Category: Plantae Webinars

Transforming Pixels to Millimeters: Geometric Camera Calibration Recorded November 29, 2018   About This Webinar  The affordability and ubiquity of cameras have led to their increasing use in many disciplines. In plant phenomics, it is common to see experimental data based on image-derived…

Prioritization and Work / Life Balance: Do Less, Work Better Recorded November 2018  About This Webinar Work/life balance is important to our society regardless of gender. Many professionals today are experiencing the “sandwich” effect—taking care of a family as well as aging parents. In…

Plant Synthetic Biology 101 Recorded November 2018 About This Webinar Synthetic biology is an emerging discipline that seeks to apply engineering principles to biology. But what does this actually mean? How does it differ from what has come before? And what challenges are presented by pursuing…

Self-Advocacy and Negotiation Recorded October 2018 About This Webinar How to advocate effectively for yourself, your ideas and project, or your group does not necessarily come naturally for many of us and can actually be very difficult depending on your personality, gender, or cultural norms.…

Is This Newsworthy? How to Assess if a Press Release Might Become a Science News Story Recorded September 2018   About This Webinar To understand how to write a successful press release, we will put ourselves in the mind of a journalist trying to decide whether several press releases are…

Plant Science: Science at the Interface of Math, Computer Science, and Plant Biology Recorded July 2018  About This Webinar This seminar will give insight into the research of cross-trained scientists at the interface of mathematical, computational, and biological sciences. In doing so, the seminar…

Data Management 101: Tips for making your published data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable Recorded June 2018  About This Webinar: The sheer volume of experimental data being generated in biology presents both opportunities and challenges. When data are easy to access, analyze,…

Using Raspberry Pi Computers in the Lab Recorded April 2018  About This Webinar: This webinar will demonstrate how low-cost microcomputers may be used for different applications in the lab. The seminar will focus on tips and suggestions for setting up low-cost, high-throughput phenotyping hardware.…