Remembering AIFARMS Co-PI Dr. Todd C. Mockler
The AIFARMS team is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Todd C. Mockler on January 6, 2023. Todd was the Geraldine and Robert Virgil distinguished investigator at the Danforth Center, cofounder of Benson Hill, and AIFARMS co-PI.
Nine Illinois Scientists Rank Among World’s Most Influential
AIFARMS faculty affiliates Kaiyu Guan and Lisa Ainsworth are among the nine Illinois researchers, ranked by Clarivate Analytics, who demonstrate exception influence.
IMPROVING THE WORLD THROUGH AGRICULTURE
CDA, AIFARMS, and CROPPS provided valuable hands-on research opportunities for twelve undergraduate students from Langston University, Tuskegee University, and the University of Illinois through the 2022 REU program.
Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies
AIFARMS Affiliates and Thrust Leads Girish Chowdhary and Madhu Khanna were featured in WIRED for their precision agriculture technologies and farm adoption work.
Khanna presents at DIGICROP2022
Madhu Khanna, AIFARMS Thrust 5 lead, is presenting at the DIGICROP2022 Conference hosted by PhenoRob. Her talk is titled “Economic Incentives for Robotic Weed Control in Row Crop Agriculture” and will be held during the Adoption Methods & Incentives for Farmers session on March 29th, 2022 from 11 – 12 CST (Program for the Live […]
Basso Named AAAS Fellow
AIFARMS Thrust 3 team member, Dr. Bruno Basso from Michigan State University was awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, or AAAS, this year. This honor recognizes AAAS members for extraordinary achievements in advancing science. Read more here.
ANDREW LEAKEY AND ALEX LIPKA IN THE NEWS!
Check out the newest edition of the Illinois News Bureau in Research News. Andrew and Alex’s new paper “Optical topometry and machine learning to rapidly phenotype stomatal patterning traits for maize QTL mapping” (DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab299) is featured in an article entitled, “New imaging, machine-learning methods speed effort to reduce crops’ need for water”.