Pamela Shaw, MSLIS
Biosciences Librarian
Ward 1-285
Phone: (312) 503-8689
Email Pam

As Biosciences Librarian, I apply my research background to support Basic Science research at the Feinberg School of Medicine. I provide assistance with specialized molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics and science information tools.

Contact me to set up training and education for your staff, faculty and graduate students in your department, center or laboratory.

Departments	Centers & Institutes	Programs
Cell & Molecular Biology Microbiology-Immunology Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry Pathology Physiology	Biostatistical Collaboration Center Center for Genetic Medicine Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC) Institute for Bionanotechnology in Medicine Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)	Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Graduate Program (IBiS) Integrated Graduate Program (IGP) Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience (NUIN)

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As your liaison librarian, I can help you:

• search bibliographic databases (Web of Science, MEDLINE)
• select specialized nucleic acid, protein and genome databases
• organize your citations with EndNote

Do you need help finding the pig homologue for human tau protein?
Do you need an open-source molecular modeling program?
Do you need to know how to cite GEO DataSets?
I can help you with questions like these, and many more.

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• Grudzien A, Shaw P, Weintraub S, Bigio E, Mash DC, Mesulam MM. Locus coeruleus neurofibrillary degeneration in aging, mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2006 Mar 27
• Mesulam M, Shaw P, Mash D, Weintraub S. Cholinergic nucleus basalis tauopathy emerges early in the aging-MCI-AD continuum. Ann Neurol. 2004 Jun;55(6):815-28.
• Mesulam MM, Guillozet A, Shaw P, Levey A, Duysen EG, Lockridge O. Acetylcholinesterase knockouts establish central cholinergic pathways and can use butyrylcholinesterase to hydrolyze acetylcholine. Neuroscience. 2002;110(4):627-39.
• Mesulam M, Guillozet A, Shaw P, Quinn B. Widely spread butyrylcholinesterase can hydrolyze acetylcholine in the normal and Alzheimer brain. Neurobiol Dis. 2002 Feb;9(1):88-93.
• Elsayed MH, Hogan TP, Shaw PL, Castro AJ. Use of fetal cortical grafts in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats. Exp Neurol. 1996 Jan;137(1):127-41.
• Schulz MK, McNulty JA, Handa RJ, Hogan TP, Tillotson GL, Shaw PL, Zimmer J, Castro AJ. Fetal neocortical transplants grafted into neocortical lesion cavities made in newborn rats: an analysis of transplant integration with the host brain. Cell Transplant. 1995 Jan-Feb;4(1):123-32.
• McNulty JA, Fox LM, Shaw PL, Alones VE, Klausen BS, Swenson RS, Castro AJ. Pineal gland transplants into the cerebral hemisphere of newborn rats: a study of the blood brain barrier and innervation. J Neural Transplant Plast. 1991;2(2):113-24.
• Swenson RS, Shaw P, Alones V, Kozlowski G, Zimmer J, Castro AJ. Neocortical transplants grafted into the newborn rat brain demonstrate a blood-brain barrier to macromolecules. Neurosci Lett. 1989 May 22;100(1-3):35-9.

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• National Library of Medicine Individual Fellowship in Informationist Training:  Developing Skills in Research Bioinformatics.  July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009

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• Shaw P.  Protein tools for viral research.  Poster presentation.  Special Libraries Association annual conference.  Denver, CO. June 2007
• Shaw P, Flatow J, Lin S. g3p: the Google Gadget Gateway to PubMed.  Poster presentation.  Special Libraries Association annual conference. Seattle, WA.  June 2008.
• Shaw P, Shedlock J, Longnecker R.  The virology bioinformatics librarian:  A year in the life of an embedded NLM Informationist Fellow. Paper presentation.  Medical Library Association annual conference.  Honolulu, HI. May 2009.

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I regularly post to my Biosciences Blog with news and resources of interest to the biosciences and research community at Northwestern.  Blog posts have included topics such as:

• BioSystems resource from NCBI
• Gene Expression Atlas from EMBL-EBI
• Bitesize Bio's Molecular Biologist's Toolbar and Firefox Add-on recommendations
• Ingenuity IPA resources

Be sure to check it out often. Return to top

This page last updated Jul 31, 2009.