Author: Elliott Smith
Online Reference Services and Research Help
The Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources, & Public Health Library’s reference services have moved online at least through the end of March, in alignment with “social distancing” recommendations from campus.
Contact a Librarian
Librarians are available Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm to answer any questions you might have. Email one of us or click on the link to schedule a Zoom meeting or Google Hangout.
- Integrative Biology: Shannon Kealey (skealey@berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)
- College of Natural Resources: Becky Miller (rcmiller@berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)
- Molecular & Cell Biology: Elliott Smith (esmith@library.berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)
- Public Health: Michael Sholinbeck (msholinb@library.berkeley.edu; use email to schedule an online meeting)
24/7 online help
Chat
Chat with a librarian. The chat service is staffed by Berkeley librarians, but at peak service times or off-hours you may be connected with a librarian from another academic institution.
Online guides, tutorials and videos
- Bioscience Library Guides for courses, subjects, and research basics
- Online videos for the Biological Sciences
Connecting from off campus
If you are not on campus, use EZProxy or the VPN (VPN users: choose Library Access – Full Tunnel rather than the default Split Tunnel) to authenticate yourself as a Berkeley student, faculty, or staff to access online books, journals, databases, and other resources.
If a desired resource is not available as a full-text version online, Berkeley students, faculty, and staff can place a request to our Interlibrary Borrowing Service. If the Library is closed due to unforeseen circumstances, we will update you about our ability to provide this to you via email.
Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library Open House
Please join us for an open house on Thursday, September 27, 4-6pm in the new Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library! This move represents a tremendous amount of work from any people throughout the Library and the School of Public Health – please come by and help us celebrate!
Celebrating our library students!
Author Event with Dr. Jennifer Doudna
Tuesday, November 14, 2017. 4:30-6:00pm.
Bioscience & Natural Resources Library, 2101 VLSB.
Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, UC Berkeley and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will discuss her new book, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution, a fascinating chronicle of the discovery of CRISPR and the ethical questions to come.
Sponsored by: University Library, Life & Health Sciences Division.
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor, Susan Koskinen, skoskine@berkeley.edu, as soon as possible.
Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) workshop
A representative from Qiagen will offer a hands-on training workshop on using IPA to interpret expression data (including RNA-seq).
Date: Thursday, Nov. 9
Time: 1:30-4:30 pm
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building
You are invited to participate in this free training, and are encouraged to bring your own laptop or use the computer workstations in our training room.
Please register if you are interested in attending.
The workshop will cover how to:
- Format, upload your data, and launch an analysis
- Identify likely pathways that are expressed
- Find causal regulators and their directional effect on gene functions and diseases
- Build pathways, make connections between entities, and overlay multiple datasets on a pathway or network
- Understand the affected biological processes
- Perform a comparison analysis: utilize a heat map to easily visualize trends across multiple time points or samples
Questions? Please contact Elliott Smith (esmith@library.berkeley.edu)
Citation Management: Best Practice
Overview of the best citation management software tools to use for your documents, bibliographies, pdfs + more.
Drop-in, hands-on workshop.
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Date: Thursday, September 7
Time: 12 – 1 pm
No pre-registration is required; all are welcome.
Questions? Please contact Susan Koskinen, skoskine@berkeley.edu
Advanced PubMed workshop
Want to make your searches for biomedical information more effective and efficient? The Library’s Life and Health Sciences Division is holding a hands-on workshop on advanced features of PubMed, including:
- How to use filters to focus search results on specific article types, publication dates and more
- How to add field tags to find articles by author, title, journal, and other criteria
- How Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) can help you find additional relevant information
- How to use My NCBI to save searches, set up alerts, and display results in your preferred format
- How PubMed links to information in other NCBI resources
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Date: Tuesday, September 5, repeated Wednesday, September 6
Time: 12 – 1 pm
No pre-registration is required; all are welcome.
Questions? Please contact Elliott Smith at esmith@library.berkeley.edu
For additional workshops on NCBI bioinformatics tools, citation managers, searching Scopus, writing and collaboration tools, data visualization, productivity tools and techniques, and other topics, please see the Science Libraries Events Calendar.
NCBI bioinformatics tools: An introduction
A hands-on workshop introducing NCBI bioinformatics tools such as PubMed, Gene, Protein, Nucleotide, and BLAST:
- Starting with a disease, syndrome, or process, identify the genes/proteins involved
- Starting with an organism and a protein, find the protein sequence and gene coding region
- Starting with a sequence, identify the gene/protein and source
The workshop will cover selecting the proper tools for your question, navigating through the interlinked NCBI databases, and saving your results. It will be offered twice:
- Dates: Tuesday August 29 (add to bCal) and Wednesday August 30 (add to bCal)
- Time: 12 – 1 pm
- Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Open to all interested students and researchers; no registration is required.
Questions? Contact esmith@library.berkeley.edu
For additional workshops on citation managers, searching PubMed and Scopus, writing and collaboration tools, data visualization, productivity tools and techniques, and other topics, please see the Science Libraries Events Calendar.
Pop-up movie: My Love Affair with the Brain
Take a break in the Bioscience Library on Thursday, May 4, 12 Noon-1, watch, “My Love Affair with the Brain, The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond”. See Dr. Diamond’s famous hat box and her life in science.
Advanced PubMed workshop
Want to make your searches for biomedical information more effective and efficient? The Library’s Life and Health Sciences Division is holding a hands-on workshop on advanced features of PubMed, including:
- How to use filters to focus search results on specific article types, publication dates and more
- How to add field tags to find articles by author, title, journal, and other criteria
- How Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) can help you find additional relevant information
- How to use My NCBI to save searches, set up alerts, and display results in your preferred format
- How PubMed links to information in other NCBI resources
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Date: Wednesday April 12
Time: 12 – 1 pm
No pre-registration is required; all are welcome.
Questions? Please contact Elliott Smith at esmith@library.berkeley.edu