User talk:Biolprof

Welcome

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Greetings from the MCB WikiProject!

Hello, Biolprof, welcome to the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject! I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Here are some ideas on how you can help:: Read our WP Manual of Style, MCB style guide, guide to citing sources and try this citation tool Join in editing our collaboration of the month Have a look at some related projects and resources Improve articles on our worklist If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to post on the project talk page, or please drop me a note on my talk page. Again, welcome! Boghog (talk) 10:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Citation suggestion

Hi. If you haven't seen this yet, please check out User:Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool (instructions). Given a PubMed ID, one can quickly produce a full citation that can be copied and pasted into a Wikipedia article. This tool can save you a lot of work and ensure that the citations are displayed in a consistent manner. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 10:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Boghog! Wish I had discovered this tool at the beginning of the semester, but am very glad to learn about it now.--Biolprof (talk) 04:43, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

STL Wikinic

I enjoyed meetIng you this past weekend and I wanted to follow up. Wikipedia:Help desk is a place you could leave a question, but probably not a place for an instant answer. I mainly wanted to direct you there because of the box at the very top with various links. On the right there is one called "Live editing help via web chat." This will open up a web interface to freenode. You will have to pick a name you use as a handle, but it need not match anything. Also something I forgot to mention to you, which I think Is something you should at least suggest that your students read, is the new Terms of Use. A self-selected group of editors and staff from the Foundation worked collaboratively to produce this document on a wiki with much disscussion and debate, like some sort of giant, legal-binding Wikipedia article. I personally think it is monument to clarity and ethical dealing that should make the lawyers who write the other existing TOS on the web blush. I know most people the age of your students are beyond blasé about giving away their intellectual property on the web and probaly click through a new TOS every week, but I still feel would easier knowing that projects like yours go beyond the students expectations in this regard. I also just think everyone should read it because it is inspiring! Feel free to contact me on my talk page or by email (I am not on en.WP everyday), if you have any questions about anything.BirgitteSB 00:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Teahouse Invitation

Hello! Biolprof, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:27, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes St. Louis

Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, at 12:30pm in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 01:24, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Happy you're here

Hello! I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm "Bioshtmors" (a rearrangement of thrombosis). I just responded to a post of yours at WP:ENB and I thought I'd say hello! I am glad you are here. As you can tell from my user page here, I'm chiefly interested in medical and health content. I got DVT up to good article status last year and I plan to take it to featured status in the near future. Anyhow, let me know if you have any questions about Wikipedia. FWIW, I've made significant edits to WP:AFSE today, and I just I wanted to stop by and say hello since we have so many shared interests. Please feel free to ask me at my talk page (or here) if you have any questions. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 05:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

You sound like a professor I could be willing to support as an ambassador. I supported a Neuroscience class last semester (User:Biosthmors/Intro Neuro). Would you like to talk/have a skype meeting to discuss the possibility? Have you had a chance to read over WP:INSTRUCTORS? Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 21:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much for looking around and working on this to ensure things go well. I have something at 11AM Saturday EST, FYI. I'll send you an email. Thanks again! Biosthmors (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Actually I forgot to message you again to say I can't email you because you haven't enabled that feature. If you would like to, you could (but it's not required). See Wikipedia:Emailing users. You can change it by logging in and then going to your preferences (at the top of the page, inbetween "sandbox" and "watchlist"). Your email address is not disclosed unless you email someone. So you can receive emails from others without disclosing your email address. If you were wondering. But you can't email another user without disclosing yours. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 03:12, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the helpful feedback you left at the end of the educators training modules. We'll try to get some info up on how much class time should be allotted at each point in the sample syllabus.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

MCB

I did post at MCB here, FYI, to potentially attract interested editors. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Format of where to put the reference with regard to punctuation

Thanks for adding the reference! I made a minor edit per WP:REFSPACE with this edit, FYI. References go after the punctuation (unless everything that is cited is inside parentheses) and no space. Prothrombin G20210A is a good example of the "proper" format. Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 03:46, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. I noticed several ways to make minor improvements to this page when doing lecture prep for last Wed, but decided to suggest my students might want to follow up.Biolprof (talk) 16:45, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcomed

FYI, I left messages at each student's user talk page. Some were simple welcomes, and sometimes I asked questions. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 20:33, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Chapman: Ideas for Project/Lecture in BIOL 512

Signal Transduction of Ubiquitin in Plant Immunity

I was toying with the idea of tying in several areas of molecular bio for this project. More specifically, I was doing some research on signaling in plant immunity to see how ubiquitin works in the signal transduction of their immunology. The page on plant immunity is only rated as a start, and they have a section dedicated to plant defense in signal transduction; yet there are no specific molecules or pathways displayed. However, doing a quick Google search, I pulled several scholarly articles from PubMed, the NCBI, and several Cell Bio journals that could definitely add to this information.

Here are some links:

1. Ubiquitin in Plant Immunity
2. The Plant Cell
3. Plant Immune Signaling

RING finger domain and ubiquitylation function

This topic revolves around a protein domain known as RING finger domain. They play a role in the ubiquitin pathway; especially with cancer pathways, mitosis, and viral infection. This domain is a little more specific than say a broad topic like GPCR or RTK, but it still is general enough to encompass several areas of research and integration of topics. The wikipedia page I found on it lists it as a start-class, so it has a lot of room for development.

Here are some links:

1. Ubiquitin Conformation Control
2. Mitotic Stress Pathway
3. RING Domain
4. RING-finger Antiviral Activity

Signaling in Heat Shock Proteins

Trying to pick a broad topic, I thought that maybe HSP would be an interesting thing to play around with. Wikipedia says that the page is a start-class, and it is of mid importance (which I agree with). However, there is much more information that could be added to this field--especially the fact that the HSP are involved in several modes of signaling. Topics relating the types of signaling and functions they serve in cells (both animal and plant) may be an interesting subject to explore for Wikipedia as well as the class lecture.

Here are some links:

1. Signal Transduction and Heat Shock Transcription
2. Calmodulin and Heat Shock Signal Transduction
3. Heat Shock Transduction in Arabidopsis
4. Heat Shock Proteins and Apoptosis Signaling
5. Heat Shock Protein and the Immune Response

Let me know what you think when you get the chance. . . I know I'll talk to you more outside of class, but I think I'd be interested in trying to incorporate as much as I can with not only ubiquitin, but something involving aspects of immunology. But again, we can discuss this in your office. MChapman5 (talk) 07:44, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

BreCaitlin

I think I'm pretty committed to working on the SR protein page. Wikipedia rates it as a stub and low-importance, but I still believe it would be a good topic for my wikipedia project. The article is bare bones at best and could really use a lot of help and I've found a bunch of review papers that I think the page could benefit from.

Potential Articles

• SR protein family of splicing factors #[1]
• Plant serine/arginine-rich proteins #[2]
• SR proteins in vertical integration of gene expression #[3]
• The SR protein family #[4]

I also did a breif search of PLOS and found a image of SR proteins that I can add to the article. There are no pictures or images on the SR protein page currently.

Even though wikipedia does not rate the SR protein page as high or even mid-importance, the page could be filled out significantly and wikipedia would be better because of it. BreCaitlin (talk) 17:47, 31 January 2013 (UTC)