Dear EMBRIO Community,

Our next All-Hands Research Updates will be Monday, April 20th 3PM EDT for the latest on Thrust 2B with the Zartman Lab and Thrust 4 projects with the Magana Lab: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/92296822713?pwd=m8tGuX9zXUL2MnYguV8KlCa9w0Tj4j.1&from=addon

The remaining All-Hands Thrust Research Updates Spring schedule is below.

Abbie Rogers Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Please join Abigail Rogers today, April 10 at 10:00 AM in LILY 2-425 for her final exam seminar. (see attached flyer) There will also be a zoom option:  https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/MY/ABBIEROGERS. 

Congratulations to Stephanie Gardner being chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Nice article about Stephanie here

Please keep your calendar holds for the EMBRIO Annual Retreat 2026 Summer Workshops & Joint Symposium - June 22 - 26, University of Notre Dame (more details below)

Reminders:

🆕 ❇️ EMBRIO Annual Retreat 2026 Summer Workshops & Joint Symposium - June 22 - 26, University of Notre Dame. Please keep your calendar holds. Stay tuned for release of registration, lodging, travel, speaker and poster details coming soon.

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 T4CT (Tools4Cells&Tissues) Design Challenge Workshop June 23-24th, and a half-day workshop on June 22^nd AI and Modeling: Intro to Deep Learning–Based Surrogate Models (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. 

⭐ EMBRIO Data Management - See EMBRIO Supported Publications w/ links to Code and Images

Data management training materials 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@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 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. 

 

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