International Embryo Physics Course: NIH grant designed for us?

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Dr. Richard Gordon

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Jun 25, 2010, 6:00:46 PM6/25/10

to Diederik Aerts, Ahmad Zia Shams, Eric Ho-Man Tsang, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Ph.D., D.Sc., Tom Barbalet, Bashir Ahmad, M.D., Jon Echanove, Chhavi Chawla, Chris Chetland, Christophe Caillarec, Chung-Yuan Mou, Clément Vidal, Eluem R. Blyden, Danta...@gmail.com, Timothy J. Taylor, Bruce Damer, Vimani Perera, Evgenii Rudnyi, Rudolf Nico Penninkhof, Stephen M. Levin, MD, Gerald de Jong, Francis Heylighen, Francis Lin, Genaro Juarez Martinez, Scott Schafer, Herve Noel, Sergei V. Evsikov, Ph.D., HCLD, Iavor Kostov, Jack A. Tuszynski, Jean-Jacques Kupiec, jfpe...@ccu.maz.uasnet.mx, Jun Gao, jli...@hotmail.com, Lu Kai, MD, MA, D.D.S., Ph.D. <victor_fried@NYMC.edu>, Vinodkumar Saranathan <vinodkumar.saranathan@yale.edu>, Xavier Diego, embryo...@googlegroups.com, Ramesh Raskar

Friday, June 25, 2010 4:29 PM from Winnipeg
Steve Krawetz has just sent me:

Biophysical and Biomechanical Aspects of Embryonic Development (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-221.html
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): August 20, 2010, August 20, 2011, August 20 2012
Application Due Date(s): September 20, 2010, September 20, 2011, September 20, 2012
“In recent years there has been a considerable progress, in understanding the genetic control of morphogenesis. It is evident that regulated gene expression determines the chemical environment of cells and tissues and thereby regulates biophysical processes. In turn, changes in physical forces feed back to regulate gene function and cell fate.“

It appears that our mutual work has gained official notice, after decades of slogging it out with little or no funding. As the eligibility requirements include “Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations)“, most of you are eligible to apply separately, or in groups we might organize through the International Embryo Physics Course.

Personally, I’d like to see the Google Embryo project get off the ground. I’m visiting Ramesh Raskar (MIT Media Lab/Camera Culture Group) in September to start this work, described in:

Gordon, R. & J.E. Westfall (2009). Google Embryo for building quantitative understanding of an embryo as it builds itself: I. Lessons from Ganymede and Google Earth. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition 4(4), 390-395 + 5 page Supplementary Appendix.

Gordon, R. (2009). Google Embryo for building quantitative understanding of an embryo as it builds itself: II. Progress toward an embryo surface microscope. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition 4(4), 396-412. (attached)