Some new ebooks on Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences

Click on the titles to access them - you will need your Birkbeck IT username and password.

Roitt's essential immunology: Roitt, Ivan M. Delves, Peter J., Martin, Seamus J., 1966-, Burton, Dennis R

Biotechnology: academic cell update: Clark, David P. Pazdernik, Nanette Jean.

Trace evidence analysis more cases in mute witnesses: Houck, Max M





Immunotherapy in transplantation principles and practice: Kaplan, Bruce, 1958-, Burckart, Gilbert J., Lakkis, Fadi
      Introduction to environmental analysis: Reeve, Roger. N.

Carbonate reservoirs porosity and diagenesis in a sequence stratigraphic framework: Moore, Clyde H. Wade, William J

Mid-latitude slope deposits (cover beds): Kleber, Arno, Terhorst, Brigit.

Latest Research from Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences researchers

BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - is a database of research papers deposited by Birkbeck researchers and academics. Here are some recent papers, available in full text, that have been uploaded by members of staff from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. 

Click on the links to see the full papers, but bear in mind that some of these may be the author manuscripts, not the final published versions. You will need your ITS account to log in.

 

You can also follow BIRON on Twitter to get the latest additions: https://twitter.com/BIROnbbk

• de Gosson, M. and Hiley, Basil (2013) Short-time quantum propagator and Bohmian trajectorie. Physics Letters A 377 (42), pp. 3005-3008. ISSN 0375-9601. (In Press)
• Seghedi, I. and Downes, Hilary (2011) Geochemistry and tectonic development of Cenozoic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region. Gondwana Research 20 (4), pp. 655-672. ISSN 1342-937X.
• Upton, B.G.J. and Downes, Hilary and Kirstein, L.A. and Bonadiman, C. and Hill, P.G. and Ntaflos, T. (2011) The lithospheric mantle and lower crust-mantle relationships under Scotland: a xenolithic perspective. Journal of the Geological Society 168 (4), pp. 873-886. ISSN 0016-7649.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Wright, K. (2011) Computer simulations of the interactions of the (012) and (001) surfaces of jarosite with Al, Cd, Cu2+ and Zn. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (1), pp. 52-62. ISSN 0016-7037.
• Attal, M. and Cowie, P.A. and Whittaker, A.C. and Hobley, D. and Tucker, G.E. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2011) Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (F2005), ISSN 0148-0227.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Archer, J. (2011) Geochemistry of As-, F- and B-bearing waters in and around San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina, and implications for drinking and irrigation water quality. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 112 , pp. 276-284. ISSN 0375-6742.
• Joy, K.H. and Crawford, Ian A. and Russell, S.S. and Kearsley, A.T. (2010) Lunar meteorite regolith breccias: an in situ study of impact melt composition using LA-ICP-MS with implications for the composition of the lunar crust. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45 (6), pp. 917-946. ISSN 1086-9379.
• Seghedi, I. and Maţenco, L. and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Szakács, A. and Pécskay, Z. (2010) Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Tectonophysics 502 (1-2), pp. 146-157. ISSN 0040-1951.
• Barrett, J.E. and Taylor, K.G. and Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Charnock, J.M. (2010) Solid-phase speciation of Pb in urban road dust sediment: a XANES and EXAFS study. Environmental Science & Technology 44 (8), pp. 2940-2946. ISSN 0013-936X.
• Cvetkovic, V. and Downes, Hilary and Hock, V. and Prelevic, D. and Lazarov, M. (2010) Mafic alkaline metasomatism in the lithosphere underneath East Serbia: evidence from the study of xenoliths and the host alkali basalts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 337 , pp. 213-239. ISSN 0305-8719.

Latest research from Birkbeck Biological Sciences researchers

BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - is a database of research papers deposited by Birkbeck researchers and academics. Here are the papers, available in full text, that have been uploaded by members of staff from the department of Biological Sciences this year.
Click on the links to see the full papers, but bear in mind that some of these may be the author manuscripts, not the final published versions. You will need your ITS account to log in.

You can also follow BIRON on Twitter to get the latest additions: https://twitter.com/BIROnbbk

• O’Reilly, A.O. and Cole, Ambrose R. and Lopes, J.L.S. and Lampert, A. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2014) Chaperone-mediated native folding of a β-scorpion toxin in the periplasm of E.coli. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1840 (1), pp. 10-15. ISSN 0304-4165. (In Press)
• Waudby, Christopher A. and Launay, H. and Cabrita, L.D. and Christodoulou, John (2013) Protein folding on the ribosome studied using NMR spectroscopy. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 74 , pp. 57-75. ISSN 0079-6565.
• Bagneris, Claire and DeCaen, P.G. and Hall, B.A. and Naylor, Claire E. and Clapham, D.E. and Kay, C.W.M. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Role of the C-terminal domain in the structure and function of tetrameric sodium channels. Nature Communications 4 , 2465. ISSN 2041-1723.
• Redzej, Adam and Ilangovan, Aravindan and Lang, S. and Gruber, C.J. and Topf, Maya and Zangger, K. and Zechner, E.L. and Waksman, Gabriel (2013) Structure of a translocation signal domain mediating conjugative transfer by Type IV secretion systems. Molecular Microbiology 89 (2), pp. 324-333. ISSN 0950-382X.
• Woollett, Benjamin and Whitmore, Lee and Janes, R.W. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) ValiDichro: a website for validating and quality control of protein circular dichroism spectra. Nucleic Acids Research 41 (W1), W417-W421. ISSN 0305-1048.
• Lopes, J.L.S. and Orcia, D. and Araujo, A.P.U. and DeMarco, R. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Folding factors and partners for the intrinsically disordered protein Micro-Exon Gene 14 (MEG-14). Biophysical Journal 104 (11), pp. 2512-2520. ISSN 0006-3495.
• Hawksworth, David L. and McNeill, J. and de Beer, Z.W. and Wingfield, M.J. (2013) Names of fungal species with the same epithet applied to different morphs: how to treat them. IMA Fungus 4 (1), pp. 53-56. ISSN 2210-6340.
• Motta, A. and Huyet, Jessica and Naylor, Claire E. and Savva, Christos G. and Gibert, M. and Popoff, M.R. and Basak, Ajit K. (2013) Structural insights into Clostridium perfringens delta toxin pore formation. PLoS ONE 8 (6), e66673. ISSN 1932-6203.
• Miles, Andrew J. and Fedosova, N.U. and Hoffmann, S.V. and Wallace, Bonnie A. and Esmann, M. (2013) Stabilisation of Na,K-ATPase structure by the cardiotonic steroid ouabain. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 435 (2), pp. 300-305. ISSN 0006-291X.
• Bokori-Brown, M. and Kokkinidou, M.C. and Savva, Christos G. and Fernandes da Costa, S.P. and Naylor, Claire E. and Cole, Ambrose R. and Moss, David S. and Basak, Ajit K. and Titball, R.W. (2013) Clostridium perfringensepsilon toxin H149A mutant as a platform for receptor binding studies. Protein Science 22 (5), pp. 650-659. ISSN 0961-8368.
• Riou, P. and Kjær, S. and Garg, R. and Purkiss, Andrew G. and George, R. and Cain, R.J. and Bineva, G. and Reymond, N. and McColl, B. and Thompson, A.J. and O’Reilly, N. and McDonald, Neil Q. and Parker, P.J. and Ridley, A.J. (2013) 14-3-3 Proteins Interact with a Hybrid Prenyl-Phosphorylation Motif to Inhibit G Proteins. Cell 153 (3), pp. 640-653. ISSN 0092-8674.
• Rivera-Calzada, A. and Fronzes, Remi and Savva, Christos G. and Chandran, Vidya and Lian, Pei W. and Laeremans, T. and Pardon, E. and Steyaert, J. and Remaut, Han and Waksman, Gabriel and Orlova, Elena V. (2013) Structure of a bacterial type IV secretion core complex at subnanometre resolution. The EMBO Journal 32 (8), pp. 1195-1204. ISSN 1460-4189.
• Ulmschneider, Martin B. and Bagneris, Claire and McCusker, Emily C. and DeCaen, P.G. and Delling, M. and Clapham, D.E. and Ulmschneider, J.P. and Wallace, Bonnie A. (2013) Molecular dynamics of ion transport through the open conformation of a bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (16), pp. 6364-6369. ISSN 0027-8424.
• Thompson, Katherine C. and Jones, S.H. and Rennie, A.R. and King, M.D. and Ward, A.D. and Hughes, Brian R. and Lucas, C.O.M. and Campbell, R.A. and Hughes, A.V. (2013) Degradation and rearrangement of a lung surfactant lipid at the air–water interface during exposure to the pollutant gas ozone. Langmuir 29 (14), pp. 4594-4602. ISSN 0743-7463.
• Tarr, Sarah J. and Cryar, Adam and Thalassinos, Konstantinos and Haldar, K. and Osborne, Andrew R. (2013) The C-terminal portion of the cleaved HT motif is necessary and sufficient to mediate export of proteins from the malaria parasite into its host cell. Molecular Microbiology 87 (4), pp. 835-850. ISSN 0950-382X.
• Atherton, Joseph and Houdusse, A. and Moores, Carolyn A. (2013) MAPping out distribution routes for kinesin couriers. Biology of the Cell , ISSN 0248-4900. (In Press)
• Guzman, Juan D. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Birchall, K. and Mwaigwisya, S. and Saxty, B. and McHugh, T.D. and Gibbons, S. and Malkinson, J. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Antitubercular specific activity of ibuprofen and the other 2-arylpropanoic acids using the HT-SPOTi whole-cell phenotypic assay. BMJ Open 3 (6), e002672. ISSN 2044-6055.
• Lang, Peter F. and Smith, Barry C. (2013) Methods of calculating ionization energies of multielectron (five or more) isoelectronic atomic ions. The Scientific World Journal 2013 , pp. 1-10. ISSN 1537-744X.
• Limon, G. and Lewis, Elisa G. and Chang, Y.-M. and Ruiz, H. and Balanza, M.E. and Guitian, J. (2013) Using mixed methods to investigate factors influencing reporting of livestock diseases: a case study among smallholders in Bolivia. Preventive Veterinary Medicine , ISSN 0167-5877. (In Press)
• Munshi, Tulika and Gupta, Antima and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Guzman, Juan D. and Gibbons, S. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Characterisation of ATP-Dependent Mur Ligases Involved in the Biogenesis of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One 8 (3), e60143. ISSN 1932-6203.
• Temussi, P.A. and Waudby, Christopher A. and Camilloni, C. and Fitzpatrick, A.W.P. and Cabrita, L.D. and Dobson, C.M. and Vendruscolo, M. and Christodoulou, John (2013) In-cell NMR characterization of the secondary structure populations of a disordered conformation of α-Synuclein within E. coli cells. PLoS ONE 8 (8), e72286. ISSN 1932-6203.

Want to try your hand at science writing? New competition.

Access to Understanding is a science-writing competition, run by Europe PubMedCentral and the British Library, for PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers (max. 6 years experience) who have an interest in communicating science to the public. Prizes include an iPad and Amazon vouchers. More details at the link below, but hurry, it closes on the 10th December.

http://europepmc.org/ScienceWritingCompetition

Biome - keep up to date with a new online magazine

 

Check out Biome - a new online magazine showcasing recent medical and biological research.

 

"Biome is an online magazine that will provide biologists, medical researchers and clinicians with the latest research topics, discussions and community news from the entire spectrum of medicine and biology. Published by BioMed Central, Biome will regularly report on specially significant research articles, reviews and commentaries that appear daily in BioMed Central’s open access journals, all of which are fully peer reviewed. Biome brings together a selection of new insights from across the entire spectrum of biology and medicine."

See the latest articles here http://www.biomedcentral.com/biome/. You can also sign up to receive monthly highlights.

Useful web sites for creating scientific posters

For those of you currently creating posters, here are some useful websites with tips on layout and tools you can use to create interesting posters. I hope you find them useful. Please let me know of any other sites that you have found useful for this and I'll add them below.

• http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign
• http://as.ua.edu/undergraduateresearch/presenting-your-work/making-posters/
• http://www.cns.cornell.edu/documents/ScientificPosters.pdf
• http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/
• http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/poster
• http://poly.libguides.com/posters

New study into cell replication in the Department of Biological Sciences

Dr Carolyn Moores, Reader in Structural Biology, has received a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant worth over £350,000 over three years for investigations into how cell replication is controlled and how it might be blocked. See more on this story on the Birkbeck news pages

See Carolyn's Researcher ID profile here http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4942-2010
Want to join Researcher ID? Sign up for free here http://www.researcherid.com/

View some of Carolyn's papers via the Birkbeck eLibrary (you will need your Birkbeck IT account to log in):

• New insights into genotype–phenotype correlations for the doublecortin-related lissencephaly spectrum
• The Structural Basis of Force Generation by the Mitotic Motor Kinesin-5
• Dynein: A Force (Generation Mechanism) to Be Reckoned with
• Molecular Basis for Specific Regulation of Neuronal Kinesin-3 Motors by Doublecortin Family Proteins
• Loop L5 Acts as a Conformational Latch in the Mitotic Kinesin Eg5

 

Nature PastCasts

The Nature PastCast is a podcast series telling the stories behind some of the biggest papers in Nature's archive. Each month for a year, the PastCast will explore Nature's back catalogue, setting in context key moments in the history of science – and rooting out some of the quirkier reports from the journal – with the help of scientists and historians.

Click on the links below to access each episode:

October 1993: Could there be life on other planets?
September 1963: Plate Tectonics
August 1975: Monoclonal antibodies: from basic science to blockbuster medicine
July 1942: WW2 Radar Design
June 1876: The arrival of the first Gorilla in Europe
May 1985: The discovery of a hole in the ozone layer
April 1953: The structure of DNA

 

Welcome to new science students

 

Welcome to all new Birkbeck science students. I hope to see you all at induction events over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime if you would like to find out more about what the Library offers, there are lots of ways to do that:

• Watch our Library video
• Download our Welcome guide
• Come on a Library tour or try our QR code tour
• Try our Library and Information Skills Moodle module
• Sign up for a Saturday workshop
• Take a look at the guide to Library resources for your subject

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/contact/

Astronomy Photographer Of The Year exhibition

Planetary Sciences students may want to take some time off from studying to visit this exhibition at the Royal Obervatory - Astronomy Photographer Of The Year

They are also running a course on digital astrophotography in the New Year http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/digital-astro-2014

Library Saturday Workshops

Come along to a Saturday workshop and learn to make the most of what the Library offers. This term our workshops are aimed at new students, but all are welcome.

Learn to understand your reading list, use the Library catalogue and find ejournals.

See the list of dates and times, and book your place


We look forward to seeng you at a workshop.

2014 - International year of Crystallography

Those of you who pursue studies, research and careers in Crystallography, you will be very pleased to know that 2014 has been declared as the International year of Crystallography (IYCr2014 for short) to celebrate a century since M. Von Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize for the Diffraction of X-rays by crystals and Kepler’s observation in 1611 on symmetry of ice crystals.

The celebratory year will commence with a "glittering" Opening Ceremony in UNESCO's HQ, in Paris, in 20-21 January 2014.
UNESCO and the International Union of Crystallography launched a new website where you can follow up events, announcements and learning materials such as Audio/Visual presentations and a plethora of educational websites. The website will be sustained after the end of 2014 as a permanent resource of the International Union of Crystallography's web presence.

It is valuable to note that a new peer-reviewed open access journal will be launched as part of the 2014 celebrations. The International Union of Crystallography Journal (IUCrJ for short).

The journal will cover:

• biology and medicine
• chemistry and crystal engineering
• materials and computation
• neutron and synchrotron science and technology
• physics and free electron laser science and technology[1]

Image credits: All the images are hyper-linked and not saved on the website.


Note:
[1] Source: http://www.iucrj.org/m/

Web of Science and Medline maintenance this Friday (23rd)

We have received the following warning from Thompson Reuters regarding the Web Of Knowledge database platform:

Web of Knowledge maintenance will begin on Friday August 23, 2013 at 0900 BST and ending by Friday August 23, 2013 at 1900 BST
Web of Knowledge may not be available during the above times. Thomson Reuters would like to apologise for any interruption this may cause.

Web of Knowledge includes the Science Citation Index and the Medline database.

Reviews on Tuberculosis

The Cochrane Library provides evidence-based reviews in medical and health subject areas and at the moment they have a spotlight on their reviews related to tuberculosis. The reviews linked from this page http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/details/collection/4299181/Tuberculosis.html
cover prevention, diagnosis, drug and other types of treatment and drug delivery.

Seach the Cochrane Library for more evidence-based reviews here
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html

Keep up to date on the move

Are you an app addict? Forget Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga for a while and download some of the apps that are on offer from our science ejournal and database providers.

There are several PubMed apps available - here's a review that compares six of them for the iPad and iPhone, and here's the page where you can download some of them

The Royal Society of Chemistry has also made its journal content available via an app - details here http://www.rsc.org/publishing/platform/rscmobile.asp

Take ScienceDirect with you wherever you go with their apps for iPad/iPhone and Android

Note that to access full text articles you may have to register your account from a Birkbeck PC initially, so that they know you are a registered student or member of staff.

EndNote user? You can  also take your references with you on the move, or add to your EndNote library with the app for iPad. This one costs £6.99.

If you're looking for a job in science, the Nature jobs app is free and available for iPhone/iPad and Android.

Do you have a favourite science journal or database app? Let us know!

ScienceDirect Top 25

Keep up to date with the latest developments in your field of research. ScienceDirect Top 25 gives you the latest, most cited papers in your research area. Chose from subject areas as diverse as Biochemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Psychology. Sign up to get them regularly by email

Some new ebooks ...

    

Some new ebooks added to the catalogue in Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Earth & Planetary Sciences - see the list here

Saturday workshops for Science students

Our Saturday workshop programme has several sessions useful for Science students. The session this term are primarily aimed at postgraduates but all are welcome:



There are workshops on:

• Improving Your Search Skills
• Finding And Accessing Theses
• Introduction to the Web of Knowledge
• Managing your references with EndNote and EndNote Web (reference management software)
• Keeping up to date using current awareness services

For more information and to book a place, go to http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

We look forward to seeing you at a workshop this term.

 

Saturday workshop on Web of Knowledge

Our first Saturday workshop of the term is this weekend and is on using the Web Of Knowledge databases, which include the Science Citation Indexes, as well as Medline.

This workshop is currently fully booked, but please keep an eye on this page for cancellations http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

or add yourself to the waiting list.

 

Alternatively you can train yourself in your own time - here are some resources;

• Library guide to Web of Knowledge
• Quick Reference card
• Online Tutorials
• Live web-based training sessions from the publisher

If you have any problems with using the Web Of Knowledge, please ask at/email the Library Help Desk or contact me on 020 7631 6062, email s.godsell@bbk.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

New Library workshops for Science students

Our new Saturday workshop programme is now out. There are several that are useful for Science students:

*Introduction to the Web of Knowledge Sat 09 Feb 11.30am-1pm
An introduction to searching the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes with time for some hands-on practice.

*Introduction to EndNote Web (reference management software) Sat 09 Mar 11.30am-1pm
EndNote Web helps you store, manage and cite your references correctly.

*Keep up to date using current awareness services Sat 16 Mar 11.30am-1pm
Keep up to date with the latest journal articles in your field by using current awareness services such as   ZETOC.

To find out more and to book a place for any of these workshops, go to
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

I hope to see you at a workshop. If you can't make the workshops but would like some help with these topics, or any other help with finding information and using Library resources, please contact me on s.godsell@bbk.ac.uk