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EMBRIO mandatory virtual Interviews with Soumi - please schedule yours asap
by Brent Thomas Ladd 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

Dear EMBRIO Community, If you have not yet done so, please sign up for a follow-up virtual interview with Soumi Mukherjee to help capture your experience with collaborating and integrating in the EMBRIO research community. See the link and details from Soumi below to select a 75 min time slot that works with your schedule. scheduling link: https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> Thank you! 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 Will it be possible for you to schedule to forward this email every week from your end? Its just better when they get this separately for recruitment. It would be of great help. Also, I modified somethings in the email and there is a new link for signing up now https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> Please see the message below regarding participation in a one-on-one interview to capture your experience in the Institute. This is a crucial part of our mandatory evaluation process in reporting to NSF. link to sign up is at the bottom of the message. “My name is Soumi Mukherjee, a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Along with my advisor, Dr. Stephanie Gardner, and lab mate, Emily Georgopoulos, I have been leading an institute-wide evaluation study as part of the EMBRIO Thrust 4 initiative. Our initial round of interviews and surveys has been instrumental in capturing your experiences as a member of EMBRIO. This work has informed formative evaluation reports submitted to the NSF and contributed to shaping the institute's competency framework. We are now entering the final phase of our evaluation study and would greatly value your participation in a follow-up interview. This round aims to capture how your collaborations have evolved over time and how these experiences have supported EMBRIO’s interdisciplinary and integrative mission. Your insights will also help us refine the institutional evaluation survey and better understand how EMBRIO’s structural changes have influenced both individual research trajectories and broader institute goals. The findings from this phase will be critical in guiding the evaluation design of EMBRIO 2.0 and ensuring our evaluation efforts continue to support a collaborative and innovative research environment. We truly appreciate your time and contribution to this important work. If you are a member of the EMBRIO institute currently doing a research project, we would like to invite you for participating in this study. Participation in the evaluation process is MANDATORY for all the members of the institute. As a part of the evaluation process, you will take part in an online session (via Zoom), which includes an interview and a brief survey, and the entire process should be completed in an hour. Interviews session would not exceed an hour and would be completed in a day. Everything will be similar to the interviews we did last time. Please fill in all the times on the table you may be available for our interviews using the link below with either your name or email address. Make sure your time merges with Soumi’s availability). Fill this for 1 hour and 15 mins. We may not require the entire duration for the interview, but this would ensure us to have the maximum possible time so that you do not feel rushed. https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> This information is requested so that we may contact you to set up an online session, but we will use a randomly generated 4-digit code in place of your name to identify all your information for the data collection and analysis. Your participation will not affect any aspect of your association with the EMBRIO institute. If you have any doubts regarding the evaluation process, please reach out to me at mukher42(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mukher42@purdue.edu>.” With Regards, Soumi Mukherjee PhD Candidate | Gardner Research Group Dept of Biology

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Emergence Newsletter Issue 42: June 23, 2025
by Brent Thomas Ladd 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

[cid:df688f5a-0ed9-4e6e-a2e0-bd66c028916e] Dear EMBRIO Members: It was great to see the membership come together during our EMBRIO Summer School and Annual Meeting hosted at Purdue University, June 9-13. Altogether for the week, we had over fifty members representing Purdue, Notre Dame, Indiana, Penn, UPRM, and Texas A&M, as well as a number of first-time attendees and new members. Highlights of the summer school include a series of tutorials on using AI in Research from Purdue Rosen Center for Advanced Computing scientists, Purdue faculty librarians, and from Lucas Wiese, Ph.D. Candidate in the Magana Lab at Purdue, a hands-on tutorial from Scott Bolton on data management for EMBRIO member labs, and introductory mini workshops from Pedro dal Castro on CompuCell3D, and from Sharon Minsuk on Tissue Forge. You can access slides from the sessions on our Box account under Summer Workshops and Annual Retreats > Summer School 2025<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.c…>. Highlights of the Annual Retreat include journal club presentations highlighting their manuscript submissions for peer-review publication: * Ca++ Signaling and Actin Club Pre-Print: * Li, L.; Gazzo, D.; Saad, S.; Larson, N.; Kim, E.; Kumar, N.; Mim, M.; Krishnan, M.; Speybroeck, B.; Ding, C.; Mullins, M.; Pascuzzi, A.; Deng, Q.; Pienaar, E.; Evans, J.; Umulis, D.; Zartman, J. 2025. Rules of Life at the Interface of Calcium Signaling and Mechanobiology. Preprints 2025, 2025060387. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202506.0387.v1<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…>. Submitted to APL Bioengineering (June 2025) * Ca++ Imaging and Analysis Club Pre-Print: * Suarez-Gomez, D., N.C. Perez-Rosas, G.I. Miranda-Contreras, S.R. Colom-Braña, W. ZhangP, M.S. Mim, S. Tan, D. Gazzo, A. Buganza Tepole, Q. Deng, G. Reeves, C.E. Isaza-Brando, C.J. Staiger, D. Umulis, J. Zartman, M. Cabrera-Ríos*. 2025. CalciumInsights: An open-source, tissue-agnostic graphical interface for high-quality analysis of calcium signals. June 9, 2025, biorxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.04.657923<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…> Submitted to Nature Methods (June 2025) A panel discussion (that probably broke records) with thirteen members representing graduate students, postdocs, staff research scientists, thrust co-leads, and affiliate faculty and student members: "Toward Integration in the Interdisciplinary Research Framework of EMBRIO Institute: An Open Discussion on Cross-Systems Communications and Collaborations.” Thank you to Steph Gardner and Elsje Pienaar for moderating the panel, and to each of the panelists: * Chrissy Boody, Ph.D. Student (Purdue, T1B, Evans Lab) * Agnes Doszpoly, Ph.D. Candidate (Purdue, T1A, Kinzer Ursem Lab) * David Gazzo, Ph.D. Candidate (Notre Dame, T2B, Zartman Lab) * Nilay Kumar, Sr. Research Scientist (Purdue, Core, T2, T3, Cross-Systems Coordination Team, Pienaar Lab and Buganza-Tepole Lab) * Linlin Li, Sr. Research Scientist (Purdue, Core, T2,T3, Cross-Systems Coordination Team, Umulis Lab) * Allison McCarthy (Purdue, T1B, Evans Lab) * Sharon Minsuk, Research Fellow (IU, Core, T3A, Glazier Lab) * Greg Reeves, Associate Professor (Core – affiliate, TAMU) * Bakary Samasa, Ph.D. Candidate (UPenn, T3A, Mullins Lab) * Razeen Shaikh, Ph.D. Candidate (TAMU, Core - affiliate, Reeves Lab) * Chris Staiger, Distinguished Professor (T2A Co-Lead, Purdue) * Aby Udosen, Ph.D. Candidate (Purdue, T4, Magana Lab) * Weiwei Zhang, Sr. Research Scientist (Purdue, T2A, Cross-Systems Coordination Team, Staiger Lab Steph Gardner led us in an excellent professional development session to up our game with thinking clearly about crafting and delivering an effective elevator pitch that best represents our skills, experiences, and ideas to potential collaborators, employers, investors, clients, etc. We all gained more insight and knowledge from presentations and discussion from each Thrust level project throughout Thursday and Friday, along with two poster sessions. Thanks to all who presented and helped prepare presentations and posters. Our day and a half retreat helped to represent the impactful research that is now available to the public and the broader scientific community in more than 25 pre-print manuscripts, as well as over 32 peer-reviewed journal publications as a result of research and collaborations in EMBRIO! Congrats to all for your excellent scientific research and continued collaborations that advance the mission of the Institute. You can quickly view the list and get the direct links to these manuscripts and publications and more at the Institute’s Google Scholar page<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…>. A more comprehensive list of products is available on our research page<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/scholarly-products.php>. Presentations at the retreat concluded with a show and tell of the new Multiscale Modeling E-Book<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fembrio-mo…> from Hayden Fennell that we can all benefit from in the Institute and beyond. Thrust 4 Interview Scheduling for Institute Evaluations, Community of Practice, and Interdisciplinary Research A reminder that Thrust 4 researchers are capturing, analyzing, and synthesizing findings of our integrative activities, please take a moment to schedule your interview with Soumi Mukherjee (see previous emails for details. Reminders will continue to be shared out): Just a quick note from Soumi – there is a wide range of available dates throughout the summer semester, from June through the first two weeks of August (before the fall semester begins. There is plenty of flexibility in scheduling the online interviews, so if you're not available right away, feel free to pick a time in the later weeks. Thank you for taking the time to schedule! Here is the link : https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> Congratulations to EMBRIO 2025 Best Paper Awardees!! * BEST PAPER 2025 to CO-FIRST AUTHORS: MAYESHA MIM and NILAY KUMAR for their Cell Reports paper: * Mim M.S., Kumar, N., Levis,M.., Unger, M.F., Miranda,G., Gazzo, D., Robinett,T., and Zartman, J.J. (2024) Piezo regulates epithelial topology and promotes precision in organ size control, Cell Reports, 43, Issue 7,114398, ISSN 2211-1247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114398<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…> * Runner Up: RAZEEN SHAIKH for her npj Systems Biology and Applications paper with multiple EMBRIO labs: * Shaikh, R., Larson, N. J., Kam, J., Hanjaya-Putra, D., Zartman, J.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…> Best Scientific Figure and Video Award Submission A call for Best Scientific Figure and Video Award Submission – these have been extended, with the deadline of August 1st. Extended Deadline for 2025 Best Scientific Figure or Live Video Awards https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9X3KHxUUz0bg6Pk<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue.ca…> EMBRIO Annual Report Accepted by NSF Our Fourth Annual Report to the National Science Foundation was accepted by our program officer. You can access both the Executive Summary and the Full Report via our shared Box account: Annual Reporting > BII NSF Annual Report 2025 (Year 4)<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.c…> Opportunities and Workshops for EMBRIO Members 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon Our partners at I.U. in the Glazier Lab and Biocomplexity Institute have announced the 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon at Indiana University, Bloomington, July 28th to August 10th, 2025. Learn to model your biological system of interest with one-on-one help. Week 1 will cover CC3D basics. Week 2 will cover advanced topics in CC3D, followed by a 2-day model-building hackathon. Physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and modelers team up to build research-grade models of biological systems. All experience levels are welcome. For more information, email compucell3d.iu(a)gmail.com<mailto:compucell3d.iu@gmail.com> or visit www.compucell3d.org/Workshop25<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.compuc…>. Register at: www.tinyurl.com/CC3D2025<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tinyur…>. 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: Schedule your 75min Institute interview with Soumi
by Brent Thomas Ladd 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Dear EMBRIO Community, If you have not yet done so, please sign up for a follow-up virtual interview with Soumi Mukherjee to help capture your experience with collaborating and integrating in the EMBRIO research community. There are available times now through most of August. See the link and details from Soumi below. Thank you, Brent ================== Schedule link for signing up now https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> Please see the message below regarding participation in a one-on-one interview to capture your experience in the Institute. This is a crucial part of our mandatory evaluation process in reporting to NSF. link to sign up is at the bottom of the message. “My name is Soumi Mukherjee, a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Along with my advisor, Dr. Stephanie Gardner, and lab mate, Emily Georgopoulos, I have been leading an institute-wide evaluation study as part of the EMBRIO Thrust 4 initiative. Our initial round of interviews and surveys has been instrumental in capturing your experiences as a member of EMBRIO. This work has informed formative evaluation reports submitted to the NSF and contributed to shaping the institute's competency framework. We are now entering the final phase of our evaluation study and would greatly value your participation in a follow-up interview. This round aims to capture how your collaborations have evolved over time and how these experiences have supported EMBRIO’s interdisciplinary and integrative mission. Your insights will also help us refine the institutional evaluation survey and better understand how EMBRIO’s structural changes have influenced both individual research trajectories and broader institute goals. The findings from this phase will be critical in guiding the evaluation design of EMBRIO 2.0 and ensuring our evaluation efforts continue to support a collaborative and innovative research environment. We truly appreciate your time and contribution to this important work. If you are a member of the EMBRIO institute currently doing a research project, we would like to invite you for participating in this study. Participation in the evaluation process is MANDATORY for all the members of the institute. As a part of the evaluation process, you will take part in an online session (via Zoom), which includes an interview and a brief survey, and the entire process should be completed in an hour. Interviews session would not exceed an hour and would be completed in a day. Everything will be similar to the interviews we did last time. Please fill in all the times on the table you may be available for our interviews using the link below with either your name or email address. Make sure your time merges with Soumi’s availability). Fill this for 1 hour and 15 mins. We may not require the entire duration for the interview, but this would ensure us to have the maximum possible time so that you do not feel rushed. https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> This information is requested so that we may contact you to set up an online session, but we will use a randomly generated 4-digit code in place of your name to identify all your information for the data collection and analysis. Your participation will not affect any aspect of your association with the EMBRIO institute. If you have any doubts regarding the evaluation process, please reach out to me at mukher42(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mukher42@purdue.edu>.” With Regards, Soumi Mukherjee PhD Candidate | Gardner Research Group Dept of Biology 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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New E-book version 0.9999
by Brent Thomas Ladd 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Take a look: https://embrio-modeling-course.readthedocs.io/en/latest/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fembrio-mo…> 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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Lighting Talks start at 8:30 in MJIS
by Brent Thomas Ladd 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Attention EMBRIO Members giving lightning talks for Poster Session II - those start at 8:30 this morning in MJIS 1097, followed by the poster session. We'll have Thrust 3 and Thrust 4 presentations this morning following the poster session. See details at the retreat webpage below. Light breakfast items and coffee, water available at 8am. https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/annual-retreat.php All-Hands Annual Retreat - Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness Integration and Organization Institute - Purdue University<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/annual-retreat.php> All-Hands Annual Retreat. Dates: July 11-12, 2024. Location: MJIS 1097, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette 2024 Agenda (PDF, updated July 9th). Poster Sessions Listing with Abstracts (PDF). Poster Lightning Talks Order (PDF). Wifi for non-Purdue members: Under available networks, choose “attwifi” No password required. ... www.purdue.edu 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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All-Hands Annual Retreat starts this morning at 8:30 in MJIS 1097
by Brent Thomas Ladd 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Dear EMBRIO Members, We kick-off our 4th All-Hands Annual Retreat this morning with Welcome and Opening Remarks at 8:30 in MJIS 1097, followed by exciting updates from Journal Clubs on Ca++ signaling and imaging (registration, light breakfast items, coffee, tea, water available at 8am: please note that the building deputy states that food and drink are no longer allowed in the main room). * Full agenda, maps, and poster details available on the Annual Retreat Website<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/annual-retreat.php> * We did not print agendas again this year. A large poster size agenda is available just outside of MJIS 1097. * For those with posters: you are assigned to a specific numbered poster board and will present your lightning talk and poster during one of two post sessions, either today or tomorrow. Check in at the retreat website above to check on your poster session and board number, and lightning talk and/or check in with Jen this morning at the registration desk (note that we can't switch out lightning talk slides at this point). * * This morning's schedule includes: * 8:30 Opening Remarks (David Umulis and Jeremy Zartman) * 8:45 Journal Clubs (David Gazzo, Linlin Li, Deiver Suarez Gomez) * 9:25 Connection Activity (Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi) * 9:50 Panel & Discussion (Session Chairs: Stephanie Gardner and Elsje Pienaar) "Toward Integration in the Interdisciplinary Research Framework of EMBRIO Institute: An Open Discussion on Cross-Systems Communications and Collaborations." * 11:10 Professional Development Session w/ Steph Gardner "What is your 'hook'? Integrating EMBRIO into your elevator pitch" * If you have an EMBRIO shirt from previous years - wear it/bring it today - we'll have a group photo right before lunch. New members, or those attending for the first time - you have first dibs on the limited number of t-shirts available at the registration desk - see Jen. See you soon! 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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Prep Instructions for Summer School and Annual Retreat + T4 Eval Interviews + Opportunity for 2-wk CC3D training
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Dear EMBRIOphytes, Our fourth annual Summer School kicks off next Monday, continuing through Wednesday, followed by our All-Hands Annual Retreat next Thursday and Friday (reminders and event websites below). For those planning to present a poster and/or submit an entry for the scientific figure or live video award - I need that info submitted by EOB Tuesday, June 3rd (tomorrow). There will be a few updates/additions to the events schedules this week, and those will be posted via the website. If you haven't yet done so, please schedule your one-hour and 15 min. time slot with Soumi Mukherjee for your follow up interview to capture your experience in the Institute - separate email sent this afternoon with the details - as part of our Thrust 4 initiatives: https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> EMBRIO Summer Events Items: The 2025 Summer School Schedule<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/workforce-development/EMBRIO-summer-…> At the website, or in the email that Scott Bolton sent you this afternoon, Please see the additional information for preparing data now for what to bring for the Data Management session on Tuesday, June 10th. As part of the training we will have on June 10th, you will need to bring samples of your lab’s microscopy image data and publication data. You will learn how to upload and manage your images and metadata information during the session. All-Hands Annual Retreat 2025 Schedule<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/research/annual-retreat.php> Thrust Leaders: see the agenda at the above link for thrust project presentation schedule, and 2025 presentation theme pptx template download. Thrust leaders are asked to present significant new updates and integrative outcomes on their projects and discuss goals/plans for our Y5 and for the following five years if we are funded, while spending some time to discuss ideas to continue collaborations without NSF funding. For attendees at our upcoming Summer School (June 9-11), and Annual Retreat (June 12-13), there are items require your attention: Required by June 1st: extended to EOB Tuesday, June 3rd Research Posters at Annual Retreat: For those who will present a research poster - upload your abstract with full citation, along with a 1-slide PowerPoint to use for your 1-min lightning talk to introduce your poster prior to the session: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6YxLsL2atyabFvo<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue.ca…> Entries for 2025 Best Scientific Figure or Live Video Awards https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9X3KHxUUz0bg6Pk<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue.ca…> ) For those traveling to Purdue from our Partners, Jennifer Goad has been in touch with you regarding logistics with hotel, parking, etc. If you may have missed her email, you can reach Jen via email: goad3(a)purdue.edu<mailto:goad3@purdue.edu> EMBRIO Competencies Pilot: For those interested in working with the Gardner lab on implementing the Institute competencies for their use case, please contact Stephanie Gardner: sgardne(a)purdue.edu<mailto:sgardne@purdue.edu> EMBRIO Trainees: 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon Our partners at I.U. in the Glazier Lab and Biocomplexity Institute have announced the 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon at Indiana University, Bloomington, July 28th to August 10th, 2025. Learn to model your biological system of interest with one-on-one help. Week 1 will cover CC3D basics. Week 2 will cover advanced topics in CC3D, followed by a 2-day model-building hackathon. Physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and modelers team up to build research-grade models of biological systems. All experience levels are welcome. For more information, email compucell3d.iu(a)gmail.com<mailto:compucell3d.iu@gmail.com> or visit www.compucell3d.org/Workshop25<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.compuc…>. Register at: www.tinyurl.com/CC3D2025<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tinyur…>. 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 follow up interviews for Institute evaluation and Thrust 4 research
by Ladd, Brent Thomas 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Dear All EMBRIO Members: A reminder if you haven't yet done so, please see the message below from Soumi Mukherjee ( mukher42(a)purdue.edu ) regarding participation in a one-on-one interview to capture your experience in the Institute. This is a crucial part of our mandatory evaluation process in reporting to NSF. link to sign up is at the bottom of the message. Select a 1 hr and 15 min slot. Thank you, Brent “My name is Soumi Mukherjee, a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Along with my advisor, Dr. Stephanie Gardner, and lab mate, Emily Georgopoulos, I have been leading an institute-wide evaluation study as part of the EMBRIO Thrust 4 initiative. Our initial round of interviews and surveys has been instrumental in capturing your experiences as a member of EMBRIO. This work has informed formative evaluation reports submitted to the NSF and contributed to shaping the institute's competency framework. We are now entering the final phase of our evaluation study and would greatly value your participation in a follow-up interview. This round aims to capture how your collaborations have evolved over time and how these experiences have supported EMBRIO’s interdisciplinary and integrative mission. Your insights will also help us refine the institutional evaluation survey and better understand how EMBRIO’s structural changes have influenced both individual research trajectories and broader institute goals. The findings from this phase will be critical in guiding the evaluation design of EMBRIO 2.0 and ensuring our evaluation efforts continue to support a collaborative and innovative research environment. We truly appreciate your time and contribution to this important work. If you are a member of the EMBRIO institute currently doing a research project, we would like to invite you for participating in this study. Participation in the evaluation process is MANDATORY for all the members of the institute. As a part of the evaluation process, you will take part in an online session (via Zoom), which includes an interview and a brief survey, and the entire process should be completed in an hour. Interviews session would not exceed an hour and would be completed in a day. Everything will be similar to the interviews we did last time. Please fill in all the times on the table you may be available for our interviews using the link below with either your name or email address. Make sure your time merges with Soumi’s availability). Fill this for 1 hour and 15 mins. We may not require the entire duration for the interview, but this would ensure us to have the maximum possible time so that you do not feel rushed. https://www.when2meet.com/?30848105-sqcQL<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.when2…> This information is requested so that we may contact you to set up an online session, but we will use a randomly generated 4-digit code in place of your name to identify all your information for the data collection and analysis. Your participation will not affect any aspect of your association with the EMBRIO institute. If you have any doubts regarding the evaluation process, please reach out to me at mukher42(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mukher42@purdue.edu>.” With Regards, Soumi Mukherjee PhD Candidate | Gardner Research Group Dept of Biology 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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