Dear EMBRIO,

Due to several conflicts, we must cancel our session this afternoon. We will move it to our next scheduled session Feb. 26^th for our Institute-wide updates/feedback/open discussion along with an intro to plans from the SLC. Please note: we'll resume all online attendance for these all-hands sessions and won't attempt to meet in person for these going forward.

Thank you to all thrust and site leaders and key investigators that joined together in-person last week for our Winter Science Retreat in Indianapolis where a noticeable increase in integration activity at the Thrust levels was highlighted (EMBRIO made the Purdue News). Thrust leaders also presented updates to research goals, insights into challenges, gaps existing, with plans for remaining Y3 activity. Open discussions and input took place on updating our stratetic plan, the use of generative AI in science writing, and authorship guidelines. Please note that in our NSF awarded proposal, EMBRIO agreed to adhere to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for authorship credit: ICMJE for authorship guidelines.

A reminder that all EMBRIO members should read and sign the recently ratified Data Sharing Policy (Future EMBRIO funding is tied to the policy. PIs make sure your lab members working on EMBRIO projects read and sign the policy.)

We have dates for our Summer Training Workshop on July 8^th – 10^th, followed by our All-Hands Annual Meeting, July 11^th-12^th, hosted in-person at Purdue. Please complete this RSVP asap. A calendar invite was emailed to all members.

EMBRIO is leading an in-person workshop, March 6-10, 2024, during the Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC24) in Washington D.C. (Genetics Society of America). https://genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ . Contact Dr. Jeremiah Zartman for additional details.

Take advantage of outside professional development opportunities including the attached Chicago Cytoskeleton Lightning Talks and Poster Session, March 15; a series at Purdue on open science and research data management; mentorship workshop for faculty, and a future mentors program for graduate students.

Thank you,

Brent

Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute

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@purdue.edu