Merge pull request #182 from openworm/development

Add news items for May 2024...

Author: pgleeson

news.html

@@ -64,15 +64,41 @@ <h1>OpenWorm News</h1>
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+              <a href="#May2024"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i> May 2024</a>
               <a href="#June2023"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i> June 2023</a>
               <a href="#September2022"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i> September 2022</a>
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+          <section id="May2024">
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+              <h1>May 2024</h1>
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+              <h3>1) OpenWorm is hiring!</h3>
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+              <p class="lead">A position for a Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow at University College London is now open for applications. The successful applicant will contribute to multiple areas of the OpenWorm project, working closely with Padraig Gleeson. See <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=23333">here</a> for more details.</p>
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+              <h3>2) OpenWorm interviewed on Data Skeptic Podcast </h3>
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+              <p class="lead">Stephen Larson, Executive Director of the OpenWorm project, discusses the current state of the project as well as where our quest to develop a biologically realistic digital life form fits into the current landscape of AI. Listen to it <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ResE1neiUfWOAIlO8FDgF?si=skTgNiBNQTG1htRS6yRl0Q&nd=1&dlsi=fafc66d8b5be4f82">here on Spotify</a>.</p>
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+              <h3>3) OpenWorm Docker simulation stack updated </h3>
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+              <p class="lead">A major update to the <a href="https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/blob/master/README.md#quickstart">simulation stack</a> of the OpenWorm project was released. This involved updating all core elements (<a href="https://github.com/openworm/c302">c302</a>, <a href="https://github.com/openworm/sibernetic">Sibernetic</a>) in the Dockerfile and enabling <a href="https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/actions">automated tests</a> for building the Docker container using Intel and AMD libraries. A big thanks to <a href="https://github.com/austinklein">Austin Klein</a> who completed this work as part of an <a href="studentships.html">OpenWorm Studentship</a>.</p>
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+              <h3>4) New cell and ion channel models in NeuroML </h3>
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+              <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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           <section id="June2023">
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               <h1>June 2023</h1>