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Alliance for Socially-acceptable and Actionable Plants Project

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The Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP) is a NSF-funded Global Center that leverages diverse disciplines and a global team to demonstrate an accelerated pathway for producing socially-acceptable plant synthetic biology innovations.

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C-SPIRIT at the 2025 NSF Global Centers Community Building meeting! Picture 1: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee at a lectern, presenting her elevator pitch on C-SPIRIT Picture 2: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee and Aim 5 Lead Kari Sant meeting with leadership from the NSF Global Center Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP)

C-SPIRIT at the 2025 NSF Global Centers Community Building meeting! Picture 1: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee at a lectern, presenting her elevator pitch on C-SPIRIT Picture 2: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee and Aim 5 Lead Kari Sant meeting with leadership from the NSF Global Center Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP)

C-SPIRIT was at the NSF Global Centers Community Building Meeting this week! 🌱

Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) pitched our mission to boost soil health, crop resilience, & food security, and we connected folks from the ASAP Global Center. 🌍

#PlantScience

12.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Jia Dong (she/her) is the First Author of Enhancing lipid production in plant cells through automated high-throughput genome editing and phenotyping published 03 February 2025. She is a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Education background includes a 2016 Postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include Plant Bioengineering, Automation, Synthetic Biology, Plant-Microbe Interaction, and Plant Physiology. Personal interests include Yoga, Hiking, and Gardening.

Jia Dong (she/her) is the First Author of Enhancing lipid production in plant cells through automated high-throughput genome editing and phenotyping published 03 February 2025. She is a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Education background includes a 2016 Postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include Plant Bioengineering, Automation, Synthetic Biology, Plant-Microbe Interaction, and Plant Physiology. Personal interests include Yoga, Hiking, and Gardening.

Jia Dong aims to contribute to solving global challenges such as food security, climate change, and sustainable energy. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

#WeAreASPB

15.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Sign up! Registration closes soon for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference @rheelab.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social

07.08.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Andrew Leakey on stage at SEB 20025 in Antwerp giving the Woolhouse lecture.

Andrew Leakey on stage at SEB 20025 in Antwerp giving the Woolhouse lecture.

Today at #SEB2025 in Antwerp, Andrew Leakey delivered the prestigious Harold Woolhouse Lecture, sharing insights on AI-enabled phenomics of stomata and water use efficiency in C4 crops 🌽💧🤖

Andrew is also one our excellent editors at JXB 📝 @leakey77.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪

10.07.2025 16:18 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
NSF, international partners to invest nearly $10M in ASAP Global Center | Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyBlock I logo

NSF, international partners to invest nearly $10M in ASAP Global Center

17.06.2025 18:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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