SHANE  BURGESS  PHD    VICE  PROVOST  AND  DEAN  

COLLEGE  OF  AGRICULTURE  AND  LIFE  SCIENCES  (CALS)  

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ARIZONA    

Cyber-­‐Infrastructure:    Essen<al  for  producing  the  animals  we  need  in  the  21st  Century  

Dr.  Shane  C.  Burgess    

Vice  Provost  &  Dean,  College  of  Agriculture  and  Life  Sciences;    

Director,  Arizona  Agricultural  Experiment  StaMon.    sburgess@cals.arizona.edu  

Global  animal  protein  consump<on  

Source:  Data  through  2002,  FAO  and  Word  Bank  

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Gross  naMonal  income  per  capita  in  USD  

2009:  1.8B  out  of  6.8B  =  26%  2020:  3.2B  out  of  7.5B  =  43%  2030:    4.9B  out  of  8.2B=  60%  

The  world’s  increasing  middle  class  

FAO  Link:  hdp://www.fao.org/economic/esa/esag/en/  

Image:  hdp://www.sensibletable.com/feeding-­‐9-­‐billion.aspx#food-­‐security-­‐defined  

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Animal-­‐derived  protein  improves  childhood  cogniMve  funcMon  as  measured  by  academic  performance.  

What  is  Cyberinfrastructure?  Connecting Scientists and Computation!

•  Experimental Verifiability, Reproducibility, and Provenance!•  User Identity Management (Collaborative trust)!•  Connections Between Resources!•  Multiple Access Levels!•  Facilitate Collaborations!

!Democratizing Supercomputing for Research!Liberating High-Throughput Data Acquisition!!

•  Integrate!•  Software!•  Data!

•  Scalable !•  Data Management !•  Computing Resources!hardware,    solware,    people  

Big  Problems...  2008

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$50M  

iPlant  Layered  Services  and  Access  End Users

Computational Users

Multi-level User Access

Dr.  Eric  Lyons,  UA  CALS,  SPS  

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US  Corn  produc<on  and  the  2012  drought  

ConfidenMal  

Data  monitoring  is  essen<al  in  scaled-­‐up  opera<on  of  Accordion  Photobioreactors  to    op<mize  algae  growth,  produc<vity,  nutrient  replenishments,  harvest  <me,  etc.  

Dr.  Joel  Cuellu.  UA  CALS  ABE  

Dr  Gene  Giacomelli  UA  CALS  ABE/SPS  

"If  it  tastes  good  you  should  sequence  it,  you  should  know  what's  in  the  genes  of  that  species.“    

Species  that  taste  good  is  one  criterion.  Another  ..is  ..industrial  use  -­‐  raising  yields…..or  benefits  for  healthcare.    

BGI    chief  execuMve,  Wang  Jun  

iPlant Data Store!

iPlant!Computational

Resources!

iAnimal!3rd Party!Analytical Software!

Dr.  Eric  Lyons,  UA  CALS,  SPS  

$100M  

Salicornia,  grown  for  fodder  when  green,    or  as  an  oilseed  when  grown  to  maturity.    

Irrigated  with  the  aquaculture  effluent  from  shrimp  and  Mlapia.    

Eritrea  aerial  image  of  shrimp-­‐Mlapia-­‐seaweed-­‐halophyte  farm  

Dr.  Kevin  Fitzsimmons,  UA.  Coll.  Ag&  Life  Sciences