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  1. When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells

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    ... non-physiological, and difficult to ignore [1, 2]. 2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several...Biol, 2003. 163(2): p. 257-69. PubMed PMID: 14581454. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2173526. 2. Zacharias, D.... nature are prone to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [3]....form dimers in a cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple logic outlined above, you might...organized smooth endoplasmic reticulum (OSER) whorls. 2)A dimerizing protein of interest fused to a dimerizing... designed to detect resulting in false positives [2, 4]. Solutions to the polymer problem There are some...Citrine) can be monomerized with an A206K mutation [2]. Addgene has many of these constructs and they are...
  2. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    ...Quotes taken directly from participants (summarized in 2) touched upon many problems in this area: “ [The] ...PMID: 24733905. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC4000813. 2. McDowell, Gary S., et al. "Shaping the Future of ...A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs." Elife 2 (2013): e01139. Pubmed PMID: 24137543. Pubmed Central...the Future of Research will be held from 22-24 October. This blog has been contributed by guest blogger...strong supporter of increasing the number of postdoctoral scientists at University of Maryland. Paula... can register here or live stream the event on October 22nd and 23rd here. Many thanks to our guest blogger...
  3. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...mechanism of action are presented in Figure 2. Figure 2: Single-stranded donor DNA interaction with...Nature biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 26789497.  2. Lin, Steven, et al. "Enhanced homology-directed human...contributed by guest blogger Chris Richardson, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab. CRISPR-Cas9 ... optional donor DNA. Chris Richardson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab investigating...
  4. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...the addition of Cre recombinase (Figure 2). Figure 2: A knockout targeting vector designed to... through an experiment designed to knock out exon 2 of a given gene.   Figure 1: A knockout targeting...For recombination to occur in a cell, a minimum of 2 kb of sequence homology is required, but 6 to 14 kb...construct to your target cells. After recombination, exon 2 of the targeted gene will be removed from the chromosome...the GFP/NeoR cassette is inserted in place of exon 2. Thus, the targeted gene is disrupted (knocked out...recombination event will remove NeoR only and leave exon 2 floxed, as seen in line 4 of Figure 4. Since the loxP... protein with GFP, as seen in blue flame plasmid OCT4-eGFP-PGK-Puro from the Jaenisch lab.   Figure...
  5. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5].  When using FPs containing two cysteine residues...compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane space of mitochondria and chloroplasts...PMID: 18228466. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC2875081. 2. Snapp, Erik Lee. "Fluorescent proteins: a cell biologist's...from Oregon Health Sciences University, did his postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz... from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Erik...subcellular environment. Currently, she is a SPIRE postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at...
  6. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85176  pBK-YE2-...quantum yield of 0.54) and mScarlet-H with M164H (2-fold improvement in photostability compared to mScarlet...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects associated...pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target activity...activity than BE3; editing window ~1-2 nt  87438  pET42b-HF-BE3  HF-Cas9 (NGG)  Very low off-target activity...Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised of 2 plasmids, pPSU1 and pPSU2, that can be amplified affordably...libraries The Gross Lab at UCSF recently deposited 2 Bacillus subtilis libraries with Addgene – the B. ...
  7. Alex Chavez on MD PhDs, CRISPR, Gene Drives, & More

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    ...Topic) 0:00 - 2:00 : Introduction to the podcast from producers Tyler Ford and Eddy Page. 2:00 - 3:55 : ...MD PhD process and explains why he loved the first 2 years of medical school. 7:05 - 10:55 : Alex's focus...Pathology at Masachusetts General Hospital and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Church and Collins labs at the...
  8. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    ...different steps and materials required for each [1, 2]. This protocol [3] provides, in exquisite detail,...stimulation         In the video above, Channelrhodopsin 2 (Chr2) has been expressed in the motor cortex of a...lasers are relatively cheap and will run you about $2-3,000/laser. However, an important caveat is that ... the light-gated cation channel, Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), exists in several states: closed/light receptive...PMID: 21628464; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3138296. 2. Sparta DR, et al. Construction of implantable optical...board, Jacqueline N Crawley  [et al]. 2012;Chapter 2:Unit2 16. doi: 10.1002/0471142301.ns0216s58. PubMed...University of Michigan and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Mary Jeanne Kreek at the...
  9. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...revert back to a pluripotent stage (iPSC formation) [2, 3]. The iPSCs then proliferate and redifferentiate... more common delivery methods include retrovirus [2], lentivirus [4], adenovirus [5], Sendai virus [6]...2006. 441(7097): p. 1061-7. PubMed PMID: 16810240. 2. Takahashi, K., et al., Induction of pluripotent stem... Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell, 2015. 17(2): p. 178-94. PubMed PMID: 26189426. 15. Si-Tayeb, ...induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Rev, 2015. 11(2): p. 242-53. PubMed PMID: 25578634. PubMed Central... to regeneration. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 2011. 12(2): p. 79-89. PubMed PMID: 21252997. 37. Merrell, A....involves overexpression of four reprogramming factors- OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and C-MYC - that induce a differentiated...
  10. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...phosphorylation events in the proteomes of higher mammals (2). How can we begin to understand the importance of... the open reading frame (ORF) of interest (Figure 2). 1. The phosphoserine OTS The backbone of the phosphoserine...optimized Sep-OTSλ and can recommend its use (6).  2. C321, a specialized bacterial host strain for pSer-incorporation...biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757. 2. Hornbeck, Peter V., et al. "PhosphoSitePlus, 2014...contributed by guest blogger Natalie Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research...blogger Natalie Niemi! Natalie Niemi, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research...
  11. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...post-doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University. She studies beta-cell function and failure in Type 2 Diabetes...scientists have 1) the courage to make mistakes and 2) the integrity to recognize these mistakes quickly...available to people who want to join the dialog and 2) remember that science should not be partisan: everyone...chair of the postdoctoral engagement committee and active member of the university's Postdoctoral Association...in the veracity of its work. Alina Chan is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School working...runs hand in hand with policy. Alexandra is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Michigan Department...continue the dialogue. Erin Golden is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz...
  12. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    ...that increase cancelled. Rounding out the remainder, 2% of postdocs who weren’t going to get a salary increase...with their plans, and 17 have cancelled their plans. 2 of those raising - the University of Illinois and ...of Information Act (FOIA) requests for their postdoctoral salary information as of December 1st. Salary...are an important step forward in helping the postdoctoral population continue to pursue academic work,...of the scientific enterprise by reducing the postdoctoral population which keeps growing despite a lack...
  13. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    ... go back and finish the review.  Peer-review step 2: Detailed assessment After this initial assessment...salt-induced changes in root-to-shoot ratio in Arabidopsis, (2) expression patterns in plants with enhanced sodium...post was contributed by Magdalena Julkowska, a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. From the... submission to the subsequent journal.  As a postdoctoral researcher studying plant development and abiotic...
  14. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    ...commonly used in optogenetics: 1) electrophysiology and 2) behavioral experiments. I’m not an electrophysiologist...choice in the brain region you wish to stimulate 2) Fabrication and implantation of the optical fiber...thoroughly elsewhere (here and here for instance) [2], [3]. Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University , one...reviews for a discussion of the different variants [1, 2, 4]. And, of course, the best way to learn about the...monitor expression at various time points (e.g. every 1-2 weeks over 8 weeks) in order to determine the optimal...(4):251-66. doi: 10.1038/nrn3171. PMID: 22430017. 2. Fenno L, et al. The development and application of...analysis of microbial opsins. Nature methods. 2012;9(2):159-72. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1808. PMID: 22179551; ...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ..., AAV2/8 has a type 2 ITR and a type 8 serotype. Almost all vectors contain type 2 ITRs, which comes from...differentiated, non-dividing cells.   Figure 2: DNA rescue and transduction of a conventional single-stranded...quantitative PCR-based method for the titration of AAV-2 vector stocks."Molecular Therapy 6.2 (2002): 272. ...Guerin and Susanna Stroik. Didem Goz Ayturk is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Connie Cepko’s Lab investigating neuronal...
  16. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    ...blood are reprogrammed immediately after collection [2]. PBMCs display unique epigenetic signatures that ...PMID: 27882265. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5118044. 2. Kim, Y., et al., The Generation of Human Induced ...pCXLE-hUL 27080 L-MYC and LIN28 pCXLE-hOCT3/4-shp53-F 27077 OCT3/4 and shRNA against p53 pCXWB-EBNA1... is the expression of the reprogramming factors- OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and C-MYC [1]. For the derivation...mixture of two vectors that encoded six factors - OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, C-MYC, LIN28 and SV40 large T antigen...Mukherjee. Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital with...
  17. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ...be decorated with proteins and remain functional, 2) break membranes outside of their natural context ...PubMed PMID: 3759909. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC213417. 2. Schrallhammer, M. et al. Tracing the role of R-bodies...contributed by guest blogger Jessica Polka, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Pamela Silver.  Most types...with their environment.   Jessica Polka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Pamela Silver in the department...
  18. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ...mammal called alpaca could neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But while the early results were promising,...receiving dozens of requests every day.    Figure 2: When a researcher needs a collaborator for a specific...Crowdfight will: 1) Find an expert with the right skill; 2) Confirm the expert’s suitability and availability...IgnacioAmigoH     María Hernández-Sánchez is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica...
  19. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...therapy had fallen - plummeted really -  from grace 2 years prior with the death of Jesse Gelsinger in an... the whole field to a grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later, is it finally back in the limelight...the other hand, have broad tropism in the eye. AAV-2, the first identified serotype and the one used in...reading 1. FDA approves gene therapy for blindness 2. Gene Therapy emerges from disgrace to be the next...amaurosis. This is the first of what I, scientists, doctors and patients hope are many more clinical successes...
  20. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...procedure to be performed using a simple two-step, 2 hr protocol prior to transformation (Figure 1). As...Primer design Using specific primer design (Figure 2), IVA cloning can be used to perform any plasmid modification... for each type of modification is shown in Figure 2, and is discussed in more detail below. The main requirement...Biotechniques 10.1 (1991): 62-66. PubMed PMID: 2003926. 2. Bubeck, Peter, Monica Winkler, and Wilfried Bautsch...Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral researcher in neurophysiology at the MRC Laboratory...
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