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Alliance for Socially-acceptable and Actionable Plants Project
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The Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP) is a NSF-funded Global Center that leverages diverse disciplines and a global team to demonstrate an accelerated pathway for producing socially-acceptable plant synthetic biology innovations.
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C-SPIRIT was at the NSF Global Centers Community Building Meeting this week! 🌱

Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) pitched our mission to boost soil health, crop resilience, & food security, and we connected folks from the ASAP Global Center. 🌍

#PlantScience
C-SPIRIT at the 2025 NSF Global Centers Community Building meeting! Picture 1: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee at a lectern, presenting her elevator pitch on C-SPIRIT Picture 2: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee and Aim 5 Lead Kari Sant meeting with leadership from the NSF Global Center Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP)
September 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Jia Dong aims to contribute to solving global challenges such as food security, climate change, and sustainable energy. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Jia Dong (she/her) is the First Author of Enhancing lipid production in plant cells through automated high-throughput genome editing and phenotyping published 03 February 2025. She is a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Education background includes a 2016 Postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include Plant Bioengineering, Automation, Synthetic Biology, Plant-Microbe Interaction, and Plant Physiology. Personal interests include Yoga, Hiking, and Gardening.
August 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Sign up! Registration closes soon for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference @rheelab.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
Today at #SEB2025 in Antwerp, Andrew Leakey delivered the prestigious Harold Woolhouse Lecture, sharing insights on AI-enabled phenomics of stomata and water use efficiency in C4 crops 🌽💧🤖

Andrew is also one our excellent editors at JXB 📝 @leakey77.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪
Andrew Leakey on stage at SEB 20025 in Antwerp giving the Woolhouse lecture.
July 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
asap-project.bsky.social
NSF, international partners to invest nearly $10M in ASAP Global Center
NSF, international partners to invest nearly $10M in ASAP Global Center | Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyBlock I logo
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June 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM