Louisiana Biomedical Research Network - The aim of this network is to enhance the quality of biomedical research conducted throughout the state of Louisiana by increasing access to state of the art research infrastructure.

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6th LBRN Workshop on Computational Biology

Monday, February 04 2013 @ 02:22 PM CST

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

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SURF 2012 Photos Available

Friday, August 10 2012 @ 12:27 PM CDT

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)

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2010 MCBC Training Modules available for viewing

Friday, October 01 2010 @ 04:05 PM CDT

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.

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Success Story of Louisiana COBRE/INBRE/RCMI

Thursday, May 06 2010 @ 02:33 PM CDT

Scientists from several Louisiana academic institutions attracted over 250 million dollars in competitive National Institutes of Health funding.

Click on the brochure for more information.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) was established in 1993 to broaden the geographic distribution of NIH funding for biomedical and behavioral research. The program fosters health-related research and enhances the competitiveness of investigators at institutions in 23 states and Puerto Rico. The program also serves unique populations, such as rural and medically underserved communities, in these states. The IDeA program is supported by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Division of Research Infrastructure.

The IDeA program has two components, Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) and IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).

COBRE programs build multi-disciplinary research centers with a thematic scientific focus. Junior investigators graduate from the program after they obtain NIH competitive funding on their own.

INBRE programs enhance biomedical research capacity in primarily undergraduate institutions in alliance with LSU, as a major research institution in Louisiana.

RCMI programs enhance the research capacity and infrastructure at minority colleges and universities that offer doctorates in health sciences. The program serves the dual purpose of bringing more minority scientists into mainstream research and enhancing studies of minority health. The RCMI is also supported by NIH NCRR.

For more information go to http://idea.lsu.edu.

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