Dear EMBRIO Members, Wishing you all an enjoyable winter break, safe travels, and may we all be healthy in the New Year. A few announcements and dates to hold on your calendar as we close out the semester. Please hold the following dates for next summer in-person activity: July 10 - 12, Trainee Workshop, Notre Dame University July 13 - 14, All-Hands Annual Meeting, Purdue University Thrust & Site Leads Only - block Feb. 9 and 10 for our workshop at Indiana University NSF Items Our annual report and year 3 budget will be due the end of June to our NSF Program Officer (rather than Sept. 1). This necessitates a much earlier start to the reporting and budget request process. More details are coming in the New Year. Our first official NSF site visit will be virtual, with a yet to be determined date in February or March. Again, more details forthcoming. EMBRIO Purdue campus REU student nominations and project details due Jan. 13 for first consideration. Please complete the online survey<https://forms.gle/yzUQ6hEpFpXcwsN8A> to submit your project details, and student information if you have a student already in mind. Weekly Updates - Spring Semester We will resume Weekly Updates on Monday, January 9th , 3 pm with Dr. Krishna Jayant presenting. Spring Semester Weekly Update Schedule, Monday at 3pm ET & Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/99819751005?pwd=UVlvWVpxRDB0cDVXbmxBU1NUTEZGZz0... January 9 Krishna Jayant, Asst. Prof., BME, Purdue January 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No Meeting, please volunteer locally January 23 Trainee Professional Development, Grants Series Session #2 January 30 Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Assoc. Prof., BPP, Purdue, DEI Director, EMBRIO February 6 Thrust & Site Leads Update Meeting February 13 Priyanka Baloni, Asst. Prof, HHS, Purdue February 20 Trainee Professional Development, Grants Series Session #3 February 27 Bakary Samasa, Mary Mullins Lab March 6 Thrust & Site Leads Update Meeting March 13 Spring break, no meeting March 20 DEI Topic March 27 Trainee Professional Development April 3 Thrust & Site Leads Update Meeting April 10 TBD - Research Talk April 17 TBD - Research Talk April 24 Trainee Professional Development May 1 Thrust & Site Leads Update Meeting May 8 Javier Munoz, Doug Brubaker Lab Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute<https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/> Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University laddb@purdue.edu <https://www.purdue.edu/research/embrio/>