Department of Biology
Kirchoff joins iPlant Grand Challenge team in Computational Morphodynamics
Dr. Bruce Kirchoff has been invited to join one of the first iPlant Grand Challenge teams. The iPlant Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org/) is a $50,000,000 NSF funded project to develop a cyberinfrastructure around community supported Grand Challenges in the plant sciences. Dr. Kirchoff has been invited to participate in the Computational Morphodynamic team led by Eric Mjolsness and Elliot Meyerowitz (among others). The team will work to create a new computational approach to studying plant development. The approach will seek to bridge the gaps between biochemical, cellular, and organismal levels of understanding. Central to the approach is the hope that much of the necessary information can be computationally extracted from images and used to help create computational models of development. The first workshop will be held December 15-18, in Tucson.
From the iPlant website: "The iPlant Collaborative (iPC) is a distributed, cyberinfrastructure-centered, international community of plant and computing researchers enabling new conceptual advances through computational thinking and addressing an evolving array of the most compelling grand challenges in the plant sciences and associated, cutting-edge research challenges in the computing sciences. Initially providing services through a small, committed centralized core the Collaborative will gradually become distributed throughout the community."
You can hear Dr. Kirchoff's views on the iPlant Collaborate and education by going to http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/component/content/article/128 and selecting his name from the drop-down list. He is featured in two videos.
October, 2008