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2011 Annual NECC Meeting

March 15, 2011
Wells Conference Center, University of Maine, Orono

(Click on the links below to view powerpoint presentations)

AGENDA
Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Wells Conference Center
8:00-8:15am	Welcome and Introduction Judith Van Houten, VT EPSCoR PD and INBRE PI Jennifer Schopf, Program Director, NSF EPSCoR Michael Sayre, Deputy Director, Division of Research Infrastructure
8:15-8:30am	Introduction of the NECC committees and members
8:30-10:00am	NECC Cyber-enabled Collaborative Research Program: NECC Metagenome Project: James Vincent, NEBC and Vermont INBRE Bioinformatics Core NECC Little Skate Genome Project: Ben King, Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core and NEBC NECC Cyber-enabled genomics research: Jennifer Specker, Associate Project Director, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR, and URI Professor of Oceanography NECC RACER YR1 Award for "An open-access shared database resource for eukaryotic metagenetics research": Holly Bik, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, Univ. of New Hampshire, and James Vincent, NEBC and Vermont INBRE Bioinformatics Core
10:15-11:00am	Workforce Development and Diversity: NECC Little Skate Annotation Jamborees: Shawn Polson, Coord. of the Bioinformatics Core Facility, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, U. Delaware Cybertools: Karl Steiner, NECC Executive Committee and Sr. Assoc. Provost for Research Development, U. Delaware NECC Watershed Project: Miranda Lescaze, Vermont EPSCoR CWDD and Streams Project Director and NECC Watershed Project
11:00am-noon	NECC Committee Meetings (breakouts): NEBC Technical Committee Water Research/RACER Committee Executive Committee Watershed Project
1:00-2:45pm	NECC State Projects: Fiber, Data Centers, Sustainability, and Leveraging: Rhode Island Fiber Progress and NECC Website: David Porter, Director of the University of Rhode Island Media and Technology Services, NECC Technical Committee Vermont Fiber progress: Kelvin Chu, Assoc. PD, VT EPSCoR, NECC Executive Committee New Hampshire Fiber Progress: Scott Valcourt, Director, Project Management and Consulting Services, UNH and NECC Executive and Technical Committees Delaware Progress and Data Center: Karl Steiner, NECC Executive Committee, Sr. Assoc. Provost for Research Development Maine Fiber progress and Data Center: NECC Technical Committee Co-Chairs Jeff Letourneau, Executive Director, NetworkMaine, University of Maine System, and Bruce Segee, Butler Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maine NECC Data Management: Ben King, Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core, NEBC
3:00-3:30pm	NECC Evaluation and Assessment: Special Report from the Executive Committee: Kelvin Chu, Assoc. PD VT EPSCoR, NECC Executive Committee
3:30-4:00pm	NECC External Engagement: Communication, Outreach, and Dissemination Partnerships: Lillian Gamache, Project Administrator, VT EPSCoR, and Vicki Nemeth, Assoc. PD, ME EPSCoR Director, and NECC Executive Committee
4:00-5:00pm	NECC Committee reports and updates: NEBC Technical Committee Water Research/RACER Committee Executive Committee
5:00-6:00pm	Planning Ahead: Annual report & assessment discussion Next Track-2 What can we do now that we could not do before? Moving forward with additional collaborative research projects