Progress 12/01/23 to 11/30/24
Outputs
Target Audience:The International Collaboration will assist AIIRA with reaching our target audience of diverse USDA/NIFA stakeholders: • K-12 students (middle and high school) including students of color and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds • Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows • Undergraduate and community college students including women, native american and hispanic populations • Farmers and commodity groups • Extension and teaching professionals, Ag professionals • USDA ARS scientists • Industry ?? Changes/Problems:The largest challenge is the time it takes to arrange for an international visit. Now that we are aware, our next summer plans to bring international students to ISU will start much earlier and be better organized to achieve our goals. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The three students were exposed to alternative ways to learn and perform research, taking this experience back to our AIIRA labs How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Sarah, Liza and Ashlyn provided several presentations/seminars during their visit to PhenoRob, detailed in the Other Products section. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to continue the AIIRA internship program and AIIRA fellowship by bringing students from international collaborators to Iowa State University to learn under our our AIIRA faculty and graduate students. We will invite the student's faculty advisors to visit during the later portion of the student's visit to establish more concrete plans for future engagements and collaborations to enhance AIIRA success. Additionally, MLCAS 2025 will convene in Japan in August 2025, and collaborations will continue.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Three Iowa State University students from Women in Agriculture and AI (WIAA) participated in the AIIRA Internship Program with a 6 week trip (May 10 - June 25, 2024) to visit research labs in Bonn Germany, PhenoRob at the University of Bonn. Each student had the opportunity to visit and faculty and graduate students within PhenoRob. 1. Sarah Jones learned aboutE. coli bacterial culture, SDS PAGE, Western Blot, pollen viability staining, dropwise plating of metaphase cells on slides, identification of chromosomal recombination under microscope, Brassicaceae cross-pollination, chemical techniques for interspecific crossing, tissue culture; and contributed her expertise totraining undergraduates in newly acquired molecular skills and microscopy methods, crossing techniques for anthers not yet releasing pollen. 2. Liza van der Laan learned about3D printing and modeling, automated field robots for planting and weeding, multisensor platforms and stitching, hyperspectral image construction, oblique drone flights; and contributed her expertise to sharing what is GWASand transcriptomics, crossing techniques for grasses and legumes, soybean diseases. 3. Ashlyn Rairdin learned more about hydroponics for rice plants, scanning rice roots from hydroponics, extraction of root traits for images of rice roots, pollen viability staining, new applications for drone data collection and processing; and contributed her skills in python to the PhenoRob team. The three students highlighted the education and outreach opportunities available through AIIRA's WIAA program to PhenoRob over 54 faculty, staff and studentsthrough official presentations and small group interactions, several of whom confirmed the desire to establish a branch at PhenoRob. We also convened faculty from University of Tokyo, Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands), and AIIRA faculty at the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Aricultural Systems (MLCAS2024). Talks and discussions around user-centric AI applications in agriculture bolstered collaborations for future endeavors.
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Progress 12/01/22 to 11/30/23
Outputs
Target Audience:The International Collaboration will assist AIIRA with reaching our target audience of diverse USDA/NIFA stakeholders: • K-12 students (middle and high school) including students of color and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds • Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows • Undergraduate and community college students including women, native american and hispanic populations • Farmers and commodity groups • Extension and teaching professionals, Ag professionals • USDA ARS scientists • Industry Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?1. ISU's graduate student, Shambhavi Joshi visited Carnegie Mellon University to learn more about the amiga robot system and personalized set-up developed by the CMU Robotics team. Knowledge gained directly benefits AIIRA's virtual reality/augmented reality efforts towards building digitial twins. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Gradute student visits to University of Bonn'sPhenoRob research group are being planned for Spring 2024 to further share our expertise and learn from our collaborators. Students are an integrate part of the WIAA efforts and will enhance WIAA's growth internationally through their presentations and shared experiences.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1. Dr's Arti Singh and Asheesh K. Singh traveled to Wageningen University and Research andUniversity of Bonn to tour facilities like PhenoRob's phenotyping facilties, learn from their expertise in the areas of indoor environments with digital twins and share AIIRA's gained knowledge on using robotics and sensors in outdoor environments. Drs Singh presented their research and talked about insectNet as well asWIAA (Women in Ag and AI) efforts through AIIRA at a lunch with German-US Women in Agriculture group. 2. MLCAS 2023 - in Tokyo Japan, Arti Singh, Asheesh K Singh, Kendall Lamkey, along with IS Faramer Jeff Frank attended MLCAS 2023 in Tokyo Japan with a focus of connecting Mr. Frank (an Iowan Farmer) with farmers in Japan to share knowledge and expertise.
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