A great looking and laid-out site, rich with scientific content, multimedia and graphics
Another sophisticated site, with great internal linking and visual components, also with a huge external links page.
Unique design, good use of color and graphics. Excellent scientific content and site containment.
Very clean-looking site, overflowing with scientific content.
Very sophisticated site, great use of video, graphics, and animations. Lab wikis, blogs and interactive features give this site great community elements.
Even though this isn't really one lab's page, we really like this site -- very clean design, comprehensive, with great pictures.
A very navigable site that contains the right balance of science and graphics
Nothing flashy but extremely user friendly
Excellent harmony of design and content; animated structure graphics help visualize the research topics of this lab.
Another site encompassing several research teams, this site links to a slew of research pages at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation. Nicely laid out and visually stimulating.
Nice layout and great content. Excellent "open science" design with lab member blogs and plenty of graphics and multimedia
I like this site because it - has a clean design - is easy to navigate - is kept up to date by the team - provides lots of information about the lab's research, teaching, methods, team members... - uses up-to-date stuff such as podcasts, RSS...
It has simple interface and has an interesting way of presenting information.
It is a well-organized lab website. It not only contains features an academic lab website usually has, but also presents many web-based bioinformatics tools oriented for biomedical community use.
The website is easy to navigate and provides a lot of information in an organized fashion. You get a sense of being in the lab by taking their virtual tour around the lab space and feel as though you actually know the lab people with all the pictures and bio's they afford. Overall, it is very nice website to visit and many other labs have used this website to model their own.
Dale Purves, the George P. Geller professor of Neurobiology at Duke, has a rich site with interactives and animations displaying his work on perception and cognition. He studies what happens to sensory input after it reaches the brain, that is, how the signals from the optic nerves get turned right-side up and integrated into a 3-D image, etc. and the ways in which this kind of cognition can be tricked. He's moving now into sound and has recently done some fascinating work on how music sounds "right" to our ears because the physics of the 12-tone chromatic scale closely match the natural overtones produced by our vocal anatomy. Go straight to "see for yourself" and prepare to lose at least a half-hour!
The URL above is the coolest portal ever. (The alternative entry point: http://brembs.net/ is for the less excitable folks). It is so much fun to explore, it is completely up-to-date at all times, contains a lot of nice stuff, e.g., an excellent blog, videos of fly behavior, etc. It is a pleasure to see and look around.
It is rare to find a site that contains so much useful stuff and yet is uncluttered and has easy navigation. There is information for lay-people, scientists and press, free software for download, examples of data, a glossary, FAQs - everything one needs to know about the field in general and about Dr.Refinetti's work in particular.
This is an excellent lab doing research on behaviour and genetics of a striking insect group, stalk-eyed flies, Diopsidae.
This is a comprehensive site catering to a diverse readership of research scientists, clinicians and patients. It isn't glitzy, but it is logically designed so that navigation and information retrieval are straightforward.
A comprehensive and beautifully designed lab homepage that provides students as well as researcher with thorough information about what the lab is about.
The lab is super-amazing all the time. The website features superior graphic arts, making it visually pleasing. The news section is both informative and entertaining. It is clearly an outlet for creativity for the lab members, who collaborate in reporting important lab events.
This site is easy to navigate and its content is very well organized.
This site is well laid out and provides an attractive interface with pleasing graphics. The information is presented simply, and the website has a lot of depth.
All information about RNA, catalysis and life - and - more importantly the exhaustive explanation of computational tools to get to that.
Uses Web 2.0 features and is (in my opinion) esthetically pleasing.
In this website - for the first time, in my best knowledge, the application of NON-linear dynamics to biological systems is illustrated in details under both physiological and pathological conditions. In addition, the bedside evaluation of deterministic chaos measure of macro- as well as microvascular fluctuations, i.e., fractal dimension, is obtained by means of a "simple" stethoscope , initiating since birth. The advances in Medicine are realizable in the large Bibliography, wherein 15 Medline papers are referred. Finally, the most famous peer-reviews around the world have posted and published paper wirtten by the Author utilizind as method Biophysical Semeiotics. In the Presentation in www.semeioticabiofisica.it ther'are a lot of prestigious, scientific awards from some outstanding Countries.
Clean looking site, lots of relevant up to date content on a variety of labs working in the field of cancer research.
This site is a wealth of leading edge scientific information presented for students, professionals, and web surfers. High quality graphics, movie clips, technical papers, active links, and a high quality user interface make for an informative and entertaining site.
Dr. Arturo Casadevall's website at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is really thorough. Not only do they show off their current work but they also take you back in time and show you what the lab was doing before. It also shows you the current lab memebers, past members and what the lab does to have a little fun now and then. They also have all the pdf's for their papers and connect you to their collaborators sites.
Biophysical Chemistry of RNA: Structures, properties, and functions
A website with national information on the genetic merit of 20 million U.S. dairy cattle and goats; includes online queries for data as well as scientific references and extensive links to other resources. Unique because it addresses the needs of both researchers and industry domestically and internationally. Even includes a "Kids Corner."
Less loaded with graphics and animation apart for the watermark on the pages this web-site stands out for its simplicity,readability and ease of navigation with each page accessible in two clicks rather than in mindless clicks.
A well organized laboratory web-site with no graphics and pictures.This web-site is an ideal benchmark for its presentation of its content.
A beautiful website that provides lay explanations for the general public, detailed info for fellow scientists, particularly with protocols, as well as a great sense of humor! The site is easy to navigate, smooth and professional looking, and is updated regularly. There are also images, animations and even movies for protocols - meaning no-one has any excuse not to try purifying nucleoli or doing a SILAC mass spec experiment.
A nano-engineering research center in Quebec.
An innovative site designed to inform and educate the public as well as providing detailed professional links and technical information about the University of New South Wales Connected Waters lab team and its research. The site was developed to meet a perceived need to draw public and professional attention to the often un recognised by vital linkages between ground and surface water. This is a major issue not only for Australia but globally. The site has an eye-pleasing design, ease of navigation and thoughtful use of colour and graphic materials. A key feature of this site is that its development was funded by a philanthropist who had earlier donated A$1 million to fund a specialist Chair in Water Management.
They put a lot of work into it, and keep it upto date.
Cutting edge research!
This popular resource for the substance abuse field exists for the following purposes: 1. Document and disseminate the evidence from IBR's research on effectiveness in substance abuse treatment with publications listed by research focus, topic, and year; IBR presentations for conferences and training; newsletters, quarterly and by research topic; media notices; and special reports. 2. Provide projects information and access to the IBR/TCU treatment resources downloads (evaluation forms and intervention manuals) created while conducting research in real-world settings. 3. Recruit graduate Psychology students for paid research assistantships to support IBR research staff in conducting grant-funded research. The audience of this website includes: Researchers and clinicians working primarily in substance abuse treatment facilities and agencies; Agency and clinical personnel looking for treatment evaluation tools and intervention resources; potential graduate research assistants; US and state government policy makers; health services leaders representing national and international agencies in government and private sector; social service personnel; physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals; and the interested public. IBR is a non-profit organization, affiliated with TCU, and funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse federal grants. The limited budget for web site creation doesn't dissuade the institute from distributing all materials free of charge, providing a valuable resource for both community-based and corrections-based substance abuse treatment.
Highly informative, detailed protocols, cool pics
Great site. Very clearly organised. In depth info for those who need it. Clear access to services and to scientist biographies
Dr. Colbourne studies ways to rescue brain tissue (neuroprotection; with hypothermia treatments) and promote recovery (e.g., with rehabilitation and pharmalogical agents) after several types of stroke (global and focal ischemia, hemorrhagic stroke) in rats. Dr. Colbourne's webpage is very easy to navigate and has a summary of his research interests, information for potential students, a complete list of publications, and a summary of the types of methods used in the lab (e.g., stroke models, behavioural testing) as well as videos of several things where appropriate (e.g, behavioural tests). The greatest strength of Dr. Colbourne's webpage is that he has provided links to pdf's of all of the standard operating procedures used in his lab in order to increase transparency of methods used and to enable sharing of protocols with his colleagues. In fact, several colleagues have used his lab webpage as a resource when designing behavioural testing betteries for animal models of brain injury.
This site is packed full of useful scientific information on cell biology and was featured in Science NetWatch in 2005. The apoptotic process is dramatically illustrated by videos, graphics and animations.
Tagging of Pacific Predators, a project of the Census of Marine Life, does research on 23 species of apex predators, including leatherback turtles, white sharks, elephant seals, salmon sharks, and albatross. TOPP.org takes advantage of all of the Web's characteristics to engage the general public in ocean science, and provides a way for researchers to communicate directly with the general public. TOPP.org has an interactive, animated map that is updated nightly, a downloadable (to blogs and MySpace pages) animal widget with an RSS feed that updates nightly with the speed and distance traveled by the animal, a photo of the day, researchers' blog, ocean news, ask-a-researcher, videos and feature stories. The videos are published on the TOPPPredators channel on YouTube, as well as on TOPP.org.
A beautiful, well organized page loaded with fantastic scanning electron micrographs. Check out the "publications/cover illustrations" link.
Dr. Masao Ito is an eminent neurobiologist. He recently wrote an article entitled "Cultural differences reduce Japanese researchers' visibility on the Web" (Nature 444, 817 (14 December 2006)) with a Nobel laureate Dr. Torsten Wiesel. They encouraged the people to make homepages. Thus, this site is a superb example showing their argument.
because its my own and I am biased and we don't take ourselves too seriously...
Modern, elegant, and functional design. Great information about the neurobiology of puberty and adolescence couched within the current research interests of the laboratory. Two fun slideshows artistically designed and set to music. The first is a slideshow of Michigan State University in the 50's generated from Dr. Sisk's personal collection of postcards. In the second slideshow you can see members of the laboratory transition through adolescence into adulthood....verifying that adolescence is a fascinating (and at times humorous) period of development!
Hoping the lab web looks not bad.
The Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory website includes detailed information about each of the lab's many areas of imaging research, complete with images illustrating the findings and embedded links to published papers. The site also contains a detailed synopsis of the history of schizophrenia research. Its "publications" section includes citations and links not only to peer-reviewed papers, but also to book chapters and conference papers. Overall, the site is extremely thorough, and information is explained clearly such that scientists in different fields can understand their work.
An excellent website, with exciting scientific content, multimedia and graphics
The supplemental links from the website are phenomenal! The videos are entertaining and informative. Also, this website provides a succinct and intriguing summary of a very unique animal model. The website is clean and organized, and provides a very personal feel by outlining each lab member's research project individually. It is obvious there was a large emphasis on attention to detail when this website was designed.
This is a website in Spanish because the researchers work at an argentinian university. It`s clear, funny, has lots of links and photos, and addreses issues regarding ants and their biological control, here in Argentina and also in Texas, USA, which finances part of their research. It is a resource very useful for science journalists as well as scientists. Leading with financial difficulties and all, this laboratory, directed by a woman with a PHD in Biology and Ecology obtained in USA, is one of a kind in Argentina. Hope somebody can appreciate its design and content in Spanish!
Excellent scientific content, organization and highly resourceful.
Artistically done, utility driven and concise
The CFS website is wonderfull! there are an important information on advanced and applied fluorescence spectroscopy. Ressources such as probe chemistry, multi-photon excitation, steady state imaging, time-resolved imaging, genetically engineered probes, and single molecule detection. This website help also young fluorescence scientists by documents and courses on Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence. I think this website is the number one because its like a knowledge kit for all fluorescence sciences areas researchers.
This web-site truly reflects JAX's mission to enable research and education for the global biomedical community. While the site does an excellent job providing both summaries and full-text articles of recent discoveries, at the heart of the site are the mouse resource databases containing mouse genome, phenome, and gene expression information. Both raw and analyzed data gathered from throughout the mouse research world are readily available for review and further analysis by scientists and students alike.
Great lab site. Excellent format, navigation, photography, content. Super site!
Beautifully designed, easy to navigate, filled with useful information and wonderful bio-images.
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