Fun Links

These are strictly optional.

Immuno links:

Immunobiology course web site: www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bios423

Movie links:

www.cellsalive.com CD ROM with time lapse movies of immune cell at work

V1 movie files:

1_3 necrosis – pathological death of tissue

1_4 apoptosis – programmed cell death – note blebbing and cell fragmentation, fragment with chunks of nucleus.

1_6 chemotaxis – neutrophils on the move

1_10a and 1_10b show neutrophils phagocytizing an encapsulated bacterium, followed by the oxidative burst.

1_11 multiple macrophages

1_12 ctl cytotoxic T cell (smaller, lower cell) targets and kills a flu-infected cell.

1_16ehist neutrophils mob and kill large ameba

1_17trich – neutrophils mob a trichoma worm. They don’t kill it, but rather burst at its surface. This might eventually kill the worm, but also released a lot of damaging enzymes and other chemicals into the surrounding tissues, leading to inflammatory tissue damage.

V3 movie files;

3_1a and 3_1b show cytotoxic T cells attacking melanoma tumors

3_5 lysis_mov Shows complement (not visible) killing red blood cells. Another reminder that your own defenses could damage your own cells.

http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2002/Aug30_2002/fig4a_T1.mov dendritic cell presenting to T H cell using MHCII (8 minutes)

Immuno animation with narration: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html

Figures from Slaisak http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/immune/the_immune_system.pdf

To access Baylor College of Medicine's web info on Genetics Counseling http://www.bcm.edu/about/gateways/genetics.cfm

Inheritance of eye color in humans: http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/inherit1.html
On prime numbers:

Rusty, the narcoleptic dog

Building the pyramids

Francis Collins on why he believes in God.

Images and aminations for basic molecular biology:

DNA replication:

Meselson and Stahl, photos:

Taylor talks about his work:

Games:

Fun evolutionary game, courtesy of Brittany: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore
Chemistry game

Personal DNA marker testing sites! The Human Genome Project has brought you the technology to learn a little more of your personal history. A peek at the sites shows how the private sector is marketing these services. Mucho fun.

http://www.familytreedna.com/

http://www.oxfordancestors.com/ The site specializes in Irish and more generally British Isles and European ancestry. Check out the St. Patrick's Day special.

http://www.africanancestry.com/ Specializes in African markers, soon to be featerued on PBS.

http://www.tracegenetics.com/services_gene.html a general service with a large Native American database. The index page has a good, forthright explanation about what you can and cannot learn from these tests.

http://www.genetree.com/product/native-american-test.asp

Map your whole genome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/research/04geno.html?_r=1&nl=8hlth&emc=hltha2&oref=slogin

National Geographic https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html

NIH Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man:OMIM website

Bradman-Thomas link, Why Y? (Center for Anthropology at University College of London)

An excellent comprehensive review of Y mapping and human migration.

http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf

PBS program featuring Henry Louis Gates : "African American Lives," E 185.96.A4462 2006, series available at the reference desk as a DVD. And here's the PBS link to extra resources: http://www.houstonpbs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=edo_african_american_lives_local_resources

Cambridge Reference Sequence

\David Pages's Y chromsome page:

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