To recognize lab leaders and members who devote their time to developing creative and informative Web sites, The Scientist is pleased to award the Laboratory and Video Web Site Awards.
To start off the award process we opened the floor to you, our readers, and we received 60 nominations. Our judges evaluated how well each site encompassed four categories -- design, usability, content and community -- and we now have a list of the top 10 Web sites, as selected by our judges. The order below represents how the lab Web sites were ranked by the readers.
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This group at Colorado State University studies the Human T cell leukemia virus-associated protein called Tax. One of our judges said this site has a very professional feel.
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While not a single lab Web site, this page embodies some great elements representing a collaborative group of researchers based at Stanford University, NOAA, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The members of the Gregory lab at the University of Guelph, Ontario, study genomic diversity and its consequences. Our judges thought their Web page was cleanly designed.
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The Lamond group at the University of Dundee, Scotland, studies cell nuclear mechanisms of disease. Apparently they really enjoy their work, as you can see from their Web page!
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The nominator called this lab Web site on protozoan evolution and diversity research at the University of British Columbia "a beautiful, well-organized page." See if you agree!
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Purves' work at Duke University on perception and cognition comes complete with this Web page, some portions so engaging that the nominator warned: "be prepared to lose at least a half hour!"
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This "artistically done" Web site is the home of the University of Toronto's Emili lab, where they do research on proteomics -- does their page elucidate their work?
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This page is jam-packed with information on cell fates in plant tissues, courtesy of some devoted lab members in Jim Haseloff's lab at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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This is a collaborative page of researchers at the University of London in cell biology, reproduction, and cardiovascular health. How well did they pull off their Web site?
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Navigation is a highlight of this site when browsing research on the molecular mechanisms of organogenesis at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
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