There will be a Matlab seminar hosted by Louisiana Tech University on October 14th on the Access Grid. Attached is the announcement poster to spread to word to those who my be interested.

Potential Access Grid sites are listed on the Registered Louisiana Access Grid List. Please contact your Access Grid site with the following reservation information if you wish to join. The Access Grid information needed to make reservations is on agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=24312. You should contact your site to be sure it will be reserved for your attendance.

The LBRN Work-in-progress will be held via Access Grid (please check your local access grid for this event) on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10am. Attached is a flyer to post on your campus and within your department to invite your students, staff, and faculty to this seminar:

Analysis of the Time Series Bladder  Cancer Progression Microarray Data

Dr. Urska Cvek (LSU - Shreveport) | Slides


Identification of genes involved  in early stage bladder cancer progression

Dr. John Clifford (LSU Health Science Center, Shreveport) | Slides

note: click on poster image or any title to view poster and and appropriate abstracts.

Our next LBRN Work in progress will be on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 10am.

Also please check our participating sites; notify the site ahead of time to ensure site will be running via the Access Grid. Sites with * require 3 business day notice (i.e. let them know by Monday, October 6th) read more below to see which sites.

Dr. K. Gus Kousoulas, Professor at LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and Director of BIOMMED, will be giving a seminar on “A Maverick View of Grantsmanship” on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at noon. The presentation will be available via Access Grid followed by a panel discussion. Attached you will find a flyer for the seminar, please forward it within your department to faculty and staff who will be interested on learning tips on preparing and writing a grant.

Also please check our participating sites; notify the site ahead of time to ensure site will be running via the Access Grid. Sites with * require 3 business day notice (i.e. let them know by Monday, September 29th) read more below to see which sites.

Link to Dr. Kousoulas' presentation is here: Kousoulas_Grantsmanship_10.02.08.pdf

Due to Hurricane Gustav, the session from September 4th was rescheduled to October 2nd.

The first HPC trainings session of the fall semester will be held in Frey 307 at LSU in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, September 16th from 9:00am to noon. Another training session will be held in Frey 307 on Thurday, September 18th from 9:30am to 12:30pm. Both training sessions will be available on the access grid but registration is still required.

The LBRN webserver was down intermittently during Gustav as LSU lost and regained power and switched from it's backup system back to it's provider's energy system.

Following that, due to environmental (A/C) issues on site, the LBRN.LSU.EDU, BIOMMED.LSU.EDU, IDEA.LSU.EDU, and COBRE.LSU.EDU webservices have been down intermittently between the 8th and 24th.

Thank you for your patience, LBRN

The following grant opportunity postings were made on the Grants.gov Find Opportunities service:

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Exploratory Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R21)
Modification 1
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17962

HHS
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R01) Grant
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17963

HPC @ LSU continues to have training available. 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.

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.