PROJECTS

THE PRAIRIE EXTRACT LIBRARY

We have 1000 extracts prepared from 150 plant species. Most species are unique to the prairie ecological zone and are not available elsewhere.
All extracts are traced to a voucher specimen, annotated, and tested in our bioassays.

GENOMES OF NATIVE CANADIAN PLANTS

With the Canadian BioGenome Project and Dr. Steven Jone's laboratory (Vancouver, BC), we are sequencing genomes of Canada's native wild vascular plants. These data are needed to understand how biology is connected.

PHARM-DRONE

The prairies are vast. We use unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and developed proprietary software to find prairie plants. It works.

THE POWER OF UNBIASED ASSAYS

We found a prairie plant which, when added to cells, causes them to mimic a rare human disease: Pelger-Huët Anomaly Syndrome.