Internet Resources in the Biological Sciences

• The American Institute of Biological Sciences provides resources and ideas for building a career in biology.
• Career Mosaic is a general career-related site. You can search for job-hunting advice and "help wanted" ads in any area, including biology!
• Careers in biology, including medicine, are the focus of this site at Furman University
• Council on Undergraduate Research has a registry where students with research experience can sign in and grad schools check out your qualifications.
• Environmental careers from the Environmental Career Organization ,  Environmental Career Center , and the National Council for Science and the Environment (CNIE)
• Harvard's list of job-related sites in biology (some general, some targeted at positions in cellular and molecular biology)
• The National Academy of Sciences runs a career advice page for beginning scientists and engineers.  Among their publications is "Careers in Science and Engineering," available free online.
• Medzilla offers an online job search service with an emphasis on biotech and medicine.
• Monster.com, a general job-search site
• NatureJobs online:  Job search tools and job listings from Nature
• Science Magazine Online:  Career-Related Pages.  Graduate Programs are profiled under "Academic Connections," and the "Advice and Perspectives" section contains lots of good ideas (especially in the archives).  Includes job listings.
• Sciencejobs.com  A job search site for chemistry and life sciences

• Colorado State's Internship directory
• Council on Undergraduate Research  (CUR) offers awards for undergraduate research for which you an a WVWC professor can apply to do research on our campus
• Environmental Careers Organization also offers internship information
• FBI Internships
• NIH's Programs for Students , including internships and scholarships for undergrads
• NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates program gives undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research in collaboration with experienced scientists.  These internships are highly recommended:   Check 'em out!!
• US Dept. of Energy Global Change Program:  Includes Summer Research Internships
• Study abroad in the tropics through the Organization for Tropical Studies

• Research opportunities at national laboratories:  Brookhaven (Long Island, NY),  Oak Ridge (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Lawrence Livermore (near San Francisco), Argonne (Illinois and Idaho), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Colorado), Lawrence Berkeley (Berkeley, CA), Sandia (Albuquerque, NM),  Los Alamos (NM)
• NASA's Johnson Space Center has several undergraduate programs and a list of other NASA opportunities
• Smithsonian Institution has internship opportunities.
• The School for Field Studies offers environmental courses and field work at several international locations, including Costa Rica, Kenya, and Australia 
• The Student Conservation Association offers a variety of internships, some paid
• The Washington Center offers internships in Washington, D.C. for students majoring in virtually all fields.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute offers summer research and other educational programs

• The Biology Project at the University of Arizona.  Includes development, some physiology & tutorials
• Biomedical Sciences Web links at Southwest Missouri State University
• Free resources from Biosis (fun facts, organism's names and systematics)
• Harvard University's BioLinks page:  Links to everything from A to Zoology!
• WWW Virtual Library:  Biosciences
• Yahoo’s list of Life Science links on the Web
• Zoology internet resource guide from Biosis, a major publisher/indexing service

• Protein Explorer, free molecular imaging software.  This software (and related software such as RasMol and Chime) allows you to "explore" protein structure, using files from databases.

• Biology WorkBench, a UC San Diego site that allows you to search numerous databases and analyze results.  Check out the tutorials to see how bioinformatics allows researchers to ask interesting questions.

• Molecular models by Dave Woodcock at Okanagan University College

• NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information's list of available databases; also check out NCBI's tutorials for using databases.

• See the general sites, above. Most contain links to numerous databases.

• Dynamics of Development Web Tutorials from Jeff Hardin at University of Wisconsin
• MIT Biology Hypertextbook. An online tutorial in cell and molecular biology; highly recommended.
• Tutorials in Bioinformatics using UC San Diego's Biology WorkBench
• Protein Explorer, tools for 3-D visualization of macromolecules

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the U.S. professional society for all sciences.   Lots on science policy and education; publishers of Science magazine
• American Medical Association
• American Physiological Society Home Page  
• American Veterinary Medical Association
• Association for Women in Science (national) and WV Chapter
• Animal Behavior Society
• Botanical Society of America
• Ecological Society of America
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Society for Developmental Biology  
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• West Virginia Academy of Science

Some of the journal links are to full-text sites and others are to tables of contents only.  Many of the journals listed below are also available in full-text by linking through the Library's "e-journals" page.

• WVWC Library's e-journals links
  • American Naturalist
  • American Physiological Society's journals
  • American Journal of Botany
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Annual Review's publications, collections of review papers in many disciplines.
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Bioscience
  • Cell
  • Conservation Ecology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Ecology and other journals from the Ecological Society of America
  • Evolution
  • Journal of the American Medical Association  
  • JSTOR, a repository of many archived journals
  • The Lancet, a prominent medical journal published in the U.K.
  • National Academies Press, full text access to many reports and policy recommendations
  • Nature, the U.K.’s premiere journal covering research and news in all areas of science.
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
  • Science, the U.S.’s premiere journal covering research and news in all areas of science.

  • Trends journals, life sciences and biomedical journals with reviews of current interest (e.g. Trends in Ecology and Evolution)

   

• Developmental Biology
  • Developmental biology pages by Bill Wasserman of Loyola University, Chicago
  • FishScope:   Zebrafish development, filmed for your enjoyment.
  • The Virtual Embryo with links to Dynamic Development web tutorial, above, and  other info
  • WWW Virtual Library:  Developmental Biology:  through the Society for Developmental Biology
  • ZFIN:  The zebrafish information network at the University of Oregon 
  
  

  Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • Apoptosis explained, with links to related sites
  • Cell & Molecular Biology Online, a compendium of links in all areas of cell & molecular biology
  • Functional Genomics , from Science
  • FlyBase: Drosophila genome
  • Genetic Science Learning Center.  Designed for the general public, this site covers the basic science and social concerns.
  • National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH
  • Stem cell research and applications, from AAAS
  • Stem cell information, from NIH
  • UCSC Genome Bioinformatics site, with access to numerous genome projects
  • Virtual Library of Cell Biology
  • Virtual Library of Genetics, from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
  Environmental Science & Ecology
  • CAWS research consortium 
  • Highlands Institute for Environmental Research and Education

  Physiology, Anatomy & Histology

  • The Heart:  An Online Exploration  Neat graphics and sound effects!
  • Neurosciences on the Internet through Neuroguide
  • University of Cincinnati's Medical School pages  including animations and images
  • University of Utah's very impressive pathology site..
  • U. Va.'s Center for Biological Timing...lots on circadian rhythms.
  • WWW Virtual Library:   Physiology and Biophysics

  Scientific Integrity, Research Ethics, and Bioethics

  • Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals from the American Psychological Association

  • Bioethics resources and scientific freedom & responsibility resources from AAAS

  • On Being a Scientist from the National Academy of Sciences

  • Council on Undergraduate Research's Proceedings from a conference on Research Responsibility and Undergraduates

  Library Links and Government Agencies

  • Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • FirstGov, a portal to Federal Government agencies, websites and resources

  • Library of Congress

  • National Academy of Sciences

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  • National Library of Medicine:  Including access to Medline & NCBI

  • USGS Biological Resources Division

  Other Links of General Interest

  • Information resources from UCSB:  everything from Accounting to Women's Studies; some sites have career info as well as content relating to the discipline.  The Biology and Chemistry pages are worth a look.

  • The U.S. Congress on the Internet

  • Nobel Prizes and their winners

  • IgNobel Prizes, just for fun!

  • Annals of Improbable Research, from the same crew who bring you IgNobels

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    Page last updated on 11/05/03