Aug 10, 2021 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
The architecture of a plant’s organs, such as leaves, stems, roots, and buds, plays a significant role in its growth and productivity. Even within a single species like sorghum, architectural differences due to genetic variation are common. Like many other genetic...
Sep 10, 2020 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Crop researchers worldwide are constantly advancing our understanding of the plants we rely on. One approach that many scientists take is the development of in silico models — computational models meant to simulate the mechanics of biological systems. However, an...
Oct 29, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Ghana Challa, a Postdoc on the Crops in silico (Cis) team and member of Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón’s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has an incredible vision for the future of farming. “My vision is this: In 10 or 20 years,...
Apr 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
AJ Christensen has always wanted to use his computer science and graphic design talents in service of a worthy cause. Now, as a programmer in Illinois’ Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) and a member of the Crops in silico research team, his visualizations appear on...
Mar 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, News, News Releases
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Crops in silico (Cis) project has received a $5 million grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to continue building a computational platform that integrates multiple models to study a whole...
Nov 29, 2018 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico Nov. 29, 2018 “Before finding high-performance computing and scientific visualization, I really didn’t know what area of computer science I wanted to work in.” It might come as a surprise that Colleen...