Hello EMBRIOphytes, Welcome back to all who've been on spring break! Today's all-hands bi-weekly meeting at 3pm EDT will feature Dr. Jeremy Zartman presenting a research seminar on the Thrust 2B efforts and collaborations to date. The Leadership Team is excited to announce that Dr. Scott Bolton, Research Scientist in the KInzer-Ursem Lab, will be dedicating significant efforts as the Institute's Data Management Scientist. Scott will be spearheading day-to-day tasks of data curation and management, establishing data workflows, best practices, and protocols with participating labs, while maintaining and promoting the Institute’s data management and sharing policies. Stay tuned, as we'll have more details to share in the coming weeks. Kudos to the EMBRIO team that presented during our Institute's workshop held March 9th at the The Allied Genetics Conference<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgenetics-gsa.org%2Ftagc-2024%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cembrio-list%40ecn.purdue.edu%7C24d3609b24364674215508dc4751a38e%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638463663157155118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tesKFVKfMJec9%2BWcBdkel%2B0kYJZ6Wrsvqy%2FxxjU3dco%3D&reserved=0> in D.C., and to Drs. Zartman, Reeves, and Li for organizing and leading this effort!! The workshop engaged 60 attendees learning about EMBRIO research advancements through Advancing Computational Developmental Biology: Integrating Experimental and Computational Systems Approaches. Speakers included Drs. Zartman, Reeves, Kumar, Deng, W. Zhang, Glazier, Brubaker, and Li, and graduate student Chang Ding from the Deng lab. The slide decks from these talks are available on our shared Box account under the TAGC24 folder<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.com%2Fs%2Fc7uuzfzjr7llya3ha9qg2drtzliw4rso&data=05%7C02%7Cembrio-list%40ecn.purdue.edu%7C24d3609b24364674215508dc4751a38e%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638463663157155118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8LlkuBrCVIgU16puEbRdkXYkgmFcmRzr7qtW%2BQYocH0%3D&reserved=0>. Dr. Mary Mullins also chaired a separate session, and Bakary Samasa, graduate student in her lab, presented research results. A reminder that our 3rd Summer School & Annual Meeting will both be hosted at Purdue, with the Summer School running July 8th – 10th, followed by our All-Hands Annual Meeting, July 11th-12th. Please complete this RSVP<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurdue.ca1.qualtrics.com%2Fjfe%2Fform%2FSV_8v5ZLEPP791CmoK&data=05%7C02%7Cembrio-list%40ecn.purdue.edu%7C24d3609b24364674215508dc4751a38e%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638463663157155118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ykw02USpMgHCIP4zELfORG6XG71wOKnVIauW0yKLjpA%3D&reserved=0> asap, so that we can plan for these events. EMBRIO INSTITUTE’S 3rd ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL: Communicating your research with novice audiences through computational media. Participants will identify a topic of their research (or teaching) that they want to make accessible to novice audiences. Following best practices of learning design or mentoring, participants will create a product (e.g., a computational Colab notebook, a digital poster, a Prezi presentation, or similar) to teach or communicate their selected topic to broader audiences. The products will be broadly disseminated through the Institute. See you all this afternoon for Dr. Zartman's research seminar, Brent Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> 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