Pine Biotech and University of Haifa present at the 7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

April 4–5th 2019

Pine Biotech has been working with the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network to deliver a world-class training program in bioinformatics to students and researchers across the state of Louisiana. The program started as a summer pilot and was extended for the full academic year, offering a comprehensive course on NGS data analysis to over 100 participants. As a result, 6 modules were developed to cover Introduction to Bioinformatics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Epigenomics, and Machine Learning Methods. After the first 6 months, 8 posters were presented at the recent annual conference, and 4 pilots started at different campuses across the state.

The 7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics brings together researchers from across South-Eastern States to learn about projects in bioinformatics and computational biology. This year speakers from NYU, Virginia Tech, Thomas Jefferson University and other leading institutions across the US were joined by a delegation from University of Haifa, Israel. The conference had over 300 participants and started with a welcome by the provost of LSU, Dr. Stacia Haynie and opening session by Dr. Alfred Tauber, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of University of Haifa.

Dr. Alfred Tauber presents his vision of Bioinformatics as Citizen Science at the 7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The delegation from University of Haifa was led by Dr. Alfred Tauber who came by special invitation from the organizing committee and leadership at Louisiana State University where the conference was hosted. Together with Dr. Tauber, Dr. Leonid Brodsky, the director of the Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center and Dr. Hanoch Kaphzan from the Sagol Department of Neuroscience presented at the conference as keynote speakers. Before the conference, Julia Panov from Dr. Kaphzan’s Neurobiology lab led a 2-hour workshop on bioinformatics using the T-BioInfo platform developed at the Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center at University of Haifa.

Dr. Leonid Brodsky, Director of Julia Panov, Ram Ramanujan, Alfred Tauber and Elia Brodsky, Pine Biotech CEO

Several posters were presented at the conference by Pine Biotech staff as well as researchers that gained experience in the LBRN Bioinformatics Training program, utilizing the T-BioInfo platform.

Sahil Sethi, Julia Panov and Justin Dore present posters at the LBRN conference in Louisiana

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