🌿🌱 Save the date! This year's Plant Science Symposium will be at Funk Library on August 30! 🗓️ Watch the video for more info, and start the countdown! ⌛️ #PSS_UIUC

Crop Functional Genomics - Lab trip to Remagen, Deutschland. Amazing moments with amazing people 🇩🇪

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Skin runner: First 5km around the Rhine River yesterday in 🇩🇪

Meet our speaker! Dr. Mitchell Tuinstra from Purdue Agronomy will speak at this year's UIUC Plant Sciences Symposium. To listen to him and others, please register at shorturl.at/KK2L3

This is a wrap. The organizing committee extends heartfelt thanks to all the supporting hands that made this event a tremendous success. We appreciate our sponsors, the Department of Crop Sciences, and all the participants. We look forward to seeing you again next year. #PSS_UIUC

Mark Longo has just revealed that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation euthanized his cherished pet squirrel, Peanut. This innocent creature was taken from him, where he had lovingly raised it since it was a baby, after its mother got hit by a car. Mark used

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

Registration is OPEN for the 2025 Plant Sciences Symposium! Sept 5 | UIUC 🌱 Theme: SMART Agriculture — Predict, Adapt & Sustain Grad students: Submit abstracts by July 30 (talk) or Aug 20 (poster) 🏆 Travel grants for selected speakers (non-UIUC only) #plantsciences

Behind the scenes of the #PlantScienceSymposium is a passionate team of grad students making it all happen! This year, we’re celebrating 10 years, and we’ll be introducing our team one by one. Stay tuned to meet the faces behind #SMARTagriculture

My research was featured in Seed World, check it out: seedworld.com/us/research/20…

NEW! 🧬 Rare Variants in Crops: Theoretical Insights and Emerging Detection Strategies from talissafloriani & Alexander Lipka doi.org/10.1093/insili… #PlantScience #GWAS

REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning by talissafloriani & Lipka Lab doi.org/10.1093/insili… #PlantScience Crop Sciences