PombeNet
at The Forsburg Lab

We are part of the Molecular & Computational Biology Section in the Dept of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA. Our research examines the links between DNA replication, cell cycle, and chromosome dynamics in a model genetic system: the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

This web site (PombeNet) offers information on DNA replication and our research, as well as practical information, protocols and reference pages for working with fission yeast, internet guides to pombe, sequence analysis, and women in biology, and an introduction to our group. Students can find teaching pages for Susan's courses and lectures. There are also pages about running.

Use this directory page to find your way to the most appropriate section of our web site, from which you can navigate to additional internal pages. An abbreviated directory can also be found at the bottom of the internal pages.

About our science:

Introduction

• About USC
• Studying fission yeast
• Learning about cancer and birth defects from yeast
• Introduction to the cell cycle and meiosis
• Pombe beer

Replication page
• S phase control in fission yeast
• Map of S phase regulation and table of S phase genes
• DNA Replication and cancer

Forsburg Lab Research

• MCM proteins and replication initiation
• Lab funding
• Publications

Working with fission yeast:

The pombe FAQ:

• how do I....? Use this to find fission yeast answers on this site and beyond.

Pombe technology

• Plasmid markers
• Nomenclature
• Promoters
• Codon usage
• Protocols, including transformation, colony PCR, flow cytometry, disruptions, working with diploids, and more

Index of fission yeast plasmids

• General purpose vectors
• Expression plasmids
• Tagging systems
• Other

Fission yeast media
Fission yeast drugs and DNA damaging agents
Disruptions and integrations
Crosses, diploids, and tetrads
Pombe community news(also check out the Pombeweb guide).

Guides, links, and bookmarks:

Pombeweb
• Fission yeast homepages
• Online lists and newsgroups
• Meetings
• Where to get strains and plasmids
• Information sites
• Genome analysis
• pombe grants (US)

Sequence analysis sites

Women in Biology Internet Launch Page
Award-winning site includes career resources for all. Also links for women-in-science issues, history, chilly climate, and organizations.

Reference pages:

Technical references
List of papers with methods and markers
Fission Yeast Gene Conversion Table
Protein products and S. cerevisiae homologues
S phase genes in pombe
Genes and products, with links to genbank
Codon usage table
S. pombe history
Original descriptions and images (courtesy of F. Hochstenbach)

About us:

Lab page
Who we are, including a rubber snake named Felix, and our history. Also, the F1 page of lab offspring!
Funding and publications

Teaching resources:

Online Resources for Advanced Genetics
Useful genetics resources and course information for the core course BGGN223 (part of the UCSD/Salk Joint Graduate Program in Biology),, which I taught from 1994-2004.
All purpose Cell Cycle Lecture Notes. These notes were used for for BIMM112 (UCSD Dept of Biology, undergraduate level) and BMS210 (UCSD School of Medicine, PhD level)
What's meiosis? A primer.
S. pombe pictures from our website

Running pages

Running Links
Races, trails, useful links

Lab site

Forsburg Lab Internal Site

Quick navigation on inside pages
Click the lab logo to return to this directory page	Click on Tommy Trojan for the USC home page
A short directory is in the gold box at the bottom of each page

Awards for the pombe pages:

Links2Go Key Resource Yeast Topic

See the Women-in-biology page for its own awards list
Visit our comments page to see our award citations and find out what our readers are saying!

© S. L. Forsburg 1995-2007.

Made on a Macintosh
Between 11/95 and 6/04 just this page had over 120,000 visitors. Our new meter monitors all the major pombe pages on this site, starting 8/6/04.