Dear EMBRIO Membership,

As an Institute, our collectively achieved progress toward delineating mechanisms of cellular defense and wound repair—properties vital to animal, plant, and human health and biotechnology advancements—is a testament to the power of integrating our expertise. Leveraging this momentum, we are actively assembling teams now to develop new proposals and support co-collaborator proposal writing. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in participating (laddb@purdue.edu, Cc: dumulis@purdue.edu , jzartman@nd.edu ). We are starting with an NIH RM1 for Multidisciplinary Teams. For active and potential funding opportunities that align with EMBRIO 2.0 ideas, visit our proposals spreadsheet.

Your willingness to learn, share, and tackle the challenging work of integrating ML/AI, simulation, and life-science research, along with educational research and research into the evolution of interdisciplinary identity and teams, have together made EMBRIO a paradigm for integrative discovery. This integrative effort, since late 2021 involving over a hundred investigators, staff, and trainees, has yielded impactful products and fundamental discoveries (a Summary of Outcomes PDF is available on our shared Box account).

Perhaps the most important legacy is our trainees. The advancement of sixty-five graduate students and postdocs and sixty undergraduate researchers, at the intersection of predictive computational simulations and biology is directly supporting a growing community of practice, and the long-term growth of the U.S. Bioeconomy.

Keep up the transformative research and education to make this fifth year as a Biology Integration Institute our best one yet! 

🦃 Enjoy the Thanksgiving Holiday. Your EMBRIO Leadership Team,