Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute

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

Reminders:

🆕 ❇️ EMBRIO Annual Retreat 2026 Summer School & Joint Symposium - June 23 - 26, University of Notre Dame. Stay tuned for release of registration and program details.

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 training June 23-24th (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 26^th 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. 

⭐ Catalyzing Small Teams for Grant Proposal Development: Thanks to all who shared topic ideas and interest in leading discussions and new proposals. Results to date are available on new tabs of the EMBRIO Investigators Proposals Google spreadsheet. You can add your details to any of the spreadsheets via the tabs at the bottom of the main sheet [or contact Brent: (laddb@purdue.edu )].

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 Spring Meeting will be Friday, May 1^st, 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.