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Phenotype Screening Corporation Awarded Research Grant from USDA

Phenotype Screening Corporation is the recipient of a $346,000 research grant from the United States Department of Agriculture that begins September 1, 2007 and runs for two years. The grant was awarded under the USDA Small Business Innovation Research program and covers the second phase of the project entitled, Poplar Root System Characterization Studies for Next Generation Root Research. Under this project PSC will partner with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station in Houghton, Michigan and Greenwood Resources, a Poplar tree plantation management firm in Portland, Oregon

Several universities will be involved in the research program including, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Washington State University, Pullman WA, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

Alex Friend, USDA Forest Service makes presentation at ASHS

Alexander L. Friend of the USDA Forest Service made a presentation entitled Below ground management of trees: novel perspectives on imaging at the American Society for Horticultural Science on Monday, July 16, 2007.  A portion of this presentation described work done by the Forest Service in collaboration with Phenotype Screening Corporation as a part of a Phenotype Screening Corporation USDA SBIR PhI project.  Download presentation.

Phenotype Screening Corporation appoints Robert J. Kodrzycki as Chief Scientist.

Bob Kodrzycki has joined Phenotype Screening Corporation effective July 1, 2007. Bob obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 1989 where he studied the transcriptional regulation of zein genes in maize storage protein mutants. He then went on to Westvaco Corporation where he established a research program in plant transformation and gene expression. At Westvaco, Bob invented a process that lead to the first stable genetic transformation in loblolly pine and established the first worldwide transgenic field test of pine trees. Bob was a founding employee of ArborGen, a forest biotechnology company, where he led an international program in functional genomics of plantation tree species including loblolly pine, poplar, and eucalyptus. His accomplishments at ArborGen include identifying genes that dramatically increase the growth rate of plantation grown trees, identifying genes that alter the composition of wood chemistry, establishing effective high throughput functional genomics screens at laboratory, greenhouse, and field testing stages of testing, and detailed characterization of plant promoter expression in greenhouse and multi-year field tests.

Phenotype Screening Corporation wins R&D 100 Award.

July 1, 2007, R&D Magazine has announced its 2007 R&D 100 Awards. One of the winners is RootViz FS, the x-ray based plant root visualization method developed by Phenotype Screening Corporation.

This award is presented annually by R&D Magazine to the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, as determined by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine.

The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.

Phenotype Screening Corporation Selected for National Science Foundation STTR Funding.

Representation and Visualization of Plant Genotypic, Phenotypic, and Environmental Relationships

The National Science Foundation has provided Phase I funding to Phenotype Screening Corporation, Seymour, TN under their Small Business Innovative Research Program. This program includes a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Phenotype Screening Corporation and Duke University.  Start date is January 1, 2007.

First Commercial X-Ray System Installed at Duke University. 

Phenotype Screening Corporation installed its first commercial plant root visualization system at Duke University in November 2006.

Dan McDonald presents poster at International Poplar Symposium.

Phenotype Screening Corporation President, Dan McDonald, presented a poster at the International Poplar Symposium held in Nanjing, China June 5th through June 9th, 2006. The poster entitled Poplar Root System Characterization for Next Generation Root Research discussed planned research activities under PSC's recently awarded USDA SBIR program.

Phenotype Screening Corporation Selected for USDA SBIR Funding.

Poplar Root System Characterization Studies for Next Generation Root Research

The United States Department of Agriculture has funded Phenotype Screening Corporation, Seymour, TN under their Small Business Innovative Research Program. This program includes a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Phenotype Screening Corporation and the US Forest Service North Central Research Station. The University of Tennessee is providing expertise in polymer science, soils characterization, plant physiology, and automated image analysis. The project will focus on Poplar as the model tree and includes plant specimens from State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental Sciences Division.

Dr. Fred Allen, The University of Tennessee, made a presentation at American Society of Agronomy meeting.

Dr. Fred Allen presented a paper at the American Society of Agronomy meeting in Orlando on Tuesday, 7 February 2006 entitled X-ray Based Soybean Root Visualization and Characterization, by Fred Allen, Dan McDonald, Richard Johnson and Ronald Michaels.

Phenotype Screening Corporation has completed an award from Department of Energy Inventions and Innovations Program

Phenotype Screening Corporation successfully completed a DOE Inventions and Innovations Category 1 grant in September 2005. Details may be found here

Phenotype Screening Corporation was featured in the May 2005 issue of Vision Systems Design

Phenotype Screening Corporation's Technical Director, Ron Michaels, describes the x-ray technology behind our plant root visualization system in the May 2005 issue of Vision Systems Design magazine. Click here.

Phenotype Screening Corporation presents paper at the 51^st International Instrumentation Symposium

Phenotype Screening Corporation presented a paper describing our technology to The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society May 11, 2005. A copy of the paper and the presentation are available. Please contact us for a copy.

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