Attendees

• Eric, Elaine, Greg, Scooter, TomG

Agenda

• Will Tristan be included on R01 proposal?
• Refine R01 specific aims
• New hire job ​description
  • Next steps, selection and interview process.
• Funding Update:
  • R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021
    • implication of large unexpended balance
    • draft research plan is in Google Docs
    • Specific Aims to be enumerated after Research Plan is more developed
    • discuss status and writing assignments - All
  • Adam R24 grant:
    • funding has begun as of 5/3/21
    • funded at requested level - no reduction!
  • NTT Data - ​task order
    • does the contract need to be modified given the Adams R24 OS that was submitted to NIH?
  • DoE cryoEM:
    • FOA: ​DE-FOA-0002482
    • proposal submitted 5/14/21
    • not sure when review will be completed and awards announced
    • if successful funds 0.98 FTE for 3 years
  • Adelson grant status report - Scooter
• SPOKE:
  • Status report - Scooter
  • Do we need to re-consider our level of involvement in this project?
    • what are the scientific benefits? - Scooter
    • what level of funding do we receive? - Scooter
    • what is the level of enthusiasm of RBVI staff? - All
    • does this project leverage our expertise? - All
• AWS longterm account for VR meetings
  • 12-month free account will expire Aug 2021
• Review Action Items list below - TomG

Discussion Notes

• Include Tristan on R01?
  • We don't know how to have non-US staff on NIH grant. Scooter thinks Tom Ferrin would have to learn from Paul Adams how, but Tom has too little time.
  • Could fund Tristan as a consultant. Scooter knows how to do this and will try to set it up.
  • Tristan's main interest in R01 funding is to help get a position in Australia, where bringing his own funding will help. Tristan's current funding tied to Randy Reed lab and cannot be transferred.

• R01 specific aims
  • Discussion of top level 3 specific aims: 1) diverse ChimeraX tools, 2) cryoEM/ET, 3) outside developer support.
  • May try a paragraph for each aim instead of listing subaims 1A,1B,1C....
  • Eric will write an initial draft for aim 1, TomG for aim 2 and 3.
  • Mention VR? Maybe just to let reviewers know about it but not propose anything. Or maybe propose some tomography vis from rejected CZI Visual Proteomics proposal.
  • Include light microscopy as separate aim? No, too much work for funding level. Can include with aim 2, related to tomography, correlative LM/EM. Only propose limited new LM developments, like supporting new LM file formats.

Action Items

• Create tutorial for putting model on web page - TomG
• Figure out what additional plato directories need backup - Scooter
• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn - Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux - Scooter