A couple of reminders as we near the start of Fall semester:

All-Hands Lab Meetings begin August 25th 3-4pm EDT -Biweekly (Zoom Link for the semester)

A calendar invite with zoom link was emailed Aug. 1^st to all active members establishing our biweekly All-Hands Lab Meeting. We start August 25th 3-4pm EDT with a primer on the basics of modeling biological phenomena, followed by open discussion. Why the name change? The idea (this may evolve) is to reframe our seminar sessions to:

Think of this biweekly all-hands as a regular lab meeting where brief updates, questions and input from all lab members, with exchanges generating ideas, solutions, and support for short-term goals and progress toward the milestones and overall mission. The full schedule of presenting labs and speakers is forthcoming.

Reminder: Get Your Submission in for the 2025 EMBRIO Best Scientific Figure or Video Award!

As announced during the annual retreat, this is a reminder and encouragement for all EMBRIO Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Staff Research Scientists to share your best work with our community! As they say, a picture can be worth a thousand words. This is certainly true when creating visually clear and elegant representations to demonstrate your research findings for the community of scientists who will learn about and digest your findings.

We will have two divisions: graduate students (division I), postdocs and research scientists (division II). Submissions can also include collaborative efforts where multiple people have derived the figure or video. The deadline is August 18th.

Eligible figures can be at the stage of submitted, accepted, published journal or peer-reviewed conference, as well as in pre-prints or at a pre-publication stage but must be “complete” figures ready for publication. Videos can be live cell timelapse, or model simulation, or similar. A single figure or a single video nomination and submission may be made by the graduate student, postdoc or research scientist, or can be made by faculty advisers on their behalf.

Nominations with submission are due by August 18th, no exceptions. Rules and criteria for evaluation are below.

Rules:

Submissions must be a single PowerPoint slide with the figure or video embedded that includes on the slide in this order: title of figure or video, context or annotation or data that explains the purpose of the figure or video, lead author name, faculty advisor’s name, any other authors or contributors, and if available, citation for where the figure or video has been published, submitted, in a preprint, presented at a conference.
To be considered, complete submissions must be in by Monday, August 18th. Submission form: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9X3KHxUUz0bg6Pk
All submissions will be made available on an EMBRIO-only website page for members to view prior to voting.
A winning figure or video can’t be re-submitted in future year competitions.

Evaluation criteria:

Each figure or video will be evaluated by the criteria below and ranked by members of EMBRIO who wish to participate in voting:

Impact and innovation
Originality and novelty
Degree to which the figure or video conveys or explains the data, mechanism, process or method
Degree of Integration with other EMBRIO authors and labs

Awards:

Community-wide and public recognition! The award will be non-monetary – we are restricted on use of our NSF funding in this regard. We’ll promote the top vote getters (and figure or video if already published or as appropriate) through our social media, website, and news channels, highlighting the winners’ research, mentor labs and collaborations with EMBRIO labs that led to the figure or video being produced.

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