Conferences with iPlant Representation
Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:42
2008 Conferences and Meetings with iPlant Representation *Please note all presenters and attendees are subject to change
iPlant Collaborative Backgrounders and Biographical Sketches
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 08:03
Backgrounder: A Collaborative Endeavor
The iPlant Collaborative will bring together researchers in every plant biology discipline—from those working at the microscopic level, such as molecular biologists, cellular biologists and geneticists, to those working on the ecosystem and planetary level—in partnership with computer scientists and engineers, information scientists, mathematicians and social scientists, in order to facilitate communication and collaboration across all of these disciplines and provide tools so that these specialists can work together more effectively than they have in the past. Collaboration is central to iPlant because it’s central to how science now done; scientists can no longer work in isolation from one another. Every discipline relies on the disciplines around it, and the boundaries between disciplines are no longer sharply defined. A geneticist might need to work closely with an ecologist, for instance, to understand the underlying causes of changes in a species’ genetic code and their consequences for the species’ adaptation to the environment. A team of plant biologists gathering data about a species’ genome and the environmental changes that affect that species might need to work closely with computer and information scientists to organize, analyze and interpret those data.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory To Play Central Role Addressing Key Questions In Plant Biology
Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:29
iPlant Collaborative will unite scientists across disciplines Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) will play a central role in an important new initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Collaborative will define and address “grand challenge questions” in plant biology that have global implications. “The idea is to develop an all-encompassing computer- and internet-based infrastructure that will transform the way plant science is done, and that will be accessible, at different levels, by scientists across the disciplines and across the planet,” explained Lincoln Stein, Ph.D., CSHL professor and a co-principal investigator of the Collaborative. “In addition, the program will be a valuable resource for students and interested members of the public.” CSHL and four research universities, led by the University of Arizona, will share a $50 million NSF grant over five years to launch the iPlant Collaborative. It will bring together researchers from every area within plant biology – molecular and cellular biologists, geneticists, genome scientists, as well as experts on ecosystems and biosystem diversity – by building infrastructure through which they can more readily interact and collaborate.
UA-Led Research Team Awarded $50 Million to Solve Plant Biology's Grand Challenges
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 07:55
(Tucson, AZ -- Jan. 30, 2008) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a University of Arizona–led team $50 million dollars to create a global center and computer cyberinfrastructure within which to answer plant biology's grand challenge questions, which no single research entity in the world currently has the capacity to address. The project will unite plant scientists, computer scientists and information scientists from around the world for the first time ever to provide answers to questions of global importance and advance all of these fields. The five-year project, dubbed the iPlant Collaborative, potentially is renewable for a second five years for a total of $100 million. “This global center is going to change the way we do science,” says UA plant sciences professor and BIO5 member Richard Jorgenson, PhD, who is the lead investigator and director of the iPlant Collaborative. “We’re bringing many different types of scientists together who rarely had opportunities to talk to one another before. In so doing, we’ll create the kind of multidisciplinary environment that is necessary to crack the toughest problems in modern biology.” Other institutions working with The University of Arizona (UA) include Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, Arizona State University (ASU), the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) and Purdue University. The project’s board of directors will be chaired by Robert Last, PhD, from Michigan State University.
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Acknowledgements: The iPlant Collaborative is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation Plant Cyberinfrastructure Program(#EF-0735191).
