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<div>I wanted to send a reminder about my new course “Computational Plant Science” just before the start of the new semester.</div>
<div>There is still time to register if you haven’t done so, missed the first announcements or still need a course.</div>
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<div>The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students and no previous programming expierience is necessary.</div>
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<div>Cheers and I am excited for the new semester,</div>
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<div>P.S.: Below is Keenia’s original email with all details and I attach a quick flyer with an overview.</div>
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of Arizona is on the land and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">territories
of Indigenous peoples. Today,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">Arizona
is home to 22</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">federally
recognized</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">tribes,
with Tucson being home to the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">O’odham
and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">the
Yaqui. Committed to</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">diversity
and inclusion, the University</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">strives</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">to
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sovereign Native Nations and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">Indigenous
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partnerships, and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">community</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> service.</span></div>
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</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"Shinagawa, Keenia Alejandra Ibarra - (kshinagawa)" <kshinagawa@arizona.edu><br>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject:
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date:
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">This email is to inform you of an exciting new course offered this Fall 2024 for both undergraduate and graduate students!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">The course is PLS 481/581 Computational Plant Science taught by Dr. Alexander Bucksch.</span></div>
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<b>Description of Course</b></div>
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Introduction to imaging and simulation in the computational plant sciences using Python.</div>
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<b>Course Prerequisites or Corequisites</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"><b>Long- Course Description:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The course introduces mathematical background and computational techniques to explore plant biology for students that are new to programming or do not regularly program. In doing so, the course introduces basic
techniques that allow the simulation of plant growth from the cellular to the organismal level and the imaging analysis of plant morphology. In contrast to other courses that focus on syntax, existing algorithms and data structures, the computational Plant
Science course is problem-oriented and teaches hands-on algorithm development under guidance.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The first 6 weeks cover basic python programming (for-loop, while-loop, if statement, variables data types, functions and a little bit of object-oriented programming) by extending existing code step-by-step
and basics of source code management with GitHub. In doing so, we will learn diffusion limited aggregation as a basic stochastic process to grow structures like lichen, leaf veins or corals. The course code is commented in a way that students can learn from
it and have a weekly learning goal defined.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the second part of the class, we spend 4 weeks of procedural programming, basic data analysis and introduction to image processing and file handling by investigating the diffusion-reaction models that produce
pattern observed in looping vein structures, the shoot apical meristem, and initiate root hair growth. The second module of the course uses existing code from the internet and simulates a typical science scenario where code must be understood and adapted to
each student/group’s problem.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We finish the course with 3 weeks L-system modeling to generate branching patterns of plants that have a fractal structure. This graph-rewriting technique introduces students to graphs as a method to represent
growth-processes along with abstract graph grammars. The L-system module will be taught in a playful manner using the python turtle module and intuitive use of graph-grammars. We will not require the underlying group theoretical aspects as part of the homework,
but we want to introduce the concept to a point that a biology student can communicate their needs effectively in collaborations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In week 7, the real fun begins, and the class becomes more interest driven. The students will select mini projects depending on their level of programming and needs for their research projects. This project
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What makes this class different in its setting is that your instructor is part of the class and often becomes your student at the end. During the class you will become more and more self-sufficient in proposing
and solving challenges with more than just a handful of solutions. Therefore, you might implement ideas your instructor or classmate cannot solve the same way.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Alexander Bucksch develops innovative computational methods to study plant organizational levels from a computational and mathematical perspective. He expands to plant science the mathematical
concept of “shape descriptors,” which reveal the state and growth of complex structures. Using imaging instruments and simulation models, Bucksch captures spatial arrangements of branches, roots, and other organs that together form complex morphological phenotypes.
His interdisciplinary methods have led to discoveries of phenotypes on scales ranging from populations to gene regulatory elements, that had been hidden to classically trained biologists. Bucksch’s work increases understanding of plant adaptions to changing
environments, which could benefit crop yield and public health. More than 700 researchers use his methods through the world’s largest root phenotyping platform,<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a href="http://dirt.cyverse.org/" id="OWAffd79416-d9ee-2a86-42dd-9dd648bdac49" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Digital
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"><i>We hope to see you there! </i></span></p>
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