food Research Center building. The Institute supports environmental research both on campus and regionally in the areas of microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and environmental and biomedical biotechnology. Our faculty, staff scientists, and students are engaged in cutting-edge research to answer basic and applied biotechnology-related questions in a broad diversity of areas from microbial and animal physiology and genetics to subsurface microbiology and bioremediation of environments contaminated by toxic chemicals. We also assist in the multidisciplinary training of predoctoral and postdoctoral scientists from departments that award graduate degrees in environmental and biomedical fields.



The world-class core instrumentation facility at EBI supports the most modern molecular biology, genomics, and proteomics research, allowing for construction of high-throughput, automated oligonucleotide arrays; mass spectrometry and chromatography analysis; molecular structure determination; computer modeling of organic molecules; recombinant DNA research; and execution of standard and specialized molecular biology techniques. Our technical expertise and analytical resources are available to researchers from the academic, business, and government communities, and we’re always looking to build new collaborations.