BIOL 3764 - Careers in Microbiology: Find a Lab or Company

Some places you might start to find a company or non-profit organization that is investigating your microorganism and related process, and to find more information about a company that you identify include the same sources as above in 'Find a lab,' plus:

• Business research resources
  • ABI/Inform - *Key* Business Literature Database - trade, professional, and scholarly research
  • Business Source Complete
  • More business and company resources
• Patent searching
  • Google
  • USPTO
• Newspapers and Trade Journals
  • Access World News from Newsbank
  • More newspaper sources
  • Google News or other news sources

Some places you might start to find a lab that has published important work on your microorganism and related process include:

• Look at scholarly articles and research studies that you have found
  • Check the affiliation of the authors. Often the authors will be working together at a lab focused on related research, or one or more of them will have one or more projects in progress that may be described on their lab's website.
  • Check for funding sources noted in the article or as part of the article's record in a research database like PubMed or Web of Science - if the authors' research was funded by a particular grant or funding organization, that may lead you to a lab that you can include in this section (or possibly to a company or non-profit that you might use for the next section. Look at related funding / collaborating organizations or companies websites and search for the project that studied your microbe, or look at areas such as 'about us,' 'partners,' 'sponsors,' 'collaborators.'
• CRIS (Current Research Information System) (USDA)
• Use Google or another web search engine and search the name of your microbe along with words such as: research center, institute, laboratory, etc.