Hello EMBRIO Members,

Please plan to join us on Monday for our scheduled Weekly Update at 3pm ET. Bakary Samasa, Ph.D. student in the Mullins Lab at Penn, will present his project “Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Epiboly Morphogenesis in the Zebrafish Embryo”.


Capturing Institute Mentoring Connections - needed by Monday 2/27.
Students please take a few minutes with the Google spreadsheet link below to log your committee members and Postdocs your advisors in the first tab "Student Committees/Postdoc Advisors". 

Everyone: if you've mentored another EMBRIO member, log this in the second tab "Mentoring Others" (this can be any permutation e.g. faculty to faculty, student to student, postdoc to student, so forth)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O2eRNf16iQT8HDBvfln3rgPO1MZaWI2-yjUiba1hafE/edit?usp=sharing


Ca2+ Imaging Techniques Journal Club, Mondays at 11 ET.
The first meeting will take place on Feb 27 from 11-12. Meetings will occur Mondays until May 8th. If it is need, we will continue the discussion until June. 

Zoom Link:
https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/92929965472?pwd=VDdTbXk5TTg2eitWYmEvelB1UjkvZz09 

The Journal Club will discuss calcium imaging techniques with the aim to write a review paper. Like other journal clubs, each week 1 presenter will lead the discussion based on the articles they have chosen. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RQOTEIncii3HlRaUK38sP8EpOmAeuAc5jP6wR4X7F98/edit?usp=sharing 

Please come and join us! Every EMBRIO member is invited to participate.


ABIDES Reminders:
  • Individual Development Plans (IDPs) completed TODAY by Feb. 24. You can use one of your own or one of the templates in the ABIDES folder in BOX Students: If you already filled out an IDP for your department you can use that one and do not need to do another.  Please upload only the ‘blank’ template you chose to develop or use to the ABIDES folder, NOT your actual IDP! This is because these are private between you and your mentor, and not everyone may feel comfortable sharing the completed IDP with additional people. This way I have an idea of what types of IDPs people in the Institute are using.  (contact Dr. Iyer-Pascuzzi, asi2@purdue.edu , with any questions or concerns) 
  • IDP survey coming the week of Feb. 27. Three questions (did you complete it, did your mentor/trainee complete it, did you discuss)! Please complete by March 2 (link forthcoming).  
      
  • Weekly open office ‘hour’ 2:30 – 3 pm (Eastern) each Monday before research update. Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91942543564
     




Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
laddb@purdue.edu