Move devoworm contribs to June 23

Author: pgleeson

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@@ -101,11 +101,20 @@ <h3>3) Updated 2D worm body model visualisations</h3>
               <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>
 
 
+            <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 has sponsored two projects through the Google Summer of Code program for 2023: maintenance of the DevoLearn software package, and development of work on GNN (Graph neural Networks) and TDA (Topological Data Analysis) applications to biological development. These projects involve the work of GSoC scholars <A HREF="https://github.com/sushmanthreddy">Sushmanth Reddy</A> and <A HREF="https://github.com/himanshu-02">Himanshu Chougule</A>, respectively.</p> 
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+            <p class="lead">Members of the DevoWorm group have two recent publications: <A HREF="https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0067">Embodied Cognitive Morphogenesis as a Route to Intelligent Systems</A>, published at <i>Royal Society Interface Focus</i>, and  <A HREF="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119751939.ch9">The Psychophysical World of the Motile Diatom Bacillaria Paradoxa</A>, published in <i>Mathematical Biology of Diatoms</i>.</p> 
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+            <p class="lead">In our weekly meetings, we have discussed topics such as early life and the <A HREF="http://syntheticdaisies.blogspot.com/2023/03/ancient-embryogenesis-and-evolutionary.html">origins of embryos</A>, the biophysical and topological underpinnings of phenotypes, current <A HREF="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-022-00186-8">organoid</A>, embryoid, and <A HREF="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-01026-x">assembloid research</A>, and the intersection of microscopy and artificial life. There are collective discussions, as well as presentations on various topics by Bradly Alicea. Our archive of weekly meetings is available on the <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vHxIQdBf7I&list=PLJ8ZcBZeKeci2ACwfllCDFn_eZAXlbGQN">DevoWorm YouTube channel.</A></p>
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@@ -183,12 +192,18 @@ <h3>5) DevoWorm updates</h3>
 
 <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OREL-group/GSoC/main/Media/DW.png" height="150"/></p>
 
-<p class="lead">DevoWorm has sponsored two projects through the Google Summer of Code program for 2023: maintenance of the DevoLearn software package, and development of work on GNN (Graph neural Networks) and TDA (Topological Data Analysis) applications to biological development. These project involve the work of GSoC scholars <A HREF="https://github.com/sushmanthreddy">Sushmanth Reddy</A> and <A HREF="https://github.com/himanshu-02">Himanshu Chougule</A>, respectively.</p> 
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-<p class="lead">Members of the DevoWorm group have two publications for the update period: <A HREF="https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0067">Embodied Cognitive Morphogenesis as a Route to Intelligent Systems</A>, published at <i>Royal Society Interface Focus</i>, and  <A HREF="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119751939.ch9">The Psychophysical World of the Motile Diatom Bacillaria Paradoxa</A>, published in <i>Mathematical Biology of Diatoms</i>.</p> 
+<p class="lead">Over the past year, <a href="https://devoworm.weebly.com/">DevoWorm</a> has been involved in a number of initiatives.
+  DevoWorm hosted four <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/">Google Summer of Code</a> students in 2022: Karan Lohaan and Harikrishna
+  Pillai worked on the Digital Microspheres project (a spherical platform for embryo data), while Jiahang Li and Wataru Kawakami worked
+  on developing a Graph Neural Network pipeline for the DevoLearn platform.</p>
 
-<p class="lead">In our weekly meetings, we have discussed topics such as early life and the <A HREF="http://syntheticdaisies.blogspot.com/2023/03/ancient-embryogenesis-and-evolutionary.html">origins of embryos</A>, the biophysical and topological underpinnings of phenotypes, current <A HREF="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-022-00186-8">organoid</A>, embryoid, and <A HREF="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-01026-x">assembloid research, and the intersection of microscopy and artificial life. There are collective discussions, as well as presentations on various topics by Bradly Alicea. Our archive of weekly meetings is available on the <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vHxIQdBf7I&list=PLJ8ZcBZeKeci2ACwfllCDFn_eZAXlbGQN">DevoWorm YouTube channel.</A></p>
+<p class="lead">DevoWorm also had a presence at <a href="https://netsci2022.net/">NetSci 2022</a> (virtual conference hosted in Shanghai).
+  Bradly Alicea presented on the group's Embodied Hypernetworks work in the main conference, as well as serving to represent the group
+  at the Network Neuroscience satellite session as a presenter and participant.</p>
 
+<p class="lead">Our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8ZcBZeKeci2ACwfllCDFn_eZAXlbGQN">weekly meetings</a> are a continuing success.
+  We cover a number of technical topics and a wide variety of topical reviews spanning biophysics, developmental biology, computational
+  analysis, and more. Join us on Mondays at 2pm UTC (1pm UTC in winter) to get involved.</p>
 <h3>6) OpenWorm simulation stack updates</h3>
 
 <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openworm/OpenWorm/master/img/worm-crawling.gif" alt="Worm Crawling" width="550"></p>