Dear EMBRIO Community,

Our next Weekly Update takes place Monday June 12^th at 3pm ET. David Gazzo and Mayesha Mim (Zartman Lab) will lead an introduction to scientific figure creation employing BioRender. In advance of the workshop, sign-up and create a BioRender account for free at www.biorender.com so that you can follow along during the demo. 

We are working on finalizing the schedule and registration will be open very soon for the EMBRIO Summer Workshop hosted by the Zartman Lab at Notre Dame July 10-12, followed by our Annual All-Hands Retreat at Purdue July 13-14. See a draft schedule for the workshop (attached) and please complete our RSVP poll so that we can best plan the two events, get your input and ideas for additional training this year, and select your size preference on a new EMBRIO T-shirt. 

Thanks to all who completed the updated demographics survey that NSF asks us to collect and report. If you haven’t yet completed the anonymous survey, it takes about one minute. You can access it here: EMBRIO Demographics Survey 2023.  

We've welcomed to campus and into EMBRIO labs at Purdue 12 undergraduates who will be advancing their research skills as they engage in EMBRIO projects throughout the summer (see attached table for names and host investigator labs). We also welcomed Iván Sierra, graduate student in the Cabrera and Isaza lab at UPRM, to Purdue campus last week. He'll be working primarily with the Staiger lab this summer.