...the fusions had some negative effect on these parameters. IT5 and IT6 displayed good binding efficiency...epitopes for innocuous protein tagging." Nature methods (2015). PubMed PMID:26322837. 2. Stadler, Charlotte...protein localization in mammalian cells." Nature methods 10.4 (2013): 315-323. Pubmed PMID: 23435261. Resources...

...timelines Be a mentor in a formal program Start something (a journal, a science lunch club, a biotech club...division of labor Serve on a committee and do something big like plan a conference Recruit many supporters...departments want to be able to tell that you know about something and are passionate about it.   Maintain a content-useful...

...use our libraries to do things - sometimes drug screens and sometimes totally different experiments we...living animals, to explore pathways that confer metastatic potential or the ability to survive in certain...

... protein, PSmOrange. Nat Methods. 2011 Jul 31;8(9):771-7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1664. PubMed. Find plasmids...photostable photoconvertible fluorescent protein. Nat Methods. 2009 Feb 6(2):131-3.  PubMed. Find plasmids ...

...were pleasantly surprised by the efficiency of the method. One observation was an inverse relationship between...sites within a single gene using paired DSBs. This method allows for deletion screening by conventional PCR... and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods for CRISPR design, cloning, and delivery, as well...

...excitation of distinct neural populations. Nat Methods. 11(3):338-46. PMID 24509633 Lin, J. 2011. A User... comparative analysis of microbial opsins. Nat Methods. 9(2):159-72. PMID 22179551 Saunders A, Johnson...2016. Enhancing Channelrhodopsins: An Overview. Methods Mol Biol. 1408:141-65. PMID 26965121 Yizhar O, ...

...by its lower resolution. The combination of this method with superresolution microscopy may improve the... a concern. Another caveat of the study is the method’s sensitivity. The authors estimate that a minimum...organization. This fluorescent CRISPR/Cas9-based method is a great step forward in live cell imaging of...

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...about anything can disrupt your bench work and sometimes no culprit can be found…. In our lab we call this...the lab gnome. See this video where he/she/it/something is captured on camera: Unfortunately, unless...optimistically grasp at limitless potential, and who sometimes wish they could live differently than we do day...

...residues (or more). Histidine bonds with immobilized metal ions (Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, etc.), allowing His...His fusion proteins to be purified by single step metal affinity chromatography. Purification of His fusion...protein purification, just as affinity tags can sometimes be repurposed for visualization. However, due ...

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...selecting for the loss of a gene product - usually something toxic. This gene is found on the original plasmid...alleviates its toxic effect. Negative selection is sometimes called counterselection.  Toxin-antitoxin systems...levansucrase that converts sucrose into a toxic metabolite in gram-negative bacteria. Plating on sucrose...

...periodically beat their tails left and right in a symmetrical motion to move forward. This behavior is not ...Kolmer-Agduhr cells was sufficient to trigger the symmetrical tail movement unique to spontaneous slow forward... photostimulation in order to drive the full symmetrical response.  The function of Kolmer-Agduhr cells...

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...necessary going forward. The standardization of CRISPR methods was a common thread at the meeting. The new Somatic...Fund, emphasizes that we need more standardized methods for evaluating CRISPR technologies, including the...Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery The RNP delivery method consistently leads to high on-target editing and...

...transfected with three different vectors and flow cytometry is used to sort populations by mCherry and GFP... base-editing efficiency using XMAS-TREE-based methods at various genomic loci in four different categories...Cas13Y, two compact Cas13 proteins found in the metagenome datasets from hypersaline samples, were engineered...

...live audiences in your future.     3. Start something In almost every career talk I present, I’m asked...before others do”. Candidates who have “started something” which they can share on their resumes have a ...oreal USA For Women In Science If you have a method that you've been working on, let us know in the...

...Experimental design & methods: These questions are focused on injection and detection methods. For example, you...until performing the experiment? What detection methods did you use for expression of AAV cargo? Did you...