... to remove obstacles.” – Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist What makes a good manager? If that is all it ...is not the same as not being a bad manager (see cartoon above – what type of bad manager have you had?)...best managers have learned to get results with the carrot, and not the stick.     This is the first in a...

...ability to tell stories a similarly crucial skill for career advancement. Scientists do and should tell stories...can be learned, and will serve you well in your career. Story Telling at work Don’t believe me? Here’s...communication Find interviews scientists in SciComm careers Check out our series on transferable skills ...

...by Pediatrician Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon carried different mutations in a gene called SOX10. To ...technology to create cell lines and/or mouse models carrying different SOX10 mutations. More specifically, ...kids in Thailand will receive much better health care in the future based on our studies.” Thank you to...

...confidence to launch new and diverse careers by taking part in career panels, and volunteering for scientific... “The Salmon Leap for PhDs: Swimming upstream a career from academia to industry”. To date, aside from...

...our excellent service and accuracy involves caring and careful Addgenies, but also a lot of good tracking... Bryan Roth’s lab from the University of North Carolina, Connie Cepko’s lab from Harvard Medical School...

...Cas9-expressing lentiviruses will no longer be carried over to the gRNA lentiviruses. This means that ...from Bryan Roth’s lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. These can be used to investigate...pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry contains a double floxed human muscarinic receptor 4 (Gαi-coupled) DREADD fused to mCherry...

... it, virtually every milestone in a scientist's career is mediated by some kind of communication to another...communication will be a positive asset throughout your career? 1. Make scicomm practice a priority The good news...Additional resources on the Addgene Blog Learn about careers in science communication The strength of story ...

...can then build on this research and effectively carry out their mission of creating new forums and opportunities...were generated by large agricultural companies and carry associated intellectual property concerns – patents...to construct our color changing flower we are carefully making our way through the IP landscape, using...

...that my research will have a direct impact on healthcare and the community. As a result, I have occasionally...target and light-up bacteria unwanted in food, healthcare settings, etc. What project in the Collins ...co-founder of a biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from the bench and became all...

...makes them that way. Is there a senior person whose career path you are interested in following? Someone you...notify your network that you’re on the hunt for career advice. Your family and friends know you well and...groups will often have mentoring programs. The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association hosts an excellent...

...anyone who is planning or might need to plan for a career outside academia (that would be pretty much all...managers will think it is odd. For those planning a career in academia, it may not be required, but many academic...You can use LinkedIn before an interview, but be careful If you are lucky enough to have a schedule before...

...While the antibodies present throughout our bodies carry out plenty of roles just the way they are, the research...lysines, sulfhydryl groups from cysteines, or carbohydrates from glycosylation (Dennler, et al., 2015). ...bonds between antibody chains. 3) Endogenous carbohydrates added to antibodies post-translationally. 4)...

...confidential process among a few individuals.  Early-career researchers especially enjoy the ability to post...Puebla I (2022) A guide to preprinting for early-career researchers. Biol Open. https://doi.org/10.1242...Hensel Z (2019) On the value of preprints: An early career researcher perspective. PLoS Biol. https://doi....

...recombination scar encoding eight amino acids, but Golden Gate assembly can be designed to be scarless. Golden... in the final construct, allowing for precise, scarless cloning. The cloning scheme is as follows: the...

...ultimate goal to develop low cost and quick point-of-care diagnosis kits (reviewed in Tsang and LaManna, 2020...JC, Shon DJ, Fox DM, Puschnik AS, Bertozzi CR, Carette JE, Stanley SA, Harris E, Konermann S, Hsu PD (...Lelis FJN, Habibi S, Cai Y, Rennick LJ, Duprex WP, McCarthy KR, Lavine CL, Zuo T, Lin J, Zuiani A, Feldman...

...Conveniently, plasmids carrying genes for bacterial toxins like colicin typically also carry the necessary resistance...century! Nevertheless, the transfer of plasmids carrying these genes between bacteria can also have serious...

...advantage over Taqman is price point, which should be carefully balanced against the limitations of the assay....left, of droplet immersion technique, courtesy of CAR15.) Each droplet contains a primer and probe set for...Cloning Techniques References Bell AD, Usher CL, McCarroll SA. Analyzing Copy Number Variation with Droplet...

...which means it requires multiple Cas effectors to carry out genomic editing. Specifically, these types of... using a gRNA and can then recruit Cas3, which carries out the brunt of the mechanical work for editing...The reeling mechanism The reeling mechanism is carried out much like the name implies — after nicking,...

... Andrew and Maria were skeptical. The team was careful to test the possibility that this might just be...proteins that had shown magnetic responses: EGFP, mScarlet, and AsLOV2. After several rounds of semi-random...semi-random mutagenesis and screening, the EGFP and mScarlet variants were showing no obvious signs of improved...

...for viral genome sequencing (VGS). Why should you care about viral quality control? AAV vectors are produced... sequence. The resulting list of hits is then carefully reviewed. As mentioned earlier, it is common to...the contamination can be identified, and we will discard any AAV prep we suspect is contaminated. For AAV...

...figure at right for an example). Look out for carbohydrates Certain strains, including HB101 and derivatives...derivatives, release large amounts of carbohydrates that can inhibit the cell lysis process. To ensure that..., buffering agents, and/or supplying additional carbon sources such as glycerol or glucose (in moderation...

...Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic acids Nucleic acids...Microinjection Cells Many types Single cells Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic acids or protein... nondividing Dividing Dividing or nondividing Cargo Nucleic acids Nucleic acids Nucleic acids Throughput...

...spread even when costly. If even a single organism carrying a synthetic gene drive were to escape the laboratory...trust in scientists to develop new technologies with care and humility. Nothing would damage that trust more...aaa5945 (2015). doi:10.1126/science.aaa5945. PubMed. DiCarlo, J. E., Chavez, A., Dietz, S. L., Esvelt, K. M....

...high-throughput application is much more straightforward to carry out because it relies on a single BiFC pair. Find...Experiment Much like FRET, BiFC experiments must be carefully optimized to be successful. A BiFC experiment ...construction Fusing FP fragments to your PIPs requires careful selection of FP fragments and, preferably, some...

... settles in and people get the time recurrently carved out. This notice typically should include the paper...suited for different applications and should be carefully chosen for each group and topic. For example, ...purpose, journal clubs should be well planned and carefully organized. Most importantly, they should be regularly...

...micro, and cell biology are often more suited for cartoons or graphics for visuals. However, it’s much more...need text to properly contextualize. Graphics/cartoons (no words) Low Visually compelling and flexible...requires both artistic and scientific training. Cartoons may be read as “for children” or may need text...

...groups of trainees at an earlier point in their careers? A CURE for Biochemistry Undergraduate biochemistry... then proceed to use those skills to design and carry out their own novel experiments in semester two ...as they increase student interest in scientific career paths while also broadening access to experiences...

...bacterial CRISPR targeting. Phage-derived vectors carry CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) targeting either genomic (blue... integrating into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance...hardest-to-kill bacteria. In using phage-derived vectors to carry CRISPR, we’re turning the tables on the bacteria...

...generating interesting drug-like compounds especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease....disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird ...system (Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo)  delivers Cas9 RNP to the arthropod germline by...

...Cultures should only be passaged 20-30 times before discarding and thawing a fresh vial. In many labs, the history...Routinely test your cell line for mycoplasma and discard it if the culture has become overly confluent or...ensure high quality and reproducible results always care for your cell lines and virus properly and be consistent...

...’s which allow researchers to deliver oversized cargo (Hirsch et al., 2010). Today’s blog post will give... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064  Carvalho LS, Turunen HT, Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao...transduction following recombination between AAV vectors carrying parts of a larger gene. Nat Biotechnol 20:697–...

... a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying on so called “housekeeping proteins.” Fully...approach is so common that we’ve used it for our cartoon gels so far. However, it throws both assumptions...Convenient! Comparison of loading control approaches Cartoons are nice and all, but we’ll leave you with this...

...in vitro translation system. The gene set was carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking...conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein Expression... 48 plasmid adapter library, with each plasmid carrying a unique barcoded Illumina-M13F bridging primer...

...health sector, phages represent a reservoir of carbohydrate binding proteins waiting to be explored and ...spot this protein directly onto nitrocellulose and carry out the steps from blocking the membrane to probing...bacteriophage-encoded glycan binding proteins and carbohydrates." Current opinion in structural biology 34 (...

...latter would likely be more effective, so long as care is taken in the interpretation of results by requiring...use of CRISPR technology will always depend on careful experimental design, execution, and analysis. ... P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids ...

...Puschnik, A. S., Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette, J. E., & Vandenberghe, L. H. (2018). An Alternate... B., Fong, D. M., Mouravlev, A., Young, D., & O’Carroll, S. J. (2019). Astrocyte-selective AAV gene therapy....2014.00076 Nieuwenhuis, B., Haenzi, B., Hilton, S., Carnicer-Lombarte, A., Hobo, B., Verhaagen, J., & Fawcett...

...al., 2009), and at high copy numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to...0092-8674(84)90060-6. PMID: 6323019. Williams JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design... JA, Luke J, Langtry S, Anderson S, Hodgson CP, Carnes AE. Generic plasmid DNA production platform incorporating...

...population (Burger, C. 2004, Aschauer, DF. 2013, O’Carroll, SJ. 2021). This is due to differences in the ...Pillay S, Puschnik AS, Nagamine CM, Cheng F, Qiu J, Carette JE, Vandenberghe LH (2018) An Alternate Route for... 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00006 O’Carroll SJ, Cook WH, Young D (2021) AAV Targeting of Glial...

...lesser than the mean of a control group. If you only care if one group is different in a certain direction...rate by only performing the comparisons you really care about. Family-wise error is the probability of a...Groups with Ordinal Dependent Variables: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. Volume...

... compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must be taken to assess if proper staining is achieved... such as conjugation with proteins, should be carefully managed. Proper dye-to-protein ratios, or the ... and quenching, which can be mitigated through careful selection and optimization. Fluorescent experiment...

... interpreting your data therefore necessitates careful design of RNAi sequences, confirmation of RNA knockdown...doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48363 Uhlen, M., Bandrowski, A., Carr, S., Edwards, A., Ellenberg, J., Lundberg, E., Rimm...., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, J., Amrani, Y., Duffy, S. M., Bradding, P., &...

...Vectors Available at Addgene: Lab Plasmids Dan Carlson RCIscript-GoldyTALEN, pC-GoldyTALEN Tom Ellis...target cells. The piggybac system has a much larger cargo capacity than lentivirus and is capable of efficiently...there are some drawbacks with this technique. Great care needs to be taken with common S288c strains since...apicomplexan genes remain uncharacterized. Recent studies carried out by Sebastian Lourido and colleagues constitute...

...Listen to Our Segment on mCyRFP1 Hot Plasmid 4: mScarlet - a new, bright, and monmeric red fluorescent ...fluorescent protein.  Listen to Our Segment on mScarlet Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page...

...Codon Guide to Synthetic BiologyAuthor: Niko McCartyAntibodies 101: Conventional vs. Flow Spectrometry Author...Faculty Position Author: Erik Lee SnappSharing is Caring, But How to Distribute Open Hardware? Author: Benedict...

...Chew! Podcast breakdown Intro: Wei Leong Chew's career path and why he chose to go into genome engineering...Chapter 7/Outro: Advice for researchers pursuing careers in academia. Many thanks to our guest, Wei Leong...

...resources whenever possible.  Image credit: Niko McCarty; adapted from Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, ...reach out to me by email.  About the author Niko McCarty is the editor of Asimov Press and is designing ...

...Amsterdam Chapter 2 - Joachim’s Academic and career goals. Career advice for people going into academia: follow...

...about how to navigate through all stages of your career, whether you’re a graduate student, post-doctoral...   Caroline LaManna...

...re selected as a winner, you’ll receive a winter care package from Addgene.  Here are the details:   ...  Caroline LaManna...

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