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If you are motivated and interested in cell biology, molecular genetics or plant biology please contact Nick to inquire about research opportunities beginning Fall 2009.

A corpse comes to life

Check out the time lapse of a titan arum flowering that Nick made.

Bio119: Genomics and Systems Biology - Fall 2009

A new seminar exploring modern approaches to biology will be offered Fall 2009. See the the course description for more information.

Links

Here are some of the web sites that our lab uses regularly:

Swarthmore links
Leica SP5 AOBS confocal sign up
Lab Wiki (requires log in)
Blackboard (requires log in)

Arabidopsis links
TAIR - Order stocks, find publications associated with your genes, get the latest Arabidopsis news
Genevestigator - Microarray data and analysis
Ensemble genome browser - Browse the Arabidopsis genome
BAR - Microarray analysis tools including the eFP browser, clustering, and promoter analysis tools
T-DNA express - Find and order T-DNA insertions and cDNA clones
ATTED - Arabidopsis trans-factor and cis-element prediction database and co-expressed genes
How to grow Arabidopsis from Purdue University

Tools
CoGe - Comparative genomics platform
BLAST - Basic Local Alignment Search Tools at NCBI
BioEdit - Local BLAST with custom databases, sequence alignment, trace viewing, restriction mapping, plasmid drawing and many more tools (Windows only)
Pubmed - Literature searches
Primer3 - Primer design
ImageJ - Image processing and analysis software
- .lif reader for ImageJ - Manipulate Leica .lif files in ImageJ
-LAS AF Lite - Leica software download (Windows only)
- Scale bars with ImageJ
- Essentials of Real Time PCR