Basic Bioinformatics Tools Workshops, Fall 2012

To register and learn more, visit http://guides.hsl.unc.edu/bioinformatics

The Basic Bioinformatics Tools (BBT) Workshop series provides seminar and hands-on computer classes
on bioinformatics tools and resources to faculty, staff and students of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Schedule of Upcoming Workshops

  • Introduction to UNIX for Biologists, Part 1 – Tuesday, 10/2/2012, 10:00am – 12:00pm (Location: HSL 307)
  •  Introduction to UNIX for Biologists, Part 2 – Monday, 10/8/2012, 10:00am – 12:00pm (Location: HSL 307)

Additional fall 2012 BBT workshops will be announced as they are scheduled; details at http://guides.hsl.unc.edu/bioinformatics

The fall 2012 workshops listed above will be held at the Health Sciences Library in the Biogen-Idec Classroom (307; 3rd floor).

Space is limited and registration is required. Registration for each workshop will close when it is full.

This workshop series is sponsored by the UNC Health Sciences Library in partnership with the UNC Center for Bioinformatics.

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Protein Production & Structural Biology Resources at UNC Workshop September 21, 2012

Protein Production & Structural Biology Resources at UNC
Friday, September 21, 2012
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Bioinformatics Auditorium 1131
Structures of macromolecules at atomic resolution have helped to revolutionize modern biology. Specialized UNC Core Facilities can help you quickly and economically utilize structural biology methodologies for your own research.
This workshop will provide information on the UNC Cores that support (large-scale) protein production & purification as well as all aspects of high-resolution structural analyses via computational methods, X-ray crystallography, and NMR spectroscopy, and the resources available for how to meet your research needs.

Speakers:  Mischa Machius, PhD; Brenda Temple, PhD; Michael Miley, PhD; and Andrew Lee, PhD

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Carolina cracks top 10 in federal R&D expenditures

“UNC-Chapel Hill rose to ninth from 16th among leading private and public research universities for the level of federal funding ($545.99 million) devoted to research and development in all fields during fiscal 2010.”

Read more

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NESCent Distinguished Speaker and NCSU Plant Biology Joint Seminar, September 11

NESCent Distinguished Speaker and NCSU Plant Biology Joint Seminar:
Evolution of Life in Pacific Oceania: A Pattern Analysis

Dr. Vicki Funk, Smithsonian Institution;  http://botany.si.edu/staff/staffPage.cfm?ThisName=16
Host: Jenny Xiang

September 11, 2012, David Clark Labs 101, 4:00-5:00 pm. Reception starts at 3:00 pm in the lobby area.

Direction:  http://www.ncsu.edu/campus_map/building-index.htm , on the other side of Dan Allen Deck building (see the map) with the address of  ”110 Dan Allen Dr, Raleigh, NC”.

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ScienceDirect down time Saturday/Sunday Aug. 25-26

The ScienceDirect platform will be down from 9:30am EST this Saturday morning, 8/25, to 2:30am on Sunday morning, 8/26.

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UNC interlibrary loan and document delivery records deletion

UNC Libraries is upgrading its interlibrary loan/document delivery (aka Carolina BLU) software. In the process, the record of your interlibrary loan/document delivery requests prior to July 1, 2007 will be deleted. If you wish to retain your older request history, you should log in to your account at http://www.lib.unc.edu/interlibraryloan.html and view “All Requests.” Print the list or copy and paste it into a spreadsheet for your records.

More information is available at http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2012/05/interlibrary-loancampus-delivery-upgrade-work-in-may/.

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Who “Owns” The Arctic?: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference, May 28, 2012

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) will host Who “Owns” The Arctic?: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on March 28, 2012. The conference will bring together policymakers, academics, students, and environmentalists to explore diverse issues related to Arctic resource and energy management from Russian, Canadian, Indigenous, American, and other perspectives.

Registration is free but requested.

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Web of Science access issues Jan. 19

You may experience problems accessing Web of Science tonight, Jan. 19, 2012. If so, use this link if on campus. If off campus, you can connect to Zoological Record and click on the “Select a database” tab to switch to Web of Science.

Regular access should resume by the morning.

 

 

 

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Nicolas Steno, father of modern geology

Did you notice today’s Google logo?  It celebrates the 374th birthday of geologist Nicolas Steno, and illustrates his most famous contributions, the Law of Superposition and the Principle of Original Horizontality.  The Law of Superposition states that the oldest rock layers are deposited sequentially, and the Principle of Original Horizontality states that rock layers form horizontally.  See the doodle and read more about Nicolas Steno in this Huffington Post article.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

From their website:

“The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).”

BHL publishes a blog and one of the regular features is “Book of the Week”, which exhibits books from their collection.  Last week’s book, Field Book of Giant Fishes, features this amazing photo of a Giant Oar-Fish that was caught off the coast of California in 1996:


Be sure to check out this great resource!

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