New Teaching Tool “Computational Image Processing in Microscopy”

We’re excited to announce the publication of The Plant Cell’s latest Teaching Tool, “Computational Image Processing in Microscopy,” by Adrienne Roeder, available without subscription at Plantae.org (and in the October issue of The Plant Cell). The age of big data includes sophisticated imaging datasets. Computational image processing is essential for extracting quantitative information from these … Read more

What VRPlants was up to this Summer

It’s been a busy and productive summer for our VRPlants team. Plant Biology 2019 Our team had the pleasure of exhibiting within the ASPB Education booth and presenting two talks at the ASPB Plant Biology 2019 conference in San Jose, California. Colin Keenan gave two talks. The first,“Can These Glasses Help to Cure Plant Blindness?,” was given as part of the education session. And … Read more

Cool tools from Academia and Industry

Notes from PlantSynBio19 Day 3 Aug 9, San Jose California – on the final morning of PlantSynBio19, researchers from academia and industry showcased the latest tools and technologies to manipulate plants for commercial production of bio-products Synbio, Ag, and Industry Matt Mattozzi from Conagen provided an industry perspective on the production of food additives (for more see his interview  Plantae). Reliably … Read more

Notes from PlantSynBio19 Day 2

Aug 8, San Jose California – day two of the Plant Synthetic Biology Meeting invited speakers presented work with an emphasis on metabolic engineering and the necessary tool development. Tools Patrick Shi, Director of plant biosystem design at JBEI and assistant professor at UC Davis, presented his group’s work on manipulating metabolism to accumulate co-products in … Read more