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LBRN 23rd Annual Meeting
Event Date: March 20-23, 2025
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 […]
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LATECH & GSU partnered to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in local wastewater
Posted Date: January 25, 2025
Students and faculty from Louisiana Tech University, Jamie Newman, and Grambling State University, Paul Kim, partnered to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in local wastewater. The recent publication in PLoS One represents the work of undergraduates at these PUI campuses and critical work in an area of community health thanks to support of the Lincoln Parish institutions, the LBRN, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Caleb Charpentier from Southeastern Louisiana University awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship NSF
Posted Date: January 23, 2025
Caleb Charpentier from Southeastern Louisiana University was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation to pursue a Ph.D at Virginia Tech starting in the Fall. Only two of these prestigious fellowships were awarded to students from Louisiana last year. Caleb had worked with Dr. April Wright for 5 semesters under an LBRN grant. He is also the first author on a recently published article in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, entitled "Revticulate: An R framework for interaction with RevBayes."
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Dr. Cory Coehoorn, Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Health Science at LSU Shreveport presents three research studies at the 2022 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in San Diego, California
Posted Date: January 23, 2025
Dr. Cory Coehoorn, Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Health Science at LSU Shreveport, recently presented three research studies at the 2022 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. The three presentations were all related to his work with firefighters. The presentations were titled “Cortisol Responses Among Volunteer and Paid-on-call Firefighters Responding to Calls at Night,” “Effect of Sleep and Shift Characteristics on Heart Rate Variability in Wildland Firefighters,” and “Subjective and Objective Fatigue in Wildland Firefighting.”
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LSU Shreveport Dr. Elahe Mahdavian published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Posted Date: January 22, 2025
Dr. Elahe Mahdavian, Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Shreveport and also LBRN Molecular and Cell Biology Resources Core liaison, recently published "YM155 induces DNA damage and cell death in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells by inhibiting DNA topoisomerase IIα at the ATP binding site” on Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
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LATECH, GSU partner for Health Fair
Posted Date: January 22, 2025
Louisiana Tech University and Grambling State University co-hosted a health fair from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 outside the LATECH Ropp Center, to encourage staff, faculty, and students – as well as the community – to be conscious of their mental and physical health as Spring Quarter begins. LATECH and GSU are Primary PUI partners of the LBRN. Both Drs. Newman and Kim have been recipients of full project funding from the LBRN. Dr. Kim is the Core Liaison for the BBC Core at Grambling.
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LATECH Dr. David Mills receives publication award
Posted Date: January 22, 2025
Dr. David Mills, a professor in Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, has received an award for his publication on 3D Printing Custom Bioactive and Absorbable Surgical Screws, Pins, and Bone Plates for Localized Drug Delivery. The publication was ranked number one in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials 2021 Highly Cited Paper awards. Along with co-authors Dr. Karthik Tappa, Dr. Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, and Dr. Jeffery A. Weisman, Mills wrote this publication to address more patient specialized treatment. Dr. Mills has been a recipient of translational project funding from the LBRN.
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Biomedical Research and Industry Day Held at LSU Shreveport
Posted Date: January 22, 2025
Student, staff and faculty participants from universities across the state gathered at LSU Shreveport on October 20, 2022, for the 2022 Biomedical Research and Industry Day (BRAID). […]
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2023 LBRN 21th Annual Meeting Awards
Event Date: January 20-21, 2023
For information about: 2023 LBRN 21th Annual Meeting. LBRN 21th Annual Meeting Poster and Presentation Award Winners Undergraduate Student Poster Winners 1st Place: Zachary Wiggins (ULM) 2nd […]
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LSU Summer Undergraduate Research Forum
Event Date: August 2, 2024
About The 29th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) will showcase the numerous undergraduate students who have engaged in summer research projects this year at institutions […]
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2024 LBRN 22nd Annual Meeting Awards
Event Date: January 19-20, 2024
For information about: 2024 LBRN 22nd Annual Meeting. LBRN 22nd Annual Meeting Poster and Presentation Award Winners Poster Presentation Results 1st Place: Erica Delaune (Southeastern Louisiana State […]
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Biomedical Research and Industry Day Held at LSU Shreveport
Posted Date: October 20, 2022
Students and faculty from Louisiana Tech University, Jamie Newman, and Grambling State University, Paul Kim, partnered to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in local wastewater. The recent publication in PLoS One represents the work of undergraduates at these PUI campuses and critical work in an area of community health thanks to support of the Lincoln Parish institutions, the LBRN, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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2022 9th Annual Louisiana Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Awards
LBRN 2025 Annual Meeting
March 20-21, 2025
LBRN Each year the LBRN program has an annual meeting in which program participants from PUI campuses, summer program, committee members and administrators meet to review individual research accomplishments and to discuss the overall program activity. March 20-21, 2025, Save the Date!