...out their own novel experiments in semester two (Knutson et al., 2010a,b).      Fig. 1: Undergraduates...capabilities and laboratory and critical thinking skills (Knutson et al., 2010a,b). Classroom-based research projects...before a CURE trainee goes on to win a Nobel!   Jason Pellettieri is Professor and Chair of the Biology...Einstein Discovers America. New York./  Callahan, K., Peterson, C., et al. 2022. External collaboration results...planarians. Developmental Biology. 457:119-127. Knutson, K., Smith, J., Wallert, M., Provost, J. 2010a....and Molecular Biology Education. 38(5):317-323. Knutson, K., Smith, J., Nichols, P., Wallert, M., Provost...Education. 38(5):324-329. Kowalski, J., Hoops, G., Johnson, J. 2016. Implementation of a collaborative series...

... is adapted from the 1979 Patterson Protocol. When published, the Patterson Protocol was shown to purify...DNA gel extraction method described in Kim and Morrison is nearly identical to that of commercially available...Purify DNA using glass filters. Image: Kim and Morrison, 2009. This method provides DNA yield and quality... kits for different purposes, with the Kim and Morrison method, you can just adjust the number of glass... protocol video library References Kim, Y., & Morrison, S.L. (2009). A Rapid and Economic In-House DNA...://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30316-w  Zou, Y., Mason, M.G., Wang, Y., Wee, E.J., Turni, C., Blackall,...

...troubleshooting as advised by the technical support person. This delayed the progress of the project. After...familiarize yourself with technical support. Even having personal experience with technical support through the ...general positive attitude, and an open-minded personality. These traits will help you deal with any incoming...and there are also differences in customers’ personalities and their expectations. If you are willing to...is essential for success. For possibly this same reason, it can be one of the more constant and safe corners...simple way even if you don’t exactly know why. Personal and professional development in technical support...support gives you the opportunity to develop interpersonal and communication skills. Problem solving and...

...therapeutic applications. piggyBac (PB) transposon: The PB transposon is a mobile genetic element that transposes...heterogeneous iPSC cell lines, which can complicate comparisons made between lines. Incomplete silencing of transgenes...heterogeneity between clones. This can complicate comparisons made between samples, i.e. transgene expression... into cells as a donor plasmid containing the transposon, along with a helper plasmid that expresses the... is that genomic alterations can occur at the transposon insertion site, so sequence-verification is required... pluripotent mouse stem cells by the piggyBac transposon." Nature Methods 6, no. 5 (2009): 363-69. PubMed...Central PMCID: 2677165. 3. Jia, Fangjun, Kitchener D. Wilson, Ning Sun, Deepak M. Gupta, Mei Huang, Zongjin ...

...multiplex (Thellwell, 2000). See Table 1 for a comparison of features of several commonly used chemistries...sixfold variation in expression levels reported (Biassoni, 2014), so you’ll want to ensure that your reference...genes - and it is well worth your time to do one (Biassoni, 2014). At the bench As a highly sensitive technique... See Table 2, (adapted from Wong, 2018) for a comparison of different analysis methods.   Method ...defined log-linear phase   Table 2: A comparison of different qPCR analysis methods. Table adapted... master. References and Resources  References Biassoni R; Raso A. (eds.), Quantitative Real-Time PCR:...doi.org/10.1016/j.bdq.2017.11.001.Bustin SA; Benes V; Garson JA; Hellemans J; Huggett J; Kubista M; Mueller ...

... of a two-part interview with Vini Mani and Amy Gilson from Science in the News (SITN) at Harvard University...half of our conversation with Vini Mani and Amy Gilson from SITN, we discuss some of the many things you.... Many thanks to our guests, Vini Mani and Amy Gilson. Vini Mani is a graduate student at Harvard University...You can follow Vini on twitter @vinidhra.     Amy Gilson recently received her PhD from Harvard University...SITN podcast team. You can follow Amy on twitter @aigilson.   Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer...Science Careers 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication ...

...arise as a result of existing professional (and personal) relationships. However, most job seekers will...pile, it may never even be reviewed regardless of personal connections to the hiring group.  Read here for... Concern” as you will not likely know the exact person monitoring submissions (usually a Human Resources...mutual connection. If the organization is small, any person at the company might be able to help you. If the...LinkedIn is one great way to find an appropriate liaison, but you can use alumni databases, friends, and...make a difference. Having your resume forwarded personally gives you a much better chance at an interview...

...competence procedures Threats to personal standing – including undermining personal integrity, destructive innuendo... analytic scientists seem to toss data-driven reasoning out the window when making decisions. We think...think scientists make choices based on logic and reason, but often our decisions are based on emotions and... these labs in the first place. This is another reason to do your research and choose wisely. From the...members fight it out PI intervenes if there are interpersonal conflicts PI has no idea who is dating whom ...choose a grad school or postdoc lab. Having a comparison can be very helpful in uncovering strengths and...

...University of Alberta studying with the Szymanski lab. Reasons to study how a phage recognizes its host Bacteriophages...molecules in molecular biology labs (for a review, see Simpson et al., 2015). Visit Addgene's MIcrobiology Pages...following is a description of a technique published by Simpson, Sacher, and Szymanski in January 2016 in Viruses... for physical shearing exist as well, such as sonication and needle shearing. Essentially, any method ...Callum J., Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei, and Anders S. Nilsson. "Adapting drug approval pathways for bacteriophage-based...27536293. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4971087. 3. Simpson, David J., Jessica C. Sacher, and Christine M. ...Chemical Reviews (2016). PubMed PMID: 27319741. 3. Simpson, David J., Jessica C. Sacher, and Christine M. ...

... James M. Wilson New serotype pENN.AAV.hSyn.Cre.WPRE.hGH AAV2 Recombinase James M. Wilson New serotype...James M. Wilson New serotype pENN.AAV.CamKII 0.4.Cre.SV40 AAVrg Recombinase James M. Wilson New serotype...FLEX-rev:: hM4D-2a-GFP AAV1 Chemogenetics Scott Sternson New viral prep pAAV-CaMKIIa-hM3D(Gq)-mCherry...resources!   This blog post was written by Rachel Leeson and Brian O'Neill.  More resources on the Addgene...

...PMC4246457. 4. Davidson CJ., et al. "Improving the limit of detection for Sanger sequencing: a comparison of methodologies...although this has been improved in some studies) (Davidson et al. 2012, Tsiatis et al. 2010). As the field... approaches can provide the researcher with a reasonable level of certainly that the effects they see ... PhD candidate in the laboratory of Prof Steve Jackson at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge...Vouillot, Léna, Aurore Thélie, and Nicolas Pollet. "Comparison of T7E1 and surveyor mismatch cleavage assays...PubMed Central. 5. Tsiatis, Athanasios C., et al. "Comparison of Sanger sequencing, pyrosequencing, and melting...

...Non-science favorites  The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson "The Mistborn series is the first 3 books of a...funny, bittersweet, and shocking at times."     - Jason Snair, Product Designer Sarum: The Novel of England...skeptical reader of historical fiction (I can personally attest to this!). Following history from the ...participated in a book club before, but I had a few reasons for launching this one. On a purely selfish level...contentious, discussions. I presented the first book, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist. The book ended up literally...Prejudice, and some more obscure treasures, like Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver. There have been books that ...

...such a resource when updates depend on a single person. With thousands of scientists routinely using and...Protein Property Visualization allows for visual comparison of FPs and how they relate to one another. .  ...you or your lab use frequently) for the sake of comparison or ease of retrieval.  These collection pages...of your choosing!), and they can be downloaded in JSON or CSV format to quickly retrieve all of the information...store and represent within-study photobleaching comparisons.  We very much appreciate feedback, so try out...plasmids Find plasmids for FRET Check out the Michael Davidson Fluorescent Protein Collection ...

...be a graduate student, postdoc, professor, etc. Reasons to pursue a visiting role The main motivation to...can’t obtain at your current institute. A common reason is hands-on training in a technique that only a...hard to find, or inaccessible to you for another reason. Visiting would allow you to train and acquire ...data you need on the new instrumentation. Bonus reasons Visiting gives you access to possible new collaborations... willing to host you! If there is someone you personally know or your lab collaborates with that can fulfill...work together to ensure your expectations are reasonable, your reagents are onsite before you need them...

...If cloning methods had personalities, SLIC (sequence- and ligation-independent cloning) would be a true...also be beneficial. SLIC is most often compared to Gibson assembly, a cloning method also based on homologous... recombination. The higher temperature at which Gibson assembly takes place may limit formation of secondary... of fragments. The major advantage of SLIC over Gibson assembly is cost, as T4 polymerase is much less...less expensive than the enzymes required for Gibson assembly. SLIC is a standardized method for multi-fragment... Addgene Ligation-Independent Cloning Protocol Gibson Assembly Blog Post Choosing a Molecular Cloning...

... Connelly JP, Pruett-Miller SM, Blanc V, Davidson NO, Madison BB (2017) A stable but reversible integrated...assaying CRISPR/Cas-stimulated HDR activity) The Madison lab created SRIRACCHA in 2017 to enrich and identify...Wen et al., 2018). SRIRACCHA uses the Piggybac transposon to stably integrate a reporter gene that contains...your cells.  A plasmid that contains Cas9. The Madison lab also created an inducible SRIRACCHA system ... experiment that targeted the gene NFE2L2, the Madison lab found that H2B-GFP expressing cells exhibited...

... think more favorably of scientists they know personally Scientists in your field will know about grants...Job hunting outside of academia is all driven by personal connections What can you do to get the most from...whose company they enjoy on a professional and personal level.  Here are some tips to get out of the rut...free places to order cards. There are a few good reasons to have a card but two of the best are: if you ...with a more general intro until you know if the person you are talking to is really in your direct area...attend. Meet some people online to follow up with in person. Email lab members that have moved on to see if...

... https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.6b00031. Iverson, Sonya V., et al. “CIDAR MoClo: Improved MoClo Assembly...proteins, then the CIDAR Kit is an excellent option (Iverson et al., 2016). CIDAR offers a one-pot reaction ...developers noticed that studies frequently made comparisons between CRISPR components expressed from different...nature of the Fragmid system allows for direct comparisons of CRISPR parts. The Fragmid system was used ...fungi, bacteria, protists, plants, and animals (Chiasson et al., 2019). Many plasmid elements such as promoters...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100519. Chiasson, David, et al. “A Unified Multi-Kingdom Golden...

...requests without a personal message and they may report you as spam or “I Don’t Know This Person.” If that happens...Contact info" link right below their photo. 2) Personalize all connection requests LinkedIn is a place to... to build relationships. If you don’t add a personal note, you waste an opportunity to start things out...Connect.” If you click this box, it will send an unpersonalized, generic invitation. Don’t try to connect from...have had success with this and as long as you personalize the invitation with your intention for connecting...

...CRISPR-Cas systems.   Four years later, the Sontheimer and Davidson labs discovered three anti-CRISPRs for ...Amrani N, Chen JS, Cofsky JC, Kranzusch PJ, Sontheimer EJ, Davidson AR, Maxwell KL, Doudna JA (2017) A Broad-Spectrum...Hidalgo-Reyes Y, Lee J, Edraki A, Shah M, Sontheimer EJ, Maxwell KL, Davidson AR (2016) Naturally Occurring Off-Switches...

...your next project. Gymnotiformes and Mormyridae (Jason Gallant) Weakly electric fish are excellent systems... 60 °C soils. Dendrobatidae (Lauren O’Connell)  Poison frogs are great for studying parenting strategies...generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird predators - birds eat a caterpillar ...of a pigmentation gene.   Genus Microtus (Zoe Donaldson) Voles have fascinating social behavior. For example...Claudio Mello) These very cute birds learn their songs like humans learn speech. Finches must learn early...system to rapidly identify recombinants. Arthropods (Jason Rasgon) This lab is developing tools for pan-arthropod...

... make sure to get that person’s contact information and again, make a personal connection! Even if you...does, however, offer you an opportunity to make a personal connection; the importance of which will be elaborated...first for companies at which you’ve already made a personal connection. That way, once you’ve identified an...email with the relevant info and they just might personally hand your credentials to HR, greatly increasing...information and establish a connection with that person before ever asking them for work. Addgene’s very...

...difficult to find solutions to. There are many reasons why client situations might be especially challenging...skills is a must to be successful in this field. Personally, I have greatly benefited from and appreciated...when their teams are facing a crunch, and using lessons from previous cases to better staff future teams...conflicting work styles, team situations, and personalities. Teams striving to achieve a lot of great output...coach and counsel employees on the different personality and work styles (e.g., Myers-Briggs). Staff are...teams, to leverage the preferences of different personality types, and to devise strategies to be prepared...

...BRET= Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer CRET= Chemiluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer    Interesting...now well-known FRET, aka Fluorescence (Förster) Resonance Energy Transfer, technique which allows the detection...have any cross-talk but you also don’t have any resonance transfer. You have to find a balance between FRET...downloads/modules/FRET_teaching_module.pdf Day RN, Davidson MW. Fluorescent proteins for FRET microscopy: ....201100098. Sekar RB, Periasamy A. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy imaging of live...

...the question of how much data was necessary and reasonable. PLOS has since clarified their data sharing ... in having exclusive access to data and enjoy reasonable time to make sense of it, with their decision...The real cost of making data accessible A more reasonable concern with the data policy was raised by researchers...how results were obtained and this alone is a reasonable motivation for increasing both data accessibility...published data. The importance of data sharing The reason this topic is important to my lab is three-fold... welcomed. However, expectations must also be reasonable, sensitive to the data type and made as facile...

...with Gibson assembly. While this is a comprehensive mutagenesis method, a drawback to using Gibson assembly...plasmids ready for deep mutational scanning.     3 reasons to be interested in deep mutational scanning Hundreds...rate of mutagenesis, and low throughput.       Gibson Assembly: An easy-to-use technique that joins homologous...especially single basepair deletions. Therefore, Gibson assembly is better suited for creating small, focused... PubMed PMID: 27723752.  4. Fowler, Douglas M., Jason J. Stephany, and Stanley Fields. “Measuring the ...

...2015b) under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Long et al., Nelson et al., and Tabebordbar et al. each chose to try.... used SpCas9 in conjunction with AAV9, whereas Nelson et al. and Tabebordbar et al. used the shorter ...not subject to nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment...persist long-term. In accordance with this result, Nelson et al. find that dystrophin restoration is maintained... E, Bhattacharyya S, Shelton JM, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Postnatal genome editing partially restores ...Dec 31. pii: aad5725. PubMed PMID: 26721683. 3. Nelson CE, Hakim CH, Ousterout DG, Thakore PI, Moreb EA...

...path. Because there is no demand for a favor, the person you ask will be more likely to say yes and more... Informational Interviews are best conducted in person. Perhaps you can offer to buy coffee or lunch at... your interviewee? It is always best to meet in person to develop relationships, but if it is not possible.... Keep in mind that this is a good time to ask personal questions about salary, opportunities for advancement...advancement, challenges and disappointments. These more personal questions can elicit the most valuable insights...

...secrets - during a collaboration, members of Maureen Hanson’s and Rima Menassa's labs made the accidental discovery...created a transgenic GFP-containing organism,” says Hanson, “using a gene encoding one of the unexpectedly...Sattarzadeh A, Saberianfar R, Zipfel WR, Menassa R, Hanson MR. Green to red photoconversion of GFP for protein... PubMed. McKinney SA, Murphy CS, Hazelwood KL, Davidson MW, Looger LL. A bright and photostable photoconvertible...from this publication at Addgene. Subach OM, Patterson GH, Ting LM, Wang Y, Condeelis JS, Verkhusha VV...

... should I try research? Personally, I have always been a pretty curious person. I like to ask questions...anyone else in the world knows it—to be the first person to make a discovery. I can’t tell anyone else what...place to begin. Here’s my advice: Reflect on your personal interests While it’s perfectly fine to be unsure... also makes for an experience more tailored to personal interests. Talk to people, ask questions, and ...First-Generation College Students. Social Psychological and Personality Science 11:647–657 . https://doi.org/10.1177/...

...DNA. Finally, in 1953, Franklin along with James Watson and Francis Crick resolved the DNA double helix...engineering itself is attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson who used it in his 1951 novel Dragon’s Island...movies. Rampage (2018), starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, calls out CRISPR as the genetic engineering experiment...Davis JR, Sousa AA, Koblan LW, Levy JM, Chen PJ, Wilson C, Newby GA, Raguram A, Liu DR (2019) Search-and-replace...Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR (2018) Publisher Correction: Programmable...:3870–3879 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkf495 Watson JD, Crick FHC (2003) Reprint: Molecular Structure...

...and Hoess, 1984; Van Duyne, 2001; Christenson Wick and Krook-Magnuson, 2018). Optogenetic FLEx vectors ...PubMed PMID: 11340053. Wick, Zoé Christenson, and Esther Krook-Magnuson. "Specificity, versatility, and...Nature 351.6326 (1991): 489. Hirsch, Matthew L., Sonya J. Wolf, and R. J. Samulski. "Delivering transgenic...PMCID: PMC5111696. Towne, Chris, and Kimberly R. Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications...

...technological change happens really fast,” Thompson says. To do this, Thompson reached out to MIT labs in the Synthetic... classification This inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science...query coverage) that could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a...Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes...

...proteins without changing excitation wavelength (Salomonnson et al. 2012). They can also be excited efficiently...emission intensities from fluorescent proteins (Salomonnson et al. 2012). Finally, it is worthwhile to test...18718768. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2569002. 3. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Macrophage and T cell dynamics during...18261937. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2390753. 4. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Intravital imaging reveals limited ...21527931. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4772972. 11. Salomonnson, Emma, et al. "Cell-based and in vivo spectral...Wolfgang Weninger. "Dendritic cell behaviour in vivo: lessons learned from intravital two-photon microscopy."...

...favourable ratings to the abstracts that affirmed their personal beliefs even though all three texts were otherwise...were exhibiting a phenomenon called “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little...little tricks our minds perform to avoid cognitive dissonance (Kunda, 1990). More specifically, they were engaging...sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to show that ...nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological bulletin, 108(3), 480. More resources...

...essential for the structure of paraspeckles. Clemson CM, Hutchinson JN, Sara SA, Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess...your favorite biological phenomenon, there’s a reasonable good chance that Addgene can help. Though it ...Fox Elaine Fuchs Kai Ge Robert Kingston Thoru Pederson Phil Sharp Julie Ahringer Alexander Stark Bas..., especially Karen Reddy (@theReddyLab), Thoru Pederson, Joanna Wysocka, Kerstin Bystricky, Ben Martin...

...effectively contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days...student engagement and joy, rather than a perfect lesson plan or outstanding test scores.  As a result, ...are provided with synthetic biology lab kits and lesson plans adapted from her own MIT curriculum. Drawing...investigate together. Teachers decide which BioBuilder lessons to teach, and how — some choose to run full semester-long...semester-long classes, some pick and choose a few lessons to include each year; others use BioBuilder as ...

..., and substitutions - at the same efficiency as Gibson Assembly and GeneArt cloning - but at a much lower...digested and ligated into an appropriate vector. Gibson Assembly, GeneArt Cloning, and SLIC can all be ...When REPLACR-mutagenesis goes head-to-head with Gibson assembly and GeneArt cloning, the results are favorable...hands!     REPLACR-Mutagenesis Megaprimer PCR Gibson Assembly GeneArt Cloning Types of Mutations Insertions...Made Competent Cells Required Yes No No No Comparison of REPLACR-mutagenesis with other common methods...

...Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to see their online personas. Some have online coaching tools that can be very...remotely (by phone, Skype or Google Hangout) but in-person coaching is nice if you can get it.  Because I ...this offers the option of matching with the best person in the group for your needs. Beth Schachter of ... Michelle Capes at Adeptify Me. While based in Madison, Wisconsin she also works remotely and has experience...support for issues of diversity in science.  A great person to contact is Twitter’s @DrQualls. Marquita Qualls...

...genetic tools. Mobile-CRISPRi from the labs of Jason Peters, Oren Rosenberg, and Carol Gross provides...Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system has two parts: a plasmid ...Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A Tn7 transposon containing the CRISPRi components and a plasmid...methods 2.6 (2005): 443. PubMed PMID: 15908923. Johnson, Christopher M., and Alan D. Grossman. "Integrative...4.2 (2019): 212. PubMed PMID: 30675034. Peters, Jason M., et al. "Enabling genetic analysis of diverse...

...As a person with many roles and responsibilities, I have to think a lot about how to balance those roles...your community’s schools, here are a few tips and lessons I’ve picked up from my recent experiences. STEM...history helped demonstrate that a) I was a real person who used to be a middle schooler himself and b)...back and trying again next year. There are many reasons why you might want to reach out to your school ...tumultuous time in scientific history. Whatever your reasons, let us know how it goes! Acknowledgements: I...

...Kostick, K., Torgerson, L., Muñoz, K. A., Hsu, R., Kalwani, L., Sierra-Mercado, D., Robinson, J. O., Outram... rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy, 25(5), 392–400. https...00981-0 Wright, J. F., Le, T., Prado, J., Bahr-Davidson, J., Smith, P. H., Zhen, Z., Sommer, J. M., Pierce... Jason Nasse...

... to put to rest a common misconception. I find personal bias often unintentionally plays a big role in...varied in how they prefer to consume information. Personally, I would much rather read the instructions than... accessible via web searches; likewise, most in-person events and venues will have a solid understanding...Primarily useful for data-focused stories. In-person lectures, presentations, etc… Low (except for ...  Rachel Leeson...

... Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...This post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...receptor function.     Follow them on Twitter @jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria.  References 1. Jones, Douglas...PMCID: PMC331480. 3. García-Nafría, Javier, Jake F. Watson, and Ingo H. Greger. "IVA cloning: a single-tube...

...libraries that do just that (Doench et al., 2016, Sanson et al., 2018). These libraries utilize optimized...additional transcription factors to the targeted region (Sanson et al., 2018) . This tracrRNA was combined with...selected per gene and divided into two sets, A and B. Sanson et al. demonstrated that the Calabrese library ... more hits than the SAM library approach in a comparison study screening for vemurafenib resistance in...: 25494202. PubMed Centra PMCID: MC4420636.  5. Sanson, Kendall R., et al. "Up, down, and out: next generation...

...service in 2016. We realized we could apply the lessons learned from our plasmid lab to develop a reliable...available. This prioritization happens for good reasons. We began offering our viral vector service because...our Viral Vectors 101 eBook and blog posts. The lessons learned from this process have shaped and supported...fnana.2019.00093 McDade, J. R., Waxmonsky, N. C., Swanson, L. E., & Fan, M. (2016). Practical Considerations... Rachel Leeson...

.... 4. Shaner, Nathan C., George H. Patterson, and Michael W. Davidson. "Advances in fluorescent protein... structure resembles images of the deity (see comparison image above). The church of the Flying Spaghetti...schools and was started in 2005 in Kansas by Bobby Henderson, a physics graduate from Oregon State University...New York. pp 719. 3.Rizzo, Mark A., Michael W. Davidson, and David W. Piston. "Fluorescent protein tracking...

...know your collaborators from other institutions personally on conference calls and make sure to maintain...collaborating with people outside my lab’s department, I personally felt that I had to overcome some hesitation to...the hard part: maintaining these relationships. Personally, I find this to be the most challenging and time-intensive...maintain a relationship - many of them involve personal meetings and common interest so naturally this...sharing. LinkedIn or ResearchGate allow you to send personal updates as messages and keep you up-to-date on...

...advice, open doors for you, and teach you valuable lessons along the way. We think it’s so important that ... technician, or a graduate student. This is the person you report or talk to on a daily basis who will...scared to ask for some! You can email or ask in-person “Are there any papers you think would be useful...these things will help you get more out of the in-person training component. Documenting during training...take on trainees one day when you are the senior personnel! Happy training! Resources Resources on the Addgene...

...CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson & Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional ...rescue the neurological defects of Rett syndrome (Tillotson et al., 2017). Advancing gene therapies for Rett...Supplement/S51.002.abstract Sinnamon JR, Kim SY, Fisk JR, Song Z, Nakai H, Jeng S, McWeeney SK, Mandel G (2020)... . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2017.04.006 Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J...398–401 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24058 Tillotson R, Bird A (2020) The Molecular Basis of MeCP2 ...