22nd LBRN Annual Meeting
Event Date: January 19 – 20, 2024
Deadline: Abstract submissions and hotel supporting are now closed.
Location: Baton Rouge Marriott
About
Each year the LBRN program has an annual meeting in which program participants, committee members and administrators meet to review individual research accomplishments and to discuss the overall program activity. Summer research faculty and graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to present their LBRN sponsored research, and talks are scheduled to highlight sponsored research projects from partnered campuses across the state.
Oral Presenters: INBRE Translational Project PIs, Full Project PIs, Pilot Project PIs, Summer Graduate Students, and invited guests.
Poster Sessions: Pilot, Translational, and Startup Project PIs, 2023 LBRN Summer Faculty, and Graduate Students are required to submit an abstract to participate in the poster session. LBRN Undergraduate Summer students are also invited to participate. Poster abstract submission form will be sent after your registration.
Keynote Speakers
Charles Wood
Cancer Crusader Professor of the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology at the LSUHSC Associate Director of Basic Research at the LSU Cancer Center
Ram Samudrala
Professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo NIH NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge
Oliver Garden
Professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo NIH NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge
Biography of Dr. Charles Wood
Biography of Dr. Ram Samudrala
Biography of Dr. Oliver Garden
Agenda
Agenda
2024 Annual Meeting Agenda
Please click the image to download the Agenda in PDF format.
When & Where
This year’s meeting is being held on January 19 – 20, 2024 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. Please proceed to the front door entrance for registration. Posters and meals will be setup in the hallways in the surrounding areas around the theater.
Address
Baton Rouge Marriott, 5500 Hilton Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Parking
Complimentary on-site parking & electric car charging station.
Deadlines
- Registration is open. Financial support, such as hotels, is limited to participants who registered by January 10, 2024.
Lodging & Expenses
Confirm your participation in the LBRN 22nd Annual Meeting by registering. Registration is required to participate in the program, obtain hotel lodging if needed, provide meeting space, materials, food and beverage at all the planned functions. Hotel reservation information and abstract submission forms for the Poster and Oral presentations will be provided with your online event registration. We look forward to your participation at the meeting!
Discounted hotel group rates will not be available after the hotel deadline of January 10, 2024, 5:00 PM (CST), and LBRN will not be able to provide financial support to participants who register after that date.
If you wish to cover your own expenses, you must contact the hotel directly.
Participants can later fill out tax exemption documents and receive reimbursement if necessary when the conditions are met.
If for any reason that you need to cancel your registration or if you have any questions, please contact to Grant Coordinator, Brent Stanfield
Covered Expenses
For Baton Rouge Residents
- No reimbursement for hotel or mileage.
For Non-Baton Rouge Employees and Students
If driving personal vehicle:
Provide time/date leaving and returning to your residence/school. Also provide odometer beginning/end or mileage map calculation for mileage justification for a mileage reimbursement at $0.655/mile. Note: We recommend if you’re driving more than 100 miles one way that you rent a vehicle.
If driving a university owned vehicle:
Please follow department’s policies and procedures. If an account code is required, please contact Stephanie E Heroman at sheroman@lsu.edu
If renting a vehicle:
Contact the LSU approved vehicle rental and have it charged to your personal credit card. Insurance is not reimbursable for domestic travel. Keep all your receipts along with gas receipts for travel reimbursements request. You must use state contracted rates.
— Vehicle Rental Size
Only the cost of rental of compact or mid-size/intermediate model is reimbursable, unless 1) non-availability is documented, 2) the vehicle will be used to transport more than two individuals.
— Gasoline (receipts required)
Reimbursements require a receipt for regular unleaded gasoline, or diesel when applicable only to the driver renting the vehicle.
— Insurance for Vehicle Rentals
Insurance billed by vehicle rental companies (i.e., CDW or LDW) is not reimbursable for domestic travel.
* Personal Accident Insurance, Supplemental Liability Protection and Roadside Assistance is not reimbursable.
For graduate and undergraduate students to qualify for reimbursement, you must meet the following criteria:
- Must present a poster
- If not presenting, must be listed on the research of someone presenting
- Must attend one of the PUI campuses below and have approval by the LBRN Steering Committee member at the corresponding institution
- Grambling State University: Dr. Connie Walton
- Louisiana State University Shreveport: Dr. Urska Cvek
- Louisiana Tech: Dr. Bill Campbell
- Southeastern Louisiana University: Dr. Dan McCarthy
- Southern University of Baton Rouge: Dr. Patrick Mensah
- University of New Orleans: Dr. Matthew Tarr
- University of Louisiana Monroe: Dr. Ann Findley
- Xavier University: Dr. Tom Wiese
Hotel:
To obtain a room with the block, you must register for the event by the deadline. You must reserve a room using the link in your registration confirmation before the hotel deadline (or the block fills up, which ever is first). Incidentals are the participant’s responsibility.
Internet:
The hotel will provide free Wi-Fi to the meeting attendees.
Presentations
Poster Presentations
All LBRN Existing PI’s, LBRN Summer Graduate and Faculty are required to participate. All Summer Undergraduate students are invited to participate as well! *Exception are LBRN Shared Instrument PI’s not required, although are welcome to do so. Other biomedical researchers in the state are invited to submit an abstract to participate in the LBRN Poster Session taking place on Friday, January 19, 2024.
- Poster size may be up to 42″ wide X 36″ tall.
- Abstracts for the poster presentations will be printed in the program.
- The poster abstract cannot exceed 2000 characters.
- Please avoid using scientific notation and special characters in your abstract.
- The abstract submission form will be emailed to you after your event registration has been completed.
Oral Presentations
Selected LBRN INBRE Project PIs are required to submit an abstract for his/her research presentation. The oral presentation abstract submission form is emailed to Full Project PI’s (make sure to select proper title! in registration form!). The abstract cannot exceed 2000 characters. Abstracts for research presentations will be printed in the LBRN 22nd Annual Meeting Program.
Below are the details for your oral presentations (please see the agenda for the assigned time) at the Annual Meeting on either Friday 19th or Saturday the 20th. The Full project PI's are invited to give a 20 minute presentation highlighting the progress of their LBRN research project during the past year. As indicated, in the suggested presentation outline below, this presentation is different from a presentation normally made at a research meeting and must be designed to summarize your project and what has been acomplished during the past summer. After the presentations, the Full Project PI's will have an opportunity to meet with the LBRN EAC regarding their research project.
The research presentation should include the following:
Project Title (1 Slide)
- Mentee
- Name and Institution
- Mentor
- Name and Institution
Goals (1-2 Slides)
Overall Goals and Specific Aims of your project
Hypotheses (1 Slide)
Hypotheses investigated during the past 12 months
Summary: Experimental Approach/Results (2-3 Slides)
Brief summary of Experimental approach/es and results accomplished during the past 12 months
Impediments & Solutions (1 Slide)
Did you encounter any impediments in accomplishing your project? If so, what steps did you take to overcome this?
Next Steps (1-2 Slides)
What are the next steps in your research?
Project progress (1 Slide)
Summarize measurable accomplishments such as papers, abstracts, grants submitted or funded, and students trained. Address how does this fit within the overall time line for the project.
Future (optional slides)
How your project will lead into the area of Clinical Translational Research and Community Based Participatory Research?
Acknowledgements (1 slide)
Acknowledgements
In order for us to be on schedule, we ask that you do not exceed the number of slides listed or the time allotted for your presentation since you will need time for questions and answers.
Presentation Requirements
- Note the type of platform and file type you are sending (i.e. Windows/Powerpoint, OS X (Mac)/Powerpoint, OS X (Mac)/Keynote, etc.)
- Include any images/movies/etc. into the presentation file (i.e. make sure they are embedded if you referenced external files).
- Use the standard typefaces on your system. We will be using a single computer to do all the presentations in the interest of saving time for the presentations.
- The deadline to have the slides is Thursday, January 19, 2024.
- An emailed link will be provided to upload your presentation.
Sample templates for the oral presentation can be found HERE
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Brent Stanfield, bstanf5@lsu.edu.