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This project has brought together researchers in Missouri and Arkansas to form the Plant Imaging Consortium (PIC).

Scientists in Arkansas and Missouri have created an interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art Bioimaging Consortium that enables researchers to adapt food, fiber, and fuel crops to meet the challenges of a changing climate and a growing world population. This 3-year collaborative project will leverage $6,300,000 split between Arkansas and Missouri to design a new field of study called Bioimaging and tra

in a workforce on how to strengthen the ability of plants to adapt to stress, and ways to enhance these adaptations via biotechnology and breeding to mitigate the environmental factors that are straining the worldwide agricultural economy. Researchers at Arkansas State University, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, the University of Missouri, Lincoln University, and Washington University St. Louis, under the leadership guidance of the Arkansas and Missouri EPSCoR offices, will use molecular and plant imaging techniques to generate new tools and discoveries to reduce crop losses to stresses such as drought, salinity, insects and diseases. The project will promote diverse and inclusive workforce development practices while training students and creating linkages with private industry through internships and a joint seminar series. In addition, the group will promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by working with industry to develop a new competency model for primary and undergraduate education in bioimaging. This model will be implemented by disseminating a hands-on teaching module for K-12 teachers to develop key competencies and encourage citizen science, and by creating undergraduate and graduate course modules.

25/10/2017

Congratulations to Dr. Argelia Lorence for being chosen by the Arkansas Bioscience Institute as the 2017 Established Investigator of the Year!

24/10/2017

Grad Students Lucía Acosta Gamboa and Nirman Nepal participated in the Arkansas Science Festival's Science Expo this past weekend. They taught the children who attended the event about the the different pathways that vitamin C can travel through in plants! Great work, guys!

23/10/2017

PIC Graduate Student Lucía Acosta Gamboa completed a summer internship with LemnaTec this year. Her experience was highlighted in the video below. Watch it now to see what the experience, and what being a scientist, means to her!

Lucia Acosta Gamboa just completed an internship with LemnaTec, a global leader in plant imaging technology. In this video, Lucia describes her experience. ...

27/09/2017

There is a great post-doc opportunity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln! Check out the advertisement and apply today!

20/09/2017

Congratulations to Argelia Lorence for being selected for this prestigious honor!

02/08/2017

Congrats to Argelia Lorence and collaborators in Nebraska and Kansas for securing funding in the next round of NSF EPSCoR Track 2 programs. The announcement came today and is featured on A-State's website. To learn more about the project, visit the link below:
http://www.astate.edu/news/lorence-is-co-pi-for-national-science-foundation-project-to-study-heat-stress-on-rice

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced funding of a large-scale proposal for which Dr. Argelia Lorence of Arkansas State University is co-principal investigator. Lorence and colleagues from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kansas State University are collaborating on the project...

01/08/2017

Dr. Fiona Goggin, co-PI of the PIC project, is guest editor of a special issue of Agronomy focused on plant phenotyping. The journal is now accepting submissions for research and review articles. Follow the link below to learn more:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/Phenotyping_Plant_Breeding

Agronomy, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

21/07/2017

EditBio 2017 will be held August 19 - 23 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico as the 1st International Symposium and Training Course on Genome Engineering and Developmental Biology. Abstracts are due August 10. For more information, view the flyer below or visit the website at: https://www.uv.mx/inbioteca/editbio2017-1/

13/07/2017

The Plant Imaging Consortium's work was highlighted in an article recently published by the peer-reviewed journal ! Check it out in the photos below.

06/06/2017

Special thanks to the industry panelists for taking the time to join our professional development session for our students, staff and post docs!

05/06/2017

Thanks to our invited guest speakers for providing our group with such inspiring insight into their ongoing projects!

25/05/2017

In coordination with EPSO - European Plant Science Organisation and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), PIC researchers hosted a series of outreach activities to celebrate Fascination of Plants Day 2017. From May 11-May 17, PIC participants hosted local elementary and high school students at Arkansas State University to learn about plant phenotyping using the LemnaTec Scanlyzer, create their own plant tissue culture “specimen”, and hear from PIC scientists.

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