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  1. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    ...want to cover during the year. Suggest that each person bring 3 topics and write them on a board to see... and meet regularly no matter what, even if one person can’t make it. One of the biggest group mentoring...meetings. Experiment with the process. Have each person write a Development Plan. Set concrete goals with...
  2. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    ... on what makes them that way. Is there a senior person whose career path you are interested in following.... Finding potential mentors is one of the many reasons to always be growing your network. If you don’t...need for your current position Understand your interpersonal challenges if they know some of the people you...
  3. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...decades to generate knock-out mice, but for various reasons it is not nearly as efficient in human stem cells...genetic background and do an apples-to-apples comparison of all those mutations. If you make induced pluripotent...backgrounds. It becomes more of an apples-to-oranges comparison. Addgene: Can you compare the TALEN kit to CRISPR...
  4. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...comparable experimental results. Using PiggyBac transposons, the Woltjen Lab compared different variants ...reprogramming discrepancies. The polycistronic piggyBac transposon vectors tested in this work are available at ...tool for use as a donor in FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) and FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime...1kb fragments are produced (see figure above). 3 Reasons The PSU Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised...
  5. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ...ligase-mediated method, the more recently developed Gibson Assembly Cloning and Gateway® cloning technologies... toxic protein (CcdB) that acts as a DNA gyrase poison, locking up DNA gyrase with broken double stranded...killing by the F plasmid CcdB protein involves poisoning of DNA-topoisomerase II complexes.” J Mol Biol...
  6. To Each HIS Own

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    ...Abrahrnsen L, Oesterlof B, Josephson S, Oestling M, Enfors SO, Persson I, Nilsson B and Uhlen M. Large-scale...
  7. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    ...to non-scientists and may make your perfectly reasonable paragraph unintelligible to a lay audience. ...HR on the judging panel. It’s important for this person to get a clear and concise explanation as to why...Writing Professional Facilitate Career Planning and Personal Development with an IDP Get Tips on Keeping Up...
  8. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ...spike protein, called HexoPro, was developed by Jason McLellan’s lab. This version of the spike protein... Lee AG, Liu Y, Chou C-W, Byrne PO, Hjorth CK, Johnson NV, Ludes-Meyers J, Nguyen AW, Park J, Wang N, ...Seaman MS, Schmidt AG, Chen B, Neuberg D, Bajic G, Harrison SC, Wesemann DR (2021) Memory B cell repertoire...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...at chromosome 19q13.4 qtr. (AAVS1)). For these reasons, AAV is usually classified as a BSL-1 safety level...General viral handling safety   Containment and personal protection are key to lab safety and the same ...reduce the risk of an accident (the most common reason for lab accidents is not following safety protocols...
  10. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ... both NeuroMab and the Allen Brain Atlas. The comparison with two atlases enables us to see the reproducibility...literature suggest, providing an expectation and comparison on the antibody signal’s location. If a distinct... discuss the results together, explaining our reasoning to determine if the antibody is negative (poor...
  11. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ... of tea, and you are more of an audio or visual person. Why don’t you record a podcast or put some effort...yourself as an educator for a short, animated TED-Ed lesson. 6) Network – Mingle with pros Where do you meet...Communication. In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer science communication...
  12. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...PMID: 14723844. 3. Atasoy D, Aponte Y, Su HH, and Sternson SM. 2008. A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2593125. 4. Saunders A, Johnson CA, Sabatini BL. 2012. Novel recombinant adeno-...Wenbiao Chen Liquin Luo Massimo Scanziani Scott Sternson Roger Tsien Naoshige Uchida Ian Wickersham Hongkui...
  13. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...adolescence passed on a heritable trait to their grandsons that decreased their likelihood of death from ... Ong-Abdullah, Meilina, et al. "Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal .... 3. Kaati, Gunnar, Lars O. Bygren, and Soren Edvinsson. "Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined...
  14. Tips to Make the Most of a Scientific Conference

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    ...slightly if you know a bit more about the other person. If you have a poster or talk at the conference...there parts of your elevator pitch where the other person seemed confused, bored, or particularly excited...after. For one conference I went to, I made it a personal goal to ask one question each day (this may be...
  15. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...., Polali, S., Anderson, E. D., Bell, A. M., Tzouanas, C. N., Avants, B. W., & Robinson, J. T. (2019).....4124.  Kattnig, D. R., Evans, E. W., Déjean, V., Dodson, C. A., Wallace, M. I., Mackenzie, S. R., Timmel...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...recommend using a Tris-based lysis buffer and sonication.  The obtained virions from cells and supernatant....2020.120 Lock, M., Alvira, M. R., Chen, S.-J., & Wilson, J. M. (2014). Absolute determination of single-stranded...L. H., Xiao, R., Lock, M., Lin, J., Korn, M., & Wilson, J. M. (2010). Efficient serotype-dependent release...
  17. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...efficiency. Figure used with permission from the Mark Dawson lab Re-transformation of the SPLINTR Libraries ...recombined backbones that may replicate faster. For this reason, if your library has inserts of different sizes... Hannah Dotson...
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