This popular, free online microscopy course begins with basics of optics, proceeds through transmitted light microscopy, and covers many microscopy methods.
Series Directors: Ron Vale, Nico Stuurman, and Kurt Thorn This 14 lecture series provides a good overview for the techniques of light microscopy. Leading scientists in light microscopy cover the basics of optics, transmitted light, fluorescence and GFP, digital imaging, and recent advances in super-resolution microscopy. The series is appropriate for undergraduates or anyone who…
Doug Koshland, PhD (President)Dr. Douglas Koshland is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Chair in the Biological Sciences and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development at UC Berkeley. In addition to serving on the Board, Koshland is also the President of iBiology. He was a scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science from 1987 and an adjunct professor…
The Engineering Life Flipped Course asks how the principles of biological systems can be used to create new proteins, chemicals, and biological structures.
This popular, free online microscopy course begins with basics of optics, proceeds through transmitted light microscopy, and covers many microscopy methods.
Series Directors: Ron Vale, Nico Stuurman, and Kurt Thorn This 14 lecture series provides a good overview for the techniques of light microscopy. Leading scientists in light microscopy cover the basics of optics, transmitted light, fluorescence and GFP, digital imaging, and recent advances in super-resolution microscopy. The course is appropriate for undergraduates or anyone who…
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Nico Stuurman is a Research Specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, in the lab of Ron Vale. Nico combines his expertise in computer programming and microscopy to advance many projects including the Open Source software, Micro-Manager.
Ronald Germain, a thought leader in the scientific community, links many of the challenges that face the US biomedical workforce to the NIH grant funding system. (Talk recorded in October 2015)
Randy Schekman and James Rothman were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on elucidating the components and mechanisms of the secretory pathway. (Talk recorded in December 2013)
Rebecca Christofferson provides an overview of arboviruses, arthropod-borne viruses, like dengue and zika, and shares her work on characterizing understudied arboviruses like Bunyamwera, Batai, and Ngari. (Talk recorded in August 2019)
H. Robert Horvitz Assessments created by Dr. Rachna Sharma Questions In the paper, the authors mention that they found “that heat-shocked hsp-bcl-2 transgenic animals had almost twice as many neurons in the ventral cord as heat-shocked animals transgenic for a hsp-vector construct or as non-heat-shocked animals.” What did this result suggest? (Select all that apply)…
Tom Cech Questions In his talk, Dr. Cech refers to intron sequences. How are they referred to in his 1981 Cell paper? Internal nucleic acid sequences Intragenic virtual sequences Intervening sequences Inteins None of the above In his talk, Dr. Cech states that he found in his studies of transcription that “RNA splicing was taking…
Paul Turner describes the fundamental biology of viruses, and provides an introduction to phage therapy, and how it can be improved by applying ‘evolution thinking. (Talk recorded in January 2017)
Ben Barres categorizes two types of reactive astrocytes, A1 and A2, and describes how they affect the fate of neurons after brain injuries (Talk recorded in January 2017)
The Synthetic Biology in Action course participants explain how one can develop biodegradable plastics from biomass using bacteria. (Talk recorded in June 2015)
In this talk about RNA structure, Anna Marie Pyle explains that many RNA molecules have elaborate structures that are essential for their functions. (Talk recorded in March 2014)
Tuberculosis (TB) has a huge impact on global health. John McKinney gives an overview of TB infection, and discusses why treatment of tuberculosis is so challenging. (Talk recorded in June 2007)
Don Ganem discusses the biology of Kaposi’s sarcoma, identification of the disease causing virus and how co-infection with HIV greatly increases the risk of developing KS. (Talk recorded in March 2009)
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