Springer Life Sciences Protocols now available online

Springer Protocols is the world’s largest database of life sciences protocols, outlining experimental methods in the life sciences, particularly molecular biology. We now have online access to the protocols published between 1980-2012, and you can print and download them. They are all individually listed by title on the Library catalogue, or you can search them here.

• They provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment.
• Each protocol is templated into four sections - Introduction, Materials, Methods, Notes - so that information will always be exactly where you expect to find it.
• Each protocol is a chapter of a book, and each book is a collection of protocols on a given research topic. The protocols are derived from 6 book series (listed below), plus 21 additional books outside of any series.

• Methods in Molecular Biology (907 volumes)
• Methods in Biotechnology (24 volumes)
• Methods in Molecular Medicine (140 volumes)
• Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology (11 volumes)
• Neuromethods (70 volumes)
• 8 Springer Protocols Handbooks titles

New section on the Biological Sciences subject guide - video/image resources

There is a new section on the  Library subject guide for Biological Sciences http://bbk.libguides.com/biologicalsciences giving links to some new resources  - JoVE Science Education (videos to help you learn basic lab techniques), BOB (Box of Broadcasts) National (a streaming TV and radio service for universities), JISC MediaHub (academic video, image and audio) and many others.

Campbell Biology ebook now available

We now have access to the latest edition (10th, 2015) of Campbell Biology as an ebook. 

Here's the link http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/499969

You will need your ITS account to log in. There are some restrictions on how much you can print or download - it is resticted to 5% of the book (76 pages).

I hope you find it useful to have online access to this popular book.

There are also some print copies in the Library - details here

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.

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/

New acquisitions for 'Biology' to our catalogue during January 2012.

Last month enriched the content of our Library’s collection with104 new items, including books, electronic books and films, covering a wide range of Biology topics. The collection reflects your academic interests and areas of your studies, but also illustrates the fascinating nature of interweaved disciplines through topics such as Psychobiology, Social Bioarchaeology‎, Geobiology, Biogeography, and many more.

The list of new books and films is very long but worth exploring. Enjoy!

Books

Gills

‎Subjects: Gills, Congresses

Biomolecular crystallography

‎Subjects

: X-ray crystallography, Macromolecules – Structure, Biomolecules – Structure, Proteins – Structure, Crystallography – methods, Protein Conformation, Models, Molecular, Data Collection.

Structural and biochemical studies of the interaction between tubulin and the doublecortin family of neuronal MAPS‎

Subjects: Biology, 2011, Theses

From monkey brain to human brain‎

Subjects: Brain, Comparative neurobiology, Primates, Congresses, Evolution, Physiology, Congresses

Social bioarchaeology‎

Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology), Social archaeology, Adaptation (Biology), Human growth, Aging, Life spans (Biology), History

Impossible extinction‎

Subjects: Microbial ecology, Extreme environments, Extinction (Biology), Catastrophes (Geology), Exobiology, Microbiology

The cell‎

Subjects: Cytology, Molecular biology

Biology‎

Subjects: Biology, Textbooks

Gene expression to neurobiology and behavior‎

Subjects: Gene expression, Brain, Developmental neurobiology, Growth

Biological rhythms, sleep and hypnosis‎

Subjects: Biological rhythms, Hypnosis, Sleep, Psychobiology, Psychological aspects

Weathering the world

‎Subjects: Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004, Tsunamis, Natural disasters, India, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu (India), Social conditions, Environmental conditions

Biological evolution

‎Subjects: Evolution (Biology)

The living cell

‎Subjects: Cytology, Collected Works

Cell biology

‎Subjects: Cytology

Molecular genetic analysis of populations

‎Subjects: Population genetics, Molecular genetics, Genetics, Population, Molecular biology

Biology of plants

‎Subjects: Botany

Practical taxonomic computing

‎Subjects: Biology, Classification, Data processing, Plants, Animals

Modern crises and traditional strategies

‎Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Traditional ecological knowledge, Southeast Asia, Ecology, Environmental conditions

Ecology of woodland processes

‎Subjects: Forest ecology

Essential developmental biology

‎Subjects: Developmental biology

A dictionary of microbial taxonomy

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Dictionaries, Classification
Vocabulary pertinent to taxonomic practice, as well as biographies and introductory chapters. Intended as practical guide for taxonomists and scientists in other disciplines, such as bacteriology, zoology, and virology. List of references.

Biology

‎Subje

cts: Biology, Textbooks

Life

‎Subjects: Biology

Molecular biology

‎Subjects: Molecular biology

The organism

‎Subjects: Neurology, Neuropsychology, Holistic medicine, Philosophy

Fishers and scientists in modern Turkey

‎Subjects: Fisheries, Fishery management, Fishers, Marine resources, Turkey, Black Sea Coast, Black Sea Coast (Turkey), Management, Social life and customs

Biology

Subjects: Biology, Textbooks

Biology

‎Subjects: Biology

Microbiology

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Immune system, Metabolism, Medical microbiology

The chemical basis of life

‎Subjects: Molecular biology, Cytology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Collected Works

The analysis of biological populations

‎Subjects: Animal populations, Biological Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, Population

Lectures on biostatistics

‎Subjects: Biometry, Statistics

The botany of mangroves

‎Subjects: Mangrove plants, Mangrove ecology

Cell biology

‎Subjects: Cytology

Microbiology

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Bacterial Infections, microbiology

The organism and the environment

‎Subjects: Human ecology, Biology

Microbiology

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Metabolism, DNA, Human diseases, Pathogens, Viruses, Immune system

The causes of molecular evolution

‎Subjects: Population genetics, Variation (Biology)

Biological science

‎Subjects: Biology

The origins of angiosperms and their biological consequences

‎Subjects: Angiosperms, Fossil, Angiosperms, Paleontology, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Congresses

Order: in life

‎Subjects: Biology, Life (Biology), Philosophy, History

Biology

Subjects: Biology, Textbooks

Conversations on the beach

‎Subjects: Maritime anthropology, Traditional fishing, Ethnobiology, Indigenous peoples, Traditional ecological knowledge, India, Kerala, Kerala (India), Ecology, Environmental conditions, Social conditions

The logic of environmentalism

‎Subjects: Human ecology, Environmentalism, Ethnobiology, Philosophy

Imaging in developmental biology

‎Subjects: Developmental biology, Imaging systems in biology, Laboratory manuals

Landscape, process and power

‎Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Conservation of natural resources, Sustainable development, Environmental education, Ecology

Freud, biologist of the mind

‎Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Psychobiology, Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939, History

Experimental design for biologists

‎Subjects: Biology, Experimental design, Mathematical models

Cell biology of bacteria

‎Subjects: Bacteria, Cytology

Neuronal guidance

‎Subjects: Neurons, Axons, Growth

The origin of species

‎Subjects: Evolution (Biology), Natural selection

An introduction to nervous systems

‎Subjects: Nervous system, Comparative neurobiology

Biology of disease

‎Subjects: Biomedicine, Disease, Tissues, Diagnosis, Laboratory, Biology, Life Sciences

Magnetic resonance neuroimaging

‎Subjects: Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging

Biopsychology

‎Subjects: Psychobiology

Darwinian populations and natural selection

‎Subjects: Natural selection, Evolution (Biology)

Burton's microbiology for the health sciences

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Medical microbiology, Allied health personnel

Lippincott's illustrated Q&A review of microbiology and immunology

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Immunology, Outlines, syllabi, etc, Examinations, questions, etc

‎Subjects: Cytology, Molecular biology, Outlines, syllabi, etc, Problems, exercises, etcLippincott's illustrated reviews: Cell and molecular biology

Molecular biology

‎Subjects: Molecular biology

Cell biology

‎Subjects: Cytology

Basic bioscience laboratory techniques

‎Subjects: Biology, Life sciences, Laboratory manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc

An introduction to molecular biotechnology

‎Subjects: Molecular biotechnology, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Biotechnology

Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders Diagnosis, development, neurobiology, and behavior

‎Subjects: Autism in children, Developmental disabilities

Prescott's microbiology

‎Subjects: Microbiology

Building brains

‎Subjects: Brain, Nervous system, Developmental neurobiology, Growth

Asking questions in biology

‎Subjects: Science, Biology, Methodology

Cell and molecular biology

‎Subjects: Cytology, Molecular biology

Biology

‎Subjects: Biology, Textbooks

Biological psychology

‎Subjects: Psychobiology, Comic books, strips, etc

Henderson's dictionary of biology

‎Subjects: Biology, Dictionaries

RNA biology

‎Subjects: RNA

Campbell biology

‎Subjects: Biology

Immunity

‎Subjects: Immune system

Molecular biology of cancer

‎Subjects: Cancer, Cancer cells, Molecular aspects

Medical microbiology

‎Subjects: Microbiology, Technique

Fundamentals of forensic DNA typing

‎Subjects: DNA fingerprinting, Forensic genetics

Free radicals in biology and medicine

‎Subjects: Free radicals (Chemistry), Antioxidants, Pathology, Molecular, Physiological effect

Human virology

‎Subjects: Medical virology, Virus diseases, Microbiology

Principles of development

‎Subjects: Developmental biology

The quest for consciousness

‎Subjects: Consciousness, Neurobiology, Physiological aspects, Research

Biology

‎Subjects: Biology

Introduction to proteins

‎Subjects: Proteins, Physical biochemistry, Structure-activity relationships

Mathematical models of biological systems

‎Subjects: Biological systems, Biology, Mathematical models

Physiological strategies for gas exchange and metabolism

‎Subjects: Respiration, Energy metabolism, Physiology, Comparative

Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle

‎Subjects: Biology, Natural law, France, History, Philosophy

Methods of soil analysis Microbiological and biochemical properties

‎Subjects: Soil microbiology, Soils, Methodology, Analysis

People and wildlife

‎Subjects: Human ecology, Human-animal relationships, Animals and civilization, Animal attacks, Wildlife conservation

Song of the dodo

‎Subjects: Island ecology, Biogeography, Extinction (Biology), Endangered species

The management of chalk grassland for the conservation of invertebrates

‎Subjects: Wildlife conservation, Biology, Grassland ecology, Chalk, Invertebrates, 1987, Theses, Protection

Origins of us [Complete series] ‎Subjects: Human evolution, Evolution (Biology), Documentary television programs

Inside the human body Hostile world ‎Subjects: Documentary television programs, Human biology, Human body, Embryology, Human, Human development, Brain, DNA

Inside the human body Building your brain‎ Subjects: Documentary television programs, Human biology, Human body, Embryology, Human, Human development, Brain

Inside the human body First to last‎ Subjects: Documentary television programs, Human biology, Human body, Embryology, Human, Fetus, Death, Development

Inside the human body Creation‎ Subjects: Documentary television programs, Human biology, Human body, Embryology, Human, Fetus, Conception, Human reproduction, Childbirth, Pregnancy, Development

www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib

Henderson's dictionary of biology Year:2008 Subjects: Biology, Dictionaries	Henderson's dictionary of biology Year: 2011 Subjects: Biology, Dictionaries
Handbook of biochemistry and molecular biology Subjects: Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Handbooks, manuals, etc	The dictionary of cell and molecular biology Subjects: Cytology, Molecular biology, Dictionaries
Biochemistry and molecular biology of antimicrobial drug action Subjects: Anti-infective agents, Microbial metabolism, Microorganisms, Physiological effect, Effect of antibiotics on	Early life on Earth Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic, Archaean
Fungal biology Subjects: Mycology, Fungi	Palaeobiology II Subjects: Palaeobiology
Molecular biology Subjects: Molecular biology

Image Credits: Leukocyte (white blood cell), Maurizio De Angelis, Wellcome Images

Spirals of DNA molecules, Annie Cavanagh, Wellcome Images