Dear EMBRIO Folk:

A reminder that we'll resume EMBRIO All-hands Weekly Meetings Augutst 14th for the Fall semester at our normal time of Mondays at 3-4 PM. The Student Leadership Council has organized a mini-workshop on 3D Scientific Visualization with Blender open-source software to kick off the Fall series. 

An FYI that I (Brent) will be out on medical leave for a surgery this Thursday, July 27, with return Aug. 14th, so I likely won't be able to attend to EMBRIO needs until I return.


Your Evaluation of Annual Retreat and Summer Workshop
Please take a few minutes to provide your feedback and thoughts for those who attended the summer workshop and for those who attended the annual retreat. The surveys are optional; however, we hope you will complete them, as your input helps us to accurately report our progress and outcomes to our funder, The National Science Foundation.

 

Annual Retreat Feedback Survey:



Summer Workshop at Notre Dame Survey Link: 
https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_do1Q7LvYpAfHqLA
We are awaiting the recorded videos of the workshop sessions and will share these asap.


Student Leadership Council Seeks New Members and Input:
The budding EMBRIO Student Leadership Council is recruiting trainees interested in representing their institution and Institute Trainees. Please contact the current council officers Feyisayo Akande, David Gazzo, and Jazzmin Owens about your interest and questions in serving on this team (they are CCd here).

You can view documents about the council on our shared Box account under "Student-GSO_EMBRIO": https://app.box.com/s/2hrjxu38el7rlusr3wim2t29r4q419dt

The Council is recruiting members from all of the EMBRIO institutions, including postdoc fellows to serve. The Council represents and promotes trainee interests as part of the EMBRIO Directors Team and incorporates ideas from all trainees into social and professional development offerings.


Help Orient and Mentor Recent and New EMBRIO Trainees:
For those that are interested in being a mentor to younger students inside EMBRIO to show them the inner workings of our collaborative network, please sign up here and for those interested in finding a mentor please sign up here.
Additionally, if anyone has any suggestions for future events that the student council can host, please fill out our suggestion "box"

Thanks to David Gazzo and the SLC for organizing this trainee-to-trainee mentoring space. 


Register for Access to the EMBRIO Image Analysis Workstation:
EMBRIO Institute will acquire a dedicated workstation running IMARIS for processing and analyzing images, with local disk storage. The workstation will be available for EMBRIO research use ONLY and housed in Hall for Discovery and Learning Research (DLR) suite 203. 

Please indicate below that you will need access to the workstation either in person for those at Purdue, or remotely for those outside of Purdue, by filling this very short survey so that we can get you on the list for adding your ID info to the card swipe system:

Quick survey for getting DLR bldg and room access to EMBRIO Image Workstation: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLMmFpBZVW8TZNI



Special IEEE Issue - Call for Submissions:

There is a call for a special issue in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, called "Seeing Through the Crowd: Molecular Communication in Crowded and Multi-Cellular Environments". You can find the full CFP on the T-MBMC website. Dr. Greg Reeves (gtreeves@tamu.edu) is a Guest Editor for this special issue.
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 September 2023
Publication Date: March 2024





Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Office: Hall for Discovery Learning and Research
207 S. Martin Jischke Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
laddb@purdue.edu