Resources
Campus Alberta Neuroscience (CAN) was developed to increase the connectedness, scope, scale, success and impact of neuroscience and mental health research, education and translation in Alberta. This page contains links to a number of modern Communication, Software, Hardware, Institutional Software, and Learning tools to support labs across the province. Please contact us to share additional resources that have been a benefit to your lab.
Communication
Communication resources for organizing projects, files, and teams.
Lab Management
Online Meetings
Online team meeting tools are especially useful for collaborative but geographically diverse projects– well worth mentioning in Alberta’s collaborative neuroscience environment. GoToMeeting and WebEx are considered enterprise-level standards, and excellent alternatives such as Join.me are available.
Online Meetings
Online team meeting tools are especially useful for collaborative but geographically diverse projects– well worth mentioning in Alberta’s collaborative neuroscience environment. GoToMeeting and WebEx are considered enterprise-level standards, and excellent alternatives such as Join.me are available.
Biomedical Illustration and Animation
Produce illustration and animation for medical professionals and the life sciences industry. These visuals illuminate complex concepts and ideas in science and medicine and bring them to life. Visual communication can effectively enhance training and education, and support or market innovative research or technology.
Software
Resources centered on improving lab apparatus.
Utility Apps
Ninite offers a fast, free way of quickly setting up and enhancing computing resources in the lab. Our set of recommended apps can be downloaded here (clicking the link will take you to our setup and start the download in a new tab)
Image & Document Prep
Adobe’s Creative Cloud software is the industry standard software for photo editing and PDF preparation. An academic discount is available. While free software such as Paint.NET and Acrobat PDF Reader are readily available, no comparable program offers the same level of utility and community support.
Writing & Presentations
Microsoft’s Home Use Program allows you to purchase a low-cost ($13) version of Microsoft Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other programs).
Hardware
Resources centered on improving lab apparatus.
Graphics Cards
NVidia offers a number of programs (including PhD Fellowships) to support academic computing. Their GPU grant program allows labs to acquire a high-end graphics card at no cost.
Institutional Software Licenses
Software licenses available online for students & academic staff.
University of Alberta OnTheHub
The UofA OnTheHub store includes products at a greatly reduced cost for academics- notably, Windows 10, SAS, Stata, MATLAB, and Reference Manager.
University of Calgary OnTheHub
(The University of Calgary OnTheHub Store includes software such as SPSS, Windows 10, Parallels, EndNote, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
University of Lethbridge OnTheHub
The University of Lethbridge Online Store includes software such as SPSS, Systat, EndNote, Parallels, and Adobe Cloud (free-of-charge).
Learning
Online learning resources
Lynda
Lynda is an online, subscription, video-based site for learning practical skills (e.g. learning how to use Office).
Coursera
Coursera is a platform offering diverse online courses from universities such as Johns Hopkins, MIT, and the University of Alberta.
Udacity
Udacity offers courses developing programming skills for real-world applications, including topics such as machine learning and data mining.