Welcome to EPSCoR Center for Plant-Powered Production (P3)

Arkansas ASSET Initiative, 2007-2010

Project PI: Carole L. Cramer (Arkansas State University)
Campus Co-PIs: Kenneth Korth (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Stephen Grace (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

The EPSCoR P3 Center

A new direction for Arkansas that builds on the state’s strength in agriculture and the food industry, and recent investments in research at the interface of agriculture, the environment, and medicine
Enhancing research infrastructure, resources & cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration
Linking research competitiveness with outreach and entrepreneurship to ensure knowledge-based economic development

Why pursue plant-made specialty products?

New medicines addressing complexity, scale, safety, cost and chiral specificity
New sources for enzymes, biofuels, health-promoting phytochemicals, and other industrial compounds
New Ag-derived products to meet diverse markets

P3 Center strengths

Extensive experience in plant-based enzyme and “plant-made pharmaceutical” production
Key model systems for metabolic engineering and bioproduction
Expertise in regulatory pathways and defense signaling
Analytics for protein purification and characterization
Analytics for metabolic profiling and phytochemical identification
Bioinformatics for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics
IP and tech transfer experience
A strong commitment to cross-disciplinary collaborative research, discovery and application

EPSCoR P3 Center, Contact C. Cramer, ccramer@astate.edu

Whats New

Julie Abbott presents at Institute of Food Technology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 2009

Jay Xu Receives Prestigious British Petroleum Award

Fabricio Medina-Bolivar presents research talk at 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D.C.

P3 Students Declared Winners at Conference’s Yearly Poster Competition

P3 Researcher’s Work Sprouts Interest From the Economist
Mariya Khodakovskaya, UALR, "Seeding the Seeds"

Lirong Zeng, PhD, Molecular Plant Pathologist, P3 New Faculty Hire, UALR

Arkansas P3 Center Sponsors 9th International Plant Molecular Biologists Congress, St. Louis

Xiuzhen Huang, PhD, Invited Talk at Dagstuhl Seminar

Drs. Medina-Bolivar and Dolan Receive U.S. Patent

Events

First Annual Conference of the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (ACMAP)
July 20-23, 2010, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Abstract submission deadline: Extended to June 14, 2010
Early registration deadline: May 15, 2010

5th International Rice Blast Conference
August 12-14, 2010, Little Rock, AR
Registration Deadline, May 28
Abstract Deadline, June 30

P3 Symposium - Click here to register
August 15-17, 2010, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain

P3 Supported Science Seminars:

Research Discovery & Cool Science

Arkansas Scientists Develop A Natural Source of the Anti-Aging Compound Resveratrol and its Analogues

UALR Team Fast Forwards Seed Germination with Nanotubes, Becomes Published

Graduate or Undergraduate students may send questions and inquires about P3 and other programs to edevereux@astate.edu.