Crops in silico Project Archives - Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Mathieu Gaillard: A Bright Future for 3D Crop Models

The architecture of a plant’s organs, such as leaves, stems, roots, and buds, plays a significant role in its growth…

Megan Matthews: Growing our Soybean Models

Crop researchers worldwide are constantly advancing our understanding of the plants we rely on. One approach that many scientists take…

Ghana Challa: Crop Modeling Truly a ‘Growth’ Industry

Ghana Challa, a Postdoc on the Crops in silico team and member of Cis PI Amy Marshall-Colón’s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has an incredible vision for the future of farming. Learn more about his research!

AJ Christensen: Visualizing a Sustainable Future

AJ Christensen has always wanted to use his computer science and graphic design talents in service of a worthy cause….

Crops in silico 2.0: Project Extended with $5M Grant from Foundation FAR

Grant will be a major boost for crop modeling researchers, who started project with iSEE seed funding in 2015.

Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico

It might come as a surprise that Crops in silicon researcher Colleen Heinemann, a Ph.D. student in the Informatics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wasn’t always convinced of her passion within computer science.

Foundation Supports Crops in Silico

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has awarded Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón $274,000 to continue her research in support of Cis.

Kavya Kannan: From Computation to Meaningful Biology

Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her…

Meet Stuti Shrivastava: For Plants, It Might be All in the Genes

Stuti Shrivastava is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Plant Biology, and alongside more than 20 student and faculty…