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@@ -77,21 +77,34 @@ <h1>OpenWorm News</h1>
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               <h1>June 2023</h1>
 
-              <h3>1) OpenWorm @ C. elegans 2023</h3>
+              <h3>1) OpenWorm @ <i>C. elegans</i> 2023</h3>
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+              <p class="lead">The OpenWorm team were present at <a href="https://genetics-gsa.org/celegans2023/">the main <i>C. elegans</i> scientific conference</a> in Glasgow in June 2023.</p>
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+              <p class="lead">We presented an update on the recent activities in the project (click on the poster below) and connected with a number of groups who are acquiring leading edge experimental data which can be used to help build and constrain our worm models.</p>
 
-              <p class="lead">We have...</p>
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               <p align="center"><kbd><a href="/assets/OpenWormPoster_Celegans_Glasgow_2023.pdf">
                 <img src="/assets/OpenWormPoster_C_elegans_Glasgow_2023.png" alt="OpenWormPoster2022" width="250"></a></kbd></p>
 
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               <h3>2) Hodgkin Huxley interactive tutorial</h3>
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-              <p class="lead">We have...</p>
 
+              <p class="lead">As part of a recent Google Summer of Code project by Rahul Sonkar, an interactive tutorial for the Hodgkin Huxley model of neuronal activity was developed.
+            This <a href="https://github.com/openworm/hodgkin_huxley_tutorial/blob/master/notebooks/Python_HH_version/README.md">Jupyter notebook based tutorial</a> can be used to investigate how ion channel dynamical properties underlie the generation of the action potential in neurons.</p>
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+            <p align="center"><kbd><a href="https://github.com/openworm/hodgkin_huxley_tutorial/blob/master/notebooks/Python_HH_version/README.md">
+              <img src="/assets/HH_Jupyter.png" alt="HH" width="400"></a></kbd></p>
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               <h3>3) Updated 2D worm body model visualisations</h3>
 
-              <p class="lead">We have...</p>
+              <p class="lead">We have been investigating multiple options for incorporating 2D worm body models into our simulation pipeline to complement the full 3D Sibernetic-based worm body model.</p>
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+              <p class="lead">Options investigated so far include the model of <a href="https://github.com/openworm/CE_locomotion">Olivares, Izquierdo & Beer</a>, as well as 
+                the <a href="https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/CelegansNeuromechanicalGaitModulation">Boyle, Berri and Cohen</a> model, for which we have added a new Python based visualisation tool:
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+            <p align="center"><kbd><a href="https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/CelegansNeuromechanicalGaitModulation/tree/master/WormSim">
+              <img src="/assets/Replay.gif" alt="Replay"></a></kbd></p>
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