Workshops and Videos

Grand Challenge Workshops (Past)

Biosphere2 at night (photo: J. Martinez)Biosphere2 at night (photo: J. Martinez)

Five Grand Challenge Workshops were held in Fall 2008 at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, near Oracle, Arizona.

  • Mechanistic Basis of Plant Adaptation; September 30 - October 2, 2008
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Productivity World-Wide: Prediction of Phenotype from Genotype, Data Integration for Analysis, and Prediction Across Process Scales, September 30 - October 2, 2008
  • Developing Common Models for Molecular Mechanisms, Crop Physiology, and Ecological Studies: Rhythms, Stress Challenges, and Growth Opportunities, November 7 - 10, 2008
  • Assembling the Tree of Life to Enable the Plant Sciences (iPToL): A Proposal for an iPlant Grand Challenge Workshop, November 19 - 23, 2008
  • Computational Morphodynamics of Plants, December 15 - 18, 2008

Grand Challenge Workshops (Upcoming)

Future Grand Challenge Workshops will be held as more Grand Challenges are considered. In the meantime, see our schedule of other iPlant Events

Workshop Videos

To view videos from previous Grand Challenge Workshops, see the Grand Challenge Workshop video index