Contact us:

Viapiano Lab

Center for Molecular Neurobiology
The Ohio State University
226B Rightmire Hall
1060 Carmack Rd
Columbus, Ohio (43210)

Office:  (614) 292-4362
Lab:     (614) 292-4956
Fax:     (614) 292-5379

E-mail: mariano.viapiano@osumc.edu

Links

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Academic / Institutional

• Department of Neurological Surgery, OSU
• Center for Molecular Neurobiology, OSU
• The Ohio State University
• National Institutes of Health
• American Association for Cancer Research
• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Neuro-Oncology
• International Society for Neurochemistry

Tutorials / Education

• WebPath - General and Systemic Pathology.
• Histotech - Histological techniques.
• MSDS - Chemical and safety information.
• Glycoforum - Glycobiology and matrix biology.
• Nikon MicroscopyU - Forum for microscopy education.
• Olympus Microscopy Resource Center - Fluorescence, Fluorochrome data tables.

Databases and Bioinformatics tools

• PubMed - Public access to the US National Library of Medicine
• CBTRUS Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States
• Oncomine Tumor gene expression database
• Repository for Brain Neoplasia Data - Gene expression in brain tumors
• TCGA - The Cancer Genome Atlas
• DAVID - Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery
• KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway database
• UCSC - University of California at Santa Cruz Genome Bioinformatics (great for in silico PCR)
• Micro-RNA databases for sequences and targets:
  - GeneMir
  - TargetScan
  - MicroRNA.org
  - PicTar

Lab tools and software

• Primer3 - A great online software for designing PCR primers
• QuickCalcs - Online calculators for scientists
• ImageJ - Image processing and analysis using Java

Research supporting foundations and other funding sources

• Brain Tumor Society
• Life Sciences Research Foundation
• National Brain Tumor Foundation
• American Brain Tumor Association
• Community of Science - Expertise database and abstract management system