Mark Ellisman, PhD

Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

Professor of Neurosciences and Bioengineering University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine

Building the BIRNBuilding the BIRN

““BBiomedical iomedical IInformatics nformatics RResearch esearch NNetworketwork ( (BIRNBIRN)”)”

BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

THE CHALLENGE OF MULTIPLE SCALES

THE CHALLENGE OF FUNCTIONAL CORRELATIONS

Trans-Pacific TelemicroscopyTrans-Pacific Telemicroscopy

Tokyo XP(Chicago)

STAR TAP

TransPAC vBNS

(San Diego)SDSC

NCMIR(San Diego)

UCSD

UHVEM(Osaka, Japan)

CRL/MPT

NCMIR(San Diego)

UHVEM(Osaka, Japan)

1st

2nd

TELEMICROSCOPY & GRID - BASED COMPUTINGTELEMICROSCOPY & GRID - BASED COMPUTINGREMOTE ACCESS FOR DATA ACQUISITION AND REMOTE ACCESS FOR DATA ACQUISITION AND

ANALYSISANALYSIS

NETWORK

IMAGINGINSTRUMENTS COMPUTATIONAL

RESOURCES

MULTI-SCALEDATA-BASES

DATA ACQUISITION DATA ANALYSISADVANCEDCOMPUTERGRAPHICS

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National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

National Center for Research Resources

NIH

Developing the Grid Cyber Developing the Grid Cyber

Architecture To Support Architecture To Support BBiomedical iomedical IInformatics nformatics

RResearch esearch NNetworketwork

DukeUCLA

Cal Tech

UCSD

Harvard

NIH/NCRR Centers for BioMedical Imaging and Computational Biololgy

UCSD-wide with Medical School

Cal-(IT)2NPACI/SDSC

“Deep Web”

“Surface Web”

Integrating Cyber Infrastructure to Link: •Advanced Imaging Instruments •Data Intensive Computing •Multi-Scale Brain Databases

Wireless “Pad” Web Interface

Form a National Scale Testbed andFederate Multi-scale NeuroImaging Data from Centers with High Field MRI and Advanced 3D Microscopes

BIRNBIRN

BIRN - Phase I - 2001-2002BIRN - Phase I - 2001-2002

National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

National Center for Research Resources

NIH

““BIRN” is NIH’S BRAND NEW PROJECT to ESTABLISH BIRN” is NIH’S BRAND NEW PROJECT to ESTABLISH a a

BBIOMEDICAL IOMEDICAL IINFORMATICS NFORMATICS RRESEARCH ESEARCH NNETWORKETWORK