Department of Biology

Research Links

All Areas of Science

• 3-D Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
• Biocarta
• Bio-Rad: Technical product information, article index, and free educational resources available.
• Bioresearch Online
• BioView: Biotechnology career and employment site.
• BioWhittaker
• Careers: http://careers.cua.edu/explore/bioresources.cfm
• Clontech Laboratories
• Community of Science: Community of Science, Inc. (COS) is the leading Internet site for the global R&D community. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists and researchers at more than 1,300 universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides tools and services that enable these professionals to communicate, exchange information and find the people and technologies that are important to their work.
• Employment Links for the Biomedical Scientist
• Fisher Scientific
• Flow Cytometry Software
• GlaxoSmithKline: The Career web site of GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
• Library of Congress: In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill.
• Medzilla: Job postings in biotechnology and medical fields.
• Merck Research Labs: Explore career opportunities at MRL that match your background, experience, and goals.
• Molecular Probes
• NIH
• NCBI
• Pfizer: This career site focuses on the information and tools you'll need as you consider submitting a résumé for employment at Pfizer.
• Protocols Online
• Science Careers: Search for jobs online. Get up-to-date information on career fairs. Sign up for email job notifications.

Cell Biology

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
• Cells Alive!: Images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.
• Cell Signaling Networks Database
• Growth Factors and Cytokines
• KEGG
• Signaling Pathway Database
• The Integrin Page
• Virtual Library of Cell Biology: Many of the resources listed on these pages were designed for the scientist, intermediate-to-advanced student, educator or person with a general knowledge of modern biology.
• The Wnt Gene Page

Developmental Biology

• Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server
• Society for Developmental Biology
• Virtual Library-Developmental Biology
• WormBase: A repository of mapping, sequencing and phenotypic information about the C. elegans nematode.
• Zygote: A site that focuses on the molecular genetics and cellular biology of development.

Disease

• CDC
• Genetic Disease Information
• Genomics and Bacterial Pathogenesis
• Infectious Disease News
• The Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology

Grants and Funding

• AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• GrantsNet: Resource for finding funding.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• NSF: The National Science Foundation

Immunology

• American Society for Microbiology culture sources
• Microbiology, Immunology and Virology Websites
• The Immunology Link

Molecular Biology

• Affymetrix: Microarray technology, software and services.
• Computational Biology Software
• DNAmicroarray.com: They make microarrays according to user specifications. They offer a full range of service from array production through data analysis.
• European Bioinformatics Institute
• IncyteGenomics: A full range service for DNA microarrays for human, rat, and a few other organisms.
• PHYLIP
• Protein Modeling
• RasMol
• Research Genetics: Research Genetics has played a key role on the frontier of molecular biology. We are results-oriented scientists and researchers focused on accelerating discoveries important to determining the causes of genetic diseases and understanding all forms of life.
• TIGR: The Institute for Genomic Research
• UNC-CH Genomics Core & Microarray Facility
• Weizmann Institute of Science Software

Professional Organizations

• American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• Clinical Immunology Society
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)

Publications online

• Annual Review of Immunology
• Academy Press Dictionary of Science and Technology: The dictionary includes those terms that are likely to be encountered in a scientific context by an informed general reader.
• Cell
• Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
• Current Advances in Cell & Developmental Biology
• Current Biology
• Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
• Elsevier Science: Elsevier Science has become a leader in the publication and dissemination of literature covering the broad spectrum of scientific endeavors.
• The International Journal of Developmental Biology
• Journal of Cell Biology
• Journal of Cell Science
• Journal of Immunology
• Journal of Molecular Biology
• Journal of Virology
• Mechanisms of Development
• Medline Workbench
• Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Nature
• Nature Cell Biology
• Nature Genetics
• Nucleic Acids Research
• PNAS
• PubMed
• Science: Full access for subscribers. Partial access and free access is available to some sections.
• Science News Online: Full access for subscribers.

Science Education

• BioChemLinks: Biology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry Education
• ENC: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
• NSTA: National Science Teacher's Association
• The Biology Project -- Cell Biology
• The Science Learning Network (SLN): An online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.

"Science Friendly" Search Engines

• Blackwell Science: Search engine for science articles, books and CDs.
• Google: a superfast search engine.
• ScienceDirect: Designed to serve needs of the researcher, ScienceDirect is a good source for scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet.
• Scirus: Responding to the need for focused, comprehensive and reliable overviews of relevant scientific information, Elsevier Science has developed the powerful Internet search tool Scirus. Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both Web and membership sources (see below for more details). It enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports and articles in a clutter-free, user-friendly and efficient manner.

Viruses

• Microbiology, Immunology and Virology Websites

Yeast

• Saccharomyces Genome Database
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Yeast
• Yeast Protocols