There are many other useful sites for biomedical researchers on the web. An excellent starting place is the WWW virtual library based at Harvard.
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Allegheny-Singer Research Institute
Ambros Lab at Dartmouth.
This site includes their collection of C. elegans and molecular biology protocols.
Attisano and Wrana laboratories. Liliana Attisano's and Jeff Wrana's web site welcomes you with a phosphoserine molecule from which you can dive into their research interests in TGFbeta and activin signalling and the role of the MAD family of signalling mediators.
Av-Gay laboratory, University of British Columbia. Molecular genetic analysis of human pathogens focusing on Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Contact: Dr. Yossef Av-Gay, Department of Medicine, UBC Division of Infectious Diseases
Room 452,2733 Hether St., Vancouver, BC, V5Z-3J5, Canada
Phone: (604) 875-4329 Fax: (604) 875-4013
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Bargmann Lab Home Page
BioChemNet is a directory of web resources for biology and chemistry teachers. Links are organized under the following topics: General Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Biotechnology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry. Supported by: Dyann K. Schmidel
David Bowtells Biochemistry, Mol. Biol. and Cell biol. protocols Lots of useful methods stuff.
The Brain Tumor Biology Lab is dedicated to cancer research focused on gliomas / brain tumors. This site presents scientific background, current research projects and links to brain tumor resources. Site (and lab!) run by Ollie Bogler
Bio-wURLd
According to Josh Hunag, Bio-wURLd is a searchable, user-maintained collection of URL's related to bioinformatics, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
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C. elegans labs
The Cell Biology and Cytoskeleton Group of the Division of Hematology at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston.
This site contains information on a variety of cell biological areas with a focus on cytosketetal processes such as actin functions, gelsolin, cell motility and neurofilaments. There is also a seminar listing and contact information as well as background on the Stossel, Hartwig, Janmey and Kwiatkowski labs.
Contact:Gabriel Fenteany.
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DNA vaccines
Pages contain protocols, frequently asked questions, and full texts of some recent reviews. There is also a list of researchers from around the world who work in this field, along with information on how to contact them.
Robert G. Whalen
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Richard Emlet
Studies "functional morphology, biomechanics, ecology, and evolution of invertebrate organisms." at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
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The Flytzanis Lab
Joe Forrester's lab
Interests: DNA Core Facility at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Whats on the page: GCG info, lists of restriction enzymes in various on-site freezers on campus, sorted by price.
Methods: molecular biology
Contact: Joe Forrester
Susan Forsburg's lab at U.S.C. This site is a great resource for S. pombe researchers and contains plasmid maps and other arrays of information such as: general pombe biology and cell cycle-ology, their research and publications, general pombe methods, a pombe vector database and list of the ATCC pombe holdings, list of technical references, protocols and "pombe-on-the-web" - a compendium of internet fission yeast, including links to relevant meetings
Contact:Susan Forsburg
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Directory of Glycoscientists (largely a directory of e-mail addresses, but it includes web sites where available).
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Hawley Lab Home Page
Ira Herskowitz lab page at UCSF. The lab studies many aspects of cell cycle regulation in S. cerevisiae.
Bob Horton's Lab Page
Server: PowerMacintosh 6100 with MacHTTPd server software. This server will move to somewhere in California after July 1st. Look here for an updated link! But never fear, the ever-popular Homemade Shaking Incubator page, which is now animated, has a permanent home on a Sun Sparcstation running the Solaris OS (Unix).
Contact: Bob Horton
Horwitz lab. Lots of stuff about cell adhesion and signalling.
The Houslay Lab Home Page has everything you want to know about PDE4 cAMP specific phosphodiesterases and links to sites covering Glasgow University (where it's sited), the City of Glasgow and Scotland.
Contact: Miles Houslay
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iProtocol
A free service for bioscience researchers to publicize and share protocols on the Web. The goal of the iProtocol project is to enhance collaboration among researchers. The web interface allows users to submit, edit & publicize research protocols without the need to set up their own web server or learn HTML. Currently we have over180 protocol entries in our searchable database and an audience of researchers from all over the world.
Developed by: biomedical researchers and software engineersLocated at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact: Chi-Pong Kwan
Internet for the Molecular Biologist Lots of information about the on-line resources available for biologists.
The laboratory of molecular graphics drug design in Moscow is run by Professor Alexis Ivanov and contains information on cytochrome P450, molecular modelling, computer-aided drug design and protein-protein interactions.
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Kay lab page. This site is run by Lewis Kay's lab which works on NMR determinations of protein structure at the University of Toronto.
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Macdonald Lab at Stanford University. This is a Drosophila lab looking at embryonic development (surprised?) and mechanisms of specific RNA distribution in embryos (such as for the nanos and bicoid genes). For more information contact Paul Macdonald
Maitz Laboratory. This laboratory for biomaterials research at the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, in Dresden, Germany deals with protein/cell - surface interaction of implants in blood and implants in bone. The surfaces are metals, ceramics or carbon based materials where surface properties are tuned by energetic ion bombardment. Some of the biochemical protocols which frequently find application also can be found there. For more information please contact: Manfred Maitz
Maniatis Laboratory.
Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Microbial Zoo
Links take you to, among other places, the Microbial Zoo. In the Animal Pavilion, entries under Habitat on Humanity are devoted to organisms that live on human bodies. In Poo Corner, you'll learn that "people on Earth produce over 5 billion kilos (11 billion pounds) of poop" per day, thankfully recycled by our friends the microbes. Maintained by The Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, in East Lansing.
MendelWeb Homepage
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Neolytica Neolytica supplies a range of services including: analytical testing, consultancy, IRIS (Interactive Relationship Information System) and LIMS-ASP.
Neurofibromin research.
This site contains information about Gary Skuse's lab working on NF1 at the University of Rochester, New York.
North-Eastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre. Descriptions of the research of the centre's scientists working on various aspects of signal transduction, drug resistance, cell cycle control, adhesion and growth factor receptors. Located in Sudbury, Ontario, this site also contains contact information for job openings and seminars.
Roel Nusse's lab. Interests centre on the role of Wnt and wingless signalling pathways in mammals and Drosophila.
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Tony Pawson's lab. The Pawson lab focusses on singal transduction via tyrosine kinase pathways, neural patterning, differentiation and is interested in the structural biology of protein interaction modules such as SH2 and PDZ domains. The laboratory is based at the Samuel Lunenfeld research Institute at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
Center for Plant Biotechnology Research, School of Agriculture and Home Economics, Tuskegee University.
The primary mission of this Center is to employ innovative molecular and cellular genetic tools in the improvement of select crops such as sweetpotato, peanut, cowpea and muskmelon, and to provide training in plant biotechnology to ethnically underrepresented minority students and scientists from developing countries.
The web site contains information about the Center's activities, transgenic plant technology, protocols and links to biotech resources on the internet.
Paul Coffer has set up a page for the Dept. Pulmonary Diseases at the University Hospital Utrecht in The Netherlands which contains pointers to areas of interest to inflammation and asthma.
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Heinfried Radeke has a laboratory web site on "Mechanisms of Chronic Inflammation and Immunopharmacological Intervention" contains information on a variety of aspects nad links to inflammation research, the Medizinische Hoschule in Hannover and his group's work and detaiuls on the ELISPOT assay for cytokine determinations.
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Sasisekharan Labat MIT.
Interests: extracellular matrix, heparin-degrading enzymes, growth factors, angiogenesis
What to see: research summary, publication, lab tour, lab photo etc Methods: animal model, biochemical, computational modeling, molecular biology
Systems: tissue culture, mass spectroscopy, capillary electrophoresis etc.
Server: UNIX-based
Experience level: willing to help
Contact: Chi-Pong Kwan
Gary Skuse has a web site describing his labs work on Neurofibromin research. at the University of Rochester.
Ken Storey's home page at Carleton University details their research into vertebrate tolerance to anoxia, freezing, etc. and contains a list of their papers, contacts and specific projects.
Mark Stroms Molecular Biology Protocols
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Dennis Templetons lab
- Interests: signal transduction, p70 S6 kinase, MEKK
- Whats on the page: publications, interests, contacts for lab members, Institute information, Cleveland information, etc.
- Methods: molecular biology, gene expression, protein purification
- Systems: mammalian tissue culture and cell lines
- Contact: Dennis Templeton
David Thomas's home page. No Wendys stuff here, just good old yeast cooking. Lots of cool stuff on their work on the pheromone pathway in budding yeast (inc. an image map), MAP kinases, interacting proteins and other information about the Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal.
Thrombosis research at the The Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center
The Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center web contains resources for scientists, physicians, as well as the general public to learn about thrombosis and related disorders. There are home pages for all members of the Center and information on the research that's being done.
For more information contact Cheryl F. Scott, Webmaster
UCSF Tumor Immunology
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WWW virtual library for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. This is a great site!
All about Virology. This award-winning site seems to contain everything there is to know about virology. It's THE resource for information about viruses on the web. Contact David Sander if you'd like to contribute more information.
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Woodgett lab
- Interests: signal transduction, stress responses, development, transcription factor regulation.
- Whats on the page: publications, interests, contacts for lab members, Institute information, Toronto scientific information, etc.
- Methods: molecular biology, gene expression, protein purification
- Systems: transgenic mice, mammalian tissue culture, Drosophila, yeast, Dictyostelium.
- Server type: Macintosh
- Experience level: non-expert but willing to help other scientists set up their sites
- Contact: Jim Woodgett
Worcester Foundation Website
Wrana and Attisano. Based at the University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children, these two labs focus on the signalling mechanisms employed by TGF beta and activins. Lots of theirpapers, reviews and photos but there's also a cool movie cartooning the signal transduction events triggered by TGFs including phosphorylation sof the Smads.
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