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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

    Plant-based Bioproduction
  • 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

 

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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




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

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