Graduate Student Resources

SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES and TOOLS

Protocols and Techniques:
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology Online:
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cp/cpmb/cpmb_contents_fs.html

BioTechniques—The International Journal of Life Science Methods: http://www.biotechniques.com/

Journal Access and Statistics:
Electronic Journals (off-campus access to articles via UNC Health Sciences Library):
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Journals/EJSearch.cfm

Entrez PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed

ISI Journal Citation Reports: http://www.isiknowledge.com/DestApp=JCR&locale=en_US

ISI Web of Knowledge:  http://www.isiknowledge.com/?locale=en_US

Databases:
SureChem - Chemical structure searches can be performed via keywords, SMILES strings, or by graphically drawing a compound using java-based drawing tools.  http://www.freepatentsonline.com/surechem/

BioCarta—molecular pathways: http://www.biocarta.com/

GeneCards—database of human genes: http://genome-www.stanford.edu/genecards/index.shtml

KEGG—Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes: http://www.genome.ad.jp/kegg/

NCBI—National Center for Biotechnology Information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

OMIM—Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=OMIM

MDC—Max-Delbruck-Centrum—human protein-protein interaction search:
http://141.80.164.19/neuroprot/ppi_search.php

MGI—Mouse Genome Informatics: http://www.informatics.jax.org/

UCSC Genome Bioinformatics: http://genome.ucsc.edu/index.html?org=Human

RCSB—Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics—Protein Data Bank: http://www.rcsb.org/

FlyBase: http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/

DictyBase: http://www.dictybase.org/

WormBase: http://www.wormbase.org/

DNA and Protein Analysis:
SMS—Sequence Manipulation Site: http://www.bioinformatics.org/sms2/

BLAST—Basic Local Alignment Search Tool: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/

ClustalW—sequence alignment: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/

ExPASy—proteomics server: http://us.expasy.org/

GeneDesign—cloning tools: http://baderlab.bme.jhu.edu/gd/

DNA Sequence Reverse & Complement:
http://www.cellbiol.com/cgi-bin/complement/reverse_complement_sequence.html

ExPASy Translate Tool: http://ca.expasy.org/tools/dna.html

Oligo Concentration Calculator: http://www.sciencelauncher.com/OD260.html

Antigenic—identifies antigenic sites in proteins: http://bioweb.pasteur.fr/seqanal/interfaces/antigenic.html

Protein Sequence Structural Features: http://www.hku.hk/bruhk/sgpss.html#anti

NIST (National Inst. of Standards and Technology) Chemistry WebBook: http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry

Educational Resources:
Science Online Seminars: http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/video/seminars/

NIH Videocasting: http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp

Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor: http://www.dnalc.org/home.html

Microscopy and Imaging:
Olympus Microscopy Resource Center: http://www.olympusmicro.com/

Olympus FluoView Resource Center: http://www.olympusfluoview.com/

Nikon MicroscopyU: http://www.microscopyu.com/index.html

Biophotonics International: http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2009/media_sponsors.html?id=58

Photonics Spectra: http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?PID=5&VID=61&IID=476

Laser Focus World: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/index.html

Other:
MedLine Plus—medical dictionary: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Nobel e-Museum: http://nobelprize.org

Teaching and Mentoring:
CTL—Center for Teaching and Learning, UNC: http://ctl.unc.edu/index.html

ITS Teaching and Learning, UNC: http://its.unc.edu/tl/

OUR—Office for Undergraduate Research, UNC: http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/index.html

SURE—Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, UNC: http://www.med.unc.edu/pmbb/reu/index.htm

The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/

Article: “Nature’s Guide for Mentors”—Nature, 2007:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html

ADVICE and RESOURCES for GRADUATE STUDENTS

Professional Skills:

Tips to Enhance a Job Search Using Google Tools

Giving a Great Scientific Talk

Talking Tips (“micronTalkingTips” doc)

The Science of Scientific Writing

Guidelines for Writing a Scientific Paper

UNC Writing Center: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/student_resources.html

Attending Professional Meetings

Conflict Resolution: When Personalities Clash

Self-Assessment

Suggested Further Reading:
The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader’s Perspective—George Gopen

Speaking about Science: A Manual for Creating Clear Presentations—Scott Morgan

Advice for Students:
Some Practical Guidelines

Choosing labs: Things to Consider

What goes into a great letter of recommendation? This is a presentation developed by Dr. Henrik Dohlman, Professor of Biochemistry, UNC-CH

Some Advice from Faculty

Some Advice from More Senior Students

Article: “All aboard for graduate school”—Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2006:
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v13/n9/full/nsmb0906-753.html

Science’s Next Wave: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/

Career Trends - Finding Your Personal Job Chemistry - a 38 page booklet from sciencecareers.org about choosing a career in science that is right for you

Career Basics 2009 - an 80-page booklet comissioned by AAAS that gives advice and resources for scientists

Nature Jobs Career’s “Postdocs, Graduates, and Students”:
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/magazine/graduates/index.html

PhDs.org: http://www.phds.org/

Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops:
Getting the most from your next scientific conference (file created by Patrick Brandt)

Gordon Research Conferences: http://www.grc.org/

Keystone Symposia: http://www.keystonesymposia.org/

FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Meetings: http://www.faseb.org/Meetings-and-Conferences.aspx

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: http://meetings.cshl.edu/

Marine Biological Laboratories; Meetings, Conferences, and Events: http://www.mbl.edu/events/index.html

Marine Biological Laboratories; Summer Courses: http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/summer/index.html

NIH (National Institutes of Health) Calendar of Events: http://calendar.nih.gov/app/MCalWelcome.aspx

The American Society for Cell Biology: http://www.ascb.org/

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: http://www.asbmb.org/

Boden Research Conferences: http://www.science.org.au/awards/

Chemistry.Org: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=335&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=ee6865c2-d1fd-4718-8d2c-e7a2db2968c9

Horizon Symposia: http://www.nature.com/horizon/index.html

The Biochemical Society Meetings: http://www.biochemistry.org/meetings/

FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies): http://www.febs.org/

Society for Neuroscience: http://apu.sfn.org/

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