Online resources and references
Announcements / Science News
- Disease Outbreak News (WHO)
- Ivanhoe Medical Breakthroughs (USA)
- La Trobe University Bulletin (Australia)
- NOVA - Science in the News (Australia)
- Science Agogo
- SciTech Daily Review
- Updates for Biology of Microorganisms(see course reading list)
- Updates for Prescott's Microbiology, 6/e(see course reading list)
- The Why Files (USA)
Employment Opportunities in Microbiology
- AIBS Guide to Careers in the Biological Sciences (USA)
- Australian Job Search
- Australian Local Government Job Directory
- Bio Careers (USA)
- Biology Jobs.com
- CareerBuilder
- Career Information Centres
- Career Jet: Microbiology Jobs
- Career One (Australia)
- Careers in Biology (Emporia State University, USA)
- Chronicle Higher Education Job Openings (USA)
- DEEWR Job Guide 2011
- DEEWR Job Guide: Life Scientist (Australia)
- Furman Biology Careers Page
- Government Career Guide
- Graduate Careers Australia
- Health Jobs (Victoria, Australia)
- Hum-molgen Biomedical Positions
- Indeed: Microbiology Jobs
- Jobs for Biology Majors (USA)
- Jobs at La Trobe University
- Juju: Microbiology and Immunology Jobs (USA)
- La Trobe University Careers Advisory Service
- Laboratory jobs and Careers (USA)
- Monster Jobs
- Mycareer.com.au
- My Future (Australia)
- Natural Resource Jobs
- Nature Science Jobs (USA / worldwide)
- New Scientist Science Jobs
- PhDs.Org (USA)
- Research Jobs
- Science Careers
- Science People (Australia)
- Science Jobs: Academic, research and management positions (India / worldwide)
- Teacher Recruitment (Australia)
- Unijobs: Australia's University Jobs Website
- Webwombat: Employment Agencies (Australia)
- What Color Is Your Parachute? (USA)
Government Pages and Research Centres
- Australian Commonwealth Government
- Australian Government Directory
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- Cooperative Research Centres
- CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- DEEWR: Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- eGovernment Resource Centre
- Governments on the world-wide web
- HealthInsite
- MEDLINEplus Health Information (USA)
- NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information (USA)
- National Institutes of Health (USA)
- NICD: National Institute for Communicable Diseases (South Africa)
- National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, QLD (Australia)
- National Science Foundation (USA)
- OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate
- Victorian Government
- VIDRL: Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Science Journals and Magazines
Links marked with a dollar symbol ($) charge a fee or subscription for the electronic retrieval of articles.
- ACS Publications Division $
- Hot AIR $
- ASM Journals On-line $
- The Armchair Scientist
- Biological Journals and Abbreviations
- BioMedNet
- Blackwell Scientific Journals $
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts $
- Create Change
- CSIRO Electronic Journals $
- Discover Magazine
- EMBO Journal $
- Entrez-PubMed
- GrayLIT Network
- HMS Beagle
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Nature Science Journals $
- Netsurfer Science $
- New Scientist
- Open Archive Initiative
- Plus Magazine
- Pubcrawler
- Public library of science
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Science On-Line
- The Scientist
- Society for General Microbiology
- Universal Medical Press
- WHO Publications
Molecular Biology
- BIOLSCI: bionet newsgroup
- Guide to Molecular Sequence Analysis
- Institute for Molecular Virology
- Joyce Bionetwork
- Computational Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biology Gateway to the WWW
- The National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Phylogeny Programs
- The RCSB Protein Data Bank
- The RNA World Website
- WebMolecules
Occupational Health and Safety
- Australian Safety and Compensation Council
- ChemFinder.com
- ChemWatch
- Coping with hazardous substances (University of NSW)
- Cornell MSDS Search (UK)
- La Trobe University Occupational Health and Safety Unit
- List of designated hazardous substances
- Material Safety Data Sheets Australia
- MSDS Solutions (USA)
- National MSDS Repository (USA)
- Safety.com (UK)
- Victorian Workcover Authority
- WorldSafety.com
Pictures
- Cells alive!
- ICTVdB - Picture Gallery (ANU)
- Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy Image Gallery
- Electron Micrograph Images
- Microbiology Video Library
- Nanoworld Image Gallery
- Protist Image Database
- Public Health Image Library
- Stock Photos at Fotosearch
- Genesearch
Microbiology Reference
- A New Germ Theory (USA)
- Antimicrobial (Antibiotics) Use Guidelines
- Aspergillus Web Site
- Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
- Biological Soil Crusts Web Site
- Bugs in the News
- California Poison Control System: Food Poisoning
- Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
- The E. coli index
- Infectious Disease Weblink
- Introduction to the Bacteria
- Library guide for Microbiology
- List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature
- Emory MedWeb: Microbiology and Virology
- MicrobeLibrary
- Microbes.info: The microbiology information portal
- The Microbe Zoo
- Microbiology Glossary
- Microbionet
- Molecular Biosciences References (Uni of Adelaide)
- The Molecular Microbiology Jump Station
- Nerdworld: Microbiology
- Palynology at University of Arizona
- Significant Events Of The Last 125 Years
- STD Sequence Database
- Suite101: Microbiology
- TIGR Microbial Database
- US FDA "Bad Bug Book"
- Virtual Library: Mycology
Microscopy References
- Electron Microscopy
- A Guide to Scanning Microscope Observation
- History of the Microscope
- Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer
- Virtual Library: Microscopy
- Wartburg College Virtual Microscope
General Science References
- 6 billion Human Beings
- Access Excellence
- Altweb: Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web
- Australian Science and Technology Online
- BioExchange
- Cancer and Genetics
- Chemicool Periodic Table
- Cordis: Community Research and Development Information Service
- Cornell's Digital Earth - GIS
- Dr Universe
- Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science
- The Exploratorium
- ExToxNet
- NIST Fundamental Physical Constants
- FU-Berlin Fundamental Physical Constants
- Glossarist: Sciencedictionaries
- Harvard Department of MCB: Biology Links
- Holiday Lecture on Science
- Introduction to phylogeny
- LabVelocity
- Science Resources Page
- MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources
- The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition
- Online Ethics
- Periodic Table
- The pH Measurement Information Resource
- The Scientific World
- Scirus: Science web search
- Search4Science
- ThinkQuest Biology Entries
- The Tree of Life: Phylogenetic Trees
- UMBC Biology Resources
- UniServe Science
- Virtual Biology
Scientific Supplies
Please Note: Inclusion or exclusion of a supply company link in this list is not an approvalor recommendation of that company or a comment on the quality of its products by the Department of Microbiology.
- American Type Culture Collection
- Anaerobe Systems
- Arrow Scientific
- Asia Pacific Specialty Chemicals Ltd.
- BABS: UNSW Culture Collection
- BioCompare
- BioScientific
- BioSpace
- BookFinder
- Calbiochem
- Cheapbooks
- Crown Scientific
- DA Information Services
- E. coli Genetic Stock Center
- Stock Photos at Fotosearch
- Genesearch
- Greenworld Office Products
- ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Invitrogen: Life Technology
- Merck Australia
- Molecular Probes
- Oxoid
- Selby Biolab
- Sigma-Aldrich
- United Kingdom National Culture Collection
- U.S. Microbics
Microbiological Societies
- AusBioTech: Australian Biotechnology Association
- Australian Society for Microbiology, Inc.
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society for Virology
- Community of Science
- Environmental Mutagen Society
- The Company of Biologists Ltd.
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies
- International Federation of Societies for Electron Microscopy
- The Microbiology Network
- SIGS: Mitochondria Interest Group
- Mutagenesis and Experimental Pathology Society of Australasia
- National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (USA)
Universities (Australian)
- List of Australian Universities
- ANU Bioinformatics
- Australian Academy of Science
- Life Sciences at La Trobe University
- Monash University, Department of Microbiology (Victoria)
- Nanoworld Home Page (University of Queensland)
- Universities Australia
- University of Adelaide, Microbiology and Immunology (South Australia)
- University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Victoria)
- University of Sydney, School of Microbiology (New South Wales)
- University of Tasmania, School of Agricultural Science
- University of Queensland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
- University of Western Australia, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences
- University Profiles
Universities (World-wide)
- All Colleges and Universities
- BRAINTRACK - University-Index
- College and University Undergraduate directory
- Center for Microbial Ecology (USA)
- KSU Division of Biology (USA)
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Leicester (UK)
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC (USA)
- Microbiology, University of Kansas (USA)
- Department of Microbiology, University of Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Virology
- All the Virology on the WWW
- The big picture book of viruses
- Common Cold
- Herpesvirus Replication Animations
- Institute for Molecular Virology, UW-MADISON (USA)
- Understanding Diarrhea in Travelers
- University of Umeå, Viremia Page
- Virology down under
- Virus Ultrastructure
- Virus World: Image and animations database
Miscellaneous Science Links
- Bad Chemistry
- Bad Science
- Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project
- Department of Microbiology, Kassel University (Germany) Coollinks
- It'll Never Work - Science related quotes
- JunkScience
- The Hunger Site
- Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
- Mycological Humour
- OXymoron Humour Archive: Scientific Articles
- Science Jokes Archive
- Science Jokes
- Jokes and Science
- Weird Tales from New Scientist
- Yahoo - Science:Biology:Microbiology
- Yuckiest Site on the Internet
If you find that any of these links are changing, no longer apply, or you would like to suggest other links, please contact Craig Lighton at:c.lighton@latrobe.edu.au.
