September 2024 - Embrio-list

EMBRIO Seminar Today 3pm ET
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Dear EMBRIO Members, Join us at 3pm ET this afternoon for our seminar with guest speaker Donny Hanjaya-Putra<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineeri…>, Ph.D., Designing Biomaterials for Stem Cell Morphogenesis (Abstract with bio attached). Dr. Hanjaya-Putra is a co-author on this recent Npj Systems Biology and Applications paper with collaborating EMBRIO labs: Shaikh, R., Larson, N. J., Kam, J., Hanjaya-Putra, D., Zartman, J., Umulis, D. M., Li, L., & Reeves, G. T. (2024). Optimal performance objectives in the highly conserved bone morphogenetic protein signaling pathway. Npj Systems Biology and Applications, 10(1), 103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-024-00430-9<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…> Cheers, Brent Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research, Ste. 203 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 laddb(a)purdue.edu

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Seminar next Monday - Donny Hanjaya-Putra and new npj Systems Biology paper
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear EMBRIO Members, Tune in next Monday afternoon at 3pm ET on Zoom as we host a seminar by Dr. Donny Hanjaya-Putra from Notre Dame. The Hanjaya-Putra lab<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdhplab.nd…> focuses on stem cell morphogensis and molecular therapeutics and is a collaborator with EMBRIO affiliated labs included Zartman, Umulis, and Reeves. Check out their new paper over on npj Systems Biology and Applications: Shaikh, R., Larson, N. J., Kam, J., Hanjaya-Putra, D., Zartman, J., Umulis, D. M., Li, L., & Reeves, G. T. (2024). Optimal performance objectives in the highly conserved bone morphogenetic protein signaling pathway. Npj Systems Biology and Applications, 10(1), 103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-024-00430-9<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…> BTW, EMBRIO has a LinkedIn page<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> where we are beginning to post Institute related news (perhaps in favor over X/Twitter). Eventually, we want to have integrated knowledge and skills competency badges through LinkedIn. There is a Chicago Cytoskeleton Society Fall meeting this Friday (details from Holly Goodson below). An FYI that I'll be out of office this week after today, back next Monday morning. Thanks, Brent >From Holly Goodson, holly.v.goodson.1(a)nd.edu : There are some changes to Chicago Cytoskeleton this year: there will be one Fall meeting Friday Sept. 20 (three weeks from today!), and one Spring meeting Friday April 25. However, the rest will be similar to what you are used to! Come join us at these two meetings for both the science and the social hour! One additional difference is that these meetings will be slightly longer: the September meeting will have 7 speakers, and the April meeting will include the yearly poster session, along with the flash talk winners and keynote speaker. Here is the lineup for Sept. 20: Two flash talk winners: • Madeline Lovejoy (Garcia-Mata lab, U. Toledo) "SGEF, a RhoG-specific GEF, influences the morphology and collective migration of 3D epithelial cysts" • Amruta Nayak (Glotzer lab, U. Chicago) "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Requirement of Rap1 Activity in Early Embryonic Morphogenesis Four faculty: • Jenna Christensen (Northwestern) "Using comparative genomics to explore dynein motor complex function" • Sally Horne-Badovinac (U. Chicago) "Symmetry-breaking and initiation of rotational epithelial migration" • Benjamin Perrin (Indiana University Indianapolis) "Formin-dependent adhesion complexes at the base regulate actin assembly at stereocilia tips" • Margaret Titus (U. Minnesota) "Modulation of Filopodial Myosin Activity" And one additional guest speaker! • Silvia Jansen (Washington University St. Louis) For more information, please see below. We hope to see you Sept. 20! -Holly and the CC Steering Committee ******** CC Meeting Place and time: This meeting will be held at Northwestern University, 303 E. Superior, Feinberg School of Medicine from 3:00 - ~7:30. Registration: There is no registration fee - just join us! Parking: The parking link for September 20 is: https://forms.feinberg.northwestern.edu/view.php?id=3273903<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.fei…>. Please submit you request by Friday, September 13. Also, some of you have asked about nearby hotels. Here are some recommended by people at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine: Close to NU Chicago: Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile, 633 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-centric/en-US/chimm-hyatt-centric-chicago-mag-m…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyatt…> The Ivy Hotel 233 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.ivyhotelchicago.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ivyho…> Hotel EMC2 228 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.hotelemc2.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotel…> Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research, Ste. 203 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 laddb(a)purdue.edu

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End of Week Announcements
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Dear EMBRIOphytes, Thanks for all who tuned in for the "State of the Institute" presentation this past Monday. The slides and the recording from Monday's meeting are on our Box account folder under All-Hands Meeting Recordings > 2024: https://app.box.com/s/tkw3atrc5rrhrbb60a6ylp9blfk4magr<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.c…> Upcoming Seminars this Semester: Month Day Speaker Speaker Website Sept 23 Donny Hanjaya Putra https://dhplab.nd.edu/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdhplab.nd…> Oct 14 Holly Goodson https://chemistry.nd.edu/people/holly-goodson/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchemistry…> Oct 28 Mark Alber https://icqmb.ucr.edu/mark-alber<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ficqmb.ucr…> Nov 11 Alexander Dowling https://dowlinglab.nd.edu/research/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdowlingla…> Nov 25 TBD Dec 9 TBD **Check out our story about EMBRIO members Bakary Samasa, Sharon Minsuk, and Weiwei Zhang on their collaborative research and top scientific figures, simulations, and live cell videos! https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/news-sci-fig-2024.php A few reminders: September 30 – October 1, 2024. Chicago Bioengineering Conference (https://www.czbiohub.org/events/chicago-bioengineering-conference-2024/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.czbio…> ) Sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago. Plan to attend for great sessions on bioelectronics, synthetic and systems biology, proteomics, single cell analysis and other topics. October 7-8 Purdue Fall Break October 23-26, 2024. BMES 2024 Annual Meeting: https://www.bmes.org/bmes2024<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmes.…> October 29-30, 2024. International Lowe Syndrome Symposium, Purdue University: https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lowe-syndrome/index.html November 7, 2024. NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.nsf.g…> – Deadline November 7, 2024. Supports postdoctoral research fellowships in biology, allowing early-career scientists to pursue independent research and training in three areas: promoting the inclusion of underrepresented groups and advancing integrative and plant genome research. Open Positions Baylor University seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in computational biology Specifically, we are seeking the following: * Assistant professor, tenure track in the field of Computational Biology, Bioinformatics or Biosystems Modeling http://apply.interfolio.com/151396<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapply.inte…> Our department is rapidly growing, and Baylor University is committed to supporting top tier research, has excellent research centers and support, and has a long-term aggressive growth plan for research. Aaron T. Wright, PhD James R. Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences Professor Departments of Biology and Chemistry & Biochemistry (254) 710-2108 Wright Lab Website<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.bay…> Wright Lab on X (Twitter<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…>) Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research, Ste. 203 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 laddb(a)purdue.edu

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Reminder: 3PM today All-Hands Seminar 'State of the Institute'
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Dear EMBRIO Members, A reminder to join us this afternoon for our all-hands meeting at 3pm ET for a ‘State of the Institute’ presentation by Institute leadership with open discussion, including planning stages and input for “EMBRIO 2.0” regarding a full BII proposal to be submitted to NSF in February. Calendar invites with zoom links for the semester seminar series were sent out in early August. If you don't have it, you can use this one for today: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/97422390484?pwd=Nu9K7JCFYjeWhVWVA9YetLFyYqxm4V…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue-ed…> Cheers, Brent Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research, Ste. 203 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 laddb(a)purdue.edu

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EMBRIO Announcements
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Dear EMBRIOphytes, We’re getting the band back together next Monday, September 9th 3pm to kick off the fall semester seminar series (Zoom links and calendar invites were emailed to all members last month). The first-in-the-semester meeting is slated for a ‘State of the Institute’ presentation by Institute leadership with open discussion, including initial plans for “EMBRIO 2.0” regarding a full BII proposal to be submitted to NSF in February. We are anticipating guest speakers this semester on the following dates. Seminar titles and abstracts will be shared ahead of each talk. Month Day Speaker Speaker Website Sept 9 State of the Institute Leadership Team Presents Sept 23 Donny Hanjaya Putra https://dhplab.nd.edu/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdhplab.nd…> Oct 14 Holly Goodson https://chemistry.nd.edu/people/holly-goodson/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchemistry…> Oct 28 Mark Alber https://icqmb.ucr.edu/mark-alber<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ficqmb.ucr…> Nov 11 Alexander Dowling https://dowlinglab.nd.edu/research/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdowlingla…> Nov 25 TBD Dec 9 TBD If you missed the Emergence newsletter last week<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/files/newsletters/embrio-news-update…>, there were several announcements and opportunities to check out. One new announcement for “The one and only Chicago Cytoskeleton meeting this fall: Sept. 20!” Hi Everyone, There are some changes to Chicago Cytoskeleton this year: there will be one Fall meeting Friday Sept. 20 (three weeks from today!), and one Spring meeting Friday April 25. However, the rest will be similar to what you are used to! Come join us at these two meetings for both the science and the social hour! One additional difference is that these meetings will be slightly longer: the September meeting will have 7 speakers, and the April meeting will include the yearly poster session, along with the flash talk winners and keynote speaker. Dr. Holly Goodson, University of Notre Dame Contact: holly.v.goodson.1(a)nd.edu<mailto:holly.v.goodson.1@nd.edu> Here is the lineup for Sept. 20: Two flash talk winners: • Madeline Lovejoy (Garcia-Mata lab, U. Toledo) "SGEF, a RhoG-specific GEF, influences the morphology and collective migration of 3D epithelial cysts" • Amruta Nayak (Glotzer lab, U. Chicago) "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Requirement of Rap1 Activity in Early Embryonic Morphogenesis Four faculty: • Jenna Christensen (Northwestern) "Using comparative genomics to explore dynein motor complex function" • Sally Horne-Badovinac (U. Chicago) "Symmetry-breaking and initiation of rotational epithelial migration" • Benjamin Perrin (Indiana University Indianapolis) "Formin-dependent adhesion complexes at the base regulate actin assembly at stereocilia tips" • Margaret Titus (U. Minnesota) "Modulation of Filopodial Myosin Activity" And one additional guest speaker! • Silvia Jansen (Washington University St. Louis) For more information, please see below. We hope to see you Sept. 20! -Holly and the CC Steering Committee ******** CC Meeting Place and time: This meeting will be held at Northwestern University, 303 E. Superior, Feinberg School of Medicine from 3:00 - ~7:30. Registration: There is no registration fee - just join us! Parking: The parking link for September 20 is: https://forms.feinberg.northwestern.edu/view.php?id=3273903<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.fei…>. Please submit you request by Friday, September 13. Also, some of you have asked about nearby hotels. Here are some recommended by people at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine: Close to NU Chicago: Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile, 633 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-centric/en-US/chimm-hyatt-centric-chicago-mag-m…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyatt…> The Ivy Hotel 233 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.ivyhotelchicago.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ivyho…> Hotel EMC2 228 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611 https://www.hotelemc2.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotel…> Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research, Ste. 203 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 laddb(a)purdue.edu

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