Dear EMBRIOnic Folk,

Please note that the upcoming Weekly Update on the 24^th will be dedicated to breakout rooms supporting discussions on the integrated and enabling project proposals that are due May 1^st. This meeting is optional for trainees, though both graduate students and postdocs may find it useful and educational to participate. The internal RFP and associated resources are available on our Box account in the “EMBRIO RFP” folder: 

https://app.box.com/s/3fb0bo9inlh1lp52k8oxiqbozfo99sh4   

 

There are several opportunities today and next week to engage in sessions relevant to EMBRIO:

• EMBRIO Ph.D. candidate Nilay Kumar in the Zartman Lab at Notre Dame will defend his thesis today, April 21^st, 11am ET and all are invited to attend. Thesis Title: “Reverse Engineering Epithelial Morphogenesis: A Systems Biology Approach”. zoom: 
  
  https://notredame.zoom.us/j/7175280638
    
• The Deng Lab at Purdue has invited Dr. Yubin Zhou, Texas A&M, to present a seminar on April 24^th, noon-1 pm ET, in LILY 117 (no zoom link). His talk will focus on new tools to control calcium currents and possibly other cell signaling events with implications such as in immune therapy.  (flyer attached)

• ABIDES Weekly open office/Trainee lunch hour meeting, Monday April 24, 12 – 1 pm by Zoom only:
  https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/99630373235 

• Purdue Biological Sciences and The Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology, and Infectious Disease (PI4D) will be hosting Dr. Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Science, TIFR, Bangalore, India, on Tuesday, April 25^th from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in Pfendler Hall, Rm 241 (no zoom link). His seminar title is “The eukaryotic cell membrane: an integrator of mechanical and chemical inputs”. (flyer attached)

Please note that I will be out of office away from email starting today, returning May 1^st.