Merge pull request #184 from devoworm/patch-1

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Author: pgleeson

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               <h3>4) New cell and ion channel models in NeuroML </h3>
 
               <p class="lead">A key part of the OpenWorm project's work is to incorporate models of neurons which behave like their biological counterparts. The 2019 paper of Nicoletti and colleagues (<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218738">Biophysical modeling of <i>C. elegans</i> neurons: Single ion currents and whole-cell dynamics of AWCon and RMD</a> presents new models of 2 <i>C. elegans</i> neurons with the ionic currents which underlie their electrical activity. These have been converted to <a href="http://www.neuroml.org">NeuroML</a> format for use in OpenWorm. See <a href="https://github.com/openworm/NicolettiEtAl2019_NeuronModels">here</a> for full details.</p>
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+   <h3>4) DevoWorm updates</h3>
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+            <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OREL-group/GSoC/main/Media/DW.png" height="150"/></p>
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+	    <p class="lead">DevoWorm celebrated its 10th anniversary in April. Bradly Alicea has prepared a [90-minute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQNxCvLAWY&pp=ygUIZGV2b3dvcm0%3D) on our progress over the past 10 years: from progress in OpenWorm to progress in computational developmental biology. If you would like to know more, please check out our [weekly meetings on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8ZcBZeKeci2ACwfllCDFn_eZAXlbGQN). </i>.</p> 
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+            <p class="lead">DevoWorm has sponsored two students through the Google Summer of Code program for 2024. Congrats to [Pakhi Banchalia](https://github.com/Pakhi07) and [Mehul Arora](https://github.com/mehular0ra) for being accepted to work on the Developmental Graph Neural Networks (D-GNNs) project. Pakhi will be working on incorporating Neural Developmental Programs (NDPs) into GNN models. Mehul will be working on hypergraph techniques for developmental lineage trees and embryogenesis [1]. [Himanshu Chougule](https://github.com/himanshu-02), Google Summer of Code scholar for 2023, is a co-mentor for this project. Follow or fork the [DevoGraph repository](https://github.com/devolearn/devograph) to contribute or keep up with our progress. </p> 
 
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