How to Engage

How to Engage the iPlant Collaborative

There are several routes for research community members to engage with the iPlant Collaborative’s efforts.  These include iPlant-sponsored workshops and Grand Challenge Teams and Working Groups.

iPlant-Sponsored Workshops

Plant science and computational science community members can propose an iPlant-sponsored workshop to focus on a specific scientific topic and integrate appropriate software into the iPlant foundation cyberifrastructure (CI). Typically, a workshop is a three-day-long event involving about twenty community participants and three to five iPlant project members.

Grand Challenge Teams

Another way to engage with the iPlant Collaborative is through iPlant Grand Challenge Teams.  The two current Grand Challenge Teams are composed of several working groups, each focused on specific areas of cyberinfrastructure design and development.  Plant biologists or computer scientists interested in a specific working group effort should contact the working group leader or iPlant's Project Director, Steve Goff, for additional information on how to participate in that group.