{"id":9609,"date":"2023-06-22T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:49:19","slug":"plnt-590a-001-graduate-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9609","title":{"rendered":"PLNT 590A 001 &#8211; course promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9611\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2023\/06\/PLNT-590A-001-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2023\/06\/PLNT-590A-001-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2023\/06\/PLNT-590A-001-800x434.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2023\/06\/PLNT-590A-001-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2023\/06\/PLNT-590A-001.png 815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"_Toc2236258\"><\/a>Course Information<\/h2>\n<p>Plant systems are dynamic in space and time across multiple organizational levels. Modern image processing provides unprecedented insights into 2D and 3D aspects of plant anatomical features and their impact on plant hydraulic function. X-ray tomography scans collected for various organ types (leaf, stem, root) will serve as training datasets to obtain hands-on experience in digital image processing using open source software packages.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"_Toc2236267\"><\/a>Learning Outcomes<\/h2>\n<p>At the end of this course, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply fundamental image processing techniques<\/li>\n<li>Identify software packages for image segmentation and 3-D visualization<\/li>\n<li>Extract quantitative data from 2D and 3D digital images<\/li>\n<li>Develop image processing workflows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"_Toc2236265\"><\/a>Course Structure<\/h2>\n<p>The course will meet in person to stimulate in-class learning activities. The course will meet once a week (Thursdays from 13:00 to 16:00, ORCH 4072 ). Each weekly session will be divided into three parts: i) Theory and principles, ii) Problem-based learning activities, iii) Group discussions and applications. Personal computer access is required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thorsten Knipfer, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology<br \/>\n<\/span>The University of British Columbia<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<br \/>\nMacMillan Building (Room 321)<br \/>\nTel: 604 822 1219<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:thorsten.knipfer@ubc.ca\">thorsten.knipfer@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/thorsten-knipfer\/\">https:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/thorsten-knipfer\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pwr.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">https:\/\/pwr.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Information Plant systems are dynamic in space and time across multiple organizational levels. Modern image processing provides unprecedented insights into 2D and 3D aspects of plant anatomical features and their impact on plant hydraulic function. X-ray tomography scans collected for various organ types (leaf, stem, root) will serve as training datasets to obtain hands-on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}