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  1. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    ...collaborations, and commitments to and proof of compliance with the grantor’s requirements as well as state...reports are submitted and project evaluations are completed. To enter and advance the profession, you can ...Professional Development Strategy to increase your competencies and skills in the grants profession. Your professional... and the candidate’s knowledge of the 8 core competencies through a multiple choice exam.  The bottom ...grant professionals and to build your skills and competencies. Becoming a grant professional is rewarding ...
  2. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...into a translated protein. As depicted in the accompanying cartoon, they have a multitude of uses including...TAP) once referred specifically to a combo tag comprised of a calmodulin binding peptide (CBP), a TEV cleavage...ProtA IgG-binding domains. TAP has since come to encompass several other tag combinations, though frequently...and Gly residues   This article is not a comprehensive guide to all tags, but rather a quick overview...Biotechnology Journal 2012 , (7): 620-634. Full Text A complete list of free handbooks for protein purification...
  3. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    ...necessarily mean that you are a future employee of the company. It does, however, offer you an opportunity to ...like to work, get online and take a look at the company or institution’s career page, where you’re likely...openings. A good approach is to do this first for companies at which you’ve already made a personal connection...result in a recruiter giving you a call. Many companies enlist the assistance of recruiters for identifying...development center, if one exists. Get online! Review company and institution career pages. Make yourself visible...
  4. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    ...fields in order to provide useful solutions to complex challenges. As a cross-disciplinary researcher,...Many of the challenges in science today are too complex for any single discipline to solve them on their... disciplines leading the way, the future of complementing published research with video overviews was ...may never access online journals or even use a computer.  Currently, two of the more popular biology videos...derived from research. The platform uses video to complement traditional print journals and expand our ability...
  5. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    ... research compiled in the ELN. Without such references the record of research is incomplete, making it...commercialization office, the CIO’s office, and research computing. The two guiding principles emerging from the ...the record of research captured in the ELN is incomplete. Thus, to support reproducibility an ELN should...select and deposit individual documents or more complex datasets into the desired repository. They also...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    ...brainstorm session is to start with something completely unrelated to the issue and consider how it could...unique solutions to the same problem. If your lab/company/team is still working towards a culture of encouraging...just as valuable! In 2019, Addgene implemented a company-wide New Ideas Survey. Anyone could fill out the...of which, when implemented, impacted the entire company. It is important to note that the person who submitted... is an incredibly innovative group. Our entire company benefits from their policy! Perfectionism When ...
  7. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...sgRNA targeting the genomic site of interest. We compared the pCas/pTargetF system with the updated pEcCas...system.   Advantages of the pEcCas/pEcgRNA system Compared with the original system, the pEcCas/pEcgRNA is...strategy for plasmid curing, providing users with a complete editing process. The MUCICAT system While the ...dehydrogenase expression that is 2.6 times higher when compared to the industrial strain. In our metabolic engineering... pQCascade) with 4 rounds of transformation to complete the N-acetylglucosamine strain library construction...
  8. Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

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    ...applying to the specific company or lab. Take some time to research the lab or company via their papers and...place to state why you’re applying to the job, company, and/or lab, and how you feel connected to their...apply for [title of the position] at [name of the company/organization]. I am a [adjective that describes... are interested in working for this lab and/or company. Remember to proofread your cover letter, and ...
  9. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    ...the ability to cleave the RNA target.  Table 1: Comparison on Common CRISPR Enzymes Name  Enzymatic Domains...Amplified nucleotides are combined with Cas 13a in complex with crRNA targeting the sequence of interest and...multiplexing; expressing 5 gRNAs simultaneously produces comparable gene knockdown to single gRNA expression. Although... cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they found that LwaCas13a ... Abudayyeh, Omar O., et al. "C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector...
  10. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    ...in the targeted brain region after stimulation compared to controls without Chr2. c-Fos is a reliable ... to proceed with your behavioral experiments. Comparison of c-fos amongst animals that receive different...Inhibition of neuronal activation is a little more complicated since basal neuronal activity in your brain region...writing. Derek is also a pianist and an aspiring composer. View his blog drsimonsaysscience.org or follow...applying optogenetic tools derived from direct comparative analysis of microbial opsins." Nature methods...
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