From the world's largest outdoor research center to a state-of-the-art microscopy suite, members of the RIPE project have some of the world's best tools and facilities at their fingertips.
Australian National University
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility provides a knowledge base and facilities for the comprehensive and continuous analysis of plant growth and performance using modern technologies. The High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre is adapting and applying the next generation of research tools, including robotics, imaging and computing, to probe plant function and performance, under controlled conditions and in the field.
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University of Illinois
SoyFACE (Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment) is an innovative facility for growing crops under production field conditions in an atmosphere that has higher levels of carbon dioxide and ozone, higher temperature and altered soil water availability. SoyFACE was designed to discover the effects of atmospheric change on the agronomy and productivity of Midwestern crops as well as to find solutions that will lead to crops better adapted to this future.
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The Core Facilities at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is a state-of-the-art resource for biological microscopy and image analysis. The facility also hosts a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer, a Real-Time PCR, and an NMR spectrometer.
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The University’s Department of Crop Sciences provides land, equipment, and facilities for plant and soil research through a field laboratory setting. The South Farms is conveniently located adjacent to campus.
Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is the fastest supercomputer on a university campus. Blue Waters is built from the latest technologies and uses hundreds of thousands of computational cores to achieve peak performance of more than 13 quadrillion calculations per second.
The Plant Care Facility is a full-service greenhouse operation, offering greenhouse space, watering, fertilizer, planting, pest control, and soil mixing.
Rothamsted Research
Rothamsted Research's bioimaging facility provides state-of-the-art microscopy equipment and expertise for sample preparation, electron, light, and laser microscopy.
The Controlled Environment and Glasshouse Facilities consist of 42 glasshouses and 2 buildings of controlled environment rooms and cabinets.
University of California - Berkeley
UC Berkeley’s Biological Imaging Facility functions as a research laboratory for all aspects of modern biological light microscopy, including confocal and deconvolution microscopy, computer image processing and analysis, and most microscopy techniques for developmental and cell biology
