... post was contributed by Laura Desrochers, a postdoctoral scientist at AstraZeneca. Why I chose an industry...time working on something extremely risky or exploratory. Getting a job afterwards: Fairly or unfairly...an industry setting. Scientific community and mentorship: As an industry postdoc, you might find yourself...project’s or a team’s, it is possible that your mentor (and even their department) could be laid off while...Desrochers! Laura Desrochers is currently a Postdoctoral Scientist at AstraZeneca. She has a background...blog posts here Find 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience Read Joanne Kamen's 8 tactics for...

...My lab's vector of choice is AAV, with nearly every experiment requiring AAV. Before joining my lab, ... a heated stir plate to dissolve and requires monitoring so that the solution doesn’t get too hot because...approach gives me a bit of flexibility since I can store the cell lysates at -80 °C for up to 6 months before... completed in one long day, or the virus can be stored at 4 °C and buffer exchanged the next day. Refer...Production of recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors for in vitro and in vivo use. Current protocols...tool for gene expression in mammals Use the PEI calculator for planning AAV packaging transfections Find...

...Enhancers are cis regulatory DNA sequences that, when bound by transcription factors, can increase a gene...CAPTURE (CRISPR Affinity Purification in situ of Regulatory Elements) method. The original CAPTURE method...2020). CRISPR Affinity Purification in situ of Regulatory Elements: The original CAPTURE method The original... three components: dCas9 with an added biotin acceptor site BirA, a biotin ligase a gRNA(s) targeting...patterns in chromatin interactions. The chromatin story told by CAPTURE 2.0 is important, but it’s not the...

...localization, dynamics, and behavior of a POI. As an investigator, you want a fusion tag to be inert, to not produce...has gone into making FPs monomeric, yet many investigators remain ignorant of FP dimerization. Equally ... protein fusions Transmembrane proteins, i.e. receptors and transporters, are integrated into lipid bilayers...spiderweb-like pattern of tubules can be grossly distorted into dense stacked membranes termed Organized ...from Oregon Health Sciences University, did his postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz... His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum and live...

...available by both the Jacob Corn and Alex Schier laboratories. Delivering Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins  An...This technique utilizes Cas9 proteins harboring receptor ligands (C in the figure above), which result ... potential complications, there are additional factors to take into account with these types of experiments...and purification, which will require additional laboratory reagents, equipment, and expertise. Final thoughts...production of the Cas9 protein and a gRNA in your laboratory, once these have been acquired, genomic editing...Central PMCID: PMC4289409. 3. Rouet, Romain, et al. "Receptor-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Endonuclease ...

...small-molecule inhibitors of a particular PPI. In such experiments, small-molecule inhibitors are tested ...because FRET depends on a number of hard-to-achieve factors. For example, FRET requires that fusion proteins...signaling, integrin signaling, and transcription factor interactions (Kerppola, 2006). One of the first...between basic leucine zipper and Rel transcription factors (Hu et al., 2002). This would be more difficult...library to screen PPIs among 450 transcription factors in live fruit flies. Although BiFC open-reading...

...production is Komagataella phaffii (a.k.a  Pichia pastoris) because it secretes fewer of its own proteins...using a desalting column or an ultrafiltration concentrator. As the name suggests, you may also concentrate... to their parental hybridomas. Aggregation and storage Aggregation of antibodies may impact their quality...testing. An aliquot of our recombinant antibodies is stored at 37 °C for a period of two weeks. After this ...we are also cautious during the aliquoting and storage process to prevent dropped tubes. Now that your...Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau V. Small-scale bioreactor supports high density HEK293 cell perfusion culture...

... (NHEJ) and alternative end joining (alt-EJ). Inhibitors to essential components of both pathways have...events (Yang et al., Int J Mol Sci). Adding these inhibitors to your culture media prior to and after Cas9...introduction increases HDR, just make sure to remove the inhibitors within a day or two to not affect the viability... one step further, you can inhibit cell cycle regulatory proteins responsible for the transition out of...to fuse an HR protein to the nuclease. Early HR factors fused to Cas9 have been shown to increase HDR frequency...committing a break to performing HR before other factors were loaded onto the break, potentially shuttling...

...Our story today starts with a bit of Addgene history... As you may be aware, Melina Fan, her brother ...get Addgene from a concept to an up and running repository. As they built the foundation for what Addgene...previous years, this event was held at Executive Director Joanne Kamen’s home- a testament to the familial... confident that their teammates and project collaborators have completed their work thoroughly. It’s kind...Veckerelli is the Administrative and Operations Coordinator at Addgene. In addition to her operational responsibilities...

...bacterial world produce an assortment toxins to claim territory or kill competing microorganisms, but did you ...as a counterselectable marker in the destination vector. Successful cloning occurs when the ccdB gene is...unmarked genetic modifications in the yeast Pichia pastoris. By combining both positive and counter selection...induced by methanol. Once linearized, the delivery vector can be integrated into the genome to introduce .../sok toxin-antitoxin system, they were able to monitor lacZ activity over 48 hours in vitro without antibiotic...marker for unmarked genetic modification of Pichia pastoris." FEMS yeast research 9.4 (2009): 600-609. PubMed...