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  1. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute

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    ... careers, which she hadn’t.  He then said, “How about being a science writer?” to which Susan replied,...replied, “What’s a science writer?” Learning about SciComm by doing SciComm Writing had always been a strength...the National Eye Institute (NEI), where she wrote about NEI research for a general audience. She then got...always plenty of writing: plain-language stories about Fred Hutch research, pieces for donors such as fundraising...articles are just harder to write. “There’s something about being a writer that can be a very painful process...using social media as a scientist here Learn more about storytelling in science ...
  2. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    ... the best way I’ve come up is this: It takes me about the same amount of time to read a 100-page genre...it instead as valuable feedback.  Listen. Think about the questions you’ve received, read the comments...aware of cognitive load changed the way I thought about engaging with learners. If something I was communicating... instead of blaming the audience, I would think about how I was presenting the information. Maybe I needed...observe and adjust on the fly.  Once you can think about everything you’re asking your learners to do, it... engagement with your target audience. Thinking about cognitive load will help you understand why you’...
  3. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    ... time, when someone speaks about an affinity reagent, they’re talking about a standard antibody: An ~150kD...mutation, allowing diabodies to be used for assembling protein nanostructures. Diabodies readily co-crystalize...for clinical applications, including imaging.  Diabodies are ~60 kDa proteins formed by two Fab fragments...2019). Structural diversity and flexibility of diabodies. Methods. 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.09.005 Muyldermans...
  4. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    ...differently based on their audience. How you talk about your experiments to your PI, your colleagues, or...have cross-team projects within your own lab, collaborations with other scientists within and outside your...not happen in the lab, they have parallels to collaborative lab work. Corralling context and junking jargon...difficult to know what kind of plate they were talking about during the meetings. And “plate” certainly wasn’... a lot on context. New people in the lab or collaborators will not have the context you do, which means... Additional resources on the Addgene blog Read about other transferable skills Find all of our science...
  5. Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?

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    ...Individual Development Plan Learn a Little about The Academic Labor Environment from the Future of Research...research.  It helps to spend some time thinking about what your goals are for the coaching relationship...ask for references and follow up with 3-4 to hear about those clients’ experiences. Good coaches will have...with someone you connect with. Talk to the coach about their “style” and make sure this is a style that...coaching group is Still Point Coaching. One nice thing about a group is that sometimes this offers the option...
  6. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    ... work into finding robots that’ll take a little labor off our hands. Good news! There is probably a machine...96 transformations in one run compared to doing about 50 transformations in the same amount of time by...machinery we have been able to transform 96 samples in about 4 hours with a greater than 95% success rate! Automating...plates in just under 3 hours or one 96 well plate in about an hour. Automating vial fiIling The majority of...35 minutes compared to a lab assisstant filling about 200 vials in 45 minutes by hand. How can you start...on each tube by hand. We’ll be sure to tell you about more lab updates as we develop them. In the meantime...
  7. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ...Sainsbury Laboratory. She is passionate about science communications and loves talking about science, ...Schmidt, a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Are you a science student or early career researcher...break into science communication? Everybody goes about this in their own way. The career paths into science...Society gives training in media skills, writing about your research and residential communication. If ...
  8. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...ask the depositing laboratory to review the discrepancies. If the depositing laboratory confirms that these...finish the library preparation process only takes about one day, even for six plates (576 individual plasmids... we perform a 2x251 run on our MiSeq that takes about two days to complete. After the run completes, we..." In some cases, there will be more information about our sequencing results in the Depositor Comments...to note the appropriate barcode for each sample. About 24 hours later we unload the FASTQ data from our...
  9. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    ...distance so ideal implant placement should be about 0.4-0.5mm above the site of your stimulation. The scatter...scatters a great deal once it enters tissue, placement above the site of stimulation guarantees that the majority...instead). Laser stimulation         In the video above, Channelrhodopsin 2 (Chr2) has been expressed in...These lasers are relatively cheap and will run you about $2-3,000/laser. However, an important caveat is ...output of the laser must be controlled. As discussed above, each opsin variant has slightly different activation...
  10. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...Control Protein Activity Learn more about protein tags Read about E. coli strains for protein expression..., if not better, than antibodies for all of the above listed molecular techniques, but they can also be...protein purification methods. Read on to learn more about nanobodies and how their structure and function ...between a fluorescent tag and the target antigen to about 2 nm, which can lead to higher resolution for super-resolution...nanobodies. If you’re interested, you can learn more about how nanobodies are identified in this review. If...
  11. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ... Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Plasmid cloning is an essential...with successful recombination reported in all laboratory E. coli strains tested so far. The use of this...low cost and can be immediately adopted by any laboratory. All procedures are performed using the same... Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...postdoctoral researcher in neurophysiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is currently investigating...García-Nafría is an investigator scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is interested in neuronal...
  12. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    ...early employees spent this remaining time by elaborately pranking each other, dressing in costume, and...frequently ask the question, “What’s your favorite part about working at Addgene?” Most Addgenies reply with an... confident that their teammates and project collaborators have completed their work thoroughly. It’s kind...rose-colored-glasses-esque picture of how everyone is kind and collaborative and all we do is have fun all day long, whistling...megaphone, or your company’s intranet. Don’t forget about the power of simple word of mouth - be sure to bring...company.        Additional Resources Read other posts about life at Addgene!Read more of our careers posts! ...
  13. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    ...on becoming grant writers. When we asked others about how they became grant professionals, mid- to late-career...late-career grant professionals have similar stories about a time when their passion for an organization or... logic models, established partnerships and collaborations, and commitments to and proof of compliance...grants. It is no surprise that the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that employment of grant writers... skills & passion  Skills such as research, collaboration across multiple disciplines, writing, project...development strategy builds on the steps listed above and formalizes your development. You may consider...
  14. We’re Going Viral This Week!

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    ...Learn more about AAVs Resources on the Addgene website Visit the AAV Data Hub Learn more about the viral...resources available from Addgene. There’s a lot to talk about! And by the way, there will be viral vector jokes...injection site, and incubation time. Learn more about the Data Hub in this blog post. Alongside our efforts...SfN2019, stop by booth #2163 to say hi and learn more about Addgene’s viral service. Additional resources on...
  15. Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist

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    ...disadvantages of this overall rewarding role. Learn about Other Addgenies and Their Careers in Our Career ...general experimental guidance, and resolve complaints about products. As you might expect, different companies...order to enhance the OD signals and then complain about high background. In many instances, variations ...protocol. And customers may tell all sorts of details about the application, just not the ones that matter. ...communication, and is particularly excited to hear about novel developments in the fields of gene and cellular...Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions Learn about Science Career Options Explore Tips for Technical...
  16. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...Learn All about Mammalian Vectors Read up on CRISPR Delivery Systems for Mammalian Cells Learn about the Dangers...Misidentified or cross-contaminated cells have been known about since 1966 when Stanley Gartler reported that most...there is a loss of reputation that can impede collaborations, especially with industry. Today we also have...The LGC Group also provides standards and has laboratories to carry our independent quality control for...culture contamination." Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 133.9 (2009): 1463-1467. PubMed PMID...
  17. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...fraction (<1%) of authors have asked for advice about the scope of the policy. End of story? Not quite...the data policy was raised by researchers worried about the effort to make the underlying data easily available...making data available, but there remains concern about the extra work this may entail.  So if access to...be archived? Simplifying data access Some of the above mentioned issues could be mitigated by on-line services...him on Twitter @jwoodgett.     More Discussions About Data Sharing: PLOS Data Sharing Policy Discussion...Scholarly Kitchen) Read more Addgene blog posts about scientific sharing ...
  18. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Promoter of the arabinose metabolic operon Inducible by arabinose and repressed catabolite repression in the ...Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Learn about Mammalian Vectors Read about Reporter Gene like Luciferase and...and operators (response elements). Promoters are about 100 to 1000 base pairs long and found upstream of...this list is a great place to start, the tables above do not delve into the tissue or development-specific...
  19. Introducing Addgene's Microbiology Pages

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    ...screenshot above). Don’t see your favorite organism listed? Help us serve you! Let us know about other organisms...useful plasmid that’s not in the collection? Tell us about it with our Suggest a Plasmid Form! Finally, if... if you would like to get the word out about a particular microorganism, microbial technique, or microbial...microbial technology, sign up to write about it on the Addgene blog. ...
  20. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...Baby KJ” was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous metabolic disease shortly after his birth. Within a seven-month...successful base editing intervention was created. Only about half of babies with KJ’s disorder survive long enough...effort was only possible because of a massive collaboration between research hospitals, universities, private...an astounding feat of public investment and collaborative scientific effort. As we like to say at Addgene...activity of adenine base editors The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its...in the lab. We’re so happy to be a part of a collaborative community focused on CRISPR research, and we...
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