Beyond the Human Genome Project

We recently talked about the Royal Society podcasts. So just an update here. Check out Beyond the human genome project by Eric Lander. It's listed under Chemistry & Biology, but I can't link directly to the video.

I've had some really positive feedback on this one. The lecture provides insight into the breakthroughs in DNA sequencing and the possibilities for the future.

Sounds like biology students are going to have some very interesting years ahead of them in fighting the some of the worst diseases we face.

Biology at University of Hawaii

Offered by the University of Hawaii, Biology 101 Biology and Society is taught by Dr. George Wong, Botany Department.

This course website makes available 41 lecture pdf's and 18 sets of background links for some of the lectures. The only broken links found are for the Blue Planet Biomes in Lecture 7. I will see what site can be substituted for these and do an update shortly.

These materials will make a nice supplement for the lifelong learner's ecology projects.

Conservation Biology at UIUC

IB 451 (ENVST 420, CPSC 436) Conservation Biology is Professor Ken Paige's Spring 2007, course at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His course website contains excellent lecture slides and lab readings. All resources are accessible. The lectures are in PowerPoint, with lecture notes in Word, and the readings are pdf's, so they're all easy to download.

He uses the textbook: Principles of Conservation Biology, Martha J. Groom, Gary K. Meffe, C. Ronald Carroll, 3rd edition.

All in all, lots of good information for lifelong learners studying conservation biology.

Biology at Clermont College

The University of Cincinnati, Clermont College, Biology Home Page is the portal to biology courses. By selecting "Courses" you will have access to numerous biology courses, for both biology majors and non-majors.

Each course offers a wealth of resources. For those lifelong learners who want podcasts of course lectures, this may be a disappointment, but the courses offered here give an enormous amount of information online. Note there are also links to The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library.

These should prove to be good additions to our biology resources.