Santa Monica College

Life Science Department

Summer 2012

M. A. Bober M.P.H. Ph.D

Contact Information

email: bober_mary@smc.edu

Telephone Number: (310) 434-3140

Office:  Science Building 281

Mailing Address: 

Santa Monica College

Life Science Department

1900 Pico Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA  90405

Summer Biology-2 students please refer to ecompanion for course information. 

Office hours during the summer are by appointment, please contact me if you need to arrange for an office meeting.

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•    Information: HIV Latest News:  http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/13/taking-meds-before-exposure-cuts-hiv-risk-for-heterosexuals/

• Links related to: Dr. Hahn http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2010/09/hiv-researchers-hahn-shaw-join-penn-medicine/

• http://discovermagazine.com/2002/dec/breakdialogue

•  http://nhp2011.wanprc.org/news/keynote-speaker-beatrice-hahn/

• Dr. Hahn SIV/SIV research: http://www.prn.org/index.php/progression/article/origin_of_the_aids_pandemic_58

• Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum gorillas http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/nature09442.html

Guidelines for Requesting & Obtaining Letters of Recommendation

link to a pdf file:  Tracing the Origins of Aids and video of HIV Infection

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Online resources:  Please check out the links below as you scroll down this page.

1. Research Organizations and Centers:

• National Institutes of Health
• National Center for Biotechnology

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. ANIMATIONS:  These links include animations of DNA replication and other DNA and/or RNA related processes and/or experiments

• Animations of DNA replication and related DNA based experiments
• Animations of molecular techniques from Cold Spring Harbor

• Transcription animation
• Animation MOVIE of Translation with narration. (eukaryotic)
• Animation of Translation with narration (prokaryotic)

• LINKS to HIV ANIMATIONS

• Links toAnimations: mitosis, meiosis, transcription and translation

3. Student Programs, Internships and Scholarships related science/molecular biology

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 

• UCLA Bridges Program 
• UCLA Care-Extender Internship Program Flyser (pdf) 2007     

4. Links that may be of general use:

• A link to histological (Microscopic Slides)
• A link to on-line graph paper   
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• www.jbpub.com/humanbiology: this is a general biology website that allows you review introductory biology concepts.  There are flash cards and outlines available; however keep in mind these are review concepts and do not necessarily reflect the depth and breadth of material in Human Physiology 3 and Biology 22.

As I find articles that might be of interest to you I will add them to the list below.

5. Full length articles, abstracts and presentations of interests:

Invasive Breast Cancer in African-American Women and mitochondrial DNA

When RNA Rules