Hoenger Lab
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Structural and Functional Investigations
into Cytoskeletal Assemblies by
Cryo Electron Microscopy
and 3D Image Analysis

 
Resources:: Links
 

Electron Microscopy

Boulder Bio 3D Lab
http://bio3d.colorado.edu/

EM for Dummies
http://www.snaggledworks.com/em_for_dummies/

Computer Programs

Spider - A 3D reconstruction for single particle macromolecules http://www.wadsworth.org/spider_doc/spider/docs/spider.html

Suprim - A flexible, modular software package intended primarily for the processing of transmission electron micrographs.
http://ami.scripps.edu/software/suprim/

PHOELIX - A software package for image processing of helical macromolecular complexes. http://ami.scripps.edu/software/phoelix/

Other labs doing similar research

Nogales Lab
http://cryoem.berkeley.edu/

Vale Lab
http://valelab.ucsf.edu/index.html

Sacha DeCarlo's Home Page
http://www.planetesacha.com

Videos, images, literature
http://cellix.imolbio.oeaw.ac.at/video_tour.html

Microtubules and Cytoskeleton

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Biochemistry and Biophysics Program, Troy, NY 12180
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/microtub.htm

Kimball's Biology Pages
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Cytoskeleton.html#MT_motors

The University of Arizona Biology Project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cytoskeleton/main.html

Wikipedia Descriptions and Definition

Electron Microscopy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_microscopy

Cryo Microscopy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_cryomicroscopy

Tomography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomography

 
 

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