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  1. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...cause the least amount of immune response. Any investigator who is using an in vivo animal model should ...identified with AAV2 (5), AAV6 (6) and AAV5 at excitatory connections (3). These facts beg the question...by the use of AAVs? 1) Combined functional and anatomical mapping of circuits In our lab, we use AAV-DREADD...these complexes are so robustly expressed that anatomical assessments can be easily performed too. While...identified this feature of AAVs as a new tool for neuroanatomical tracing (11). With the ability to produce neuron... Floris G., et al. "A fourth generation of neuroanatomical tracing techniques: exploiting the offspring...

  2. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...Hendel et al. 2015). Low detection rates mean the investigator can be relatively certain that their samples...off-target mutations are essential data points for investigators looking to definitively link genotype and phenotype...viable options for multiplex sequencing in many laboratories. Nevertheless, unbiased detection isn’t as sensitive...genome-wide unbiased methods. However, most investigators use single cell clones for in vitro CRISPR experiments... Hough is a Biochemistry PhD candidate in the laboratory of Prof Steve Jackson at the Gurdon Institute...Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn to Use Cas9 Activators Perform Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Generate...

  3. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Making Scientific Graphics

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    ...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...medical images organized into four main categories: anatomy and the human body, cellular biology, medical specialities...

  4. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    ...CsChrimson::tdTomato, an optogenetic tool (CsChrimson) attached to a fluorescent indicator (tdTomato), as the...intermediate (d), and sparse (e) labeling of the calcium indicator, GCaMP6f, in the Drosophila optic lobe. Image ...dendrites of T5 neurons by placing the calcium indicator GCaMP6f in the effector position, as well as to...

  5. Fostering communication in remote collaborations

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    ...same page. Ideally, these meetings include all collaborators, from the lab members who are conducting the...interesting results or ask questions to your collaborators. This helps everyone feel included in the project...frequently the entire group will meet. You and your collaborators should then hold each other accountable to these...and circumstances permit, think about having collaborators spend time with each other in person. One possibility...workshops are another great place to meet up with collaborators. Being able to present data from multiple aspects...

  6. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...pAAV-Syn-FLEX-rc [Archon1-KGC-GFP-ER2] pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2 CAG-... also be used in conjunction with optogenetic activators and inhibitors that respond to blue light. We...fluorescent-tagged molecular tool.   Find pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato, pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry, pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2, CAG-NLS-GFP... pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry 59462  AAV2  pAAV-CAG-tdTomato (codon diversified) 37825  AAV8*, AAV9*  pAAV-CAG-GFP...Also coming in our new 20 ul trial size! Voltage indicators Plasmid Serotype Name 119036  AAV1  pAAV-hsyn-flex-Voltron-ST...

  7. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ..., the researchers did not have access to a P3 laboratory (BSL-3), a high-security facility needed to perform...  Figure 2: When a researcher needs a collaborator for a specific task, Crowdfight will: 1) Find...researchers, such as postdocs and principal investigators. They also come from many different scientific...website. Once curated by our in-house team of collaborators, the requests were forwarded to our volunteer...Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and one of the coordinators at Crowdfight. She is currently based in Spain...

  8. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...generation of human hepatocyte-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. Hepatology, 2010. 51(1): p....of these cell types [13]:  Germ cells [14] Hepatocytes [15] Pancreatic β-cells [16] Intestinal tissue... intermediate pluripotent state is not always obligatory in cell conversion processes [35]. Rather than...transdifferentiation. Multiple cell types such as fibroblasts, hepatocytes, and pancreatic exocrine cells have been successfully..., A.E., et al., Directed differentiation of hematopoietic precursors and functional osteoclasts from human...

  9. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 activators that work well enough on any gene that they could...which they call CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an engineered protein complex for...information from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like...Konermann recognized as an ideal spot to fuse the activators instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With ...repressing or inducing individual transcripts. The activator (CRISPRa) sgRNA library uses the sunCas9 system...

  10. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...human pluripotent stem cells: a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) kit consisting ...Cell Stem Cell paper, for example, we generated hepatocytes to examine the effect of a gene on cholesterol...Addgene: Tell me about the history. How had investigators done this kind of work before? Musunuru: In ...Unfortunately, it is time consuming and difficult for investigators without a lot of expertise to create zinc finger...and puts it in the hands of pretty much all investigators. Our kit makes it extremely simple to design...

  11. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ...Schmidt, a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Are you a science student or early career researcher...in education advocacy non-profits like Phipps Conservatory or the Brilliant Club and share your knowledge... photo competition. Or nominate yourself as an educator for a short, animated TED-Ed lesson. 6) Network... pros Where do you meet like-minded science communicators? Attend the annual flagship meetings of AAAS...bananas as a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. She is passionate about science communications...

  12. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    .... The first was a new class of programmable riboregulators, called toehold switches, which allow for the...allowed gene circuits to be deployed out of the laboratory in a cell-free and biosafe format that was stable...circuit-based sensors to be used outside of the laboratory. The detection threshold for these RNA sequences...the technology through product development, the regulatory process, and manufacturing so that we can get...., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4 (2014): 925-939...

  13. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...targeted tdTomato and pre-synaptic targeted synaptophysin tagged eGFP. AAV phSyn1(S)-FLEX-tdTomato-T2A-SypEGFP-WPRE...deployed around the world to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus...ready-to-use viral preps with more on the way. S5E2 regulatory element containing vectors developed in the Jordane...Flp-dependent DREADDs viral vectors. Both inhibitory and excitatory DREADDS from the Gether lab are now available...

  14. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ...specific genes. Many years ago, people in the laboratory became frustrated with using glass cloning rings...sterile truncated pipet tips. Indeed, an experienced operator can pick 48 clones from a 10 cm dish in 15- 20...YouTube video. Before returning the plate to the incubator, additional growth medium is added to about halfway...two 48-well plates of clones) which enables investigators to identify specific clones with desirable properties...Iris Lindberg is a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Maryland Medical School in...

  15. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ...is Head of Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an engineer ...the toolkit. We have included a wider range of terminators than are commonly used as we have tested them...system. The paper also gives quantitative data for regulatory elements, which has not been available for plants...easy to express genes in, which makes it a good laboratory workhorse. Tips & tricks Addgene: Do you have...start. They might want to use our promoters and terminators, but then they aren’t sure how to convert their...

  16. Cell Migration Consortium Plasmids

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    ...Cell Migration Consortium and Addgene. Member laboratories of the Cell Migration Consortium have deposited...for cell migration research at Addgene. CMC investigators who have deposited plasmids include: Joan Brugge...

  17. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...in a year-long biochemistry laboratory : Part II – research-based laboratory – a semester-long research...confidence in their research capabilities and laboratory and critical thinking skills (Knutson et al.,...improvisation and the latter making him a more effective motivator (“be like Tony Robbins!” he encourages faculty...research-based learning in a year-long biochemistry laboratory: Part I – guided inquiry – purification and characterization...

  18. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...upregulate an alternative pathway or induce other compensatory mechanisms. How can protein function be dissected...protein in Rosetta E. coli. New Lentiviral CRISPR activator and repressor plasmids from Scot Wolfe's lab. .... These include Tet-inducible CRISPR activators and repressor plasmids. (Kearns et al., Development. 2014...basic parts (promoters, UTRs, coding sequences, terminators, etc) into individual Level 0 plasmids, or choose...unit (Ex: a promoter, 5’UTR, coding region, and terminator). Next, up to six Level 1 modules can be similarly...in optimizing TALEN assembly and activity? The laboratory of Takashi Yamamoto has created a complete TALEN...of the gene of interest, C-terminal tag, plant terminator, and plant resistance cassette) in pUC19 based...

  19. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ... are successful base editors in rice, tomato, wheat, and potato. Target-AID and rAPOBEC based CBEs are... HDR methods for rice crop improvement in the laboratory of Yinong Yang at PSU.   References 1. Komor,...Zenpei, et al. "Targeted base editing in rice and tomato using a CRISPR-Cas9 cytidine deaminase fusion."...The CRISPR-Cas Revolution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2018). Additional resources on the Addgene blog...

  20. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...the cytoplasm. That is, unfortunately, some investigators realize too late that they have missed the impact...environment where it will localize [4]. Most investigators are surprised to learn that FPs are often poorly...overestimation of fusion protein activity. We encourage investigators to characterize FP-fusion proteins functionally...Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology. His interests include the...Medicine. Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Erik Lee Snapp and focused on optimizing fluorescent...
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