The following grant opportunity postings were made on the Grants.gov Find Opportunities service:

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Exploratory Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R21)
Modification 1
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17962

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R01) Grant
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17963

LSU College of Basic Sciences is sponsoring the Summer Undergraduate Research Program Seminar Series for the summer participants in the HHMI, LBRN and Chemistry REU research programs. I’m inviting all of you to come join us every Tuesday morning at 9am via Access Grid to meet with our speakers who are from different departments from LSU and other universities who will be presenting their research projects. If you have any students that are interested please let them know so that they could join us for these weekly seminars.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Program Seminar Series will be held in Life Sciences Annex Auditorium, Room A101 at Louisiana State University and/or via Access Grid (please check your local access grid for this event).

For Access Grid information/scheduling check the Access Grid website for current information and the AG Scheduler.

Call for Papers: 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE-CIBCB08)
September 15-17, 2008, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.

Sponsored by IEEE and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Special session webpage: http://www.latech.edu/~sdua/CIBCB08-SS/

Registration is Now Open for the 2008 NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration

Dear NIH Extramural Research Community,

Following is information about the upcoming NIH Regional Seminars where you can learn about NIH funding opportunities, grants administration, and the nuts and bolts (and electrons!) of electronic submission.

In addition, you have terrific opportunities to meet NIH staff to get your specific questions asked. Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested in attending.

Jo Anne Goodnight
NIH Office of Extramural Research

HPC @ LSU has updated it's training for 2008. While it doesn't mention AccessGrid access in the description the registration process does have a field to input you'd like to participate via the Access Grid. If you're at a remote site I'd encourage you to register early (at least a week) so that they know to setup for it if possible.

http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials/index.php or just go to the link on the sidebar under Bioinformatic Resources.

Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI)

We are soliciting original papers in the area of information visualization applied to biomedical and biomolecular data, including genomic and proteomic data. One of the great challenges is the presentation of and interaction with large and complex data sets. The need for integrated methods and creative strategies has provided an opportunity for novel solutions. We encourage the submission of new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys.

LBRN has been utilizing the Access Grid since December of 2002 for enhancing communication among its partner institutions in the state of Louisiana. LBRN has been utilized for advice and information for new Access Grid nodes across the state, other states, and in several other countries due to its success at this. Non-partner sites are starting up Access Grid nodes across the state and LBRN provides a state wide Access Grid venue server to enable these sites as well as other LBRN sites to collaborate in this way. In addition, with LONI making multicast reliable across the state, our progress and usage of this tool has expanded to higher quality video streams to enhance the "Access Grid Experience" with DV and HDV video to existing Access Grid sites.

Information regarding the Louisiana Access Grid Network is linked here to provide information such as Louisiana site lists, listserv information, best practices, advice and current events and past events and a gallery of photos to show the use of the tool for our program (and others). Some of these are forthcoming, but well under way. The initial pages with lists, protocols and best practices are available now.

Notice Number: NOT-OD-07-076

Release Date: July 20, 2007

Issued by National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov)

Two NIH Regional Seminars covering topics related to NIH extramural program funding and grants administration have been planned for 2008.

Each Regional Seminar encompasses two full days, providing information about the NIH funding process, from opportunity identification and application preparation through post award administration. Presentations are targeted towards research administrators, new and experienced investigators, post docs and trainees. Opportunities for informal interactions between seminar participants and NIH grants management, program, policy, and review staff are incorporated into the program and such interactions are highly encouraged. NIH electronic research administration computer labs are offered on a day adjacent to the two day seminar.

The 2008 seminars will be held:

NEW! As an experiment, with encouragement from NSF, TeraGrid would like to make up to 10% of the computer resources allocable at each panel available for use by NIH-funded academic researchers. Starting with submissions to the September 2007 MRAC and LRAC meetings, PIs will notice updates in POPS to help us collect information about their supporting grants for this experiment.