Dear EMBRIO Members,

Join us next Monday, May 5th at 3pm EDT for our all-hands seminar focused on Institute Competencies and their implementation as part of Thrust 4 research and practice led by the Gardner lab. We will wrap up the spring semester seminar series on May 19th with Thrust 4 research led by the Magana lab.  If you missed any previous seminars you can find the recording on our shared Box drive in the All-Hands Meetings Recordings folder.

EMBRIO Investigators, Trainees, and Research Scientists: There is still time to nominate EMBRIO peer-reviewed published papers for the Best Paper Competition (first author/co-author as EMBRIO graduate student, postdoc, or staff research scientist - papers published between 9/1/2021 and now are eligible). We ask that you submit your nominations by this Friday at the latest. Details are attached. Best Paper Nomination submission: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GUgolkEbJKjm2W

 We will open nominations for Best Scientific Figure award later this week.

Thanks for completing the RSVP survey for input on this year’s summer school and annual meeting, along with a quick self-assessment of the Institute’s twelve competency areas. If you haven't yet done so, reminder emails are being sent. Please complete this survey asap so that we can best plan for an impactful week June 9-13 for the EMBRIO Summer School (Mon-Wed) and Annual Meeting (Thurs-Fri) hosted at Purdue University.

EMBRIO Trainees: 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon (workshop flyer attached)

Our partners at I.U. in the Glazier Lab and Biocomplexity Institute have announced the 2025 CompuCell3D Virtual Tissue Modeling Workshop and Hackathon at Indiana University, Bloomington, July 28th to August 10th, 2025. Learn to model your biological system of interest with one-on-one help. Week 1 will cover CC3D basics. Week 2 will cover advanced topics in CC3D, followed by a 2-day model-building hackathon. Physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and modelers team up to build research-grade models of biological systems. All experience levels are welcome. For more information, email compucell3d.iu@gmail.com or visit www.compucell3d.org/Workshop25. Register at: www.tinyurl.com/CC3D2025.