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Today 3PM Mullins and Deng Labs Present Research Updates + Reminders
by Brent Thomas Ladd 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

[cid:0a326fce-02e1-4a05-9606-e4397fb53188] Dear EMBRIO Community, Join us this afternoon at 3PM EDT for the latest on Thrust 3 lab research with the Mullins and Deng Labs: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/92296822713?pwd=m8tGuX9zXUL2MnYguV8KlCa9w0Tj4j…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue-ed…> All-Hands Thrust Research Updates Spring schedule below. Reminders: 🆕 ❇️ EMBRIO Annual Retreat 2026 Summer School & Joint Symposium - June 23 - 26, University of Notre Dame. Stay tuned for release of registration and program details. A joint EMBRIO BII NSF - Notre Dame (RECODE NSF) symposium "Advancing Morphogenetic Biosciences and Bioengineering” is slated for June 25th, preceded by a multi-day training June 23-24th (further details coming). The Symposium will feature EMBRIO speakers, along with additional speakers from Notre Dame, invited Key Notes, and research poster session. Friday June 26th is set aside for focused retreat activity for EMBRIO members. Hosted at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, EMBRIO will organize and help provide transportation and lodging for Purdue members to attend, as well as reimburse travel for EMBRIO trainees from our partner institutions to participate. ⭐ Catalyzing Small Teams for Grant Proposal Development: Thanks to all who shared topic ideas and interest in leading discussions and new proposals. Results to date are available on new tabs of the EMBRIO Investigators Proposals Google spreadsheet<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…>. You can add your details to any of the spreadsheets via the tabs at the bottom of the main sheet [or contact Brent: (laddb(a)purdue.edu<mailto:laddb@purdue.edu> )]. ⭐ EMBRIO Data Management - See EMBRIO Supported Publications w/ links to Code and Images<https://purr.lib.purdue.edu/data-inventory/embrio?size=50> Data management training materials<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/resources/data-management-training.p…> developed by Scott Bolton for uploading PURR pages, OMERO image data, and raw data to Data Depot are available on the Institute website. You can also contact Beatriz Borrelly ( bborrell(a)purdue.edu<mailto:bborrell@purdue.edu> ) for assistance with data management. Beatriz is working with EMBRIO labs that have recent publications to aid in the preparation and upload of published data. 👀 Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting Friday May 1st, 2026 Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> Spring Meeting will be Friday, May 1st, 2026. Trainees have an opportunity to present a lightning talk, along with a poster session. ________________________________ Updated Spring 2026 Schedule: EMBRIO All-Hands Thrust Research Updates Thank you, Research Thrust Leaders, for your available dates to present EMBRIO research updates this semester. Based on your availability, I've set the schedule as below. As a reminder, we are alternating bi-weekly meetings between 1) thrust level research updates and 2) focused working proposal teams discussion/writing groups. Two thrust level updates are scheduled at each research update meeting, and will need to limit each thrust project to ~25 minutes total (incl. Q/A/Disc). Please focus on the most integrative outcomes to date, key findings/challenges/next steps. Trainees and Research Staff are welcome and encouraged to present/co-present.  Jan 26 Feb 23 Mar 23 Apr 20 May 18 June TBD Ondrej Maxian, Notre Dame Alexandria Volkening, Purdue Mullins Lab Deng Lab Zartman Lab Magana Lab Gardner Lab Kinzer-Ursem + Evans Labs Staiger Lab Iyer-Pascuzzi Lab 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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Working proposal teams session topic leaders + reminders
by Brent Thomas Ladd 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

[cid:b7c8c49f-b4a4-42dd-bda0-917620b38e31] Dear EMBRIOnic People, 👀 Anyone interested in leading a topic for discussion at today's Working Proposal Teams Session - March 9th, 3pm EDT, please contact me by 1pm. If there are no topic leaders for this session, we will cancel the session. Several teams have recently formed around specific funding opportunities and are moving forward convening discussions outside of the working teams session. Best wishes to all who've submitted proposals so far. I'm in the process of updating data on our global proposal master spreadsheet<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…>. ⭐ EMBRIO Data Management - See EMBRIO supported publications w/ links to Code and Images<https://purr.lib.purdue.edu/data-inventory/embrio?size=50> (is your EMBRIO supported publication missing? contact Beatriz Borrelly<mailto:%20bborrell@purdue.edu>). Our next Research Updates will be March 23rd at 3pm EDT featuring Thrust 3 labs Mullins and Deng. Reminders below. 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 Reminders: 🆕 ❇️ EMBRIO Annual Retreat 2026 Summer School & Joint Symposium - June 23 - 26, University of Notre Dame. Stay tuned for release of registration and program details. A joint EMBRIO BII NSF - Notre Dame (RECODE NSF) symposium "Advancing Morphogenetic Biosciences and Bioengineering” is slated for June 25th, preceded by a multi-day training June 23-24th (further details coming). The Symposium will feature EMBRIO speakers, along with additional speakers from Notre Dame, invited Key Notes, and research poster session. Friday June 26th is set aside for focused retreat activity for EMBRIO members. Hosted at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, EMBRIO will organize and help provide transportation and lodging for Purdue members to attend, as well as reimburse travel for EMBRIO trainees from our partner institutions to participate. ⭐ Catalyzing Small Teams for Grant Proposal Development: Thanks to all who shared topic ideas and interest in leading discussions and new proposals. Results to date are available on new tabs of the EMBRIO Investigators Proposals Google spreadsheet<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…>. You can add your details to any of the spreadsheets via the tabs at the bottom of the main sheet [or contact Brent: (laddb(a)purdue.edu<mailto:laddb@purdue.edu> )]. ⭐ EMBRIO Data Management - See EMBRIO Supported Publications w/ links to Code and Images<https://purr.lib.purdue.edu/data-inventory/embrio?size=50> Data management training materials<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/resources/data-management-training.p…> developed by Scott Bolton for uploading PURR pages, OMERO image data, and raw data to Data Depot are available on the Institute website. You can also contact Beatriz Borrelly ( bborrell(a)purdue.edu<mailto:bborrell@purdue.edu> ) for assistance with data management. Beatriz is working with EMBRIO labs that have recent publications to aid in the preparation and upload of published data. 👀 Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting Friday May 1st, 2026 Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus Chicago Cytoskeleton Meeting<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> Spring Meeting will be Friday, May 1st, 2026. Trainees have an opportunity to present a lightning talk, along with a poster session. ________________________________ Updated Spring 2026 Schedule: EMBRIO All-Hands Thrust Research Updates Thank you, Research Thrust Leaders, for your available dates to present EMBRIO research updates this semester. Based on your availability, I've set the schedule as below. As a reminder, we are alternating bi-weekly meetings between 1) thrust level research updates and 2) focused working proposal teams discussion/writing groups. Two thrust level updates are scheduled at each research update meeting, and will need to limit each thrust project to ~25 minutes total (incl. Q/A/Disc). Please focus on the most integrative outcomes to date, key findings/challenges/next steps. Trainees and Research Staff are welcome and encouraged to present/co-present. Jan 26 Feb 23 Mar 23 Apr 20 May 18 June TBD Ondrej Maxian, Notre Dame Alexandria Volkening, Purdue Mullins Lab Deng Lab Zartman Lab Magana Lab Gardner Lab Kinzer-Ursem + Evans Labs Staiger Lab Iyer-Pascuzzi Lab ________________________________

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Working Proposal Teams Session - March 9th - contact Brent to lead a topic
by Brent Thomas Ladd 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

[cid:7a07da03-a39e-4256-8566-7106331bb5cb] Dear EMBRIOnic People, Anyone interested in leading a topic for discussion at Monday's Working Proposal Teams Session - March 9th, 3pm EDT, please contact me by 1pm on Monday. If there are no topic leaders for this session, we will cancel the session. Several teams that have recently formed around specific funding opportunities that are moving forward and convening discussions outside of the working teams session. I'm in the process of updating data on our global proposal master spreadsheet<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…>. Will be sharing more updates next week. Thank you, and have a good Friday! 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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