Biology News & New Books List
October 2009
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Proxy Server Login for Off-Campus Access to many resources below
- PubMed: The PubMed redesign which I mentioned last month has now happened. I don't think you'll have too much trouble using this and several things are actually easier to do, in my opinion. Remember to check the "Advanced Search" option and scroll to the bottom of the screen for resources that used to be in tabs or links at the top or side. There's a 23 minute webcast available if you'd like an overview: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p15252398/. Help documentation has been updated. Or, ask Ruth if you would like help. More help: see Kristi Holmes' post from Becker Library.
Although not specifically related to the redesign, I think this is a good time to remind you that there are several possible ways to access PubMed. Here are a few links:- PubMed - with Get it! buttons and formatted for off-campus use for Danforth Campus folks. You will be prompted to login with your WUSTL key if you are working off-campus. This is the link that is available at most spots in the Library website.
- PubMed - with Get it! buttons AND Becker Library buttons and formatted for off-campus use for Danforth Campus folks. You will be prompted to login with your WUSTL key if you are working off-campus.
- My own choice is to use My NCBI and format my own preferences for filters, outside tools (including WU Get it! buttons [Washington University, St. Louis moufgllib]), linkout preferences (including Becker Library buttons [Washington University Medical School Becker Library, MO wustlmlib]), etc. My NCBI is also used to save searches and have search alerts sent to you. About My NCBI
- RefWorks news: RefWorks now offers access to Alumni!, as long as WU Libraries continue to subscribe to RefWorks.
Also, the Social Work Library is offering quick sessions on how to export your PubMed citations into your RefWorks account. No registration needed. Goldfarb building (NOT Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility), third floor, G330, computer lab, Thurs., Nov. 12, 12:15-12:30 OR Wed., Dec. 16, 12:15-12:30. If you cannot attend, other options include asking Ruth or checking out the documentation: Exporting references from PubMed into RefWorks [Note: These instructions have not been updated for the PubMed redesign but they give you the gist of the process. Step 1 is still choose your citations. Instructions for steps 2-4 are slightly changed; click on Send to, choose File, choose format Medline, and then follow steps 5-10 as on the RefWorks help file which I expect will be updated soon.] - Collection merger complete: Biology Library books and journals are now completely interfiled into the Olin Library collection, mostly on level B. There are no longer any temporary shelving areas.
- Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer, by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn. Scientific American, February 1996, Vol. 274 Issue 2, p92. Because of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Scientific American has made an html version freely available; the pdf version with illustrations is available to WU users by searching in the Scientific American Archive online.
- Two interesting links:
- The Trouble with Wikipedia as a Source for Medical Information A thorough review of many issues surrounding Wikipedia for scientific or medical information. I have mixed feelings about knowing that doctors and medical students use it so heavily. I like the quote that "Wikipedia is the best source to start with in your research, but should never be the last one."
- NuMBerS (numerical methods for biosciences students) Designed to underpin the teaching of numerical methods for the biosciences. It is built as a series of toolkits, some of which are web-based and interactive, while others are printable files. - Becker to host Scopus session for authors, Dec. 1: Becker Medical Library is pleased to offer a lunch-and-learn workshop for authors, featuring Rebecca Brown from Scopus. Pizza and beverages will be provided, courtesy of Scopus. Do you find yourself asking these questions?
- Who is citing my work?
- How is my research being used?
- How can I identify potential research collaborators?
- What metrics can I use to make my grant application more competitive?
TIME: Noon to 1:00 pm
LOCATION: Holden Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
Registration (http://tinyurl.com/ykzmagh) is not required but highly encouraged in order to ensure a seat, free pizza/refreshments, and your name added to a drawing for a free iPod plus other giveaways. Registration is limited to 75 attendees. More info.
Note: Scopus is NOT available on the WU Danforth Campus but DBBS graduate students, faculty with joint appointments in a School of Medicine department, and people who travel to the medical campus can use Scopus. Contact Ruth if you have questions about that please.
[ http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/reprints/ ] This PubMed search link will retrieve most WU Biology Dept. researchers' publications, plus a few in biomedical engineering, chemistry, etc. (Strategy is biology [ad] AND washington university [ad] AND 63130 [ad]).
- Bell PD, Xin Y, Blankenship RE. 2009. Purification and characterization of cytochrome c(6) from Acaryochloris marina. Photosynth Res 102(1):43-51.PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Chase JM, Biro EG, Ryberg WA, Smith KG. 2009. Predators temper the relative importance of stochastic processes in the assembly of prey metacommunities. Ecol Lett 12(11):1210-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Liberton M, Austin JR, Berg RH, Pakrasi HB. 2009. Three-dimensional arrangement of thylakoid membranes in cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142, a unicellular cyanobacterium. Microscopy and Microanalysis 15(SUPPL. 2):876-877. Fulltext for subscribers; this is a meeting abstract [not available at WU]
- Maity AN, Hsieh C-P, Huango M-H, Chen Y-H, Tang K-H, Behshad E, Frey PA, Ke S-C. 2009. Evidence for conformational movement and radical mechanism in the reaction of 4-thia-L-lysine with Lysine 5,6-Aminomutase. J Phys Chem B 113(36):12161-12163. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Ng A, Wong M, Viviano B, Erlich JM, Alba G, Pflederer C, Jay PY, Saunders S. 2009. Loss of glypican-3 Function Causes Growth Factor-dependent Defects in Cardiac and Coronary Vascular Development. Dev Biol 335(1):208-15. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Pontes O, Vitins A, Pikaard C, Hong E, Ream T. 2009. Interactions among small interfering RNAs and MicroRNAs in Arabidopsis Thaliana. Microscopy and Microanalysis 15(SUPPL. 2):878-879. Fulltext for subscribers; this is a meeting abstract [not available at WU]
- Tessadori F, van Zanten M, Pavlova P, Clifton R, Pontvianne F, Snoek LB, Millenaar FF, Schulkes RK, van Driel R, Voesenek LA, Spillane C, Pikaard CS, Fransz P, Peeters AJ. 2009. Phytochrome B and histone deacetylase 6 control light-induced chromatin compaction in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 5(9):e1000638. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.
- Wang JD, Levin PA. 2009. Metabolism, cell growth and the bacterial cell cycle. Nat Rev Microbiol 7(11):822-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
Ebooks
New on ScienceDirect:
The manual of scientific style a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (from Becker Library) | direct link to Ch. 12: Style and usage for life science
A history of immunology / Arthur M. Silverstein. 2nd ed. (from Becker Library)
Genomic and personalized medicine (from Becker Library)
Clinical and translational science principles of human research (from Becker Library)
Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE [Tips for opening chapter PDFs]:
Protein Engineering and Design
The Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook
Genetics and Randomness
Spatial Ecology
A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Second Edition
Meta-analysis and Combining Information in Genetics and Genomics
New from Springerprotocols [These are added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.571)
Cardiovascular Genomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.573)
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.578)
Lipidomics: Volume 1: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.579)
Lipidomics: Volume 2: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.580)
Biofuels: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.581)
DNA Topoisomerases: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.582)
Microengineering in Biotechnology (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.583)
Cytoskeleton Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.586)
Molecular Endocrinology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.590)
Plant MicroRNAs: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.592)
New Ebooks from Springer [These books are added to the library catalog; Becker Medical Library and biology have jointely purchased the 2010 Biomedical & Life Sciences package]:
The Sarcomere and Skeletal Muscle Disease (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.642)
Bio-Applications of Nanoparticles (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.620)
Tropomyosin (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, V.644)
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Lipids
Genomic Imprinting (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.626)
Class 3 Hydrolases: EC 3.4.22—3.13 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes, v.S6)
Modern Genome Annotation: The BioSapiens Network
Single-Channel Recording, 2nd ed
Optical Imaging of Cancer: Clinical Applications
Autophagy in Infection and Immunity (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.335)
Advances in Bioactivation Research
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Infection via the Gut (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.337)
Class 1 · Oxidoreductases
EC 1 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes, S1)
Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease
Handbook on Analyzing Human Genetic Data: Computational Approaches and Software
Functional Surfaces in Biology: Little Structures with Big Effects Volume 1
Functional Surfaces in Biology:
Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2
Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms: Climate change, intercropping, pest control and beneficial microorganisms (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, v.2)
Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety
Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis
Synthetic Biology: the technoscience and its societal consequences
Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants: Organic farming, pest control and remediation of soil pollutants
Molecular Mechanisms in Spermatogenesis (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.636)
Pathogenic Yeasts
Mycotoxins in Food, Feed and Bioweapons
Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection
miRNA Regulation of the Translational Machinery (Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, v.50)
Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing
Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries
BLyS Ligands and Receptors (Contemporary Immunology)
Insect Behavior, 2nd ed
The calcitonin gene-related peptide family: form, function and future perspectives
Bioinformatics for Immunomics ( Immunomics Reviews, v.3)
The Role of Genetics in Breast and Reproductive Cancers
Dengue Virus (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.338)
Paper books Click on the title for more info or to request
Occasionally these titles may still be "in process," but you can still REQUEST so the book will be held for you at the pick-up location of your choice when it is available. You may also be interested in browsing an alternative listings of new books, by broad call number areas. Suggestions for improvement welcome!
Annual review of genomics and human genetics, v.10, 2009 Annual Reviews, c2000-
Annual review of microbiology, v.63, 2009 Annual Reviews, Inc., [1947-
Annual review of phytopathology, v.47, 2009 Annual Reviews, inc.
Balance of nature : ecology's enduring myth / John Kricher. Princeton University Press, c2009.
Bioinformatics and functional genomics, 2nd ed / Jonathan Pevsner Wiley-Blackwell, c2009.
Cell : a molecular approach / Geoffrey M. Cooper, Robert E. Hausman. ASM Press Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2009.
Conservation genetics in the age of genomics / edited by George Amato ... [et al.]. New directions in biodiversity conservation;New directions in biodiversity conservation. Columbia University Press, c2009.
Current topics in membranes, v.59, 2007 Academic Press, c1991-
Darwinian populations and natural selection / Peter Godfrey-Smith. Oxford University Press, c2009.
Don't be such a scientist : talking substance in an age of style / by Randy Olson Island Press, c2009. More info
Emerging model organisms : a laboratory manual ,v.1 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2009-
Lizards in an evolutionary tree : ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles / Jonathan B. Losos. Organisms and environments 10;Organisms and environments 10. University of California Press, 2009.
Mathematical methods in biology / J. David Logan, William R. Wolesensky. Pure and applied mathematics;Pure and applied mathematics (John Wiley & Sons : Unnumbered) Wiley, c2009.
Not by design : retiring Darwin's watchmaker / John O. Reiss. University of California Press, c2009.
Population genetics / Matthew B. Hamilton. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Primer of genome science, 3rd ed / Greg Gibson, Spencer V. Muse. Sinauer Associates, c2009.
Proteomics : a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course manual / Andrew J. Link, Joshua LaBaer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2009.
Real chimpanzee : sex strategies in the forest / Christophe Boesch. Cambridge University Press, 2009
Seasons of life : the biological rhythms that enable living things to thrive and survive / Russell G. Foster & Leon Kreitzman. Yale University Press, 2009.
Statistical mechanics of cellular systems and processes / edited by Muhammad H. Zaman. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Systems biology and synthetic biology / edited by Pengcheng Fu, Sven Panke. John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
Untangling the double helix : DNA entanglement and the action of the DNA topoisomerases / James C. Wang. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2009.
Wetware : a computer in every living cell / Dennis Bray. Yale University Press, c2009.
Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences dissertations from May 2009. Future dissertations will probably be online only in the new electronic theses and dissertations system. Online versions will also be available soon in Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis
The effects of forest management practices on human risk of exposure to tick-borne diseases / by Brian Frederick Allan. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology.
Non-tumor suppressor roles for p19ARF in the maintenance of nucleolar structure and function / by Anthony John Apicelli, III. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Cell Biology.
Regulation of the properties of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae prion [RNQ+] by primary structure and cellular factors / by John Patrick Bardill, Jr. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis.
Non-idealities of strong 1:1 electrolytes and the mechanism of counterion specificity in a RNA kissing-loop complex / by Alan Austin Chen. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Biophysics.
A hybrid two-component system in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron that regulates nitrogen metabolism / by Herbert Cheuhui Chiang. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis.
Analysis of zinc metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans / by Diana Elizabeth Davis. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Cell Biology.
Osteoclast-gain-of-function promotes tumor growth in bone / by Angela C. Hirbe. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Cell Biology.
Function of Wnt/[beta]-catenin signaling in developing mesenchyme / by Sung-Ho Huh. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Molecular Cell Biology.
Enantiomeric bile acids as probes of bile acid biology / by Bryson William Katona. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Biochemistry.
MAPKS ERK, JNK and P38 in inflammatory and oxidative stress signaling investigated in human lung and skin fibroblasts / by Graziella Mendonsa. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Molecular Cell Biology Program.
Predation, community assembly, and the scaling of prey diversity in Ozark Glade metacommunities / by Wade Alan Ryberg. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Program in Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology.
Export and regulation of the Polysaccharide capsule in Cryptococcus neoformans / by Aki Yoneda. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2009. Dept. of Molecular Microbiology.
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