Paramecium Links

• Introduction to Paramecium - Good overview of this fascinating organism (Microscape UK)
• Protist Information Server - Image Database and Taxonomy pages - English and Japanese
• Paramecium Genome Project - Current results of > 3,000 sequences and >700 genes
• Ciliates in the Classroom - Protocols, ideas, links
• Studies on Paramecium - ingestion and ciliary motion (Rice University)
• Osmoregulation in Paramecium - basic description
• Paramecium swimming behavior in weightlessness - European Space Agency
• Observing and staining ciliates by Richard Howey

Paramecium Research Labs

• James Berger - cell cycle regulation
• Jean Cohen - Regulated secretion, gene silencing
• James Forney - DNA rearrangement, IES
• Dean Fraga - Regulation of ion channels
• Todd Hennessey - Chemorepellants, signal transduction 
• Robert Hinrichson - Exocytosis, cell behavior
• Ching Kung - Electrophysiology, pawn mutants
• Eric Meyer - Genomic rearrangement, nuclear development
• Ronald Pearlman - pre-mRNA introns
• Helmut Plattner - Regulated secretion/Calcium flux
• Robin Preston - Magnesium ions & excitable membranes
• Linda Sperling - Regulated secretion, genomics
• Judith Van Houten - Chemosensation, signal transduction

If your research lab is not listed and you would like to be included here, please email me.

Paramecium pictures

• Paramecium caudatum - some pretty pictures (U. Wisconsin - Lacrosse)
• Paramecium caudatum - a very nice phase contrast photo
• Paramecium - nice scanning electron micrograph

This site is still under construction. I welcome suggestions for adding links - please email me.

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This page was last edited on 05/16/03

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