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Texas A&M University
Department of Biology
Graduate Advising
TAMU 3258
College Station, TX 77843-3258

Professional Organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science, including Science on-line (news, research reports, job listings) and Science's Next Wave (forum for information about careers and job hunting).
DOE Joint Genome Institute
The Institute for Genomic Research
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly American Society of Zoologists).
American Society for Microbiology (links, jobs, funding)
Botanical Society of America
American Society for Virology
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
American Society for Cell Biology
American Association of University Women
Association for Women in Science and Engineering
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
Society for Neuroscience


Directories and Online Libraries:
Internet Directory for Botany
The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
PubMed
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
Medical Sciences Library
Neurosciences on the Internet


Botanical Resources:
Flowering Plant Gateway (angiosperm classification).
Vascular Plant Image Gallery.
TROPICOS--reference for botanical names, authors, dates, and citations of publications.
PLANTS database--nomenclature and distribution for plants of North America
The Tree of Life


Molecular Biological Resources:
Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools (extensive molecular biology resources).
The Molecular Biologist's Desk Reference (links to protocols, databases, references, and on-line journals).
Expasy


Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Faculties:
Faculty of Genetics
Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences
Faculty of Neuroscience


University Locations:
Department of Biology's Homepage (Biofeedback, phonebook, classes)
Texas A&M University (departments, colleges, offices, students)
Office of Graduate Studies (policies, deadlines, graduate handbook, forms, etc.)
Texas A&M University's Library
Provides lots of links to other resources and databases, including:

  • NOTIS (Texas A&M University on-line catalog for all libraries)
  • LibCat (Texas A&M University main catalog)
  • WorldCat (catalog of books and journals worldwide)
  • AGRICOLA 1970-present (ag and life sciences journal articles, monographs, theses, etc.)
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (coverage of journal, conference, patent, etc. abstracts)
  • Zoological Record (journal articles, reports, proceedings, theses about animals)
  • Listing of On-Line journals available

  • Funding Agencies:
    National Insitutes of Health
    National Science Foundation
    United States Department of Agriculture


    Jobs:
    Hamilton College Job Opportunities
    Bio.com Career Center
    Botanical Society of America Employment Opportunities
    Career Builder
    HotJobs.com
    Yahoo Directory: Biology Employment
    PharmaJobs.com
    Monster Jobs
    Texas A&M University Online Employment Service


    Web Search Engines:
    Google, the ultimate search engine.
    Yahoo, categorical subject listing of web pages.
    Alta Vista, allows searching entire web.
    Excite, allows searching the entire web.
    HotBot, yet another web search engine.
    MetaCrawler, a search engine that uses multiple search engines.


    Last modified on 07/13/2005