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

Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists (SS-ASPB)
April 10-12, 2010, Knoxville, TN
Registration Deadline: March 15, 2010

94th Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science
April 9-10, 2010, UALR, Little Rock, AR

2010 In Vitro Biology Meeting
June 6-11, 2010, St. Louis, MO
Abstract Deadline, March 15
Registration Deadline, April 30

P3 Symposium
August 15-17, 2010, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain

P3 Supported Science Seminars:
Xingyou Gu, PhD
SEMINAR: "Map-based cloning and transcriptomic analysis of the QTL associated with seed dormancy and pericarp color in weedy rice."
March 8, 10:30a (PTSC009) in Fayetteville
March 10, 11:00a in Stuttgart (Division of Ag building)

Andy Pereira, PhD
SEMINAR: "Systems biology of crop traits"
March 15, 10:30a (PTSC009) in Fayetteville
March 17, 11:00a in Stuttgart (Division of Ag building)

Qiang (Sean) Chen, PhD
SEMINAR: "Plant-Derived mAb Therapeutics for West Nile Virus Infections"
April 7, 4:00p (ABI 107) Arkansas State University

Toni Kutchan, PhD
SEMINAR: "Post-genomic elucidation of plant natural product pathways"
April 21, 4:00p (ABI 107) Arkansas State University

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.