Projects and Publications School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Projects
The specialist knowledge offered by our institutes provides a solid basis for problem-solving with partners and clients. We adopt a highly practical and tailored approach to implementing research proposals, whether in the form of individual undergraduate dissertations investigating specific topics or interdisciplinary projects lasting many years and dealing with complex issues.
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Turf Pathogen Screening System using Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification
The objective is the development of a real-time pathogen screening system for a group of global relevant turf grass diseases using loop mediated isothermal amplification, LAMP technology. From a turf sample, DNA isolated and amplified using LAMP. Pathogen occurrence in the sample will be detected directly with the ...
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Optimizing plant health in indoor farming using reinforcement learning
The research question we tackle in this project is "How can we automatically optimize the growth path of indoor-farming plants?". To achieve this goal, we develop new algorithms to measure plant health and growth. We then evaluate reinforcement learning based approaches to optimize these metrics. ...
Publications
Publications are another key aspect of knowledge transfer between research and industry, and relevant outcomes are published in suitable outlets with the agreement of our partners.
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Ollier, Maxime; Jayet, Pierre-Alain; Humblot, Pierre,
2024.
Ecological Economics.
222(108221).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108221
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Mirzaei, Marzieh; Jazini, Mohammadhadi; Aminiershad, Ghazaleh; Refardt, Dominik,
2024.
Desalination.
581(117564).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2024.117564