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E10.5 CBF::H2B-Venus (Notch Reporter); Vegfr2::myr-mCherry mouse embryo.
Graduate Student Related
UVA Graduate Programs
UVA Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) Graduate Program
UVA Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP) (for undergraduates)
PhDPlus at UVA (great resources)
Scientific Writing Resources
The craft of writing effectively (video)
The craft of writing effectively (handout)
Rhetorical Patterns in Writing - The Aims Page
Bioscience Writers - Anatomy of an Aims Page
Presentation Skills
Sue McConnell, PhD on Effective PowerPoint Presentations
Robert Mahley, PhD, The Art of Lecturing
Jonathan Shewchuk on PowerPoint presentations
Great Advice on Journal Club Presentations (C. Thummel)
Click the “Blogs” link below for more detailed information on talks, the job hunt, interviewing, preparing your CV, and more.
Careerism Advice (for postdocs)
Blogs (job search, etc)
(Please click above on "blogs" for advice on CV, Job Search, etc.)
Graphics/Figure Making Tools
Inkscape (free illustrator-like tool for making figures/graphics)
GIMP (free illustrator-like tool for making figures/graphics)
SuperDuper (hard drive back up software)
VEED (freeware for movie conversion/lossless compression of .mp4 and other file formats)
BioRender (good for people uncomfortable with Illustrator)
Fluorescent Protein Guide
Bioinformatics Tools
GREAT (Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool)
Enricher (pathway and signaling enrichment from DEGs)
Cellkb (cluster annotation)
Broad Institute Single Cell Portal
Human Genetics Resources
MARRVEL ((Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration)
CRISPR Design/Analysis Tools
Guide Design - Chopchop
Guide Design - Synthego
Guide Design - Benchling
Analysis of Editing Efficiency - TIDE
Analysis of Editing Efficiency - ICE
PCR product prediction - uMelt (useful for qPCR, HRMA primer design and choice of guide location)
CRISPR/CAS9 & HRMA in Zebrafish - Amacher Lab
Enhancer Prediction
Tissue Clearing & IHC Protocols
Tissue Clearing reviews, resources
Red-Horse Lab Imaging Resources
Zebrafish Resources
ZFIN (Zebrafish Information Network)
ZIRC (Zebrafish International Resource Center)
Chien Lab Gateway/Tol2 Reagents
Zebrafish Histology Atlas (H&E Sections)
Zebrafish Anatomy Atlas (Freiburg)
FishNet (our zebrafish husbandry database)
Mouse Genetics Resources
International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC)
GENSAT Project (BAC and Cre reporter mice repository)
Molecular Biology Tools
SnapGene (DNA and protein tools, vector design, etc)
APE (free plasmid editor software package with a nice GUI, very useful alternative to snapgene)
Geneious Prime (laboratory notebook)
UMelt (web-based application for predicting fluorescent high-resolution DNA melting curves of PCR products, great for qRT-PCR)
Chicken Gene Expression Resources
Endothelial Resources
Betscholtz Lab scRNA-seq Interactive Database
Miscellaneous Links
Comparing reference managers (general description)
Papers (reference manager, like endnote)
Zotero (reference manager, like endnote)
Mendeley (reference manager, like endnote)
Our contract graphic designer/illustrator
Seat Guru (for flights)