Good Web sites for Bio C2006/F2402

This page has links to web sites that students of Bio C2006/F2402 may find interesting and/or helpful. The web sites contain animations, explanations, pictures etc., that are relevant to the course.  (The list is not complete; I'll add to it as we go.)  Please let me (dbm2) know if any of the web sites are useful, and/or if you find any other good ones. The order here is arbitrary.
 

Harvard Video "The inner life of the cell"

    Long version with commentary

        http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html.

    Short version with music

        http://www.studiodaily.com/main/searchlist/6850.html.

    Short version without music

        http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/118/.

Animations by Berg

    http://course1.winona.edu/sberg/ANIMTNS/Directry.htm

A summary of medical biochemistry:

    http://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/

Comparative Organology -- Pictures of just about every piece of anatomy

    Index to everything

        http://trc.ucdavis.edu/mjguinan/apc100/modules/index.html

    Index to section on cells & tissues

        http://trc.ucdavis.edu/mjguinan/apc100/modules/TermsCells&Tissues/_index.html

Animations from Biology, 7th edition (by Raven et al) from McGraw-Hill

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120060/ravenanimation.html

Animations from Sumanas (Includes those from Lodish text)

http://sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html
 

American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Image & Video Library

http://cellimages.ascb.org

This includes actual movies and pictures as well as animations. These may be more detailed than needed for this course, but you'll enjoy them anyway. A student recommends this one:

http://cellimages.ascb.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4041coll12&CISOPT
R=545&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 [cellimages.ascb.org]

Colorado Bio Course Overheads

The following page has links to overheads from a Molecular and Cellular Biology course at the University of Colorado. You may find the pictures useful. Some are from books and some are like my drawings on the board, but clearer, and in color. The site was recommended by a student.

http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB1150/ohd/overhead.html

Hypertexts for the Biomedical Sciences from Colorado State U. Includes some animations

http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/index.html

Has sections on endocrinology and other topics.

Nobel Prize Web Site

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

There is a wealth of interesting material on this web site. Many of the Nobel prizes in physiology & medicine, or in chemistry, and have been awarded for discoveries relevant to this course.

The web site for the Sadava text is at

Wikipedia can be very helpful but you often need more. Good online resources are Kimball's online textbook & the Bookshelf at Pubmed.

The Bookshelf at PubMed has online versions of the Lodish and the Alberts Cell & Molecular Biology books, as well as The Cell - A Molecular Approach by Cooper.  Last time I checked, the bookshelf did not include any physiology books, but it includes the complete text of excellent  books on biochemistry, cell biology, endocrinology, microbiology, development,  immunology, etc.  (Generally the next to latest edition is online.) You can search through all these books at once, by typing in a term such as "microtubules", and you'll get links to the pages in each book that mention this term.  For Kimball, you also type in a search term.

The Virtual Cell Web Site

http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/home.htm

This includes many animations of different cellular processes. A student recommends the one on mitochondria:

http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/mito-pt/index.htm

Videos on YouTube [www.youtube.com] -- All recommended by Students. Some of this covers material from last term, but is fun anyway.

1. Action Potential. From a student: This YouTube video helped me to see how ligand gated channels trigger
the opening of the voltage gated channels, and the difference between the 2.  There are lots of details but it might be helpful for other people too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DyJwwFnkU&feature=related

3. Chromatin, etc. This video starts with how DNA is packed into chromosomes, and then has DNA replication, transcription & translation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKjF7OumYo

The following are about material from the fall term, but are fun anyway.

PCR This is a song that is basically an ad by the company that sells PCR equipment, but it is fun anyway.

http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/

Berg's Protein Synthesis Movie  This is an oldie but goodie animation (with people) of protein synthesis. A molecular happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww