1st Annual Kick-Off Meeting Agenda
8:30 a.m. Brief Remarks: Francis Collins, Director, NIH (5 min)
8:35 a.m. Program Welcome: Jim Anderson, Deputy Director, NIH and Director, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) (5 min)
8:40 a.m. Program Vision: Jon Lorsch, Director, NIGMS, and Paul Sieving, Director, NEI (15 min)
8:55 a.m. Program Structure: Houmam Araj, NEI, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator (10 minutes)
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9:05 a.m. Program Expectations: Jim Deatherage, NIGMS, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator (10 minutes)
9:15 a.m. Introduction of the National Cryo-EM Service Centers
(15 minutes each, 15 minutes questions)
Bridget Carragher, New York Structural Biology Center
Eric Gouaux, Oregon Health Science University
Wah Chiu, Stanford University
- Overview of Center organization plans and current facilities
- Timeline for instrumentation receipt, installation and program implementation
10:15 a.m. Break (30 minutes)
10:45 a.m. Introduction of Cryo-EM Curriculum Development Projects
(10 minutes each, 10 minutes questions)
Fred Sigworth, Yale University
Grant Jensen, California Institute of Technology
Peter Shen, University of Utah
Ying-Jie Chen and Wen Jiang, Purdue University
- Overview of training instruments to be developed
11:35 p.m. Lunch
12:35 p.m. Discussion of topics common to both initiatives (Room E1/E2)
All-PI Panel Forum (1 hours) Lead: Jim Deatherage, NIGMS, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator
Cross training Progress, Plans
- Outreach, Publicizing centers, Information that can be reported to public
- Curriculum Development Progress/ Plans
- Coordination on training, curriculum, outreach, websites, publicity, public relations
1:35 p.m. Breakout Session 1 Centers-specific topics (Room E1/E2)
Centers PIs’ Panel Forum (1.5 hours) Lead: Mary Ann Wu, NIGMS, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator
- Infrastructure progress and plans
- Staffing progress, plans, strategies
- Logistics of User Review
- Criteria of User Review
- Operations/scheduling time allocation
- Sharing information: Applications, Access, Metrics
- Records management system
- Select issues to bring back to the group at 3:30
1:35 p.m. Breakout Session 2 Curriculum development-specific topics (Room D)
Curriculum PIs’ Panel Forum (1.5 hours) Lead: Houmam Araj, NEI, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator
- Defining and fulfilling the needs of the National Centers for training materials.
- Optimal levels of aptitude/detail for curricula
- Linkage and complementarity among various curricula being developed
- Platforms for delivery of curricula
- Beta testers to cross evaluate curriculum/software for usability and provide feedback
- Potential outreach to non-NIH funded curriculum development efforts
- Select issues to bring back to the group at 3:30
3:05 p.m. Break (30 minutes)
3:35 p.m. Final Forum (Room E1/E2) – (1 hour) Lead: Jim Deatherage, NIGMS, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator
- Summary of conclusions and key unresolved issues raised in breakouts (several minutes by one of the participants) followed by discussion, future steps to resolve
- Questions for staff (operations, NIH's future plans etc.)
- Summary/discussion of ideas/topics for coordination (during the year), regular video-conferences
- Ideas on how to publicize the initiative and report to the Common Fund and the public (revisit outreach, websites, publicity, public relations)
- Ideas for future meetings
4:35 p.m. Adjourn
4:50 p.m. Satellite Session - Centers Records Management System (Room E1/E2) - (1.25 hours)
Lead: Jim Deatherage, NIGMS, Cryo-EM Workgroup Coordinator
Center PIs, Center Program Officers and Center Project Coordinators
- Discuss “nuts and bolts” of the records management system
7:05 p.m. Dinner (optional)
