The Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF), will be held Thursday, July 30, 2009 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm in LSU's Union's Cotillion Ballroom.

The 16th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) where undergraduate students from across the LSU campus present their summer research projects. SURF includes students from research programs such as CAMD, Chemistry REU, HHMI, LBRN, Office of Strategic Initiatives REU (OSI REU) and Pre-Doctoral Scholar's Institute (PDSI) as well as individual student researchers in various laboratories across LSU. The students will be on hand to discuss their work, which ranges widely across a variety of scientific fields - chemistry, biology, chemical engineering, math, computer science, biochemistry and physics will be represented. Students come from LSU, colleges from all across the state, and universities all across the country.

Please come and ask the participants about their summer research!

For more information and registration info for SURF 2009 please visit http://lbrn.lsu.edu/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=SURForum.

The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computer (Cluster 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, 31 August - 4 September, 2009) has proposed to NSF support for student participation in Cluster 2009. The proposal has been recommended for funding, though it has not yet officially been approved.

They expect to be able to support up to 75 students, with the following support:

* The advance student registration fee will be paid by the conference (normally $245)

* Students staying in the conference hotel will have $200 of hotel costs paid by the conference (note that 2 approved students sharing a room will thus save $400 of hotel costs)

The main conference sessions on Tuesday-Thursday (September 1-3) will including keynotes, peer-reviewed papers sessions, panels, and a poster session. Additionally, a new panel session on careers in Cluster computing is now being organized, with representatives from industry, government, and academia.

All tutorials and workshops (to be held on Monday and Friday) will be included in the same registration fee (which the conference will pay for approved students). Read more below for more info

The IVBI symposium is soliciting original manuscripts in the area of information visualisation applied to all kinds of biomedical 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 submissions of new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth
surveys. Peer-reviewed publications will be published in official symposium proceedings (with an ISBN number) by the IEEE Computer Society in print and online and will be indexed by major indexing services.

Examples of application topics include (not limited to)
• Microarray data, design and analysis
• Nucleotide and protein sequence alignment
• Sequence analysis, comparison and alignment networks
• Evolution
• Genomics
• Signaling pathways, biochemical networks
• Systems biology
• Mass spectrometry
• Patient records and other medical applications
• Interactions with large data sets
• Annotation and labeling
• Linking literature and semantics in pathway visualizations
• Systems-level analysis of experimental data
• Overview and detail presentation of predictive or uncertain data
• Identification of relationships in disparate data sets
• Comparative methods / user studies / surveys
• etc.

The submission deadline is March 15, 2010.

The conference will be held in London, England July 14, 2010.

More information can be found at www.graphicslink.co.uk/

The LSU Life Sciences Access Grid node has become part of the Global Quality Assurance Program for Access Grid nodes. This program was built by Jason Bell at CQU in Australia to provide and maintain a high standard of communication between Access Grid node sites and presented at previous Access Grid Retreats. An increasing number of nodes are meeting or requiring this level of quality assurance or "QA". Nodes in Australia, Canada, and England, with several others around the world have met this requirement. LSU is the first in the U.S. to do this.

Anyone meeting with a site that has been QA'd will know they are meeting with a site that meets a high level of quality without wasting time troubleshooting networking, audio, and operational issues. In addition, this node is able to begin QA'ing other nodes in the state of Louisiana. A list of available testers are listed here: http://www.accessgrid.org/qatesters

Information about the QA process is available here: http://www.accessgrid.org/qa-program

The list of registered Access Grid nodes on the Access Grid website here: http://www.accessgrid.org/nodes, nodes that are QA'd are checked in red. LSU's Life Sciences node, listed here, was the first in the state to be built in 2002 with the help of funding from then LSU Capital (now CCT), the LSU College of Basic Sciences, and funding from NIH IDeA program is gratefully acknowledged on this website.

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