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  1. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...yourself. Instead of thinking “What’s my angle on attacking this problem?”, try thinking “Who can I assemble...researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering advice on areas where...type of team can exist indefinitely. If you’re looking for this type of team in academia, look no further...an imaging core or tissue culture core, you are looking at a process-oriented team serving a particular...you find that there is not someone (or someones) taking on these responsibilities on a team to which you...is certainly necessary, but equally important is making sure all team members understand what roles they... none of that matters. If you are on a team, any kind of team, and you have nagging doubts that someone...
  2. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Science Writing

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    ...of my job], so making it a success feels like a real accomplishment.” He started working on them shortly...not sure what his next step should be. He debated taking a position as an application support/sales representative... to me. She was leaving a writing position and looking for someone who might take over. I like writing... a science writer these days. I do some public speaking and a bit of video work for webinars (get tips...shortly after joining IDT when his boss was looking for someone to take over hosting them. Since then, webinars... writing group I am part of is responsible for checking the scientific accuracy of everything that goes...analysis.” Han’s biggest piece of advice for those looking to break into the field of science communications...
  3. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    ...recognize their MANY transferable skills learned while working in the lab and offering advice on areas where you...using creative problem-solving in the lab   Thinking Outside the Box: Individual Approaches Whether...something tangible and applicable to your situation.   Thinking Outside the Box: Team Approaches At some point...same problem. If your lab/company/team is still working towards a culture of encouraging dissent, the next...nine enemies that stand in the way of creative thinking. I won’t go through all nine here, but I’ll discuss...longest tenure, but don’t let that stop you from speaking up.  If your ideas are not well received, understand...work stalls. We become so fixated with the idea of making something the best it can be that it seems impossible...
  4. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    ...back out when you are looking to change positions in the future. Anyone looking for work in today’s job...researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering advice on areas where...student or postdoc forever, and you need to be thinking about what comes next. To that end, one of the...for your career is to expose yourself to other working professionals, and one way to do this is to attend...and connections are how you get jobs! Job fairs Speaking of jobs, it seems like an obviously important ...conference, job fairs bring you face-to-face with working professionals, with the added benefit that most...larger meetings offering resources for students seeking employment within industry or academia; although...
  5. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...cells. These cells produce inflammatory cytokines - interleukin (IL)-12 and interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and...help escape immuno-surveillance, and curb cytokine and chemokine production in the tumor microenvironment...their microenvironment by producing C-C motif chemokine 22 (CCL22) and TGFβ. T-regs are suppressive immune...tolerance beyond direct proximity to the tumor; chemokine-aided activation of APCs produces modified dendritic...cancer. Surgical removal causes increases in tumor cytokines like TGFβ and IL-6. However, when strengthened...pathway, VEGF production, and CTLA4 and CD protein blocking. Other molecular targets under research include...response. Antibodies targeting the tumor-augmenting cytokines produced in the tumor microenvironment TGFβ, IL...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...discovered that many of my old suitemates stopped talking to each other if I was not there to arbitrate for...lead to hurt feelings, low morale, poor decision making, and stalled projects. You want to identify and...experiments to address a reviewer’s concerns, you are making your hypothesis stronger. When you share data at...miscommunications in the future. Assumptions: Making incorrect assumptions can be a direct cause or ...or consequence of lapsed communication. Making some assumptions about how something should be communicated...know that a person or team should be involved in making a decision and you see no record of their input... an eye out for the phrase “I assumed they were taking care of that”, because that can indicate confusion...
  7. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ...addition, it’s really asking a lot of someone to be comfortable on camera while thinking about things like...Science Video Production Specialist, I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve our productions to deliver...we developed a great plan to start consistently knocking out high-quality videos for you all. The next ...products or methods, using metrics and feedback, taking a look at what works and what doesn’t, and trying...Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle adapted for video making.   Cycle One: The Ironing Board Control Center...Center With the pandemic in full swing and everyone working from home, how were we going to film anything? ... prove to be difficult. Shipping the gear, and walking everyone through the recording process was going...
  8. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    ...affinity for glutamate but slower kinetics; v857 has faster kinetics but lower affinity) and with a variety...with the end of year approaching. We’re always looking for something to brighten our day, whether it’s... Glutamate indicators with improved activation kinetics and localization for imaging synaptic transmission...microscopy. The resulting JEDI-2P has faster response kinetics and increased brightness, sensitivity, and photostability...pYtags illuminate RTK signaling Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a major class of signaling receptors...spatiotemporal measurements of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in living cells. bioRxiv 2022.08.13.503850... al. 2022). iGECInano displays better response kinetics and photochemical characteristics than previous...
  9. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    ...wise to start working on these skills. Neuroscientists use lots of cool tools While walking around the exhibition...discuss their VR helmets, gait tracking technologies, and brain monitors. Walking around the poster presentation...Neuroscience covers many subfields When I first began looking into the details of SfN17, I expected that almost... mathematical know-how for analysis. If you’re looking to get into neuroscience and you don’t have a background...neuroscience but are afraid you don’t have the right kind of biological expertise to get into the field, there...experiments. This helped reinforce our goals of making more AAVs and educational content to help researchers... suggest a plasmid to us, request that we start making the AAV, or help us produce new educational content...
  10. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    ...collision that’s taking place between CRISPR technology and synthetic biology, the tools he’s making available.... Addgene: Is this what you are working on now? Voigt: We are working on this now, we have ideas, but ...Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been “working on new experimental and theoretical methods to ...large as natural regulatory networks. Addgene: What kinds of things could we do as genetic circuits become... been putting together very large toolboxes and making them available. We’ll also be submitting parts ...objective is to give people the complete toolbox for taking on very large genetic engineering projects. Addgene...you want. The last few years, we’ve really been making tons of parts and characterizing the software to...
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