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Ebook and Henry Stewart Talks – Updates

October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

ebooksUpdated ebooks:

Lippincott manual of nursing practice, 9th ed, 2009 (OVID)

Current diagnosis & treatment surgery, 13th ed, 2010 (Statref)

Ebooks are available as part of the recently acquired databases Nursing Reference Center and Consumer Health Complete.  The latter includes consumer-oriented titles including AMA complete medical encyclopedia, Complete guide to prescription & nonprescription drugs, and Mayo Clinic guides.  Nursing Reference Center includes titles on Concept mapping, Assess notes, Davis’s drug guide, Psychnotes.

New Henry Stewart talks:

Natural Killer Cell Biology

List of talks available:

1. Education and tuning of natural killer cells

Prof. Eric Vivier and Dr. Sophie Ugolini – Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France

2. Disarming of autoreactive NK cells

Prof. David Raulet – University of California, Berkeley, USA

3. Natural killer cell development

Dr. Francesco Colucci – Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

4. Natural killer cells: development, diversity and applications to human disease

Prof. Mike Caligiuri – Ohio State University, USA

5. NK cells in viral immunity

Prof. Lewis Lanier – University of California, San Francisco, USA

6. Immunodeficiencies and genetic mutations affecting NK cells in humans

Dr. Jordan Orange – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

7. Evolution of NK cell receptors

Prof. John Trowsdale – University of Cambridge, UK

8. The evolution of variation at the killer cell immunoglobulin like receptor gene complex of human disease

Dr. Mary Carrington – National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA

Topical Talks

New talks added:

1. Invasion, metastasis and stem cells

Prof. Robert Weinberg – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA

2. Genetic association analysis with R

Dr. Jing Hua Zhao – MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK

Non-Clinical Testing for Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals

New talk added:

1. General introduction to non-clinical toxicity testing of pharmaceuticals

Dr. Andrea Weir – Charles River Laboratories, USA

Microarrays: their design and use

New talk added:

1. Utilizing microarrays to study posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms of plants

Dr. Brian Gregory – University of Pennsylvania, USA

The Cell Division Cycle

New talk added:

1. Mitotic chromosome condensation

Prof. Andrew Belmont – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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