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  1. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...one company, likely will need to move around every 3-6 years—a short and exciting ride Complicated matrix...students Collaborations may be less “complicated” - for example, easy to initiate a collaboration without...up the pace Constant worry about grants and renewals What is different about non-academia? Scientific...make a decision about something like this without sufficient data? Starting to learn about the diverse options...with scientists just like you What is different about academia? Publishing in peer reviewed journals ...without having to worry about proprietary information Work hours are long, but there is more flexibility with...paths to pursue. Spend some time really thinking about your motivations and what parts of being a scientist...
  2. Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab

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    ...and New Faculty" downloadable book. Skip to Chapter 3 for tips on how to develop your role as a lab leader...start their own academic research laboratory. How does one even go about starting a lab? Obviously, funding...always helps. But how does one build a strong collaborative research team motivated by similar visions and...booklet. What has been the most surprising thing about becoming a PI? Tom Ellis has a one word answer: ... has to deal with. My inbox currently stands at about 65,000 messages and dealing with email can be half...the first couple of hires to build a strong, collaborative team. And take advantage of the many resources...Medical School) for taking the time to speak with us about adding new scientists to their labs. Further Reading...
  3. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    ...ready for the live audiences in your future.     3. Start something In almost every career talk I present...mentoring group (see above). However, now that we are all so good with video calls, how about trying your hand...blog or podcast, initiated and maintained a collaborative project, served on the board of a professional...appointments with people all over the world. Think about contacting alumni of your lab or university or use...suggest you speak with. See this post that’s all about informational interviews, for more details on how...progress on both building relationships and thinking about future career options. 5. Write a grant - even if...
  4. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    ...and (3) development of tools for data analysis/visualization using R/Shiny. She is passionate about open...section-specific comments, I re-read what I wrote about the paper after my initial read, adjust my language...wish for The last thing that I wanted to mention about the peer-review, is that as a peer-reviewer, you...each peer-review, I try to mention what I liked about this paper and recognize the hard work that the ...review article Resources on Addgene.org Learn about depositing plasmids pre-publication Find molecular...
  5. Celebrate National Book Month with Addgene

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    ...Brandon Sanderson "The Mistborn series is the first 3 books of a larger epic of fantasy novels. Set in a...resources on the Addgene blog Learn about company culture at Addgene Read about other lunch activities at Addgene...scientists bring biases to research and don't collaborate with others to bring diverse perspectives. Everyone...Science is a terrifying and equally good wake up call about the science of race."     - Joanne Kamens, Executive...easy reads, some are hard. Some I’ll never think about again, some I loved so much I’ll force them on everyone...
  6. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ... of the Brunello library are also shown in Figure 3. I hope you’ll agree with me that they look very similar... and we thought it would be a good time to talk about the amplification and verification processes we ... DNA. These reactions should allow us to obtain about 100 to 1,000 bacterial colonies per individual plasmid...from the count_spacers.py file from Feng Zhang’s laboratory. There are a number of other analysis scripts...you have any tips, input, or stories of interest about library use, let us know in the comments! Additional...NGS Sequencing to Validate AAV Preps Learn More about Pooled CRISPR Libraries Resources on Addgene.org...
  7. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    ...page. Figure 7: Enter information about the gene/insert(s). Step 3: Cloning Information Please enter ... of 10 or more plasmids.       Figure 3: If submitting plasmid(s) online (left), choose to...
  8. Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...et al., 2014) (Addgene #104106 - #104108) (Figure 3) that can be introduced using in utero electroporation...Additional resources on the Addgene blog Read about Brainbow Learn about using AAVs for neuronal tracing Visit...page Additional resources on Addgene.org Learn about Addgene's viral service See our fluorescent protein...
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