Bioscience blog

A series of talks have been added to the collection, under the title ‘The molecular basis of bacterial infection’ they include:

1. The molecular basis of bacterial pathogenicity: an overview
Prof. B. Brett Finlay - University of British Columbia, Canada

2. Deciphering Shigella invasion of epithelial cells
Prof. Philippe Sansonetti - Pasteur Institute, France

3. Legionella pneumophila: an intracellular pathogen of phagocytes
Dr. Craig Roy - Yale University, USA

4. Cholera: a paradigm for understanding emergence, virulence and temporal patterns of disease
Prof. John Mekalanos - Harvard Medical School, USA

5. Bordetella pertussis
Prof. Alison Weiss - University of Cincinnati, USA

6. Salmonellae: molecular basis of infection
Prof. Samuel Miller - University of Washington, USA

7. The diversity of Escherichia coli infections
Prof. Michael Donnenberg - University of Maryland, USA

8. Bacterial infection of epithelial signaling
Prof. Alice Prince - College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, USA

9. Human pathogenic Yersinia species
Prof. James Bliska - Stony Brook University, USA

10. Dental pathogens
Prof. Ann Progulske-Fox - University of Florida, USA

11. Haemophilus
Prof. Robert Munson - Ohio State University, USA

12. The war against extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: intelligence acquisition
Prof. William Jacobs - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

13. Molecular pathogenesis and prevention of Staphylococcus aureus infections
Prof. Olaf Schneewind - University of Chicago, USA

14. Streptococcus pyogenes disease and molecular pathogenesis
Prof. P. Patrick Cleary - University of Minnesota, USA

15. Microbial recognition and the immune response
Dr. Dana Philpott - University of Toronto, Canada

16. The human indigenous microbiota
Prof. David Relman - Stanford University, USA

17. Human genetics of infectious diseases: the example of bacterial/mycobacterial infections
Dr. Laurent Abel - University Paris Descartes and Inserm, France

18. Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance
Prof. Gerry Wright - McMaster University, Canada

19. Vaccines in the modern world
Prof. Gordon Dougan - Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

20. Biodefense vaccines
Prof. James Nataro - University of Maryland, USA

The NCRI Oncology Information Exchange (ONIX) was created to provide the cancer research community with a mechanism to easily discover and share information on the latest developments in the field. Its a free resource, and you will need to register to get full access to all the features which includes a cancer-related interactive resource catalogue that makes it easy to find what information exists, what data analysis tools have been developed and who is working on what and where.

To see how UCL Medical School is using ONIX, go to http://www.cancerinformatics.org.uk/news.html to find out more.

Do you know your SFX from your Metalib? Your Medline from your PubMed? Or your e-books from your e-prints? Do you have trouble keeping up to date with the literature or just don’t know where to start?

Do you know how to filter your PubMed results to get articles available from UCL?

Do you know how to cross search Medline and Embase?

We can offer training on any of the resources above at a time or place convenient to you. Please do get in touch and let me know what you’re interested in!

A new term… and welcome to everyone who is new at UCL. A big hello also to returning staff and students.

The Bioscience blog is here to keep you up to date with developments in Library services relating to the Biosciences. New products, trials, and any other related news items will be posted here regularly. If you have any comments of would like to see anything different here please do let me know.

More information about any of the Library resources can be found on our Library homepage. You can also contact me Lisa Flint (l.flint@ucl.ac.uk) for any information regarding resources for your subject areas.

Its time for a change again..  this time PubMed has revealed a new design. The new page has been ’simplified’ to make it easier to use. Changes include The Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details tabs’ features have been consolidated in ‘Advanced search’, the ‘Display settings’ have been changed and can be reset to show options such as the Abstract and ‘Find related data’ has replaced the database ‘Links’ selections previously available. A full list of changes is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html.

You can still access the articles which are available from our UCL subscriptions if you logon to PubMed through the Library homepage, and use the ‘Filter your results’ section. You will need to alter the Display settings to see the SFX links.

If you need any help using any of the databases available for Biosciences, please do contact me.

The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection provides researchers, graduate and advanced undergraduates with immediate access to over 1,000 talks each specially commissioned from world experts. The talks are in the format of animated slides with narration.

The talks are also aimed at Researchers to keep them up to date in their fields or to quickly immerse themselves in new areas. Talks can also be used in journal clubs or can be used for independent learning. You can access the talks from UCL or at home, just follow the links from the Library homepage or from Metalib.

If you have any comments about the resource or if you have an interesting way of using the talks, please let me know!

The Wellcome Trust requires all papers resulting from research that it has funded wholly or in part to be made freely available online. Authors can meet this requirement by publishing in a journal that has a paid open access option, for which the Wellcome Trust makes additional funding available.

UCL Library Services administers open access payments for Wellcome-funded researchers at UCL, and can either make payment direct to the publisher on behalf of the author or can reimburse the department for payment already made.

Further details and advice, along with an application form for all new claims, can be found at:    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/wellcome.shtml

Please e-mail open-access-funding@ucl.ac.uk if you have any queries or comments.

This is advance notice that many of UCL’s libraries (including the Science Library) will be closed for the whole day on Tuesday 30th June. This is so that staff can attend the UCL Library Services annual staff conference.

The following libraries will be open, but there may be restrictions on certain services - please check locally.

Ear Institute/RNID Libraries
Institute of Child Health Library
Institute of Neurology Library (open morning only)
Joint Moorfields Eye Hospital & the Institute of Ophthalmology Library (reference only)
Royal Free Medical Library

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience that the closures may cause.

Two new series have been added to the Biomedical and Life Sciences collection. They are ‘The Cell Division Cycle’ and ‘Obesity: latest developments in the field’. The following talks are included:

1. START control in yeast
Prof. Curt Wittenberg - The Scripps Research Institute, USA

2. The pRB/E2F pathway
Prof. Jacqueline Lees - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

3. Cell cycle control by the ubiquitin system in mammals
Prof. Michele Pagano - Department of Pathology, NYU Cancer Institute, USA

4. Replication licensing
Prof. Julian Blow - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, UK

5. Initiation of DNA replication
Prof. Bruce Stillman - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

6. Nucleosome assembly during DNA replication
Dr. Alain Verreault - University of Montreal, Canada

7. Sister chromatid cohesion: simple concept, complex reality
Prof. Douglas Koshland - Carnegie Institute of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

8. Centrosome duplication and separation in animal cells
Prof. Andrew Fry - University of Leicester, UK

9. Bipolar spindle assembly
Dr. Eric Karsenti - EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

10. Chromosome biorientation in yeast
Prof. Mike Stark - University of Dundee, UK

11. Regulation of mammalian cell division by the chromosomal passenger complex
Dr. Susanne Lens - University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands

12. Cleavage furrow formation and ingression during animal cytokinesis
Dr. Pier Paolo D’Avino - University of Cambridge, UK

13. The DNA damage response
Dr. Vincenzo Costanzo - Cancer Research UK, UK

14. The spindle checkpoint
Dr. Kevin Hardwick - University of Edinburgh, UK

15. Spindle movement and checkpoint control during mitosis in yeast
Prof. John Cooper - Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA

16. The G2/M transition
Prof. Dr. Rene Medema - University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands

17. Mouse models to investigate cell cycle and cancer
Dr. Philipp Kaldis - Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

18. Cell cycle: a complex network of signals regulating cell proliferation
Prof. Antonio Giordano - Temple University, USA

19. Drug discovery and target validation in the p53 pathway
Prof. Sir David Lane - University of Dundee, UK and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

20. Role and regulation of Cdk inhibitors in development and cancer
Prof. Martine Roussel - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

21. The kinetochore as a target for the development of mitosis specific anti-cancer drugs
Dr. Tim Yen - Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

22. Recombination and the formation of chiasmata in meiosis
Prof. Matthew Whitby - University of Oxford, UK

23. Genomic regulation of kinetochore orientation
Prof. Yoshinori Watanabe - Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

And for ‘Obesity: latest developments in the field’:

1. Body composition
Dr. Steven Heymsfield - Global Director, Scientific Affairs, Merck & Co, USA

2. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity
Dr. Max Lafontan - INSERM, Paul Sabatier University, France

3. Gastrointestinal peptides and food intake regulation
Prof. Stephen Bloom - Imperial College London, UK

4. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese
Prof. Dale Schoeller - University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

5.Obesity and adiponectin
Prof. Philip Scherer - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

6. Ectopic fat: causes, consequences and treatment
Prof. Steven Smith - Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA

7. Bariatric surgery: techniques and mechanisms of action
Prof. Walter Pories - East Carolina University, USA

Our subscription for the Faculty of 1000 Biology is now up for renewal. Its a good opportunity to get some feedback from departments as to what they think, are they using it, or not and any general comments on the product. Our subscription runs out in the next month so any feedback would be great!

http://www.f1000biology.com/

or go through the UCL Library databases pages for access.

Any comments, feedback or questions to me l.flint@ucl.ac.uk,