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Ohio University Links

• MyOHIO Success Network - Ohio University system that connects students with the university resources they need to successfully complete their degrees.
• Catmail - Ohio University's online mail system.
• Undergraduate Catalog - Ohio University's student handbook and course catalogue.
• Final Exam Schedule - Check here for final exam schedules.
• Academic Calendar - Find out when the quarter starts and ends and other important dates.
• Graduate Dissertation Guidelines - Graduate College's guide to thesis and dissertation preparation.
• Environmental Health & Safety - Safety-related matters
• Research Compliance - IRB forms and compliance training.
• LEO - Transmittal forms and grant-related material.
• Concur - P-card charges.
• Surplus Equipment - Inventories of OHIO surplus equipment.

Biophysics and Bioinformatics Links

• Protein Data Bank - This database stores and dispenses information on the DNA and amino acid sequences and X-ray and NMR structures of proteins. One can download RASMOL (the viewer for protein structures) here.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information - This is the National Institutes of Health's clearinghouse for all of the national and international DNA and protein sequence and structure databases. One can get to GENBANK (the storehouse for DNA sequences) by using clicking on the "Entrez" button and clicking on "Entrez--nucleotide". Another useful resource for the Genome is at the Nature website on the genome (and other "omes"): Nature Omics Database.
• Reading Frames in DNA - This site has a nice tutorial on various aspects of DNA sequence analysis
• Movies of Bacteria moving - This is Howard Berg's site at the Rowlands Institute at Harvard U. It has movies of bacteria executing their persistent random walk (it requires Quicktime and it may be a bit quirky).
• Online Atlas of Histology - This online atlas of histology from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. It has lots of images of cells from many different tissues that can be examined at different magnifications.
• PHYS 4301/5301: My Biophysics course - This is the website for my own course in cell and molecular biophysics. The course materials are served off of LON-CAPA. Anyone wishing to get access the materials should contact me.
• Phil Nelson's Biological Physics course - This is a description of the introductory course for undergrad and grad students across disciplines at University of Pennsylvania. Phil Nelson produced a wonderfully thoughtful (and beautifully written) textbook: Biological Physics: Energy, information, life, W.H. Freeman, 2003. There's now a 2nd edition.
• Numerical Recipes - This is a very useful resource for scientific programming. I have a very old dog-eared Fortran version from the 1980s and a newer C++ version (signed by one of the authors when he came for a colloquium). One can download section of older versions, but one will eventually want to invest in a copy. The site also has a link to downloadable sections of Abramowitz & Stegun's incomparable Handbook of Mathematical Functions.

Scientific Journals

• ISI Web of Science - Database for finding articles and for Cited Reference searches to find related articles that cite literature already known.
• Google Scholar - This is one of the many sub-Googles that allows one to search scholarly journals.
• Index of AIP journals - This is an index of physical science journals published by the American Institute of Physics
• American Journal of Physiology - The workhorse journal of The American Physiological Society.
• Biophysical Journal - The journal of the Biophysical Society.
• Blood - An excellent journal for work on all aspects of blood cell molecular biology and mechanics. Lots of papers on cell adhesion.
• Cell - A top-ranked journal covering cell biology
• Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - A journal published by the BiomedicalEngineering Society focusing on molecular and cellular scale biomedical engineering. The classic journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering now mostly focusses on tissue and organism scale bioengineering.
• Journal of Applied Physiology A workhorse journal of physiology.
• Journal of Biological Chemistry - The workhorse journal of cell and molecular biology
• Journal of Cell Biology - Very good biomedical journal.
• Journal of Cell Science - Very good biomedical journal published by the Company of Biologists in the U.K.
• Journal of Clinical Investigation - Very good biomedical journal.
• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science - Workhorse journal for colloidal science.
• Journal of Experimental Medicine - Very good biomedical journal.
• Journal of Immunology - Workhorse journal for immunology.
• Journal of Physical Chemistry B - Experimental physical chemistry journal.
• Langmuir - A journal covering colloidal chemistry and materials science. Published by the American Chemical Society.
• Microcirculation - Journal of the Microcirculatory Society. Not many articles, but the ones there are usually very interesting.
• Nature - One of the two top journals of science (the other is Science).
• Physical Review Letters - Top North American physics journal.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. - The journal of The National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
• Science - One of the two top journals of science (the other is Nature). Ohio University has access to every issue back to the start on JSTOR.

Science & Knowledge Links

• Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations - This page is available through OhioLink. It contains instructional videos for introductory Physics.
• Wikipedia - The Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by users. Many of the articles are excellent and it's a good place to start. There is also a program to put the entire Encyclaedia Britanica 11th edition online through Project Gutenberg.
• NASA - The source for information on NASA's missions to explore space. The European Space Agency website also has lots of science information. Another interesting solar system-related website is The Nine Planets.
• Official US Time - This site is maintained by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Techonology. It gives the official US Time from national atomic clocks.
• WebmineralThis website has lots of physical data on minerals.
• Straight Dope - Cecil Adams writes a syndicated column for weekly newspapers all over Canada and the U.S. in which he or his staffers answer random questions that have been puzzling people (such as e.g. What are the real Lyrics to the song "Louie, Louie?") Many of these questions deal with science and the answers are very good, as a rule. It has the best explanation of the bizarre Fahrenheit temperature scale I've seen (i.e. why is the freezing point of water 32 F?).

News and Entertainment

• CBC Radio - CBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 are the two things I miss most about Canada! Fortunately, they are available over the internet.
• PBS - Insightful and intelligent television. I've been a fan of Nova for years; even before I moved to the U.S. PBS comes to Montreal through stations in Plattsburg, NY and Burlington, Vermont.
• National Public Radio (NPR) - My wife and I are members of station WOUB.
• The New York Times - We mostly read it online now but we get Sunday Times (the NY Times Magazine has the Sunday crossword and other puzzles). We like the acrostics and the Spelling Bee.
• Snopes Urban Legends Site - If you want to check out whether something is an urban legend or real (or both), this is perhaps the definitive site. Very sensible!
• Athena Cinema - The Athena Cinema is on historic, downtown Court St. in Athens. The Athena shows mostly art movies. It also hosts the Athens International Film Festival in late April-early May.
• Athena Grand Theatre - The Athena Grand shows mass market movies.

Personal links

• Melanie Schori - My wife, Melanie Schori, is a botanist. She has her Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University.
• Andrew Tees - My brother is an opera singer. He's had gigs all over Canada and also in the U.S. A search on his name in Google will lead to his upcoming performances.
• First Presbyterian Church in Athens - This is the church I attend (and have served as an elder and deacon). It's a More Light church. The congregation is friendly and the music is good.
• Athens Contradancing - The Southeast Ohio Traditional Dance Society hosts contradances in Athens, Ohio. Contradancing is a great way to meet people -- it's how I met my wife!
• Invasive Plants - Again thanks to my wife, I have been working at invasive plant removal. In the Spring there is a major effort to remove Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolota or Alliaria officinalis) from public lands (Stroud's Run State Park, The Ridges at OU etc) where it is trying to take over.
• Genealogy - After a question in 2009 from a long-lost Tees relative, I got bitten by the genealogy bug. Our branch of the Montreal Tees family knew next to nothing about our Tees ancestors. We had a family Bible that listed the descendants of David Tees (who came to Quebec City in the early 1820s and then got to Montreal about 1830). I had always thought that our family name had something to do with the River Tees in Yorkshire, but if that's true, then it's long, long in the past. In fact, virtually all members of the Tees diaspora started from County Donegal in Ireland (to which they had come in the early 1600s from either England or Scotland). In Montreal, David Tees' family prospered. His son John was in the grocery business and his sons David and Joseph were both owners of woodworking businesses. All of the Tees sons (except William who was a farmer in Hemmingford, QC) eventually participated in a furniture company, eventually called Tees & Co. that made roll-top desks, office furniture and funeral equipment. There are a number of other Tees lines in the UK and Ireland as well as the US, Canada and Australia. We're all related, but finding out how is hard given the destruction of Irish records when the Public Records Office in Dublin burned in 1922. If you have any information about the Tees family, please contact me.
• Musical CV - I've been singing in choirs since I was very young. This page lists the pieces I've performed and the choirs I've been in as an adult starting with my Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy Opera experiences as an undergrad at McGill.

Language links

• Word Detective - As this website says, "Nonplussed by...Nonplussed?". The Word Detective has articles talking about word derivations. Very interesting...
• Botanical French - To help my wife and her colleagues, I have had to do quite a bit of translation of botanical French. The Robert et Collins French-English bilingual dictionary that I own actually has a surprisingly large amount of botanical terminology. Sometimes, however, terms are just too specialized. I have found the Missouri Botanical Gardens site at left very helpful.

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Last updated: August 2017