Lipka Lab (@LabLipka) header
Lipka Lab (@LabLipka) profile picture

Welcome to the Lipka Lab! We are located in Turner Hall, the home of the Department of Crop Sciences at UIUC. The lab is led by Alexander E. Lipka PhD.

The University of Illinois
Joined January 2020
Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)Photo by Lipka Lab (@LabLipka)
Welcome to the Lipka Lab twitter. For more information please visit thelipkalab.web.illinois.edu…
2
The Lipka Lab would like to congratulate Dr. Murphy for successfully defending today! We are all proud of you, Matt!
Today has been full of emotions. Today, I defended my Ph.D. As of a few minutes ago, I am proud to announce that I am officially Dr. Murphy! I want to thank everyone for making this journey possible!
2
16
1,357
Today has been full of emotions. Today, I defended my Ph.D. As of a few minutes ago, I am proud to announce that I am officially Dr. Murphy! I want to thank everyone for making this journey possible!
3
1
1
28
2,092
Here is Alex as an invited speaker for the UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy, which is an initiative of the African Orphan Crops Consortium, with this fifth cohort sponsored by Mars Inc.
8
717
This past Monday, Dr. Lipka visited the Olimpio Lab at the Federeal University of Viçosa (in Brazil). Here, Dr. Lipka is pictured with Dr. Kaio Olimpio (@KaioOlimpio; second from left) and his lab members.
5
1
42
2,147
Dr. Lipka is excited to be in Brazil as part of the UIUC ACES Global Academy. He will be visiting three partnering institutions (full names in the comment section) for the next two weeks. Here, Dr. Lipka is with soon-to-be Lipka Lab Ph.D. student, Talissa de Oliveira Floriani!
4
1
54
4,466
Dr. Lipka will be visiting the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture of the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Viçosa, and the Federal University of Lavras.
1
12
575
The Lipka Lab is excited about the 2023 Science and Spirits presented by GDM. This is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase student research with industry professionals. Register by March 17th at csgo.cropsciences.illinois.e….
3
1
14
1,829
The Lipka Lab is at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics. Dr . Alex Lipka will be heading the High-Throughput Phenotyping discussion on Thursday, while Ph.D. Candidate @MatthewMurph will be presenting a poster about his work in vGWAS.
3
19
1,808
Dr. Alex Lipka presented this past week at the Annual ASA_CSSA_SSSA Meeting in Baltimore. Here is Dr. Lipka with the rest of the Quantitative Analytics Using Machine Learning Symposium speakers and organizers.
2
25
1/6 Colleagues, please help me to spread the news!!! At #UF we are hiring PhD students and postdocs. Are you interested in helping plant scientists (breeders, crop physiologist, etc.) to advance their research using AI?
6
66
2
99
Lab member Sarah had the opportunity to visit The Land Institute, @NatureAsMeasure ,this past weekend where she gave a presentation, meet some exceptional scientist, and learned more about the fantastic work on perennial species.
1
16
The Lipka Lab is proud to announce that Lipka Lab member, @MatthewMurph, is now a Ph.D. candidate!
I am happy to announce that I am now a Ph.D. Candidate! 🥳
2
22
Whether attending in person or virtual, join the Lipka Lab in attending UIUC's Corteva Agriscience Plant Science Symposium this Friday! Registration can be found here: symposium.cropsciences.illin…
We’re always innovating to help address the most complex #agriculture challenges of our time. This Friday, our CSO @feuilletcathy discusses how at the @UIUCPlantSciSym: Innovations Connecting Complex Biosystems. Register for this critical conversation: symposium.cropsciences.illin…
2
9
Last week was a busy week for the Lipka Lab. The Lipka Lab and our collaborators, the Eveland Lab, phenotyped our main UIUC field. To potentially speed up phenotyping this year, both labs decided to give our field a little color to pre-mark plants for phenotyping.
1
1
17
This past week the lab attended the annual AIFarms conference where we had the opportunity to learn more about the research and collaborations happening at UIUC between Crop Science and Computer Science. The overlap between these fields is an exciting area for innovation!
1
9
The Lipka Lab supports our students being involved with the Corteva Agriscience Plant Sciences Symposia Series. This year's symposium co-chair at UIUC is no other than the Lipka Lab's very own @MatthewMurph.
Meet our speakers! This year we will have fantastic speakers! Join us to learn from plants growing.The space to robotics in agriculture and much more! Learn more about them in our website! Registration and abstract submissions also in our website symposium.cropsciences.illin…
1
15
Lab member @Sarah62739279 just wrapped up her summer internship with @Bayer following in the footsteps of both @ricebrian06 and @MatthewMurph. She had a great experience leaning more about computer science and cotton breeding along with working on an absolutely awesome team!
7
Tassels and ears are starting to become visible across the Lipka Lab field.
1
3
45
Despite Illinois's hot and dry June, these recent rain showers have helped the Lipka Lab's fields take off.
2
23
Interested in how the Lipka Lab's research can aid in breeding for yield stability regarding climate change? Check out the Lipka Lab's students, @MatthewMurph and @Sarah62739279, and see how their research ties in with yield stability and gene-by-environment interactions.
1