We are excited to announce that the lab recently received funding through the National Science Foundation’s Advances in Bioinformatics (NSF-ABI) program for a new three-year collaborative project. The proposal “ABI Innovation: Breaking through the taxonomic barrier of the fossil pollen record using bioimage informatics” links the high-throughput, super-resolution structured illumination microscopy being employed at the University of Illinois with the morphological algorithms being developed by Washington Mio’s lab at Florida State and the machine learning advances made by Charless Fowlkes at University of California, Irvine.
Funding includes support for a graduate student with interest in microscopy, machine learning, and mathematical morphology – as well as pollen-curious undergraduates. Please contact Surangi (punyasena AT life.illinois.edu) for more information.