General Topics

General S. cerevisiae information

• Generally speaking:What are yeasts?
  • Here are some pictures of yeast

• The Art of Brewing, courtesy of Miller Brewing Company.

• Information about yeast and bread baking, from Fleischmann's and Red Star Yeast companies.

• Information about the yeast-based foods Marmite and Vegemite.

• An introduction to yeast, the most ideal eukaryotic microorganism for biological studies.

• An updated version the yeast primer Getting Started with Yeast written by Fred Sherman.

• Yeast Molecular Biology: A Short Compendium on Basic Features and Novel Aspects written by Horst Feldmann at the University of Munich

• Download a guide to S.cerevisiae nomenclature, published in Trends in Genetics.

• A tutorial from the University of Saskatchewan provides an introduction to SGD and to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics.

• SGD maintains a list of websites with relevance to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics and to general molecular biology.

• Search the Yeast BioSci (a.k.a. BioNet) Electronic Conference

• Usenet group on yeast molecular biology: bionet.molbio.yeast

Educational resources

• Genetics Education Network Tom Manney's (Kansas State University) yeast experiments for undergrads and high school students. A well-done and informative web site for yeast in the classroom.

• Research Link 2000 Aimed at undergraduate classrooms, this is an offshoot of Tom Manney's yeast experiments. It also lists other model organisms.

• Using Yeast As An Ultraviolet Light Measurement Tool. This is a Tom Manney protocol rewritten by Kevin Conant, a participant in the Woodrow Wilson Biology Institute 1993.

• MendelWeb, an educational resource on the origins of classical genetics.

• National Science Teachers Association. Resources for all science teachers from kindergarten to college.

• National Association of Biology Teachers High school teachers predominate in this organization, but there are resources for post-secondary education as well.

• American Society for Microbiology. The ASM website lists resources in its education section. The ASM publishes numerous books on microbiology education at various levels.

• Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics This website describes a course and the accompanying textbook written by A. Malcolm Campbell and Laurie J. Heyer.

• Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) Description of the consortium and how it is working to bring functional genomics methods into the undergraduate biology curriculum.

• MicroArray Genome Imaging and Clustering Tool (MAGIC) Open source software for analysis of large-scale gene expression datasets; developed by Laurie Heyer and her undergraduate students at Davidson College, North Carolina.

Schizosaccharomyces pombe information

• S. pombe genomic sequence published by V. Wood et al., Nature 415, 871-880 (2002)

• PomBase S. pombe database compiled at the Sanger Centre, UK

• Blast Server for S. pombe compiled at the Sanger Centre, UK

• European Schizosaccharomyces genome sequencing project

• General information about S. pombe from the Forsburg Lab

• S. pombe molecular genetics: plasmids, markers, maps and references from the Forsburg Lab

• An S. pombe nomenclature guide: S. pombe genes mapped to S. cerevisiae genes from the Forsburg Lab

Candida albicans information

• Candida albicans pages at the NRC/BRI

• Candida Genome Database at Stanford

• Candida information from the Stanford Genome Technology Center

• CandidaDB, a genomic database for C. albicans, part of the Galar Fungail Consortium project

• Candida albicans information server from University of Minnesota

• Candidiasis information at MEDLINE plus

• Annotation of the C. albicans genome from the Agabian Lab

Links to other fungal information

• Tom Volk's Fungi

• Doctor Fungus

Fungal genome sequencing projects

• Aspergillus fumigatus

• Aspergillus nidulans

• Cryptococcus neoformans

• Magnaporthe grisea

• Neurospora crassa

• Pneumocystis carinii

• The Génolevures project, featuring partial genomic sequence for 13 Hemiascomycete species

Fungal genome database projects

• CryptoBase, a scientific database resource at UCSF for C. neoformans var. grubii (serotype A)

Biology related career resources

Following is a list of sites that post biology related job openings. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list. Some of these sites may be free (may require registration) for job seekers, job posters or both.

• Open positions offered by Genetics Society of America

• Career Services offered by American Society for Cell Biology

• ASM Career Connections offered by American Society for Microbiology

• Career Resources offered by FASEB

• Job Openings offered by Society for Developmental Biology

• Science Careers and Science Next Wave offered by Science Magazine Online

• Nature Jobs offered by Nature Online

• Career Center offered by Biospace.com