19th LBRN Annual Meeting

Event Date: February 12-13, 2021

Deadline: Completed

Location: Virtual Meeting

About

We are very proud that in-spite of the unprecedented pandemic LBRN investigators and students have been carrying out active research in a responsible and safe manner. This is an open meeting and all are welcome, there is no registration fee. We invite the biomedical researchers from all over the state to participate.

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: LBRN Translational Project PIs, INBRE COBRE Collaboration Project PIs, Supplemental Project PIs, Full Project PIs, LBRN Graduate Students, and invited guests.

Poster Sessions: All projects currently funded by the LBRN, all projects that were part of the no-cost extension (NCE) ending August 18, 2020, Summer Graduate students are required to submit an abstract to participate in the poster session. LBRN Undergraduate Summer students and all biomedical researchers within the state of Louisiana are invited to submit abstracts. Poster abstract submission form will be sent after your registration.

Speakers

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AREA – R15 Overview

Alexandra Ainsztein, Ph.D
National institute of General Medical Science
Program Director in Division of Genetics and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
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AREA - R15 Grants Panel discussion

Eduardo Martinez-Ceballos, Ph.D
Southern University Baton Rouge
Professor Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry
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AREA - R15 Grants Panel discussion

Hector Biliran, Ph.D
Xavier University of Louisiana
Professor Department of Biology
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AREA - R15 Grants Panel discussion

Kevin E. Riley, Ph.D
Xavier University of Louisiana
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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AREA - R15 Grants Panel discussion

Sanjay Batra, Ph.D
Southern University - Baton Rouge
Professor of Environmental Toxicology
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AREA - R15 Grants Panel discussion

Seetharama Jois, Ph.D
Univerity of Louisiana at Monroe
Professor at the School Basic Pharm & Toxicol Sci
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AREA - R15 Grants Session Chair

Samithamby Jeyaseelan (Jey), Ph.D
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM)
Dr. William L. Jenkins Endowed Professor and Director of COBRE Center for Lung Biology and Disease
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Keynote Talk

Ram Samudrala, Ph.D
University at Buffalo
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Program

2021 Annual Meeting Program

Agenda

Final 2021 Annual Meeting Agenda V3 (updated February 12, 2021)

When & Where

This year's meeting is being held on February 12-13 via a virtual format. The virtual meeting information will be emailed to you prior to the meeting.

Deadlines

Attendance Registration: Open Registration
Presentation & Poster Abstract Submission: Extended: Thursday, February 4, 2021

Presentations

Poster Presentations

All projects currently funded by the LBRN, all projects that were part of the no-cost extension (NCE) ending August 18, 2020, Summer Graduate students, LBRN funded students and other biomedical researchers in the state are required or invited (as appropriate) to submit an abstract to participate in the LBRN Poster Session.

iPoster Gallery

Posters will be presented virtually during meeting. Please see the agenda for the summary of presentations.
Digital Poster platform for creating a poster.
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

LBRN Translational Project PIs, INBRE COBRE Collaboration Project PIs, Supplemental Project PIs, Full Project PIs, LBRN Graduate Students, and invited guests: The presentation abstract submission form will be emailed to project PI's. The abstract cannot exceed 2000 characters. Abstracts for research presentations will be printed in the digital LBRN Annual Meeting Program.

Below are the details for your oral presentations (please see the agenda for the assigned time) at the Annual Meeting. Please see the agenda for your project presentation time and duration. 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 accomplished.

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.
An emailed link will be provided to upload your presentation so that we have a copy of your presentation for the EAC.

Sample templates for the oral presentation can be found HERE

If you have any questions, please contact us lbrn@lsu.edu.

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