The LBRN/INBRE Work in Progress Series will be held via Access Grid (please check your local access grid for this event) on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 10am.

Integrating Computational Science into the Undergraduate Curriculum

SC08 Summer 2008 Education Program Workshop
June 8-14, 2008
LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1st CCT/LBRN Workshop on Computational Biology 2008

LSU CCT and LBRN will host the 1st Workshop on Computational Biology. The 1.5 day event will take place April 25-26, 2008 at Louisiana State University. We would like to invite researchers/faculty and graduate students to attend this workshop.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers using computational approaches in the biological sciences, HPC providers and the Cyber-Infrastructure developers as to forge a community of computational biologists across the state. This will be the first in a series of workshops aimed at specific user communities.

For registration and other detail information, please visit Computational Biology Workshop at

http://lbrn.lsu.edu/urls/cs2008

Registration Deadline: April 18, 2008

Dung Pham
Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
LSU Biological Sciences
131 Life Sciences Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-1848
Fax: 225-578-2597.

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: