Research
Careers and affinity groups
Timeless science articles
Need something to read?
Resources for Research
Success in the lab
Writing
Whitesides Group: Writing a Paper (Advanced Materials, 2004)
How to create publication quality figures, by Benjamin Nanes
Chemistry
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics -- (access from on-grounds only)
Chem Spider -- free chemical structure database
BioNumbers -- "The database of useful biological numbers"
Microfluidics
Princeton Microfluidics lab "Where to buy" page
Literature searches and proxies
ISI Web of Science -- literature search engine
PubMed -- the NIH-sponsored biomedical literature search engine
Proxy access: Reload Button @ UVA
Zotero -- free reference manager software
Practical Matters
Vacuum tubing and fittings: Overview and Fittings selection
SmallPDF -- useful and free PDF creator and manipulator
Resources for Careers and Affinity Groups
Diversity at UVA
Postdocs
Timeless Science Articles
Cumming, G., Fidler, F. & Vaux, D. L. Error bars in experimental biology. J Cell Biol 177, 7–11 (2007).
Lazebnik, Y. Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis. Cancer Cell 2, 179–182 (2002). -- (this article can be found online for free)
Purcell, E.M. Life at low Reynolds number. Am. J. Physics, 45, 3-11 (1977).
