Project Details
Description
DWARPH is a 3-year DFF Sapere-Aude project on aiming at automating duckweed growth and observation to perform experiment on plant biology at high-throughput.
Plants live in multivariate environments (light, temperature, etc.), ultimately constraining their fitness. Although “phenomics” upscales the measurement of fitness (i.e., the “response”), most work only considers a few environmental values. “Metaphenomics”, instead, integrates whole response “surfaces” (RSs)—over a range of environments—, providing novel insight into plasticity, specialisation and resilience. However, conceptual and methodological limitations have so far hindered the study of RSs. Our three-part project presents a novel paradigm to tackle this issue.
We use duckweed, a tiny, fast-growing plant and develop an automatic miniature growth chamber that scores growth and can update itself.
We create an AI-inspired methodology that plans experiments in real time.
We describe the RSs of a genetically diverse duckweed panel to discover the structure and basic biology of RSs. Altogether, our project sheds light on unexplored aspects of plant biology.
Plants live in multivariate environments (light, temperature, etc.), ultimately constraining their fitness. Although “phenomics” upscales the measurement of fitness (i.e., the “response”), most work only considers a few environmental values. “Metaphenomics”, instead, integrates whole response “surfaces” (RSs)—over a range of environments—, providing novel insight into plasticity, specialisation and resilience. However, conceptual and methodological limitations have so far hindered the study of RSs. Our three-part project presents a novel paradigm to tackle this issue.
We use duckweed, a tiny, fast-growing plant and develop an automatic miniature growth chamber that scores growth and can update itself.
We create an AI-inspired methodology that plans experiments in real time.
We describe the RSs of a genetically diverse duckweed panel to discover the structure and basic biology of RSs. Altogether, our project sheds light on unexplored aspects of plant biology.
| Short title | PhD project |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Effective start/end date | 15/01/2025 → 14/01/2028 |