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  1. Finding and Joining Your Dream Lab

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    ...wondering “What is this PI looking for in a new researcher?,” “How do I convince the PI to choose me?” We...about awesome science. Important factors in the search for a lab Studies show that job satisfaction (especially...graduate student or postdoc. Although the chosen research field is important, the end goal during this time...tasks like a scientist. Of course, the specific research field should be interesting; however, this should...biotech, this is one case where the topic of your research can make your transition easier – choose a lab...Posts in this Blog Series: Advice for Choosing a Research Project 9 Tips to Achieve Success in Academia... search for a lab...
  2. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    ...mission is to Accelerate research and discovery by improving access to useful research materials and information...Can Use the Viral Service in Your Research Using Virus in Your Research - A Primer for Beginners Resources...lab from MIT and Alla Karpova’s lab from Janelia Research Campus have provided valuable insight into AAV...focus on assisting scientists and accelerating research and discovery, while also pushing us to challenge...Visit Our Viral Vector Pages Find Virus for Your Research ...
  3. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...remarkable technological advances have taken researchers to the threshold of a revolution in modern neuroscience... channelrhodopsins, the first two found in the Archaea, the third in green algae (Oesterhelt and Stoeckenius...In order to express opsins within the brain, researchers inject genetically modified viruses encoding ... functional topography of the neural circuit architecture of the brain regions associated with motivated...7030. PubMed PMID: 18614669. Belzung, Catherine, Marc Turiault, and Guy Griebel. "Optogenetics to study... in pigmentation." Biochemical and biophysical research communications 78.1 (1977): 237-243. PubMed PMID... Chris, and Kimberly R. Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications of optogenetics." Current...
  4. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...selecting which particular AAVs to use for your research. Below I’ll provide some tips that will help you...think about how to get started with AAVs. Since my research is rooted in the CNS, my focus will be mostly ...tolerated, then axonal transport is fine and a researcher should aim to inject a larger amount of vector...kB [9]).     4. The Future What new types of research may be enabled by the use of AAVs? 1) Combined...potential problem in many experiments, a group of researchers has identified this feature of AAVs as a new ... to study neural control. Surprisingly, little research has compared and contrasted optogenetic and chemogenetic... the most appropriate vehicle for this type of research, as they are safe to use in vivo. 3) The use ...
  5. Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration

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    ...materials, Sonali Roy, a postdoctoral researcher at the Noble Research Institute, co-instructed the ASPB ...organized a panel to discuss reproducibility issues in research. But he realized that it wasn’t enough to discuss... that running interactive workshops to train researchers on tools and best practices could be an actionable... practices being adopted by a wider group of researchers. Generating material to empower others to practice... the materials in one place and better serve researchers at all levels of the scientific community. Lessons...interactive workshops that train and provide researchers with tools and best practices could be an actionable...
  6. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    ...Gary McDowell, executive director of Future of Research. On December 1st 2016, many postdocs working more...reversing these decisions entirely. At Future of Research, we had been collecting data and documenting the...blogpost and more recently in a paper published in F1000Research on November 2016. Due to the nature of the postdoc...was granted nationwide. Again, we at Future of Research believe that, while the mandate has been removed...what their institution is doing from Future of Research over social media, not from their institution)... currently the Executive Director of Future of Research. He is interested in advocating for and with junior... him on Twitter @BiophysicalFrog and Future of Research @FORsymp.   Additional Resources on the Addgene...
  7. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ...by guest blogger Fredrik Wermeling, leader of a research group at the Centrum for Molecular Medicine (CMM... different gRNAs. It has been suggested that researchers should use ~400X more cells than gRNAs in a screen...are addressing a well-defined, hypothesis driven research question. Examples of custom CRISPR screens Differentially...analyses like RNAseq are getting lower and lower, the research community is generating a massive amount of descriptive...such data. These targeted screens can allow a researcher to test which of the differentially expressed...embedded. These were kindly donated by six different research constellations: Doench/Root (2), Zhang (3), Wu...screen! Final note I am very grateful to the researchers letting us use their reference libraries thereby...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...than cell cultures do, and tired researchers are accident-prone researchers. Note that safety policies will...have become a regular part of basic biological research as well as clinical therapy. These biological ...in non-target cells, including yourself as the researcher.   Figure 1: Separation of retroviral ... delivered, that is a higher risk cargo for a researcher to come into contact with than GFP. Similarly...need to be done in a biosafety cabinet. Many researchers choose to wear eye protection when they are working...likely to want to cut a few corners. For many researchers, viruses might be the most dangerous things they...
  9. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    ... involved in developing tools and solutions to research problems. This movement calls itself the Open ...and is part of a bigger movement in a variety of research sectors to provide open source technologies and...and spaces where interested parties can do research. This interest manifested itself in the creation of...collaboratively to solve, we want to focus our research on worm locomotion, but our worms are constantly...automated microscope  to keep our worms and our research goals in focus. Developing these skills relies...submit our new strains back to the CGC for other researchers to use. Although we haven’t yet made our final...University of Victoria. After a decade at Microsoft Research working on speech recognition, he returned to ...
  10. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies

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    ...show you how Drosophila can be used to push your research in new and exciting directions. Drosophila are...the fourth and Y chromosomes are miniscule, so researchers generally do not manipulate them. Essentially...accessible resource out there to help keep your research moving. Below, you’ll find some great introductory... resources. As you dive deeper into Drosophila research, you’ll find more resources that may be more tailored...look up information about your fly gene using the search box in the upper right hand corner. They have video...Drosophila reagents are generously shared among the research community. They maintain many fly stocks that ...stocks are available at Bloomington, but you can search for various fly reagents on the Bloomington website...
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