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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

 

Whats New

 

 

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




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

National Science Foundation
Arkansas epscor