A Bioinformatics Workshop is being held by the LBRN Molecular and Cell Biology Core. They have presentations on new NGS capabilities and will have 6-8 faculty members presenting their work (second day) on the use of NGS and Bioinformatics in their research projects. Speakers are from LSU (SVM, Biological Sciences, Ag. Center) and the Tulane National Primate Research Center.

The Workshop will be held June 13-14 in Room 1212C of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

This year's workshop is being held on Friday, February 22, 2013 at the NEW Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium in New Orleans, LA.

LSU Health Science Center and LBRN will host the 6th Computational Biology Workshop. The one-day event will take place Friday, February 22, 2013 in New Orleans (Louisiana Cancer Research Center). We would like to invite researchers, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to attend.

The workshop will begin with a keynote from Dr. Jennifer Clarke, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Biostatistics & Department of Medicine, University of Miami. Additional topics will include:

Panels considering the present and future state of computational biostatistics and cancer research
multi-institution computational biology collaborations
updates on recent & future LBRN PI applications of bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology tools.

As in previous years, participation (including travel and lodging) will be supported for LBRN faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and core members.

For registration, agenda, and other detail information, please visit Computational Biology Workshop page at: http://lbrn.lsu.edu/cw

Hotel Lodging (if required) Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2013

Workshop Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 13, 2013

We look forward to meeting you in New Orleans!

-- The LBRN BBCore

Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CSBS13) Workshop

The upcoming workshop on biological physics and systems biology entitled "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology 2013 (CBSB13)" will take place at the University of Oklahoma Conference Center in Norman, OK (USA) May 19 through May 21, 2013. There are opportunities for oral presentations, and students/postdocs are eligible for travel fellowships. More details can be found below or at http://www.hansmann-lab.com/cbsb13.

The LBRN Work-in-progress will be held via Access Grid (please check your local access grid for this event immediately) on: Friday, January 3rd, 2013 @ 1:00-3:00pm. Attached is a flyer to post on your campus and within your department to invite your students, staff, and faculty to this seminar:

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Hadoop-based Replica Exchange Statistical Temperature Molecular Dynamics  

Shuju Bai

Department of Computer Science

Southern University and A&M College

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Relationship between Retinoic Acid and Hoxa1 on the Differentiation of Mouse ES Cells into Neuroectodermal Versus Endodermal Lineages 

Eduardo Martinez-Ceballos

Evaluation of Fusarochromanone: A Potent Inhibitor of Angiogenesis and Tumorigenesis 

Elahe Mahdavian

Chemistry/Physics Department

LSU-Shreveport

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Dr. Yuir Voziyanov from LATech will be visiting  the LSU Baton Rouge campus December 13^th and 14^th, 2012. Dr. Vozianov’s research interests are in developing technologies that allow molecular manipulation of genetic material in situ i.e., altering genes in living organisms. He has kindly offered to present a seminar at LSU to the LBRN Access Grid community Friday, December 14^th, 2012 at 10:00-11:00 AM.

 Attached is a flyer to post on your campus and within your department to invite your students, staff, and faculty to this seminar:

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Genome Engineering

YURI VOZIYANOV

School of Biosciences
Institute for Micromanufacturing
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY

note: click on poster image to view poster and appropriate abstracts (same document).

Also please check our participating sites; notify the site at least three business days ahead of time to ensure site will be running via the Access Grid, assuming their facility is available.  Read more to see what potential sites might be available (pending local site confirmation):

Louisiana Biomedical Research Network

The Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF), was held Friday, July 27, 2012 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm in LSU's Union's Cotillion Ballroom.

The 19th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) was held at the LSU Union where undergraduate students from across the LSU campus presented their summer research projects. SURF included students from research programs such as CCT REU, HHMI, LA-SiGMA, LBRN, NOYCE, Office of Strategic Initiatives REU (OSI REU), Physics & Astronomy REU, EXROP and SURE as well as individual student researchers in various laboratories across LSU. Students represented chemistry, biology, chemical engineering, math, computer science, biochemistry and physics and came from colleges from all across the state, and universities all across the country.

For photos of the event go to our LBRN Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/LouisianaBiomedicalResearchNetwork

The SURF Program is available: 2012 LSU Summer Undergraduate Research Forum Program (pdf)

The Molecular and Cell Biology Core of the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network commenced a series of training presentations and hands-on modules in September 2010. There are now over a dozen recordings from Flow Cytometry, multiplex immunoassays, Real-time PCR, Protein Expression, etc. available to view via playback that were conducted live via Access Grid with our partner sites. Find the Molecular and Cell Biology block and click on Activities. This will bring you to the MCBC Activities webpage where you will be able to find information regarding upcoming MCBC events and video resources for previous sessions.

Quick Access: A new search feature will allow quick access to the recordings - found on the menu bar: Core Events and Recordings.