(apologies if you received this email more than once). Dear all,
As I mentioned during the office hours today, next cycle of *3D Digital Morphology with SlicerMorph* short course will be offered online *December 2-5, 2024.* You can submit your application from this link: https://forms.gle/S35YN2dEruCjmbYC9. The form will close on October 31st, and selected participants will be notified by the second week of November. Note that you are expected to attend all four days, so make sure you consider this when submitting your application. I want to emphasize a significant change to our short courses. This course (which we colloquially call SlicerMorph 101) will be specifically on fundamental 3D digital morphology tasks such as accurately importing data (microCT and other imagestacks), visualization (volume/surface rendering, animations), segmentation, 3D model generation, measurements and data export, will *NOT *cover morphometrics. We will be offering a separate *3D Morphometrics with SlicerMorph and R* (SlicerMorph 102) sometime in February, also as an online course. However, to enroll in the 3D morphometrics course, you have to either take SlicerMorph 101 or provide evidence of sufficient proficiency with 3D Slicer and SlicerMorph during your course application, as morphometrics will not cover any of the SlicerMorph 101 content. Both SlicerMorph 101 and 102 short courses will be repeated in the spring. These online courses will be followed by in-person, hands-on and project-based bootcamp/hackaton at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories in late Summer or early Fall 2025. More information about 3D morphometrics short course as well as the bootcamp will be forthcoming as dates are finalized. This change is based on the feedback we received over the years, which was extremely bimodal. Half of the attendees requested to expand the sections on segmentation and other basic digital morphology at the expense of morphometrics content, and the other half requested changes exactly the other way around. It is also a reality, with increased number of tools and diversity of biological applications of 3D data, we have to increase the time dedicated to both topics. Finally, we hope that twice a year cadence of these courses will be helpful finding a time that works with your other commitments. As usual, there is no fee for these courses, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation; and we will prioritize applications from early career scientist, URMs in STEMs and applications from PUIs. Feel free to email me if you have any questions. On behalf of SlicerMorph and MorphoCloud team, *A. Murat Maga, PhD* Assoc. Professor Division of Craniofacial Medicine Dept of Pediatrics University of Washington & Principal Investigator Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Seattle Children's Research Institute http://bit.ly/SCRI_MicroCT http://SlicerMorph.org https://instances.morpho.cloud -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/1df0b66a-b5c8-4f6d-8d46-3ba7ef87bf1bn%40googlegroups.com.
