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  1. Finding and Joining Your Dream Lab

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    ...science trainee will spend 4-7 years working for one person and with a group who all strive for a common big-picture...rotation, which reveals their working habits, personality, and gives them the opportunity to see if the...extreme openness” of the lab (i.e projects like the Personal Genome Project and open source software, hardware...
  2. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...comparable experimental results. Using PiggyBac transposons, the Woltjen Lab compared different variants ...reprogramming discrepancies. The polycistronic piggyBac transposon vectors tested in this work are available at ...tool for use as a donor in FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) and FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime...1kb fragments are produced (see figure above). 3 Reasons The PSU Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    ... (fluorescent and luminescent) worlds Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is the transfer of energy...which then emits it as light. Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) works the same way, except...tips below! This post was originally written by Jason Niehaus in June 2014 and was updated by Emily P....
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ... proto-oncogenes and disrupt their expression (Robinson, 1982). To add insult to injury, retroviruses ...immunogenicity low! References and Resources References Robinson HL. Retroviruses and cancer. Rev Infect Dis. 1982...Gene and Cell-Based Therapies in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI...
  5. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    ...error rate for long sequence knock-ins by: Lucie Wilson Le Cong’s lab has developed a method using dCas9...error rates overall ranged from 0.3% to 10%, in comparison to the 62-90% error rate seen with Cas9 editors...barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing by: Rachel Leeson Multiplexed images in live cells remains a challenge...
  6. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... variations in DR sequences. Figure 2: comparison of Cas 9 vs. Cas 12a expression cassettes when...0600-6. The Penn State Protein Ladder  by: Rachel Leeson This simple, inexpensive plasmid-based ladder system...mammalian genome regulation and editing by: Rachel Leeson The large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion...
  7. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B, Aldred SF, ...JoVE. https://doi.org/10.3791/54832  Lipman NS, Jackson LR, Trudel LJ, Weis-Garcia F (2005) Monoclonal ...
  8. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ... Cpf1 for multiplex genome editing.  For a few reasons, Cpf1 is a simplified system for editing multiple...guide page for a review of Cas9.  For a brief comparison of Cpf1 vs. Cas9, see the table below. Table...expression vector.  See the graph in figure 2 for a comparison of editing frequency resulting from transfection...
  9. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ... the genome. Mendenhall and Richard Myers of HudsonAlpha (where Mendenhall is also an adjunct faculty ...the function of the protein. Myers: We’ve done comparisons of our new system versus standard ChIP-seq for... for transcription factors, but there are many reasons you might want a system like this. It’s actually...
  10. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ... Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, Brunet E...P, Burkhalter MD, Oh S, Qaqish BF, Moore DT, Hendrickson EA, Ramsden DA (2014) The fidelity of the ligation...
  11. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    ...want to cover during the year. Suggest that each person bring 3 topics and write them on a board to see... and meet regularly no matter what, even if one person can’t make it. One of the biggest group mentoring...meetings. Experiment with the process. Have each person write a Development Plan. Set concrete goals with...
  12. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    ... on what makes them that way. Is there a senior person whose career path you are interested in following.... Finding potential mentors is one of the many reasons to always be growing your network. If you don’t...need for your current position Understand your interpersonal challenges if they know some of the people you...
  13. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...decades to generate knock-out mice, but for various reasons it is not nearly as efficient in human stem cells...genetic background and do an apples-to-apples comparison of all those mutations. If you make induced pluripotent...backgrounds. It becomes more of an apples-to-oranges comparison. Addgene: Can you compare the TALEN kit to CRISPR...
  14. To Each HIS Own

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    ...Abrahrnsen L, Oesterlof B, Josephson S, Oestling M, Enfors SO, Persson I, Nilsson B and Uhlen M. Large-scale...
  15. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ...ligase-mediated method, the more recently developed Gibson Assembly Cloning and Gateway® cloning technologies... toxic protein (CcdB) that acts as a DNA gyrase poison, locking up DNA gyrase with broken double stranded...killing by the F plasmid CcdB protein involves poisoning of DNA-topoisomerase II complexes.” J Mol Biol...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...at chromosome 19q13.4 qtr. (AAVS1)). For these reasons, AAV is usually classified as a BSL-1 safety level...General viral handling safety   Containment and personal protection are key to lab safety and the same ...reduce the risk of an accident (the most common reason for lab accidents is not following safety protocols...
  17. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ... both NeuroMab and the Allen Brain Atlas. The comparison with two atlases enables us to see the reproducibility...literature suggest, providing an expectation and comparison on the antibody signal’s location. If a distinct... discuss the results together, explaining our reasoning to determine if the antibody is negative (poor...
  18. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ...spike protein, called HexoPro, was developed by Jason McLellan’s lab. This version of the spike protein... Lee AG, Liu Y, Chou C-W, Byrne PO, Hjorth CK, Johnson NV, Ludes-Meyers J, Nguyen AW, Park J, Wang N, ...Seaman MS, Schmidt AG, Chen B, Neuberg D, Bajic G, Harrison SC, Wesemann DR (2021) Memory B cell repertoire...
  19. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ... of tea, and you are more of an audio or visual person. Why don’t you record a podcast or put some effort...yourself as an educator for a short, animated TED-Ed lesson. 6) Network – Mingle with pros Where do you meet...Communication. In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer science communication...
  20. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    ...to non-scientists and may make your perfectly reasonable paragraph unintelligible to a lay audience. ...HR on the judging panel. It’s important for this person to get a clear and concise explanation as to why...Writing Professional Facilitate Career Planning and Personal Development with an IDP Get Tips on Keeping Up...
  21. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...PMID: 14723844. 3. Atasoy D, Aponte Y, Su HH, and Sternson SM. 2008. A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2593125. 4. Saunders A, Johnson CA, Sabatini BL. 2012. Novel recombinant adeno-...Wenbiao Chen Liquin Luo Massimo Scanziani Scott Sternson Roger Tsien Naoshige Uchida Ian Wickersham Hongkui...
  22. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...adolescence passed on a heritable trait to their grandsons that decreased their likelihood of death from ... Ong-Abdullah, Meilina, et al. "Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal .... 3. Kaati, Gunnar, Lars O. Bygren, and Soren Edvinsson. "Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined...
  23. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...., Polali, S., Anderson, E. D., Bell, A. M., Tzouanas, C. N., Avants, B. W., & Robinson, J. T. (2019).....4124.  Kattnig, D. R., Evans, E. W., Déjean, V., Dodson, C. A., Wallace, M. I., Mackenzie, S. R., Timmel...
  24. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...recommend using a Tris-based lysis buffer and sonication.  The obtained virions from cells and supernatant....2020.120 Lock, M., Alvira, M. R., Chen, S.-J., & Wilson, J. M. (2014). Absolute determination of single-stranded...L. H., Xiao, R., Lock, M., Lin, J., Korn, M., & Wilson, J. M. (2010). Efficient serotype-dependent release...
  25. Tips to Make the Most of a Scientific Conference

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    ...slightly if you know a bit more about the other person. If you have a poster or talk at the conference...there parts of your elevator pitch where the other person seemed confused, bored, or particularly excited...after. For one conference I went to, I made it a personal goal to ask one question each day (this may be...
  26. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...efficiency. Figure used with permission from the Mark Dawson lab Re-transformation of the SPLINTR Libraries ...recombined backbones that may replicate faster. For this reason, if your library has inserts of different sizes... Hannah Dotson...
  27. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...is very tricky to use and fussy to optimize. One reason could be the instability of the supposedly alien...many may find this inconvenient. Another possible reason for the trickiness of NgAgo is the inability of... not snipping DNA, he tries random things (101 lessons on Spanish, C++, guitar, photography) and often...
  28. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    ...next thing. If I made a mistake, I evaluated what lessons I had learned – call it “troubleshooting.” Trying...I asked some colleagues to share valuable life lessons they have learned during their scientific training... them in a blog post on Born to Science: Life Lessons from Scientific Training More and more voices ...
  29. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    ...Praparaten. Leipzig: S. Hierzel.
 J.A Dent, A.G. Polson, M.W. Klymkowsky. (1989) Development, 105.61-74... Ross A, J. Hecksher-Sorensen, R. Baldock,  D. Davidson. (2002) Science, 296, 541-545. Pubmed. A. Ertürk.... Kim, S. Kalyanasundaram, A.S. Andalman, T.J. Davidson et al. (2013) Nature, 497, 332-337. Pubmed. R....
  30. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ...genes that apparently contribute to virulence (Tollefson et al., 1996) – cell death has been reported when...6301263. Servellita, V., Sotomayor Gonzalez, A., Lamson, D. M., Foresythe, A., Huh, H. J., Bazinet, A. ...10.1182/BLOOD-2007-02-062117. PMID: 17510320. Tollefson, A. E., Scaria, A., Hermiston, T. W., Ryerse, ...
  31. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...the statistical independence assumption of the Poisson process. This modification also eases the interpretation...orders.  Our model factors the likelihood in our Poisson process into two components: 𝜃x(t) and 𝜓z(t)....contains an intractable integral of the product of a Poisson and multivariate log-normal likelihoods. Effects...
  32. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...gross comparison of AAV.PHP.eB and AAV.PHP.S to their parental vectors. To quantify this comparison, capsids...PubMed PMID: 28671695. 2. Deverman BE, Pravdo PL, Simpson BP, et al. Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants...
  33. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ...Arabidopsis is a fantastic model organism for many reasons, not the least of which is ease of transformation...a protocol for antibiotic selection, check out Harrison et al., 2006. Tips: Don’t plate seeds too densely... 24032037. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3759027. 2 Harrison, S. J. et al. (2006) ‘A rapid and robust method...
  34. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...qPCR runs before a new one is needed. For these reasons, we are in the process of transitioning our titering...for the detection of low copy numbers. For this reason, it can be used in the detection of rare sequences...PMID: 24328707. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3991984. Song, Neng, et al. "Detection of circulating Mycobacterium...
  35. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...screening! This blog was written by Addgenie Hannah Dotson.  Resources and references References Joung, ...experimental questions.  McDade, J. R., Waxmonsky, N. C., Swanson, L. E., & Fan, M. (2016). Practical Considerations... Hannah Dotson...
  36. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    ...Fuller CK, Cameron P, Fazzio TG, Zhu LJ, Wolfe SA, Sontheimer EJ (2018) NmeCas9 is an intrinsically high-fidelity.... Kim E, Koo T, Park SW, Kim D, Kim K, Cho H-Y, Song DW, Lee KJ, Jung MH, Kim S, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim ...Topkar VV, Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Gonzales APW, Li Z, Peterson RT, Yeh J-RJ, Aryee MJ, Joung JK (2015) Engineered...
  37. Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone

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    ...meeting who felt isolated at a conference for any reason was a Singleton. Figure 1: The Binning Singletons...Gorski, Mark O. Martin, Maureen Berg, Michael D. L. Johnson, Tiffany Lowe-Power, Eric Griffis, Janet Iwasa,...Dunivin, Jen Greenwich, Susanna Harris, Heather Hendrickson, Jonathan Jacobs, Mo Kaze, Christina Kellogg,...
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