24th LBRN Annual Meeting
Event Date: January 23-25, 2026
Deadline: December 20, 2025
Location: School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA-70803
About
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, Pilot Project PIs, Startup Project PIs.
Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Stefan Sarafianos
Nahmias-Schinazi Distinguished Professor
Endowed Chair and Co-Director of the Center for ViroScience and Cure
Assistant Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Co-Director of the B-HIVE U54 Center at Seattle Children's Research Institute
Agenda
Tentative Agenda
When & Where
This year’s meeting will be held in- person from January 23-25, 2026, at School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Deadlines
- Attendance Registration: Open Registration
- Presentation Abstract Submission: December 20, 2025
Presentations
Oral Presentations
LBRN Translational Project PIs, INBRE COBRE Collaboration Project PIs, Supplemental Project PIs, Full/Pilot/Start-up Project PIs: 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.
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 22, 2026.
- 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 Ojasvi Dutta at odutta@lsu.edu
Registration
Please follow this registration link button to register, all biomedical researchers in the state are welcome to participate in addition to our LBRN funded participants. There is no registration fee / cost. Registration is required to be able to join the meeting.