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...terminate transcription and polyadenylate the mRNA. These mRNAs are translated by cellular host machinery...gene start) and a transcription termination/polyadenylation signal sequence (gene end). A minigenome is...minigenome are transcribed (and the viral mRNAs are translated) by cellular machinery. NP encapsidates the negative...then recognizes the encapsidated minigenome as a template for replication and transcription, as it would... necessary control elements for each would be relatively large. Cloning the viral genes in this plasmid...-minigenome). The anti-minigenome is used as a template by the viral polymerase to synthesize additional...addition, the polymerase will use the minigenome as a template to transcribe the reporter gene (e.g. firefly ...

...location which can all be extrapolated from the 2D barcode and LIMS: Barcoded Tube Plate Freezer Rack Freezer... location within a plate that can hold up to 96 tubes (see image below). Each plate has numbers and letters... Each sample that is transformed is plated onto a petri dish plate that is also barcoded. The barcodes... to give coordinates, from A1 through H12. Each plate is also barcoded with a 10 digit barcode and then...rack that contains five levels that can hold five plates on each level. This rack is located in one of five...sample type. It is critical for us to know which plate, rack, and freezer each sample is located in. Otherwise...identifies the contents of each individual tube.  If a plate of samples is ever dropped, we can simply scan the...

...not hosted on the platform, they can be hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, and other platforms (such as university...economics, or maybe even biology or international relations.  Many of the challenges in science today are ...appealing to many audiences. While all of these platforms were developing, Google acquired Youtube and has...quickly. Taking what I loved from each of these platforms (such as social networking, visual appeal, instant... across multiple other sites), I created a new platform for sharing video abstracts about research: www.WeShareScience.org...www.WeShareScience.org. WeShareScience is a free platform for sharing short, 3 to 5 minute videos about ...university websites). WeShareScience is a social platform that provides links to the videos, keeping the copyright...

...to the template strand. Therefore, I suggest that picking a crRNA complementary to the template strand...bound by a protein of interest are pulled-down and later coupled to high-throughput sequencing to identify...optimized to achieve high knock-in efficiency. To calculate the tagging efficiency in the transfected cells...tagging experiments by assembling csRNPs in a 96-well plate format and tested parallel tag knock-in for 96 different...single go (Figure 3). We were able to tag >30 genes/plate in the first shot with typical knock-in efficiencies...knock-in experiment were pre-assembled in a 96-well plate. Glioma stem cells were transfected in 96-well format...device; 5 days after the transfection, the entire plate was scanned for V5 tagging using an Operetta imaging...

...for post-translational modification of recombinant protein products, specifically glycosylation. The native...eukaryotic model organism – its genome is easy to manipulate, it’s affordable, and it grows fast to boot. ...doubling time of ~ 2 hours) Amenable to genetic manipulation The first eukaryote (S. cerevisiae) to have...glucose or glycerol). K. phaffii is only distantly related to S. pombe and S. cerevisiae; evolutionarily it...native glycosylation machinery of K. phaffii lacks certain terminal mannose glycopeptides (which most ...in K. phaffii since it produces ‘human-like’ glycosylated proteins. Peroxisome studies Peroxisomes are...biogenesis, degradation, and proliferation. Genome manipulation K. phaffii’s genome has been sequenced for some...

...microscopy methods will be used to stimulate and manipulate neural populations in order to get new insights ...current research, Sheen aims to identify new genes related to PZA-resistance by using different approaches...understanding of PZA action and could potentially stimulate the development of useful diagnostic methods and...collection of pathogenic Klebsiella and Pseudomonas isolates causing urinary tract infections. This project...to create gene deletions of important unknown regulatory regions in Pseudomonas and Klebsiella spp. The... several diseases. Her goal is to identify and isolate pure plant compounds with antidiabetic properties...Recombinant human proteins that play a role in insulin regulation and diabetes will be expressed from plasmids ...

...of how miRNAs regulate their targets and what confers specificity in the miRNA regulatory process. This... the then RNAi Platform, which has since evolved into the Genetic Perturbation Platform and encompasses...Associate Director of the Genetic Perturbation Platform at the Broad Institute and has worked with many... up on a Saturday at like 7 am to go check your plates and you’re excited to do so, you know that that...you.” After recognizing his love for science and later realizing that he wanted to continue doing research...The model that the Broad was building that had Platforms with a capital ‘P’ focused on technology ... has...enjoys working on technology development under the Platform model at the Broad Institute because they are ...

...the recombinase handles the installation of the donor sequence. The latest work evolves and engineers ...D3L, releasing the autoinhibition and stimulating the methylation of nearby CpG sites on the target DNA...problematic for low-abundance targets or natively isolated complexes. To address these limitations, the Funabiki...Funabiki Lab developed a technique called Magnetic Isolation and Concentration (MagIC)-cryo-EM that combines...streptavidin-coated magnetic beads through an assembly of biotinylated SpyTag-SpyCatcher linkers and spacer proteins...in sample loss. Ci Ji Lim’s lab found that adding Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins, small proteins...particle orientation distribution and Fourier-shell correlation curve (D), and the reconstructed 3D map with ...

...receptors, or post-translational modifications on those proteins, like glycosylation patterns. Surface ...only be interested in one of the various cell populations; for example, CD8+ T (“T killer”) cells. Typically... simply “dump” them by gating on the negative population.     Figure 2: Dump gating labels all...allowing for a flow analysis to be shifted to a later day. Note that intracellular labeling must be performed...method, differences in proliferation between cell populations can be visualized, achieved through, for example...heterogenicity of proliferative behavior in a cell population can be seen as a stepwise decrease in signal ...easily gated on during the analysis. Conclusion Congratulations! You made it through this blog post and hopefully...

...detected using lateral flow strips. Since the probes are tagged with streptavidin, the lateral flow strip ...concept to lateral flow strips that contain streptavidin which can bind to the biotinylated targets. They...earlier epicenters of the outbreak ultimately flattening the curve, it has become evident that widespread...fluorescence and this approach can be incorporated into a lateral-flow readout slip that allows rapid detection.  ...substrate, gets activated and performs non-specific collateral cleavage. This cleavage is coupled to fluorescence.... In this technique, however, instead of using lateral flow strips to detect the cleavage of fluorescently...hours Equipment needed: PCR machines/Heat blocks, Lateral flow strips, Agarose gel equipment, Fluorescent...

...cleavage promotes collateral cleavage of other RNAs. As with other Cas13s, this collateral cleavage does ...These small, but mighty type VI-D enzymes are the latest tools in the transcriptome engineering toolbox....identified other advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins and high targeting efficiency, both ...accessory protein RspWYL1 increases both targeted and collateral RNA degradation by RspCas13d. RspWYL1 also increased...WYL domain-containing proteins may be broader regulators of Cas13d activity. This property makes WYL proteins...counterpart to anti-CRISPR proteins that negatively modulate the activity of Cas enzymes, some of which are...Konermann et al. compared CasRx to multiple RNA regulating methods: small hairpin RNA interference, dCas9...

...plasmid-based tools for rare disease research. Congratulations to the winners! Below, we highlight their research...patient-mutation bearing knock-in mouse model for CTD. Congratulations the Association for Creatine Deficiencies! ...identify therapeutic targets in the future. Congratulations Mark Mellett! Siddharth Prakash: X chromosome...50-100 times higher than women in the general population,” says Dr. Siddharth Prakash, an associate professor...The lab hypothesized that this is abnormally deregulated in TS and can lead to cardiac developmental defects...cause heart problems in TS,” says Prakash. Congratulations Siddharth Prakash! Terry Hébert: How GNB1 mutations...GPCRs) detect molecules outside of the cell and translate those signals into cellular responses. For example...

...of cells. The antibiotic in your plate might not work. Check the plates! Streak on them an E. coli  strain...help you at this stage and that can be used to simulate in silico cloning. This will definitely help in...enzymes that you are using are not blocked by methylation like XbaI, ClaI, etc. If you are doing multiple...Design primers that overlap at least 24 bp with the template and if the sequence has high GC or AT content,...if you are having difficulties in amplifying a template, particularly from a large genome, you can recheck...have no colonies, check that the antibiotic in the plate correspond to the antibiotic resistance marker present...growing fine, it is probably time to prepare new plates with a fresh stock of antibiotic. Many small colonies...

...Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards. Congratulations to the five winners! Abhi Aggarwal Brandán... a conference of their choice while honoring the late Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien who have played...thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides modulate protein activity and have important roles during...opioid use disorder. Her goal is to identify cell populations in the brain that contribute to the development...functional contribution to a variety of behaviors related to addiction and pain. Once these are completed...neurons using GCaMP7, measuring calcium signaling related fluorescence during morphine administration and...resulted in mechanical allodynia. With the dual regulation, she could then use pulses of blue light to activate...

... as law, medical/technical writing, clinical, regulatory, product development, business development, consulting...foreign workers in specialty occupations. US regulations define a "specialty occupation" as requiring ...paths are not the only place to develop “industry related skills”. Many career paths in academia as well ...look broadly at opportunities to develop skills related to their areas of interest. Additionally, since...institutions of higher education nonprofit entities related to or affiliated with institutions of higher education...applicant works at institutions of higher education, a related or affiliated nonprofit entity, or nonprofit research...awards, media reports, and membership in groups related to the foreign national’s field.” (Matter of Dhanasar...

... real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox...highlight four tools for finding journal articles related to your actual interests while also staying on ...around since 1996, but is getting an update! The latest version can be found here. The new PubMed will ...these types of accounts can help you find papers related to a particular topic or that were published by...tweet about papers too. You can follow journals related to your field of research or larger journals that...can bookmark a tweet in order to easily access it later. Pro tip Checking the number of retweets, likes,...who published the most papers with your keyword populated at the top of this filter. A unique feature of...

...wells plates onto agar q-trays where the samples must be spread much farther apart before plating. With..., we can prep two 96 well plates in just under 3 hours or one 96 well plate in about an hour. Automating...Beckman Coulter’s Biomek FXP. We had a previous relationship with Beckman Coulter and that certainly played...too much and dying.  Also, we added a couple of platforms that fit 48 well q- trays allowing us to do up...96 tips for easy sample transfer between 96 well plates. The second pod can pick up 8 tips and position... robot is called the Qiagen BIOROBOT Universal Platform and it suits our plasmid prepping needs perfectly...on a larger scale. Using the BIOROBOT Universal Platform is ideal because it eliminates the potential of...

...of an outbreak of the virus in Brazil that was correlated with greater rates of infection and rare, but...Zika virus is expected to expand into heavily populated regions of South, Central, and North America. .... The first was a new class of programmable riboregulators, called toehold switches, which allow for the... 2014). The second was an in vitro paper-based platform that allowed gene circuits to be deployed out ... had been working on advancing the paper-based platform toward a more field-ready format when the Zika...our manuscript to the journal Cell just six weeks later. The Zika publication timeline I think we can speak...we say the timeline to develop our paper-based platform into clinically relevant diagnostics for the Zika...

...in 16 wells of a 96-well plate, allowing 6 conditions to be screened per plate. The results indicated that...enzymes that seal breaks in DNA by joining 5 ́-phosphorylated DNA termini to 3 ́-OH DNA termini (1-4). In...interrogation of multiple potential SNP sites (15). The related LCR technique uses two sets of probes to achieve...the reaction. This “peeling back” of the 5 ́-phosphorylated base can be observed in the crystal structures... pools were prepared consisting of one target (template) strand and four upstream probes and four down-stream...strand covering all 16 possible NN pairs in the template. The probes were designed such that each possible...to screen additional ligases, conditions, and formulations and has led to the development of the new HiFi...

...genotyping, is critical to demonstrating causal relationships between genotype and assayed phenotype. Verifying...and T7E1 have been widely adopted due to their relative simplicity and low cost. The problem with these...editing events that occur in less that 5% of the population (Fu et al. 2013, Vouillot et al. 2015). Meanwhile...consuming and cannot be applied to heterogenous populations (Bell et al. 2014). Further, Sanger sequencing...Low-throughput, inappropriate for heterogenous populations, low sensitivity Targeted Amplicon Sequencing...list of putative off-target sites that they can later sequence for mutations. One method a researcher ... detection rates mean the investigator can be relatively certain that their samples don’t have off-target...