• PI:

• Larry Simpson

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Postdoctorates:

• Agda Simpson - Research Biologist (Email)
• Feng Li (Email)
• Qiang Guo (Email)

Lab Helper:

• Tri Tran

Graduate students:

• Daren Osato (Email)
• Kestrel Rogers (Email)

Undergraduates:

• Jeremy Herrera (Email)

Publications from the laboratory

Lab Mailing Address and Telephone

Pictures of the laboratory

Research Interests:

• Description of Research
• Main RNA Editing Web Site
• U- insertion/deletion RNA Editing Web Site
• U-Insertion/Deletion Edited Sequence database

Protist Web Alerts

From Parasites to Life in Space
Some Marine Protists of Ill-Repute
Memories of Times Past
The Clamy Crowd on the Web
Crete WorldLeish 2 Meeting Report
Malaria - the Biological Terminator
Poetry and Pictures
The Ciliates Among Us (updated on 4-7-05)

Protist Essays
(sundry thoughts and musings):

The Best of Times
Shameless Advertisement
Protists on the Web - Redoux
Who am I?
Death of the "ologies"
My Personal Epiphany
What is Science and why do we do It?

Departmental Websites:

• Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

Useful Links:

• Google search engine
• UCLA Directory
• UCLA Home Page
• UCLA real time video
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• Current Weather in Los Angeles
• Calendar
• CNN News
• Alaska Weather Cams
• National Weather Cams
• Trypanosomatid Biodiversity Web Site (D. Maslov)
• A neat Hubble image collection
• Forecast web site for earthquakes in California

Useful Molecular Biology Sites:

• KISS guide RNA database for T. brucei
• KISS guide RNA database for L. tarentolae
• Kinetoplast minicircle Database
• PFAM- protein motif search program
• Codon Useage Tables
• The CONSURF server (protein evolution)
• Protein Explorer web site (works with Chime in Netscape)
• Mike Zuker's MFOLD program
• PDB Lite - for finding structures
• ProfileScan server
• Multiple Sequence Alignment (Toulose U.)
• MAVID Multiple Sequence Alignment (Berkeley)
• Expasy Suite
• Restriction Enzyme Site Mapper
• RCSB Protein Structure Database
• tRNAScan
• MitoProt (mt signal sequence)
• SignalP (signal sequence prediction)
• L. major GENEDB web site
• T. brucei GENEDB web site
• T. cruzi DB
• ProtScale (antigenic sites)
• Antigenic (EMBOSS)
• Graphical Codon Usage Analyzer
• Beckman rotor site
• ReadSeq sequence conversion program
• Conversion DNA picomoles to micrograms
• Calculation of standard deviation
• Another Conversion site

Courses and Lectures:

Calendar - 2008-9

On Line Course in Molecular Parasitology

168 Course -Molecular Parasitology- Fall 2007

174 Course - Advanced Topics in Molecular Parasitology - Spring 2008

Information for Lab Personnel

• Supplementary data on T. brucei minicircles
• Supplementary data on nt mods in tRNA^Trp
• Supplementary data on I-complex paper
• Telephone numbers for contacting Radiation Safety
• UC On-Line Waste Tag Program
• Online journals
• Lab protocols
• Lab vectors
• Lab Portal (private)

Seminars and Meetings