The Eastern Regional Network (ERN) has been very busy since our June 2020 All Hands Meeting and are excited about sharing all of the activities with you, the ERN community. For this reason, we are pleased to announce that this year’s ERN All Hands Meeting will take place virtually from July 13 - 15, 2021. You are invited to join with the ERN community as we come together to discuss current and future ERN projects, collaborations and partnerships, the five ERN Working Groups’ efforts, future funding opportunities, future workshops, and other topics. In addition, we plan to invite several NSF Program Officers to the All Hands Meeting as well as industry partners who have been involved with several of the ERN activities.
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Click on the event title to learn how to register for this virtual event on April 20th at 2 p.m. ET, featuring the Eastern Regional Network’s (ERN) Broadening the Reach program--which strives to understand how to support resource and technology collaborations among smaller, mid-sized, under-resourced campuses in the Northeast, and how similar collaborations can be expanded in the Northeast with:
*Minority Serving Institutions,
*Hispanic-Serving Institutions,
*Historically Black Colleges and Universities
*Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research institutions

In this virtual event you will learn about:
*The Eastern Regional Network’s Broadening the Reach program
*The ERN BTR December 2020 workshop results
*Available resources and funding opportunities that your campus could leverage
*Ways to participate with these research and cyberinfrastructure collaborations

Speakers:
Dr. Forough Ghahramani, Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs, Edge, Inc.
John Hicks, Network Research Engineer, Internet2

The Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine and the Eastern Regional Network are co-organizing an online workshop to solicit feedback from electron microscopists and electron microscopy facility managers regarding their information technology (IT) challenges. The goal of our Voice of the Customer exercise is to ascertain the needs of this rapidly growing community of structural biologists for enumeration in an NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 application (Program Solicitation NSF 21- 505, Mid-scale RI-1).

Our proposal seeks funds to establish robust federated IT data transfer networking and data management solutions among ERN-member institutions that will enable facile and secure online access to electron microscopy facilities and the large volumes of data generated therefrom.

Electron microscopists and electron microscopy facility managers working in ERN-member institutions are strongly encouraged to register (at no cost) and contribute to the success of the Mid-scale RI-1 proposal by explaining current IT infrastructure pain points and helping to identify future enhancements for remote access and control of imaging experiments by structural biologists using institutional, regional, and national electron microscopy facilities. Interested parties from outside the ERN, including ex-US institutions, are similarly encouraged to register (at no cost) and participate. The ERN is committed to identifying IT infrastructure solutions that can be disseminated across the nation and around the world.

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