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  1. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ...microscopy are as follows: Detailed documentation, which facilitates the reproduction of the structure ...are constantly being developed which combine computational processing with biological protocols and revolutionary...creativity and feedback from the community to create state-of-the-art devices for research. There are a number...algorithms for analyzing time-lapse images, quantitatively evaluating antibody staining, or counting cells...Machine-learning denoising of raw data (CARE), segmentation of imaging data (ILASTIK), or the popular plugin-based...trying to overcome this hurdle by taking these limitations into account in the development process. Widely...assemblies open-source. The sharing of digital representations of the 3D models, which in many cases can be...
  2. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...and the canonical loxP sequence is ATAACTTCGTATA-GCATACAT-TATACGAAGTTAT. The loxP sequence does not occur...sequence. Among these are loxN (GtATACcT), lox2272 (GgATACtT), and lox511 (GtATACAT). These variant lox sites... The two loxP sites then align in a parallel orientation, allowing the four Cre proteins to form a tetramer...three general outcomes based on the location and orientation of the loxP sites: Inversion: If the loxP sites...are on the same DNA strand and are in opposite orientations, recombination results in an inversion and the... organ, or bypassing embryonic lethality. To facilitate the use of Cre-lox technology, transgenic mice... separate recombination events? One potential limitation of using loxP sites is the inability to tightly...
  3. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    ...offers an opportunity to summarize the limitations of current state of the art technologies. Therefore, .... Now is the time to make bold statements. While some of the statements may be slightly far reaching, ...build upon and address some, if not all, of the limitations of current methodologies. This section sets the... why your funded proposal will address these limitations and lead to new milestones in the field. Research...preliminary data suggests the feasibility of the statement, use it to confirm that your solution is the best... goal and the impact of the project are clearly stated and align with the description of the RFA and funding...italic, or underline font formats helps these statements stand out from the rest of the text. Specific...
  4. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...the following paths to maintaining a status in the United States including green cards that are well-tailored...looking to continue their careers in the United States. There has been a growing shift away from employers...with filing a permanent residence case with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). If...with working with US immigration in its current state. As of September 2017, USCIS received 116,224 employment...least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent and state licensure, if required to practice in that field...proposed endeavor will be beneficial to the United States For the purposes of evaluating an NIW, USCIS will...objective criteria including awards, media attention, citations to your work, downloads, commercialization of ...
  5. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    ...diseases. Spontaneous mutations are a major cause of rare diseases. Spontaneous mutations that change protein...biosynthetic pathway and have a wide range of clinical manifestations. PMM2-CDG is the most frequent CDG type characterized...deficient phosphomannomutase (PMM) activity due to mutations in the PMM2 gene. Videira’s group recently reviewed...27393411. Michael McMurray: Rescuing arginine mutations in rare disease with guanidine Michael McMurray...different Arg-mutant enzymes could be rescued by supplementation with guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl). Rescue...cells for testing in the lab will be greatly facilitated by CRISPR reagents and other specific gene sequences...suffering from rare diseases arising from Arg mutations. References: Baldwin, Enoch, et al. "Generation...
  6. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...preps Mapping antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 by mutational scanning By Seth Kasowitz As multiple antibody-based...coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus may acquire mutations to escape these therapeutics. Jesse Bloom’s lab... library encompassing all possible amino acid mutations of the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the viral...et al Cell., 2020. (B) Mapping antibody-escape mutations with the yeast display library. From Starr et ...antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the mutated spike protein and a barcode, and is designed so...The Bloom lab used the library to identify RBD mutations which do not interfere with ACE2 binding, but ...aaRSs. They found the antibodies were able to immunoprecipitate the entire complex in three different cell...
  7. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...careful balancing of the inherent advantages and limitations of any technique in the context of the biological...reactions that complicate the effectiveness and interpretation of RNAi. Fortunately, researchers studying ...inverted repeats separated by a loop region that facilitates the formation of a hairpin RNA structure, resulting...codons, and/or the phenomenon of transcriptional adaptation (Smits et al., 2019; Sztal and Stainier, 2020...active development, the first step necessarily dictates the direction and scope of the subsequent two....DNA-based vector or purified RNA) and the initial state of the dsRNA upon activating the RNAi machinery ... of long hairpin RNA (hpRNA). This method is facilitated by DNA constructs that enable insertion of ~400...
  8. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...provides a list of putative off-target sites that they can later sequence for mutations. One method a researcher...observed phenotype was caused by an off-target mutation and not an edit in the target gene. The validation... predict off-target effects of sgRNAs using computational methods. They identify possible off-target sites...certain that their samples don’t have off-target mutations if they remain undetected using these techniques...techniques. Frequencies of off-target mutations are essential data points for investigators looking to definitively...the most complete information profile regarding putative off-target sites including both the edit rate ...the whole story Figure 1: Schematic representations of the indicated unbiased genotyping options...
  9. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    .... Remember to insert your DNA in the correct orientation in the recipient plasmid by viewing the MCS and...Forward Primer will use the sequence 5'-ATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3' for the region that binds the ORF and...primer, making our Forward Primer 5'-GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3'. Many restriction enzymes do not cut...final Forward Primer sequence of 5'-TAAGCAGAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3'. For the Reverse Primer, the design...of the ORF, including the stop codon (5'-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGA-3'), then adding NotI (GCGGCCGC) and then.... This gives us a sequence of 5'-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGAGCGGCCGCTAAGCA-3' (30bp with 18bp of homology to...chose for our reverse primer (5’-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGAGCGGCCGCTAAGCA-3’) into this calculator we get a...
  10. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...conformational states: bent-closed, extended-closed, and extended-open. In the two closed states, integrins...its open state, activating the receptor. Ligands can bind to integrins in their closed states (A) and ... ligands with high affinity. This extended-open state is key to strengthening ligand binding, mediating...B) but with much lower affinity than their open states (C). Figure courtesy of IPI. IPI anti-integrin...directed to integrins that bind the Arginine-Glycine-Aspartate (RGD) amino acid sequence in their ligands. This... antibodies contain RGD-mimetic sequences that imitate this motif and compete with both small molecule...hybridoma-derived antibodies will also work in immunoprecipitation and immunohistochemistry. Table 1: IPI antibodies...
  11. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ... sentences) Simply stated, what are your aims? You could directly state your official aims, but ...sections, along with new thoughts on research statements. Snapp, who is always looking for ways to improve...questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to email me at [email protected]." You can...helpful. All went on to get faculty positions at top state colleges, private universities, and medical schools...get to the punch line is a terrible sales pitch. State in the first sentence or two what your research ...can understand your cover letter and research statement. My personal litmus test was whether my wife could...beginning of your chalk talk. These should be plainly stated. I would not recommend putting these into slide...
  12. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    ...your particular field of research.   Citations tools DOI Citation Formatter Just enter the DOI of a paper...generating citations for a few papers at a time. Mendeley Mendeley works much like other popular citation managers...phrases commonly used in research papers or dissertations. Phrases are categorized either based on the... systems.  Zotero  Zotero is also another free citation manager that lets you organize and cite papers...chart highlights the differences between these two citation managers. If you want more tips on finding and...podcast episode 2 "Essential Grad School Resources: Citation Managers, Programming, & Productivity": This podcast...podcast talks about Mendeley, Zotero, and other citation managers and productivity tools for grad school...
  13. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    ...their excitation and emission spectra, but a good rule of thumb is that both the peak excitation wavelengths...substantial overlap between the excitation and emission filters and the excitation and emission spectra of the...filter set but the excitation filter excites more of the peak of the TagRFP excitation and the emission ... requires multiple fluorescent proteins whose excitation and emission spectra differ sufficiently for ...microscope optics, you will want to compare the excitation and emission spectra of your protein with the...mCherry spectrum is shown in the lighter colors; excitation spectra are blue and emission spectra are red...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...et al., 2004). Mutations in the RBE site reduce binding with Rep proteins and mutations in the trs site...and C-C’ palindromic sequences determines the orientation of the ITR, which can either be “flip” or “flop...Figure 2: AAV2 wild type ITR in flip and flop orientation. The ITR contains three palindromic sequences...important for viral genome replication, these mutations can affect transduction efficiency and subsequent...are prone to replication errors and disruptive mutations and truncations that can make vector propagation...I maintain ITR integrity and prevent unwanted mutations?  During propagation, mutants rapidly replicate...result in a high percentage of plasmid DNA with mutated ITR sequences. Using recombinant-deficient bacterial...
  15. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...variants or mutations have been reported in people, we can use this kit to knock in those mutations. Once that's... you can either knock out a gene or knock in a mutation. Addgene: How do you use this kit to target a ...adipocytes or neurons, for instance – to see how those mutations influence the disease process. In the Cell Stem... large number of individuals and find several mutations in the same gene or in multiple genes, all of ...which seem to contribute to a particular disease state. You could use the kit to insert all of those variants...do an apples-to-apples comparison of all those mutations. If you make induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells...to compare those lines, they may all have the mutations but they will also have different genetic backgrounds...
  16. Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab

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    ...will spend the next 6 years. Know yourself I rotated in 3 labs before choosing a graduate school lab...but the labs were profoundly different. My first rotation was with a mid-sized lab with an experienced mentor...biting my tongue and gratefully moved on. My second rotation was in a big lab with a famous PI who I was only...collaborative learning style at all. Finally I rotated in a small lab with a new PI. I realized that as...well. What do they have to say about this lab’s reputation? If you are choosing a training lab, I strongly...strongly suggest you complete a work rotation in the lab if at all possible. If not, see if you can spend ...is workplace bullying? Threats to professional status – including belittling opinions, public professional...
  17. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    ...Creatine Deficiencies: Compensating for SLC6A8 mutations in Creatine Transporter Deficiency Creatine Transporter...There is no cure for CTD, which arises due to mutations in the SLC6A8 gene, also known as the creatine...barrier using creatine transporters. However, mutations in the transporter SLC6A8 impede this transport...thus informing potential for success in a patient-mutation bearing knock-in mouse model for CTD. Congratulations...euploid iPSCs. “The BeHEARD Addgene reagents will facilitate our aims to correct X chromosome gene dosage ...Congratulations Siddharth Prakash! Terry Hébert: How GNB1 mutations affect signaling pathways G protein-coupled receptors... work together on the cell membrane. Germline mutations in one of these parts, the GNB1 gene, which codes...
  18. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    ...cells with a membrane possess an electrical state. This state, known as the resting potential (Vmem), can... junction proteins cx43 GJB1 GJB2 Bioelectric states can alter cell types and patterning There is mounting... or cancerous it is (Levin et al., 2017). These states can even be necessary and sufficient for certain...visualize or perturb these slower-changing bioelectric states in living cells. Since bioelectrical signals are...indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to track bioelectric states (Matthew et al., 2018). These allow for not only...only recording but also modulating bioelectric states in vivo. For example, the Levin lab from Tufts University...domain of a Ciona intestinalis voltage sensor and a mutated version of the pHLuorin fluorescent protein. This...
  19. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    ...heterozygous mutations, it will clearly be much more challenging for homozygous mutations. Moreover, introducing...towards CRISPR germline editing of disease-causing mutations. But how close are we really, and what new questions...interested in correcting an autosomal dominant mutation in MYBPC3 that leads to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy...designed a repair template with two synonymous mutations to distinguish it from the wild-type allele, they...controls.) 27.6% of embryos carried indels at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through...title the paper “Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation..” rather than using term ‘editing.’ While repair...cardiomyopathy and other genetic disorders, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) screens embryos to find...
  20. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    ...strand via mutations N497A, R661A, Q695A, and Q926A (SpCas9-HF1 contains all four mutations). Although...Additional work revealed that mutations in the mobile Rec3 domain facilitate this stall. With this new found... authors went on to combine the best of these mutations and tested the combination mutants for their on-target...mutants are not toxic to HEK cells and that similar mutations can improve the specificity of Cas9 derived from...This means you can likely apply similar rational mutations to your Cas9 homolog of choice and get improved...Although the precise mutations were different than those found in eSpCas9, the effect on specificity was similar...therapeutic settings. Will combining the different mutations found in each of these great tools further enhance...
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