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ANCIENT-DNA  
An e-mail list for anyone working in the field of ancient DNA of any species and any time period.

ARABUK  
ArabUk is a UK Arabidopsis news and discussion forum, for disseminating and sharing information relating to the UK Arabidopsis and wider Plant Science Research Community. ArabUK provides a mechanism for UK Arabidopsis researchers to communicate with other researchers within the UK or with those individuals that have an interest in Arabidopsis research. The mail list is also used for mailings relating to GARNet (Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network) http://www.garnetcommunity.org.uk/

AVA  
This list is used to communicate with all members of the Applied Vision Association

BBS  
This is the newsgroup of the British Biophysical Society. The newsgroup email circulates matters of general interest to the Biophysics community in the UK, including conferences, awards, and items in the news. <HTML> This is the newsgroup of the British Biophysical Society. The newsgroup email circulates matters of general interest to the Biophysics community in the UK, including conferences, awards and items in the news. </HTML>

BENTHOS  
Discussion list for sharing of information and ideas on benthic marine ecology in the UK.

BES-CITIZENSCIENCE  
List for announcements and discussion by members of the British Ecological Society Citizen Science special interest group and others interested in citizen science. The focus is on citizen science relevant to the UK and ecology. Membership of the BES is encouraged but is not required.

BIODIVERSITY  
This mailing list is run on behalf of the European Commissions Biodiversity Research Program. It is intended for investigating and disussing the impacts of Global Change on the biodiversity of herbaceous seminatural ecosystems.

BIOINFORMATICS  
This is a forum featuring various aspects, events and developments in the bioinformatics arena

BIOLOGY-TEACHING  
Biology-teaching offers Higher Education teachers and employers an opportunity to exchange information, ideas and good practice in the field of teaching and learning in the biological sciences.

BIOMAGCENTRAL  
The aim of the BiomagCentral mailing list is to provide a forum for information exchange and discussion. Please use this list to announce jobs, workshops and courses. You are also welcome to announce the publication of a new paper. If you have points of interest to the greater biomagnetism community you are welcome to initiate a discussion. However, please be civil: very specialised discussions and disputes do not belong on the list. For now, the list is not moderated.

BIOMIMETICS  
Engineers and biologists communicating on aspects of mechanical design

BIOMONITORING  
This list is to promote networking, knowledge exchange and discussion amongst biomonitoring practitioners (both human and wildlife) and those interested in the application and interpretation of data for policy and interventions.

BRAGGCENTENARY  
This list is for all parties interested in organising events to promote crystallography as part of the Bragg centenary celebrations (2013) and international year of crystallography (2014)

CCAP-LHARA  
List will be used for communication among the LhARA collaboration members. The LhARA collaboration is working to deliver the concept of the laser-hybrid accelerator that will serve the Ion Therapy Research Facility. This super list posts to the following sub-lists: CCAP-LHARA-OUTREACH-INVOLVEMENT, CCAP- LHARA-EB.

CCAP-LHARA-EB  
The list will be used for communication among the Executive Board of the LhARA collaboration. This is a Sub-List of CCAP-LHARA.

CCP4MG  
Mailing list for users and developers of CCP4mg. For the discussion of features, bugs, and usage of the software.

CIALIGN-UPDATES  
This list is used to share updates on the software tool CIAlign, used to clean, interpret and visualise multiple sequence alignments.

COLOURSTUDIES  
This is a group for the multidisciplinary study and discussion of colour. It includes linguists, psychologists, geographers, opthamologists and more. The Group is open to anyone with an interest in colour, but it is intended to be an academic and research forum.

COMPLEMENT-ECN  
This list has been retained 21/08/15. No one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. contact helpline@jiscmail.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list List for discussion of all aspects of the complement system of plasma proteins, which are a major part of the humoral immune defence system. List is intended to provide exchange of research techniques, experience, reagents, ideas, job and funding opportunities at national and international levels.

COOT  
This list is for users and developers of COOT (Crystallographic Obeject-Oriented Tool-kit) to discuss the use and further development of COOT.

CRUKSUMMER2018  
Mailing list to promote networking between attendees of 2018 CRUK Bioinformatics summer school

DLPOLY  
DL_POLY is a leading molecular dynamics package in UK developed at Daresbury Laboratory since 1992 to meet the needs of the UK's Computational Community Project 5 (CCP5). First releases in 1993 it has progressed to version 4.09 serving a large community of academic and industrial researchers. This mailing list is not a replacement for your own work, nor is it a replacement for your supervisor's work. This mailing list is a voluntary endeavour: nobody is entitled to an answer, even less to an immediate answer.

DSBS  
Deep Sea Biology Society Mailing List

ECS-NCP  
The ECS National Contact Persons are the international links to the study of marine mammals in Europe and elsewhere. See http://www.EuropeanCetaceanSociety.eu. Sub-list of ecs-all

ECS-SCIENCE  
The ECS Science Advisory Committee will consider questions on best practice in research and science procedures while studying marine mammals in the wild and in captivity. Sub-list of ecs-all.

EDINBURGHBELTANE-CSE  
This list has been retained 01/03/2021 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list This list is for staff and students of the Beltane Public Engagement Network interested in Science, Medicine, Maths and Engineering wishing to receive information from both the general Edinburgh Beltane mails about public engagement and additional public engagement related information specifically relevant to STEM Communication.

EM-UK  
Electron microscopy community in UK networking list. List members can ask for advice, post job advertisements and advertise meetings/courses.

ENVIRONMENTAL-SCIENCE-ENGAGEMENT  
This list brings together those interested in public engagement with environmental science. A wide range of people have been invited to join the list. NERC does not manage, approve or endorse content shared on this list. The views expressed in messages are the personal views of the author. They may not necessarily represent those of NERC. NERC accepts no liability for any errors, corruption or omissions that might arise. The JiscMail Service Policy document: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ describes the way in which we expect the service to be used by subscribers. It sets out (S9) JISC handling of personal data obligations under the Data Protection Act (1998).

EXTINCTIONSTUDIES  
A public discussion list for those interested in exploring multi-disciplinary approaches to extinction, particularly from a humanities and social sciences perspective.

FOTR-LIST  
For discussion of research relating to experimental and analytical approaches to understanding fossilization of remains of non-biomineralized organisms and tissues

GCEBB  
The GCEbb mailing list is for discussions to promote the successful use of genetic code expansion (GCE) technologies in research and teaching.

GENDER-SET  
This list is for discussion of research on gender, science, technology and engineering (SET), including but not limited to, research on gender differences in involvement in SET occupations and education, feminist science studies and philosophical critiques of SET.

HALOFERAX  
The list server for the International Haloferax volcanii Consortium. This is the forum for discussion of H. volcanii biology and techniques for its manipulation.

HEABIO-ETHICS  
Bioethics Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Higher Education Academy

HEABIO-MATHS  
BioMaths Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Higher Education Academy

HEABIOREPS  
Sublist for Higher Education Academy's Bioscience Representatives

HIST-NAT-HIST  

IDEACETL-BIOSCIENCE  
This List is used by those participating in the Biological Sciences Theme Team of the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied CETL. Sublist of ideacetl

IIIN  
List for imaging specialists and collaborators who are based at or have association with UKRI BBSRC research institutes

JCWM  
To support interactions between web mangers within the Research Councils and their institutes

LBCNC-EQUINE  
This list is for equine lecturers in LBCNC member colleges.

LIGHTSOURCES  
A mailing list for lightsource communicators, to exchange good practice on communicating synchrotron science.

LINNEAN-NEWS  
A forum for contemporary scientific debate across the life sciences. This low-volume announcement list provides news, conference and event updates of interest to those working in biology, zoology, botany, genetics, and the historical basis and development of plant and animal classification.

LIS-LONDON-BIOLOGY-LIBRARIES  
This list is for members of the London Biology Libraries Group to communicate about different aspects of their work in supporting their research communities in Higher Education and other life sciences educational organisations.

MARINE-COASTAL  
This list provides a forum for dicussion of topics in marine and coastal ecology and environmental management, with emphasis on environmental management and education. The list is run by the University Marine Biological Station Millport (Universities of London and Glasgow).

MARINE-COASTAL  
This list provides a forum for dicussion of topics in marine and coastal ecology and environmental management, with emphasis on environmental management and education. The list is run by the University Marine Biological Station Millport (Universities of London and Glasgow).

METHODS-GENE-REG  
This list nucleates from former participants to a series of conferences organised by the Institute of Physics Biological Physics Group on Quantitative Methods in Gene Regulation.

MRC-DATA-MANAGERS  
Forum for the Medical Research Council funded data managers, working both for MRC units as well as in universities.

NEPG  
This list is for the use of anyone working in primatology who is based in the north of England. It can be used to ask for help, disseminate information about meetings and inform people about interesting research developments.

NGACDT-2011  
This is the class of PhD students from Surrey, Huddersfield, Strathclyde and QUB who started on the Next Generation of Accelerators CDT course in 2011

NORNEX  
The email group will permit secure communication between members of the NORNEX BBSRC consortium, to organise meetings, share information, coordinate reports, and plan research.

OCTO  
Octolist is being initiated to allow networking and news dissemination between octocoral researchers

OXFORD-ZOOLOGY-SEMINARS  
This mailing list will be used mostly to advertise seminar organized within our Department. The aim is to allow researchers to manage their subscriptions individually. Members from other departments and other universities (e.g. visiting professors) will obviously be welcome to subscribe if interested.

PLANTSANIMALSWORDS  
This list is used by members of the PAW group to support collaboration and exchange of information between linguists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, ethnoornithologists and archivists.

PLANTSCIUK  
PlantSciUK is a news and discussion forum for disseminating and sharing information relating to the UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF). The UKPSF is a special interest group of the Royal Society of Biology which aims to bring together the breadth of the UK Plant Science sector to: • Increase the understanding of the significance of plant sciences • Formulate a coordinated strategy and vision that will be used to inform policy • Improve the general funding environment • Create an independent and inclusive forum for debate • Provide a focus and contact point for UK plant science • Support efforts to inspire, educate and train the next generation The UKPSF operates with financial support from the Society of Experimental Biology (SEB), the Biochemical Society and the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP). For more info on UKPSF visit http://www.plantsci.org.uk/

PRIDEINSTEM  
Pride in STEM is a charitable trust run by an independent group of LGBT+ scientists & engineers from around the world. Proud of who we are and what we do. We aim to showcase and support all LGBT+ people in STEM fields.

S-LAB  
News of laboratory improvement activities and events in HE from the S-Lab (Safe, Successful and Sustainable Labs) initiative

SCI-ED  
This list has been retained 08/10/2021 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list A forum for discussing and sharing plans, ideas and resources to improve science and interdisciplinary STEM education across the UK, improving information sharing, reducing duplication of effort, and enhancing collaboration. It is aimed at professional development providers, teacher trainers, and those working to improve delivery, policy, research and resources in science and STEM education. Members can post conferences, resources, job adverts, ask questions, identify others working on similar projects etc.

SCOTMETNET-ALL  
The Scottish Metabolomics Network announcement list for all members. This list is moderated, and the default delivery is a weekly digest. For announcements, job opportunities, funding calls, meeting invites... Public archives. Subscriber information reports only accessible to list owners

SCOTTISH-MICROSCOPY  
The Scottish Microscopy community networking list. List members can ask #for advice and advertise meetings/courses.

SIMULIIDAE  
A list for the exchange of news, ideas and requests concerning all aspects of simuliid (blackfly) biology. Participation is welcomed from anyone with an interest in the Simuliidae, both in the UK and elsewhere.

SSHB-MEMBERS  
Closed list restricted to members of the Society for the Study of Human Biology. Primary usage, to inform members about forthcoming conferences and conference outcomes, circulating titles, abstracts publication details, etc. Secondary usage, topical discussion among members.

STATGEN  
The STATGEN list is intended to facilitate the exchange of information, ideas and expertise between researchers interested in statistical aspects of genetics. www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~paulj/statgen.html

SUZUKII  
Information about Drosophila suzukii research in the UK

SYSTASS-NEWS  
This list is used to make occasional announcements to members of the Systematics Association, and others with an interest in SA activities.

TAHINI-USERS  
A mailing list to support a work group in the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded CARDyAL (Cooperative Aerodynamics and Radio-based DYnamic Animal Localisation) project. The mailing list will enable work group members to be notified and exchange of any events related to the Wiki and SVN servers used to maintain project materials of the CARDyAL project.

TARDIGRADA  
List for the exchange of ideas, news & requests on Tardigrada biology.

TOOTHWEAR-LIST  
This list is for discussion of tooth wear and microwear and its use for reconstruction of trophic ecology and diet

TRACTOR  
This list is for announcements and discussions relating to the TractoR software package for magnetic resonance imaging and tractography.

TUNICATA  
The tunicates are a major group of invertebrates representing an early offshoot from the evolutionary line leading to the vertebrates. We discuss all aspects of tunicate biology including chordate origins. Keywords: protochordate, urochordate, ascidia, salp, doliolid, Larvacea, Pyrosoma, tadpole, sea-squirt

UK-CARE  
The UK-CARE, founded in 2000, is a non-profit international organisation with long-term missions providing a platform to promote the collaboration between universities, research institutes and industries both in the UK/EU and China.

UK-CHINESE-LIFE-SCIENCE-RES-NET  
This list is created for the network of Chinese researchers in the UK who are doing health and life sciences' research

UK-EUROBIOIMAGING-PROJECT  
To discuss UK involvement in Euro-BioImaging. The project Euro-BioImaging is a pan-European research infrastructure project which is part of the ESFRI process http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri. The aim of Euro-BioImaging is to provide access to imaging technologies across the full scale of biological and medical applications, from molecule to patient. EuroBioImaging will address the imaging requirements of both basic and medical imaging communities by creating nodes in many ESFRI member states that will deploy imaging infrastructure in a coordinated and harmonised manner and thus address the fragmentation of such efforts currently present in Europe. The project is coordinated by Jan Ellenberg, who is also scientific coordinator for the advanced light microscopy parts of Euro-BioImaging, and Gabriel Krestin who is the scientific coordinator for all parts concerning medical imaging. Since early summer 2009, Antje Keppler is project manager of EuroBioImaging

UKBCF  
A list for members of UK Bioinformatics Core Facilities. For discussion, announcements and meeting organisation.

UKCLOCKCLUB  
The Circadian clock club runs a twice-yearly workshop on biological rhythms. The list is used to organise and publicise the workshops and other meetings. Further information may be available at www.clockclub.co.uk

VOLUME-EM  
Volume Electron Microscopy (vEM) community in the UK networking list. List members can ask for advice, post job advertisements and advertise meetings/courses.

YEAROFLIGHT2015  
This list is for all parties interested in organising events as part of International Year of Light 2015.