🌿 Never a bad day for some stomatal conductance measurements. #plantbiology #horticulture #controlledenvironmentagriculture

🇮🇳 Elevating the Value of Medicinal & Herbal Plants through Controlled Environment Agriculture - Christ University, Bengaluru, India 🪴 I’m very excited to speak at this event and to learn alongside colleagues over these three days. #cea #horticulture #plantbiology

💡📊 Never a bad day for some light spectral measurements! #licor180 #graduateschool #lightspectrum

🤝 🇮🇳 Honored to be invited as a key speaker at the 2026 Association for Vertical Farming – Asia Forum: Elevating the Value of Medicinal & Herbal Plants through Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). Looking forward to connecting with colleagues in Bengaluru, India.

🇵🇹🇧🇷 Here is some cool content for Portuguese speakers. Cultlight broke down our article addressing the effect of organic biostimulants on cannabis productivity and soil microbial activity under outdoor conditions. Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cFC...

🚨Publication alert: The application of the OCASE® biostimulant, formulated from Urtica dioica and Taraxacum officinale slurry as a foliar amendment in onion cultivation, effectively reduced reliance on synthetic fertilizer inputs. Here is the link for the full article: doi.org/10.17957/IJA...

We visited the processing facilities at House of Sacci. Always a great opportunity to share academia/industry struggles and strengthen collaboration. #plantbiology #horticulture #cea

Awesome tour at House of Sacci cultivation facilities. Thanks to the team for opening their doors and being so transparent about their growing operations. It's fantastic to see such a straightforward, well-run cannabis operation in this very often secretive industry. #houseofsacci #plantbiology

Visiting the branch-new indoor cultivation teaching facility at SUNY Niagara. Great to see New York State actively supporting Cannabis Science and Controlled Environment Agriculture through cutting‑edge educational facilities. #horticulture #cannabis #plantbiology

SUNY Niagara Cannabis Conference - After Party Great time with some friends, research partners, and collaborators after a very chaotic week returning to the US. Let's goooo! #plantbiology #horticulture #cea

Very honored to sit alongside Rob Mejia, Daniela Vergara, and Melissa Moore for a great discussion on academic insights and emerging career paths in the cannabis field.

SUNY Niagara Cannabis Conference

One week ago, my visa was revoked... Yesterday, I was in Rio picking up my new visa... Today, I am speaking at SUNY Niagara Cannabis Conference... Life is so unpredictable, you can't control external events, but you can control your reaction, choosing resilience and a positive mindset...

🇧🇷 Cannabis things are changing in Brazil… happy to see how the legal access of this medicinal plant is developing in my homeland. Could it be faster? YEAH… but it’s better than nothing! 🇺🇸 See you tomorrow at SUNY Niagara Cannabis Conference! Let’s gooo! #Brazil

Wrapped up the final meeting of the year with my graduate student. All projects are aligned and ready for Spring 2026. Wishing everyone a happy holiday season! LET'S GOOO!

Congratulations to our master’s student, Rita Bhandari, on successfully defending her thesis titled “Study of a Global Panel of Soybean Accessions for Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) Using Association Mapping.”

Rodrigo Raposo, a master’s degree student, presented updates on his thesis progress to the committee. Great job! #thisissiu

🪴📊 Students in HORT 482 – Cannabis Practicum gained hands-on experience in cannabinoid and terpene analysis using the BUCHI NIR spectroscopic system and Valenveras software. #cannabis #plantbiology #horticulture

🏆 Congratulations to the winners! #plantbiology #horticulture #cea

📕 This semester, the HORT-482 Cannabis Practicum featured a friendly competition: the student who cultivated the plant with the highest cannabinoid concentration would win a copy of Yield Science. #thisissiu

🔬 In Science, experiments fail, hypotheses crumble, and results surprise us. That’s the beauty of it. I believe the most valuable skill in Science isn’t brilliance, it’s persistence. And even more important: don’t let your ego stop you from continuing to fall and learn.

🪴 Here are the HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum students showing off the semester's most precious outcome: the representative bud of each cannabis cultivar to be used in the cannabinoid analysis. #thisissiu

Our master’s student, Rodrigo, is presenting the potential outcomes of his research titled “Quantifying the Effects of Varying Levels of Pruning on Floral Biomass and Cannabinoid Content of Cannabis sativa L.” #thisissiu

✂️🪴 Rodrigo, one of our Master’s students, welcomed the HORT 482 – Cannabis Practicum class to our CEA research lab, where he presented his experiment examining how different pruning levels influence cannabis growth and secondary metabolite concentrations. #thisissiu

🪴 Excited to be invited to speak at the 1st AVF Asia Forum - "Cultivating Value: The Future of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants in CEA." 🇮🇳 This event is organized by the Association for Vertical Farming in collaboration with Christ University in Bangalore, India. #cea

™️ Growing a Good Bud & A Great Brand: A Practical Conversation about Product Development and Collaboration 🪴 Last week, Cindy Kosydor was our guest lecturer for HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I learned a lot! #cannabis

🇧🇷🪴 FINEP, a Brazilian federal agency under the Ministry of Science and Technology, has awarded a grant of approximately $3 million to advance technologies for the cannabidiol (CBD) production chain in Brazil. I’m thrilled to contribute to this groundbreaking project.

⏰ Harvest time is here! ♾️ Today, the HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum students discussed their growing strategies, mistakes, and areas for improvement. #cannabis #thisissiu

🎙️🪴 Great conversation at the Cannabis Future Project! I was able to provide a quick overview of the research our lab is conducting and the cannabis cultivation educational programs being offered by SIU. Here is the link for the show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHv...

Thanks a lot, NuEra, for providing our students with excellent learning opportunities and for creating an achievable career path. The students are very excited about the Summer Internship Program next year. LET'S GOOO! #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

🐟🪴 Our experiment comparing cannabis production under deep-water culture hydroponics (DWC) vs. closed-loop aquaponics is in progress... Winter Break will be busy down here! #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #aquaponics #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

🚛🚂🪴 Freight Farms #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu #southernillinoisuniversity #plantstress #hydroponics #hydroponics #soillessmedia #soiless #verticalfarming #indoorfarm #indoorcultivation

🔁 The HORT 450 - Controlled Environment Agriculture and HORT 410 - Urban Horticulture students visited the Freight Farms unit installed at University City High School in St. Louis. 🪴 🍕 They learned the ins and outs of operating a fully automated container farm and got some free pizza. #thisissiu

🤝🧫🧪🌱 Thank you, @plantcelltech.bsky.social! I'm a big fan of what you guys are doing to advance tissue culture and plant propagation procedures. Looking forward to continuing our collaboration.

So great to have our former student, Jacob Olcott, visiting the HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum lecture and sharing his experiences in the cannabis industry. #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

👀 📖 Our paper covering the impacts of chemical masculinization on pollen viability and feminized seed production in cannabis is featured among the "highly accessed articles" in the Horticulturae Journal. ➡️ Here is the link for the full article: www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/11...

🌲✂️ Croptober is officially over! Southern Belle from Hemp Mine being tested under different stress conditions and biostimulant treatments. #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu #southernillinoisuniversity #science #plantbiology #ag #agriculture #plantstress

🤓 Excited to be invited to participate as a speaker at the SUNY Cannabis Conference for one more year! 🪴 This event will take place on January 12–13, 2025, in Niagara Falls. ➡️ Here is the link for more information: sunyniagara.edu/cannabisconf...

🌱 HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum students learning some cloning procedures at the SIU Horticulture Research Center. #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu #southernillinoisuniversity #science #plantbiology #ag

🚨 Publication alert! 🧪 Currently, silver thiosulfate (STS) is the most common treatment used for feminized seed production in the cannabis industry, though environmental concerns arise from silver applications. ➡️ Here is the link for the full article: www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/11...

A month ago, at the Cannabis Cultivation and Science Conference in Bozeman, I had the chance to talk about how abiotic plant stress can modulate secondary metabolite responses and cannabinoid production. It was great to see how the cannabis industry in Montana is still collaborative. #thisissiu

I am very honored to be invited to serve as a CannMed Advisory Board member. Excited for next year's event in Lake Tahoe. I encourage you to submit your abstract by November 15. Here is the link: www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

🔟 Very thankful for Yield Science donating 10 books to the Cannabis Biology and Cultivation Systems Lab. These books will be available for the students to borrow and use in their course assignments. #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

📄 Our lab has published a new protocol for cannabis cloning! This work aims to improve propagation consistency and efficiency in cannabis research and production. ✅ Here is the link for full access: opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/psas_article...

Mother Plant Maintenance. #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu #southernillinoisuniversity #science #plantbiology #ag #agriculture #plantstress #hydroponics #hydroponics #soillessmedia

Our graduate student, Rodrigo Raposo, dropped some serious knowledge about the establishment and maintenance of mother plants. The HORT 482 - Cannabis Practicum students learned how to manage a mother plant room and create a checklist of activities for propagation in a cannabis growing facility.

My first Cannabis Research Conference is on the books! So happy to see and meet many of the rockstar scientists working on cannabis in an academic environment. Excited for next year in San Diego! #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

Day 1 - Cannabis Research Conference Today, I'll present the effects of water-deficit stress on cannabis production at the Renaissance Room starting at 8:15 am. #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu

See you in Portland, OR. Let's goooo! #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #controlledenvironmentag #cannabis #horticulture #plantsciences #siuc #thisissiu #southernillinoisuniversity #science #plantbiology #ag #agriculture #plantstress #hydroponics #hydroponics #soillessmedia

Shoutout to Justin and the BeLeaf team for hosting us on a tour of their impressive facility in St. Louis. This growing facility is awesome, combining the history of the Alcohol Prohibition era with cutting-edge technology. #controlledenvironmentagriculture #cea #thisissiu #cannabis