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Reimagining regenerative agriculture. It was amazing to see how regenerative agriculture was practiced on a farm at the Bottens Family Farm, Moline, IL. The Bottens family has five generations of experience with all kinds of farming practices. They understand firsthand that soil health is important for improved crop yield. Monte Bottens, the current farmer, is a long-term thinker, like 50 years ahead. He really cares about the farms’ soil health and uses farming practices that nurture topsoil and its microbiome. Among these practices is no-till farming. Tilling encourages erosion and soil loss, and it can take 15–20 years to bring the topsoil back to health and make it productive again. Keep Reading

 

Dr. Kaplan is honored to be among the amazing and accomplished panel members at the Future of Food and Ag Greater Sacramento webinar on July 29 at 1 PM Pacific Time.

Please join us to learn more about agtech ecosystem in the greater Sacramento area and what it offers for the future of the region.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/ePHYUE9

Dr. Kaplan is featured on the award-winning AWIS Magazine Cover

Dr. Fatma Kaplan is a genius in eco-friendly sciences and has the body of research to prove it. She has dedicated her lifelong career to the future of our globe through her entrepreneurial innovations as CEO and co-founder of Pheronym. Pheronym is an agtech startup………… Keep Reading

 

Dr. Kaplan is honored to receive the 2021 Female Leadership Award by Thrive Ag Food Accelerator by SVG Ventures at the Forbes Thrive Future of Food summit.

During Demo Day, twelve global startups handpicked from an applicant pool of almost 700 companies across 78 countries pitched in front of a record-setting crowd of 2,500 top agriculture food and technology corporations, entrepreneurs, universities, and investors for startup funding. Keep Reading

Dr. Kaplan, CEO of Pheronym, is honored to be a panelist at the FourthWave, an accelerator for high potential, women-led technology businesses.

Join us on Tue, June 22, 2021, at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT.  Register

This event will feature a panel of female founders and will be moderated by Cheryl Beninga, cofounder of FourthWave. The focus of the discussion will be on raising pre-seed and seed funding. Seed funding relies heavily on relationship building and appealing to the goals of angel investors. Join us for an engaging discussion that will educate and enlighten all.

Panelists:

• Anna Straus – CEO, Sparck
• Fatma Kaplan – CEO, Pheronym
• Kate Duggento Cordell, PhD, MPH – CEO, Opeeka

 

And other things I learned from a panel of large California growers.

Another amazing THRIVE AG accelerator meeting: We met four large growers and listened to their unmet needs, how they find new technologies, and what not to say. Keep Reading

Fellows will embed for two years at Berkeley Lab developing new commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing scientific challenges

Pheronym’s founders, Dr. Fatma Kaplan and Mr. Karl Cameron Schiller, are honored to be Cyclotron Road fellows.

This month a dozen scientists and engineers will join the prestigious two-year fellowship program at Cyclotron Road based at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley.

Selected from a record pool of 300 applicants, these 12 individuals will make up Cohort 2021 of Cyclotron Road. As part of their two-year fellowship they will work to bring to market innovative, research-driven products to improve the sustainability and scalability of modern energy systems. The projects, listed below, include development of low-cost energy storage, nontoxic agricultural pest management and next-generation plastics designed for longevity and infinite recyclability.  Keep Reading

By Emily Hamann, Sacramento Business Journal

Yolo County ag-tech startup Pheronym has been selected for a Berkeley fellowship program aimed at helping scientists turn research into products ready for the market.

Pheronym co-founders Karl Cameron Schiller and Fatma Kaplan have been selected for the Activate Fellowship program hosted out of the Cyclotron Road division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Keep reading.

Dr. Kaplan and Mr. Schiller are honored to be part of the Activate-Berkeley cohort 2021. This proven path for science entrepreneurs to move their breakthrough research into the market.

The two-year Activate Fellowship is a proven path for science entrepreneurs to move their breakthrough research into the market. It provides fellows the time, resources, and guidance to develop as leaders and mature their ideas. Unlike startup accelerators, the fellowship takes no equity stake in fellows’ companies. Keep reading

As the daughter of specialty crop farmers in Turkey, Dr. Kaplan had planned for a career as an academic and scientist in horticulture. As Kaplan writes in a Science magazine column, “For years, I had been committed to pursuing the traditional academic path because I wanted to run an independent research program and teach. I thought a tenure-track faculty position was the one job that offered both.”

Controlling insect pests with pheromones was already being done on farms, but controlling nematodes with pheromones was new territory. Keep reading