Chronic wasting disease prediction and mapping
Python tools that process deer images from volunteer landowners and hunters, compared against confirmed CWD-positive animals, to predict where the disease will appear or spread.
Services
What we can take on
Each engagement is scoped in writing and carried out by one of the firm's two principals.
Lisa Weaver, Ph.D.
Plant science and agricultural biotechnology
Three decades in plant science, from bench research to leading R&D programs. Strongest in soybean and potato biotechnology, plant metabolism, and natural products made by plants and microbes that have industrial uses.
- Technical assessment of trait, product and research concepts
- Plant metabolism and biochemical pathway questions
- Review of study designs, data packages and technical reports
- Natural products from plants and microbes for industrial use
- Short-term scientific leadership for R&D teams
Lisa Weaver, Ph.D.
Research program and portfolio management
Experience on both sides of research funding: running R&D programs inside industry, and overseeing a large outsourced research portfolio for a commodity funder, including federal compliance requirements.
- Portfolio planning and project prioritization
- Proposal evaluation and investigator management
- Milestone tracking, progress reporting and close-out
- Compliance and documentation for USDA-funded work
- Program reviews for funders and research organizations
Michael Boerner
Scientific computing and data
A physicist by training who has spent his career applying computing to scientific problems, for national laboratories, manufacturers, and life-science companies.
- Instrument integration and laboratory automation
- Process automation and data acquisition
- Embedded Linux systems and device drivers
- Data pipelines, machine learning and image analysis
- Technical writing and documentation
Selected projects
Crop monitoring with low-cost drone swarms
Autonomous data collection for crop health and vigor, with storage and processing for the large volume of imagery a swarm produces.
Publications
Building Embedded Linux Systems, 2nd ed. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0596529686
Professional Linux Deployment. Wrox Press. ISBN 1861002874
Outside our scope
We do not provide legal advice or patent and intellectual-property opinions, and we are not a staffing or recruiting agency. If your question needs one of those, we are glad to say so early and suggest where to look.