Workshops and Videos

Grand Challenge Workshops (Past)

Biosphere2 at night (photo: J. Martinez)

Five Grand Challenge Workshops were held in Fall 2008 at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, near Oracle, Arizona.

• Mechanistic Basis of Plant Adaptation; September 30 - October 2, 2008
• Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Productivity World-Wide: Prediction of Phenotype from Genotype, Data Integration for Analysis, and Prediction Across Process Scales, September 30 - October 2, 2008
• Developing Common Models for Molecular Mechanisms, Crop Physiology, and Ecological Studies: Rhythms, Stress Challenges, and Growth Opportunities, November 7 - 10, 2008
• Assembling the Tree of Life to Enable the Plant Sciences (iPToL): A Proposal for an iPlant Grand Challenge Workshop, November 19 - 23, 2008
• Computational Morphodynamics of Plants, December 15 - 18, 2008