...needed. Traditional media formats are quite competitive while digital can be oversaturated. Transition from...activity using elephants than it is to design one demonstrating mitosis.   Consider also the amount and type...Visually compelling and flexible. Can be used to illustrate things that cannot be seen with the naked eye...Static. Often requires both artistic and scientific training. Cartoons may be read as “for children” or may...

...within a bin as Horizontal Transfer. This comes from horizontal gene transfer, which occurs when bacteria...bench scientist working at an institution where training opportunities weren’t always available. Even more...Singletons logo. Image: James et al., 2020. Help me stranger - Finding mentors for the meeting Just like analysis...people within similar fields (ASM Microbe has eight tracks), something we didn’t have enough people to do ...

...PRIME, PASTE relies on single-stranded nicks instead of the double-stranded breaks used in other insertion...target. In addition, when they looked at the transformed E. coli expressing Cas7-11, they found no evidence...worked with it, the more they found evidence contradicting their initial assumption. Eugene Koonin and ... of landing sites via Cas9-directed reverse transcriptases, followed bylanding site recognition and integration...

... school for microbiology, and I ended up going straight to law school. This was in the early 80s, and ...What is your day-to-day like? BN: I've made the transition now to being general counsel of a small start-up...to do, general corporate work, and negotiating contracts with other companies. It's one of those "every... you enjoy doing outside of work? BN: I love to travel and that's been difficult this past year and a ...

...Find the anti-CRISPR plasmids Tagging human transcription factors with GFP Kevin White’s lab recently ...deposited a set of CRISPR plasmids to tag human transcription factors with GFP. As part of the Encyclopedia...these donor plasmids will help researchers map transcription factor localization and binding via ChiP-seq...ChiP-seq. Learn more about ENCODE Find the transcription factor tagging plasmids If you have a new CRISPR...

...Novophage's successful transformation into Sample 6 and Dr. Koeris' own transition from graduate student... why? 24:41 - 29:00 : Dr. Koeris compares and contrasts being a graduate student with being an entrepreneur...37-36:53 : Was It difficult for Dr. Koeris to transition from developing therapeutics to developing a ...

... °C but preferentially nicks the non-target DNA strand. The lab then found gain-of-function mutations ...mutations that allows it to be repurposed for double strand breaks at target sites. Read the paper in Nature... of stable genomic integration and is easily transferred via conjugation.   Read the paper in Nature...plasmids CRISPR-based method for cell lineage tracing Valcyrie is a CRISPR-based marker excision method...

...many tables were set up with various science demonstrations, and students could walk around and ask scientists...to convince me to spend a Saturday in the tourist-trap nightmare that is Times Square. But I made the sacrifice...we talked.  That's a win. Mark Lucera is a PhD trained scientist at the University of Colorado, Anschutz...Jennifer Stancill I am a research biologist by training, so of course I felt compelled to participate ...name is Erin and I have spent the last 15 years training as an academic scientist. I’ve worked tirelessly...

...gRNA ribonucleoproteins for transient expression. They replaced the tetraloop of the sgRNA scaffold with...base editor variants using a protein-truncation strategy with reduced RNA-recognition capabilities.  Read...delivery by lentiviral capsid-based bionanoparticle Transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 in cells has advantages...

...vacation in August (for another part of my job, I travel around the country and set up meetings with PIs...CRISPR-based technique to generate C->T or G->A transitions in a target sequence in live cells. This technique...endonuclease (dCas9) fused to a deaminase to make the transitions at target sequences specified by gRNAs. Caveats...Epigenomics 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions Single Base Editing with CRISPR Cas9 Activators...

...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4353587. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn How the Clon Tracer Library...that confer resistance to drugs,” in a rapid, straightforward, and scalable manner, Wood said. Thankfully...Library Has Been Used in Cancer Lineage Tracing Read How CRISPR Can Be Used in Genome-Wide Screening Browse...

.... As our organization grew, we continued this tradition. We now have over 30 full-time employees, so we...baked goods and we have a few unique lunchtime traditions that might be fun to incorporate into your own...think these random lunches would be a wonderful tradition for university departments to establish, with ... my Addgene family every day. Do you have any traditions that you share with your labmates, be they food...

...figure). Most of the mutations were found to be “neutral,” having no significant effect on cell viability...drivers of tumor formation. Being able to parse out “neutral” passenger mutations from the “active” drivers ...(2018): 450-462. PubMed PMID: 29533785. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5926201.  Tsang, Yiu Huen, et al. "Functional...7 (2016): 10500. PubMed PMID: 26806015. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4737758. Additional resources on the ...

...not possible to elicit an immediate response or track the exact time of activation. Receptor activity ...turned off. In chemogenetics, while different concentrations of ligands can be injected, this is not as ... Mouse studies, however, require a permanent intracranial implant to be surgically installed to allow ...receptors Invasiveness Mice require permanent intracranial implant Noninvasive Controlling Stimulation...

...professional-grade design software, like Adobe Illustrator, and I didn’t want to pay for these programs ... Vectr is like a pared down version of Adobe Illustrator. There’s both a web and a desktop version of ...Inkscape Inkscape is the most similar to Adobe Illustrator out of the three options for drawing your own...20,000 icons is designed by professional medical illustrators with input from life scientists. It’s easy to...

... Being an SME is often like being a jack-of-all-trades. “As a subject matter expert in the educational...testing those experiments. “We also do videos demonstrating an experiment or a technique to students, like...departments at eScience Labs. This can involve traveling with the sales team to meet faculty and introducing...open up the box and there’s a gel electrophoresis tray in there. Or the dissection specimens.” And since...

...equals, because as soon as I had passed my training, I dove straight into my capstone project. A capstone project...well as complete the lab safety and cybersecurity training before stepping foot into the lab itself. I appreciated... had made a mistake by not having the right concentration of a reagent during our HiFi assembly but decided...

...conventional antibodies include:  Excellent tissue penetration, thanks to their small size of 12–15 kDa Ease...sdAbs were used to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation.  sdAbs in the clinic sdAbs have...also been some interesting work done developing transgenic mice that express camelid variable domains (aka...2021) Nanobodies from camelid mice and llamas neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nature 595:278–282. https...

... tested the ability of GeoCas9 RNPs to cleave substrate when the reaction was carried out at elevated ...Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9 or SpCas9 RNP’s and... in diluted human plasma for 8 hours at 37°C. Substrate was then added and enzyme activity measured. SpCas9...reaction buffer for 8 hours at either 37 °C or 4 °C. Substrate was then added and cleavage product analyzed on...

...course in the English department wouldn’t have trained me in the scientific aspects of writing. Following... discussed individual sections of a paper, the abstract, figures, introduction, etc. so as to thoroughly...manuscripts as well as being critiqued added an extra level of application not present in the online class...scientific manuscript is not prose; it is to be straight to the point. 3. Engage the reader Scientists ...