Subjects

Announcements Courses, meetings, podcasts, and other events

• Digital Biology Course Info is Posted
• Pacific Northwest ASM meeting
• Tangled Bank is coming April 12th
• Tangled Bank #51: the Seattle Tour!
• Time to fly
  

Birds Biology is not just for the birds

• Butterflies, birds, and worms
• Hard-working birds on Mother's Day
  
• iSpecies and Google games
• Spring is in the heron
  
• The birth of a hummingbird

Chemistry Chemistry makes biology come to life!

• What's that stuff?

Classroom activities and educational materials available from Geospiza Education

• BLASTing through the kingdom of life
• Every structure has a story
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
• Sequencing the campus at the Johns Hopkins University

Disclosure statement and good questions to ask about any web site

• Evaluating web site information

Digital biology: How do people use bioinformatics resources to learn about biology and discover new things?

• Antifreeze for winter weather
• Future Shock and Selenocysteine
  
• Part II. Future Shock and Selenocysteine: it's time again to update the databanks
• Hunting for huntingtin, part I Background, reviews, biochemistry of glutamine, and a bit of comparative genomics
• Hunting for huntingtin, part II In which we're reminded that database searches are experiments, too.
• Hunting for huntingtin, part III Our continuing search for proteins with polyglutamine
• Hunting for huntingtin, part IV: What did you expect to find?
• Hunting for huntingtin, part V: BLASTing on forward
• Multiple views of integration
• White people are mutants

Education: Random thoughts on education and information about summer courses

• A day at the Biotech Expo
• Birth of the Biotech Boosters
  
• Diversity in science: will we ever see a rainbow?
• Biotech Expo - coming in March!
• Ethical issues in biotechnology: contrasting companies and classrooms
  
• Instructions in ethics for instructors
• Rethinking biotech student internships, part I
• Rethinking biotech student internships, part II
• Shifting perspectives on science and society
  
• Summer courses in digital biology
• When will students do science with computers?
  

Insects Some creepy, crawly things, have their own web sites

• Butterflies, birds, and worms
• Molecular resources for monarch biology

Microbiology Closer than you might expect

• Animalcules, Volume 1, issue 7
  
• Build your own virus
• Doing the cross-species hop
  
• Intimate strangers
• Sugar, Sugar
  
• Time for iMicrobe

Plants Green, lean, and sometimes mean

• "I hear the cottonwoods whispering above..."
• I want my plant TV!
  
• Plants that make crystals that look like plants

The life and times of a digital biologist

• It must be true, I read it on the Internet!
• My humble efforts to submit
• Thinking like a programmer, searching like a fool

Web resources: Diverse web resources for learning about the diversity of life. These cover biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, microbiology and more.

• Build your own virus
• Butterflies, birds, and worms
• I want my plant TV!
  
• Intimate strangers
• Happy Sun-Earth Day!
  
• iSpecies and Google games
• Molecular resources for monarch biology
• Plants that make crystals that look like plants
• Sequencing a Genome: the video
  
• Tangled Bank 45 is up
• The birth of a hummingbird
• Time for iMicrobe
• Trade publications in biology teaching
• 24 flavors of PCR

Wierd Science and Silly things

• A Birthday Celebration with Goofy Minnesota Limericks
  
• Experiments on Peeps
• I want my plant TV!
• When Mt. St. Helens moves her bowels . . .
  
• It all came out right in the end
• Oh, the memes bloggers play now
• People who look like their dogs
• Unusual biology on the internet
• What if Garrison Keillor did bioinformatics?