J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
phone: +386 61 177 3900, fax: +386 61 27 35 94


DEPARTMENT:

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Departmental events:  
 
On Friday, December 11 at 16:00 in Institute's Lecture Hall: Prof. Dr. Carlos Gancedo (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Madrid): The trehalose biosynthetic pathway is critical for the normal life of yeasts.

Next Thursday seminar will be on December 17 at 14:30 in Institute's Lecture Hall. Boris Turk: Apoptosis - that's the way it goes.
(The list of forthcoming seminars is empty at the moment.)



Departmental Christmas party will be on Wednesday, December 16 at Urska Restaurant. 

Departmental newsletter - Vol. 2 No. 4 (October issue).   (In Slovenian only and on Internet only.) 

USEFUL LINKS:

Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biotechnology & Biotech Companies
Medicine, Pharmaceutics and Diagnostics Journals on-line
Education, References and Search Engines
MAIN, the program for macromolecular crystallography Related organizations SBD, Slovenian Biochemical Society
Scientific meetings Relevant newsgroups Events, Weather, Slovenia on WWW (in part in Slovenian language)
Check PROLYSIS and the new release (3.01) of the MEROPS homepage: classification and links to all known peptidases (edited by Rawlings and Barrett). 
The International Proteolysis Society plans to start its work soon. Visit its homepage and see what is going on! 
HMS Beagle presents in its 43rd issue a chapter on apoptosis.

BIOLOGY:

WWW sites for Biologists,
Biology site at galaxy,
American Type Culture Collection,
E. coli Genetic Stock Center at Yale,
Philogeny and Biodiversity, The Tree of Life project,
NCBI's taxonomy browser,
Plant Disease Handbook,
Botanica Slovenica.


BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology WWW Virtual Library at golgi.harvard.edu
biological molecules:

SwissProt @ExPASy, a protein sequence databank,
PIR (protein sequence databank @ Univ. of Georgetown),
Protein Data Bank (PDB) search form,
GenBank current release (via NCBI), a DNA/RNA sequence bank,
Vectors, a list of DNA sequences of cloning & expression vectors.

MIPS databases, including ATLAS, the protein/DNA sequence browser, PROTFAM, a protein classification tool, and others,
ENTREZ, a reference and sequence browser,
Pedro's Research Tools, a range of programs for protein and DNA analyses and a local copy thereof,
ABIM On-line analysis tools at the Universite Aix-Marseille I,
Virtual Genome Center , a selection of tools for molecular biologists,
BCM Search Launcher at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas),
CMS Molecular Biology Resource (and a mirror at the University of Nebraska) - a comprehensive set of links for mol. biology, biochemistry and related disciplines,
List of links for mol. biologists (compiled by Amos Bairoch @ ExPASy),
EC enzyme database with a searchable index of enzymes and the updated EC list of peptidases,
GenQuest, protein and DNA sequence comparisons (FASTA, BLAST et al.) and an improved FASTA,
BLAST (Univ. of Lausanne, CH) for sequence comparisons / alternative link at NCBI,
Webcutter: restriction endonuclease analysis of your DNA - and a (faster) mirror at the Univ. of Goteborg (Sweden),

Biomolecular Engineering and Structural Biology - European Resources
Visualization of biological molecules - Jena Image Library  (Univ. of Jena, Germany),
Mol. Biol. Protocols; there's a special page with more protocol collections and a few test protocols in Slovenian and English,
List of toxic, corrosive and other potentially harmful substances used at our department (in Slovenian, with English links),
PROLYSIS, the server at the University of Tours /France/ with useful information on proteases and inhibitors,
Protein Degradation Resource - how do cells know which protein to degrade and when?



BIOTECHNOLOGY and BIOTECH COMPANIES:

About biotech,
Biospace, the Biotech hub page - daily biotech news,
US Patent search 1976 - recent,
Biotechnology patents and new technologies,
Tools and Lab Consumer from The Scientist.


MEDICINE, PHARMACEUTICS and DIAGNOSTICS:

Pharmaceutical info,
Cancer diagnosis and prognosis,
OncoLink at Univ. of Pennsylvania,
German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg,
Clinical Resources,
Medicine OnLine, cancer related information and education,
Newspage - Healthcare Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology News,
National Osteoporosis Foundation (USA) - all you ever wanted to know about osteoporosis,
Cancer News on the Net.


JOURNALS ON-LINE:

Biochemical Journal on-line (incl. full papers),
JBC on-line (full access in 1998 - restricted to JSI only),
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA),
Nature contents and summaries (free registration required),
Science on-line (tables of contents),
Protein Science contents and news,
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. homepage,
Biological Chemistry (former B. C. Hoppe-Seyler) homepage,
Cell tables of contents,
Immunity tables of contents,
Nucleic Acids Research contents and abstracts,
Journal of Immunology tables of contents,
Neuron tables of contents,
FEBS Lett. - tables of contents, and other journals by Elsevier,
Elsevier Technical Tips On-Line, an electronic journal presenting novel techniques in the field of molecular biology and medicine,
BioMedNet; a full text journal databank (registration is free of charge), its Medline search form and the HMS Beagle magazine,
IDEAL, another journal browser (log in as guest; password IDEAL).


EDUCATION and REFERENCE SEARCHES:

Chemical education server,
BioNet Teaching,
Net Biochem, Biochemical education tools,
HealthGate Medline reference searches / alternative link (NCBI's Medline),
Institute's Science Information Centre (library) and Journal citation reports (for local users only),
COBISS, the bibliographic network of Slovenia, and its E-mail automatic personal bibliography service,
Dictionary of cell biology, 2nd edition,
Dictionary of genetic terms at TU Muenchen (slow link).

General dictionaries:
Roget's Thesaurus,
English Acronyms and Abbreviations,
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary,
Hypertext Webster interface.
 
Internet search engines:
Alta Vista ,
Metacrawler,
HotBot,
DejaNews (search in discussion groups).
 

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS:

NIH homepage,
Department of Protein Crystallography at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Munich),
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana - Chair of Biochemistry,
NIB - National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana,
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana (in Slovenian).

Societies, discussion groups in molecular biology

IST (International Society on Toxinology),
Biosciences in Slovenia,
DSMB: Diskusijska skupina za molekularno biologijo (Molecular biology discussion group),
Mikrobioloski veceri (Microbiological evenings).

Governmental offices:

Slovenian Ministry of Science and Technology


SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:

Forthcoming conferences:

In 1999 (June 19-24), the 26th FEBS Meeting will be organized in Nice, France.
7th International Workshop on the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plasminogen Activator. September 4-9, 1999, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
2nd International Symposium on the structure and biology of Serpins, June 27 - July 1, 1999, Cambridge, England.
6th Brdo Symposium: preliminary dates: June 9 - 13, 1999.
3rd Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society wih international participation, September 25-29, 1999, Portoroz, Slovenia.
 
Some more links from the homepage of the Slovenian Biochemical Society.


Vth International Symposium on Proteinases and Biological Control - Brdo by Kranj, Slovenia, October 4-8, 1997.  In 4 days, all major and new achievements were presented and discussed. A special emphasis (1 day) was given to cysteine proteases and their inhibitors. Visit the Brdo Symposium homepage to review the conference.


EVENTS, WEATHER, SLOVENIA ON WWW:

TV, cinema, timetables... and Cankarjev dom (Cultural & Congress Centre),
Lectures, seminars, science...,
Institute's newspaper  NOVICE,
Calculate the working hours at JSI,
Institute's canteen: current menus,
The latest  weather forecast by Hidrometeoroloski zavod RS ,
Slovenian information resources with New this month section,
Current news (MOREL), Ljubljanske novice (Si-int-news) and TV Slovenia Teletext,
An interactive map of Ljubljana and Slovenia,
The latest version of the Slovenian phone book and the   E-mail directory of Slovenia (by Telekom).


FORTHCOMING DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS:

Thursday seminars are organized and chaired by Prof. Roger Pain from our department. The autumn series started on October 8 and will finish with the December 17 lecture. The next series will begin in the following year.

 



Last updated December 11, 1998.

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