<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/from-colleagues-to-collaborators-a-cross-department-conversation-links-statistics-to-plant-science.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>01/09/2023</pubDate><title>From colleagues to collaborators, a cross-department conversation links statistics to plant science</title><description>Complicated sets of biological data can be challenging to extrapolate meaningful information from. Wanting to find a better way to look at this data led Berkley Walker, assistant professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) and the Department of Plant Biology, to team up with statistician and Assistant Professor Chih-Li Sung from the Department of Statistics and Probability.</description><author/><hero-image><img src="" alt=""/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/Berkley_plant-square.jpg" alt="Berkley Walker"/></image><tags><tag>faculty</tag></tags></item>