ISU Summer Seminar Series: Plant Phenomics Phridays

Midwest Big Data Hub was created to address increasing challenges in collecting, managing, serving, mining, and analyzing rapidly growing and increasingly complex data and information collections to create actionable knowledge and guide decision-making.
Midwest Big Data Hub was created to address increasing challenges in collecting, managing, serving, mining, and analyzing rapidly growing and increasingly complex data and information collections to create actionable knowledge and guide decision-making.

Sponsored by the Midwest Big Data Hub Digital Agriculture Spoke and the Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute, Plant Phenomics Phridays is a brand new Summer seminar series hosted by Iowa State University.

Series description: Challenges and opportunities in the plant sciences are being addressed using novel approaches from diverse disciplines. Speakers include statisticians, biologists, data scientists, and engineers.

Where: Iowa State University
When: Fridays June 9-July 28, 2017. 10:00-11:00 AM Central
RSVP: Registration is free! Sign up online at http://bit.ly/2r0plis
Connection information for streaming and on-site venue details are listed at the registration site.
Bonus: Refreshments for registered local attendees

Schedule

June 9
Pat Schnable: Challenges Facing Crop Production and Paths to Solutions

June 16
Ludovico Cademartiri: Beyond Petri Dishes and Greenhouses: Bringing ‘Field Conditions’ to the Lab

June 23
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian: Image processing, crowd sourcing and high throughout computing for plant phenotyping

June 30
Dan Nettleton: Statistical analysis of plant phenomics data

July 7
Ted Heindel: NSF Research Traineeship: Predictive Plant Phenomics

July 14 ### SKIP ###

July 21
Liang Dong: Microsystems technology for agricultural sensors towards high-throughput plant phenomics

July 28: Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill: Computing on Phenotype Descriptions for Novel Candidate Gene Prediction

More details at: http://midwestbigdatahub.org/iowa-state-university-summer-seminar-series-plant-phenomics-phridays/