THE INSECT INDUSTRY is a BUBBLE? THE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT is here to stay? WHERE IS "THE BUZZ" today? A new GET THE BUG episode. With Jeff Tomberlin, Heather Jordan, Christine Picard, Patrick Crowley from Chapul Farms, Christopher Warburton, @cpreyer. spotify.link/cplIR3uFsDb

It’s not surprising to us!

Great day for a game #iupui

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Thanks Delta - even though a flight cancellation means we lose a day on our vacation - they helped us salvage our trip by working with us so we don’t miss out on an experience that was planned.

The market for insect ingredients is “definitely growing at what I would think is an exponential speed,” said Dr. Christine Picard, professor at IUPUI. Picard helped create the CEIF, a partnership between academia and industry including Tyson and Protix. cnn.com/2023/10/20/bus…

Amazing work Tom Generalovic ! researchgate.net/publication/37…

New preprint on humane slaughter for black soldier fly larvae with Jeff Tomberlin can be found here: osf.io/j25pc/ #FarmedInsectWelfare #Blacksoldierfly #BSFL

Do the ‘Thank you’ or ‘Received’ emails really need to be reply all?

Fall meeting of CEIF_InsectAg occurring at Tyson Foods in Springdale, Arkansas is off and running! New research being developed to move industry of insects as food and feed forward! Christine Picard Heather Jordan U.S. National Science Foundation

OG Tyson hatchery

NSF IUCRC program indicates return on investment for industry partners is $42 for each $1 contributed - well, CEIF_InsectAg is projecting $86 return/$1 invested during 2024, which is basically $2.1M of work for $25K invested by an industry partner Christine Picard Heather Jordan

As an undergrad I had a senior thesis project looking at x-linked indel in drosophila and smushed some salivary glands to look at the polytene chromosomes. 24 years doing it in blow flies!

Fun times at The Amp today taking agbioscience. Even @GovHolcomb couldn’t stop talking about all the potential here in Indiana.