More than 130 faculty, academics, staff, grad students and others attended the first School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) Retreat in Kennedy Hall Tuesday.
That morning, after a welcome from SIPS director Alan Collmer, speakers from each section gave short presentations on their work:
- Michael Scanlon (Plant Biology), Ontogeny of the grass ligule: how to draw a line on a leaf. (View video.)
- Courtney Weber (Horticulture), The art and science of berry breeding. (View video.)
- Michael Gore (Plant Breeding & Genetics), Progress towards building a genetic foundation for biofortification of maize.
- Harold van Es (Crop and Soil Science), Adapt-N: cloud computing technology to achieve agronomic and environmental objectives. (View video.)
- Fabio Rinaldi (Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology), Hitting the Sweet Spot: TAL effectors as tools for targeted gene activation in plants.
