From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Fri Jan 16 07:42:27 2009 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Fri Jan 16 12:07:45 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Introduction to Bioinformatics - deadline reminder In-Reply-To: <49417CBD.9090001@manchester.ac.uk> References: <49417CBD.9090001@manchester.ac.uk> Message-ID: <497080B3.6080902@manchester.ac.uk> This is a reminder for those people considering taking our online course, which begins again in March 2009. The application deadline is 13 February. However, it is advisable to apply before the deadline to allow time for any questions in processing your application. I have included the course outline below; the full details are on our website (http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/bs6061.html). If you have any questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk Week 1 Introduction to distance learning Bioinformatics as a knowledge-based discipline Weeks 2 and 3 Introduction to the sequence databases Quality, redundancy and annotation Sequence retrieval exercise and group discussion Weeks 4 and 5 Nucleic acid sequence analysis Weeks 6 and 7 Independent research and assessment Weeks 8 and 9 Sequence alignment and database search 1. use of BLAST and FASTA, choosing suitable options; 2. interpretation of the results. Weeks 10 and 11 Protein function prediction. Weeks 12 and 13 Protein structure prediction Practical exercise and group discussion Weeks 14 to 16 Independent research and work on the second assessment From richard.price from academia.edu Fri Jan 16 21:46:51 2009 From: richard.price from academia.edu (Richard Price) Date: Fri Jan 16 23:15:07 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Announcing "Academia.edu" to the Biology community Message-ID: <7dd9a94c-092d-4b84-b93d-74ed8b57317e@d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Dear all, I recently finished my Ph.D at Oxford on the philosophy of perception. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website, Academia.edu, which does two things: - It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations. - It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers and talks. We are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world -- Faculty Members, Post-Docs, Graduate Students, and Independent Researchers. Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the boxes. Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 24,000 academics have added themselves in the last four months. Some professors on the site include: - Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins - Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking - Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman - Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky - Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker We're trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible. It would be terrific if you could visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree at http://www.academia.edu/signup?scibio. If your university is not there, you can add it. Independent researchers - if you are a researcher that is not associated with a university, I encourage you to add yourself to the "Independent Researchers" portion of the tree at http://independent.academia.edu/signup?scibio. And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. Many thanks, Richard Dr. Richard Price http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice From arin280 from gmail.com Tue Jan 20 09:58:44 2009 From: arin280 from gmail.com (Arin280) Date: Tue Jan 20 13:24:01 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Call for Book Chapters in the area of E-Research Collaboration Message-ID: I wanted to share a call for book chapters that's posted on the research collaboration website, MyNetResearch.com. It is for chapters in the area of E-Research Collaboration. There are many interesting issues that relate to e-research in biology and other 'hard' sciences. The major issue is that unlike the social sciences and business, lab facilities and experimentation are central aspects here. Does this limit collaboration between, for example, better-equipped OECD researchers and those from developing countries? Does this reduce the opportunities for collaboration in general or expand the opportunities as researchers are able to pool complementary physical assets e.g., labs to work on a single problem? There are many contributions that could come from our group. Anyhow, please take a look at the full post at: http://www.mynetresearch.com/Resources.aspx?id=%2012 From labcat76 from yahoo.com Thu Jan 22 20:33:00 2009 From: labcat76 from yahoo.com (Kate Hawley) Date: Fri Jan 23 13:14:58 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] (no subject) Message-ID: <405812.59074.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I?am looking to identify specific bacterial metabolites that cause malodor and then measure those byproducts by GC or other analytical method.? But I am finding it difficult to find those specific by-products.? Most interested in by-products of Staph and E. coli.? We have looked at ammonia and Proteus, measuring with Drager columns, but I want something more sophisticated.? Any ideas? From shiraz14 from singnet.com.sg Sun Jan 25 07:41:47 2009 From: shiraz14 from singnet.com.sg (shiraz14) Date: Sun Jan 25 12:34:16 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: (no subject) References: Message-ID: <21844721-bdb3-4600-a322-6eb0f33835fb@v18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> On Jan 24, 5:51?am, Bob wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:33:00 -0800 (PST), Kate Hawley > > wrote: > > >I?am looking to identify specific bacterial metabolites that cause malodor and then measure those byproducts by GC or other analytical method.? But I am finding it difficult to find those specific by-products.? Most interested in by-products of Staph and E. coli.? We have looked at ammonia and Proteus, measuring with Drager columns, but I want something more sophisticated.? Any ideas? > > Take a culture that you find malodorous. Run the headspace gas thru > GC-MS. > > bob > > > > - Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Remove the contaminating dominant products first through depletion via negative column-exchange chromatography. Then do GC-MS as Bob suggested. sz From jorge1907 from aol.com Sun Jan 25 20:17:18 2009 From: jorge1907 from aol.com (jorge1907@aol.com) Date: Mon Jan 26 12:48:23 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: Microbio Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: <200901241704.n0OH4X803412@net.bio.net> References: <200901241704.n0OH4X803412@net.bio.net> Message-ID: <8CB4D6AF7372E9C-9A0-E62@WEBMAIL-MZ06.sysops.aol.com> skatole, indole and H2S -----Original Message----- From: microbio-request@oat.bio.indiana.edu To: microbio@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Sent: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:04 pm Subject: Microbio Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3 Send Microbio mailing list submissions to microbio@net.bio.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/microbio or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to microbio-request@net.bio.net You can reach the person managing the list at microbio-owner@net.bio.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Microbio digest..." Today's Topics: 1. (no subject) (Kate Hawley) 2. Re: (no subject) (Bob) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:33:00 -0800 (PST) From: Kate Hawley Subject: [Microbiology] (no subject) To: microbio@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Message-ID: <405812.59074.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I?am looking to identify specific bacterial metabolites that cause malodor and then measure those byproducts by GC or other analytical method.? But I am finding it difficult to find those specific by-products.? Most interested in by-products of Staph and E. coli.? We have looked at ammonia and Proteus, measuring with Drager columns, but I want something more sophisticated.? Any ideas? ------------------------------ 0AMessage: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:51:13 -0800 From: Bob Subject: [Microbiology] Re: (no subject) To: microbio@net.bio.net Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:33:00 -0800 (PST), Kate Hawley wrote: > > >I?am looking to identify specific bacterial metabolites that cause malodor and then measure those byproducts by GC or other analytical method.? But I am finding it difficult to find those specific by-products.? Most interested in by-products of Staph and E. coli.? We have looked at ammonia and Proteus, measuring with Drager columns, but I want something more sophisticated.? Any ideas? > Take a culture that you find malodorous. Run the headspace gas thru GC-MS. bob > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Microbio mailing list Microbio@net.bio.net http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/microbio End of Microbio Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3 *************************************** From farrlarr from isu.edu Thu Jan 29 12:03:07 2009 From: farrlarr from isu.edu (Larry Farrell) Date: Thu Jan 29 14:09:22 2009 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: EVERYTHING about bacterial genetics in a nut shell.dont miss it In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: shakeena wrote: > http://www.hotsite4all.blogspot.com Since this site addresses, very poorly, only "DNA Biotechnology" as it relates to eukaryotic systems, I advise readers to not waste their time. I also advise the poster to not post in unrelated groups with misleading headers to imply relatedness.