Dear EMBRIOnic People,

All-Hands Lab Meeting on Monday: "The Biological Modeling Workflow: A Brief Introduction"
EMBRIO Labs: Get Your Experimental Data Associated with EMBRIO Publications Ready and Connected with EMBRIO's Data Management System

EMBRIO All-Hands "Lab Meeting"

August 25^th 3-4pm EDT

Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/92061591849?pwd=wclgpzLpzWKsZ9M2XYwM7Kbumaabr3.1&from=addon

We are looking forward to kicking off the fall semester with a session and open discussion on biological modeling workflow led by Hayden Fennell, Postdoc Fellow at IU in Biocomplexity Institute of the Glazier lab.

Title:

The Biological Modeling Workflow: A Brief Introduction
Description:
Computational modeling is becoming more and more ubiquitous in essentially all fields of scientific study. Biology is no exception, although the usefulness of computation in biology can sometimes be less obvious, given the methodological "distance" from practices in wet-lab experimentation. This seminar will discuss the benefits and challenges of computational modeling in biology, as well as provide a computational modeling workflow that can be applied to a wide variety of biological problems. Examples will be given to illustrate the workflow in practice, and a template will be provided for participants to brainstorm how to apply the workflow to their own biological problems of interest.

The second half of the lab meeting will offer continued Q&A on the main topic, along with breakout rooms for specific topics or smaller group chats. Let me know if you have a specific topic/break out room you would like to have available.

EMBRIO Labs: Get Your Experimental Data Associated with EMBRIO Publications Ready and Connected with our Data Management System

We have an obligation to make our published data accessible to the broader scientific community. With the fall semester starting up again, now is a great opportunity to begin using OMERO to store your experimental data taken at the microscope. You can store your data with detailed experimental text to keep your images organized with context. This will benefit your science because:

Identifying experiments no longer requires searching image filenames written in your notebook
Original data is stored in a viewable format in a central location
Data can be reviewed by everyone in the lab without downloading a local copy and opening in ImageJ
Comments, tags, and keywords can be annotated at any time that stays with the image(s)
Support for Fiji (ImageJ) is built-in – you can use a plugin to work with the image data directly in OMERO
Image data can be published as a persistent link in PURR for your publications

Thanks to the labs who are already adopting OMERO into their workflow. We encourage everyone in EMBRIO who performs microscopy experiments to take advantage of this new tool. We hope it will improve your workflow and make the management of your microscopy data easier.

For more information and help getting started, please contact Scott Bolton at boltons@purdue.edu.

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