PREDICTIVE - Key Persons
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2017 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Associate Professor
- Co - Principal Investigator / Associate Professor
Carolyn Lawrence-Dill is an associate professor in the department of genetics, development and cell biology. She is a co-principal investigator and is a member of the NSF NRT Predictive Plant Phenomics Program's leadership team. Lawrence-Dill's research program is devoted to developing computational systems that support the plant research community. Her lab's work enables the use of existing and emerging knowledge to establish common standards and methods for data collection, integration, and sharing.
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2017 Cohort
Education
B.S., Crop Science - Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana, 2016
B.S., Agricultural Science Education, University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana, 2016
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2016 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
Education
B.S., Biology, Iowa State University
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2016 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2016 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Principal Investigator
- Program Director
- Professor
Julie Dickerson is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering. She is the Program Director of the NSF NRT Predictive Plant Phenomics Program. She served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Advances in Biological Informatics Program and the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology Program in the Biology Directorate as the lone engineer. She also served as the Chair of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at Iowa State University.
She holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego. She received her master's degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. She designed radar systems for Hughes Aircraft Company and Martin Marrietta while getting her Ph.D. Her current research activities are in systems biology, bioinformatics, bioinformatics education, and data visualization. She was a Carver Fellow in the Virtual Reality Applications Center and a member of the Baker Center for Bioinformatics in the Plant Sciences Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Program. Dr. Dickerson has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings and supervises research projects funded by NSF and the USDA.
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
Education
B.S. Agronomy, Iowa State University, 2015
B.S. Genetics, Iowa State University, 2017
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2016 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2017 Cohort
Education
B.S., Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, 2015
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
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- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator I
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- Co - Principal Investigator
- Distinguished Professor
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Professor
Patrick S. Schnable is a distinguished professor in the department of agronomy and Iowa Corn Endowed chair in genetics. Schnable directs Iowa State University's Plant Sciences Institute and serves as the founding director of ISU's Center for Plant Genomics. He is a co-principal investigator and is a member of the NSF NRT Predictive Plant Phenomics Program's leadership team. Schnable is also a Chang Jiang Scholar Professor at China Agriculture University in Beijing. Schnable received his B.S. from Cornell University and was awarded a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from Iowa State University. Prior to his faculty appointment Schnable conducted post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Köln, Germany.
Schnable is a professor in the departments of agronomy and genetics, development and cell biology. He manages a research program that emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding plant biology. His own expertise is in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, and high-throughput phenotyping but he collaborates with researchers in diverse fields, including agricultural and computer engineering, plant breeding, statistics and soil science.
He serves as PI or co-PI on several multi-million dollar research grants. Although the bulk of this funding is from federal sources (e.g., NSF and USDA), Schnable has also secured research funding from industrial sources and international agencies.
Schnable's scientific investigations of the maize genome have been wide-ranging and he has developed and/or deployed a number of important genomic tools and resources. He is frequently invited to present his research at national and international venues ( 60 since 2010) and has served on scientific advisory boards of several large plant genome projects and has been invited to testify at National Academy of Sciences committees. He is the author of 120 peer-reviewed publications, served as the co-lead author of the maize genome sequencing paper (2009, Science) and has an h-index of 52 (Google Scholar). Reflecting his interest in computational approaches to data analysis, he has an Erdös number of 3.
Schnable is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as an associate editor for PLoS Genetics (Impact Factor 8.7), and is the chair of the American Society of Plant Biology's Science Policy Committee. He is a past chair of the Maize Genetics Executive Committee.
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2017 Cohort
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
Samantha Snodgrass is currently a second year phD student, President for the Interdepartmental Plant Biology Student Organization, and social media officer for the P3 Student Organization. She graduated in 2016 with her bachelor's degree from Grinnell College. Afterwards, Snodgrass worked as a field botany technician for the Alaska Bureau of Land Management through the Conservation Land Management Internship program run through the Chicago Botanical Garden during the 2016 field season. She then returned to Grinnell College to work as a post-baccalaureate fellow for the Partners In Education program, which aims to reduce the number of first year drop outs through peer mentorship and academic support, during the spring semester of 2017. Snodgrass has previously done research on stormwater practices in urban environments and cotton genome and cell size variation. Her current research focuses on genetic models of hybrid vigor in maize using comparative genomics.
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2018 Cohort
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- Co - Principal Investigator
- Professor of Thermal Science
Ted Heindel is currently the Bergles Professor of Thermal Science in the department of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University. He is a co-principal investigator and is a member of the NSF NRT Predictive Plant Phenomics Program's leadership team. Heindel also holds a courtesy professor appointment in the department of chemical and biological engineering. He directs the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory at ISU, which houses a unique instrument for performing x-ray visualization studies of large-scale complex fluid flows.
His research currently focuses on multiphase flow hydrodynamics (e.g., mixing in gas-liquid, gas-solid, and gas-liquid-solid flows), multiphase flow visualization and characterization using x-ray imaging technology, and particle-particle mixing. This work has applications in petroleum-based and bio-based chemical and fuel processing, energy generation, food processing, agricultural waste management, pulp and paper processing, mineral processing, and wastewater treatment. Dr. Heindel's research program has been funded by over 45 projects supported through the NSF, USDA, DOE, the State of Iowa, and industrial partners. He has co-authored one book and published over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 200 conference papers, abstracts, and technical reports.
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2016 Cohort
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- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2019 Cohort
Education
B.S., Agronomy and Agricultural Business, Northwest Missouri State University, 2017
M.S., Plant Breeding, Texas A&M University, 2019
Job Titles:
- Graduate Research Assistant
Job Titles:
- Plant Phenomics Trainee - 2017 Cohort
Education
B.S., Biology, Indiana University Southeast, 2017
B.S., Secondary Education (life and physical sciences), Indiana University Southeast, 2017