Monday, October 19, 2009

Introduction, part 2

Now I would like to make an explanation.
This blog's mission is to tell about important processes in the cell by presenting interesting and exciting examples of experiments that prove such discoveries. I was carried away by molecular biology experiments so far, that now want to share this excitement with others. Also I think that molecular biology is not obvious science at all, but it can be presented with enough level of evidence so I try.
For me blogging on such topic is way for better comprehension of lectures and books I read.

First posts will cover methods based on fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, because I discovered its powerfulness recently.

Now I would like to talk a bit about copy rights, trade rights and so on.
Any information, that was not invented by myself, posted in this blog, will have appropriate link on cited source. Almost any book I will ever mention can be found in the internets in PDF because for me e-books are much more convenient, than paper ones, in spite I wish to own all of them in paper.
Theft does not make me happy.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Books I feel passionate about

Here I will start list of books, that I read recently and that were informative or just interesting for me.
First, of course, it's Alberts et al Molecular Biology of the Cell. I have that stone-like book's 4th edition – not the least – and it is great to read (and own either) it!
Next one is Lodish et al who wrote Molecular Cell Biology and it's 5th edition. I hope someday to have this book in paper in my library :) because I really love books.
If you are looking for more information on MCB, you must have a look on Berkeley Lectures MCB 130 – because they are webcasted! This year I began watching and enjoying it. Randy Schekman is great and I will post here some of the discussed experiments from those lectures.
Another useful source is my brand new book Molecular Biology of the Cell: Problems Book by Wilson and Hunt. It is great to remind just-read topics from Albert's book and get some new ideas and issues.

OK, that is not bad for beginning. Stay tuned!

Introduction

Welcome to my blog on molecular biology, cell organization and biophysics!
I am glad to see you here. It was created to collect different interesting experimental technics and approaches, that provide useful information on different biology issues. I am not yet great and busy experimentator but just student (I'll publish my CV later), but I wish to be such lab-profi.
If you have any ideas on expansion of that blog topics or any other – welcome, my email is always on: andrugatorandreev@gmail.com. Please send me any feedback!

Andrej.