...throughput work, it’s likely that you come into the lab wishing there was a machine that could make your life a...Beckman Coulter’s Biomek FXP. We had a previous relationship with Beckman Coulter and that certainly played...DNA as opposed to in live bacteria. For these shipments, we’ve needed to find a way to purify DNA from...vial fiIling The majority of Addgene plasmids are shipped as agar stabs in glass vials. Have you ever wondered...caps and push them into micronic tubes instead of pushing them in one by one. It seems very simplistic and...

...to give yourself plenty of time when writing a fellowship proposal. Yes, yes, I hear you saying “We know.... Become a science communicator More and more fellowship applications are asking for a 200-300 word explanation...explanation of your research for non-scientists. Most fellowships are funded by the general public (either through...assisting me with applications for much larger fellowships. Also, if you were awarded money to carry out... fellowship...

...university and alterations to the student-university relationship, along with, of course, union dues. Time will...common thread that has the potential to profoundly shift the academic science landscape: the treatment of...opinion on these changes, it is likely that the shifts caused to the practical and philosophical landscape...Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions... Kate Stoll, PhD - Senior Policy Advisor MIT Washington Office Ben Corb - Director of Public Affairs ...

...many of you have negotiated over the order of authorship for a manuscript? And that’s only in your scientific...negotiation skills will help you strengthen relationships with your colleagues and supervisors and lead...negotiation skills are key to maintaining and growing relationships with your colleagues within and outside of your... what you want and can also strengthen your relationships with others who know that working with you will...Conflict Resolution Time management Managing a team Leadership Resources on Addgene.org Check out our careers...

...distribution and deposits. (A) Cumulative CRISPR plasmids shipped by year. (B) Cumulative CRISPR plasmids deposited...by year. (D) Cumulative CRISPR pooled libraries shipped by year.   As of the end of 2023, Addgene had...even mix of plasmids (by age) are requested and shipped out each year.     Figure 3: Percentage...from labs in ~40 different countries, and we’ve shipped CRISPR plasmids to labs in ~100 countries.  The...distributed per year, or approximately 104 plasmids shipped per working day, including appropriate MTAs and...

...mK-GO. Large Stokes Shift (LSS): Stokes shift (named after George G. Stokes) is the shift in wavelength from...FPs, Stokes shift is less than 50nm (often much less).  For LSS proteins, the Stokes shift is ≥ 100nm....

...chromophore concealed at the center of the structure, shielded from quenching by aqueous solvent. This tightly-packed...intensity and photostability of GFP. This also shifted its major excitation peak from 395 nm to 488 nm...S65T Increased fluorescence, photostability, and a shift of the major excitation peak to 488 nm F64L Increased...phenol component (cyan derivatives) Y66H Blue-shifts the wavelength (blue derivatives) Y145F Increases... aggregation at high concentrations T203Y Red-shifts the wavelength (yellow derivatives) A206K Interferes...

...careers, women in STEM, work-life negotiation, and mentorship, we decided to have her participate in an AMA...careers, women in STEM, work-life negotiation, and mentorship. We can direct people to the AMA in the future...whole point is to meet actual people to build relationships. I also like Twitter because I can get a little...important to find good mentors and incentivize good mentorship: AMA mechanics: Be prepared! The mechanics of... mentorship...

...HDR), a distinct cellular DNA repair pathway. Accomplishing this usually involves simultaneously introducing...characterize this phenomenon and found a general relationship between the distance of a mutation from the ...(and let them cut close).   Figure 2: Relationship between cut site to mutation distance and editing...mutations When thinking further about the distance relationship described above, we realized that, in addition...incorporation efficiency, we might exploit this relationship to direct the zygosity of the cells. This was...

...Chapter 1 - Introduction to Mark Springel, Olivia Ho-Shing, and the Journal of Emerging Investigators. Chapter...Chapter 3 - JEI target audience and their current readership. Encouraging students to do science anywhere.... building curricula and developing one-on-one mentorship programs. Chapter 6 and Outro - Interview with...the future. Many thanks to our guests,Olivia Ho-Shing, Mark Springel, Arooba Ahmed, Jiachen Lee, and Jillian...

... questions in the sections below. Mentoring relationships can help identify your priorities and needs,...too, they may not have had experience writing, publishing, or discussing career opportunities with the ...PI removed a woman from the appropriate first authorship position on a publication of her project and ...reminders of blunders, setting target up to fail, shifting goal posts without telling the target Warning...open PI helps lab members determine project "ownership" and author order PI lets lab members fight it...

... colocalization factor to assess the spatial relationship between the targets. Or, it might be sufficient...non-specifically – try optimizing your blocking and washing conditions or consider using a different antibody...concentrations of all the different antibodies, blocking, washing, and sample preparation steps, in order to ensure...getting started with two or three targets or you’re pushing the limits like Addgene depositor Ronald Germain... Speranza, E., Chu, C. J., Gola, A., Thakur, N., Shih, R., Yao, L., Yaniv, Z. R., Beuschel, R. T., Kabat...

...located.  The export license, if granted, allows us to ship rabies plasmids and viral vectors containing genetic...control license, once approved, allows Addgene to ship plasmids or viral vectors containing sequences from... Once the application is approved, Addgene then ships the material following our normal process.   Due...have any questions about this or other Addgene shipping and ordering processes, don’t hesitate to contact...

... scientist. Leadership and management Take a lead from the amazing students at Washington University who...You are finishing your PhD or perhaps you have almost completed a postdoctoral position… or two. You ...in your department, create them and show your leadership skills too. Teach classes Go to workshops and...

...repository. 100,000 Plasmids Shipped! - By 2010, Addgene had hit our stride. We shipped our 100,000th plasmid... 10 years ago today. In that time, Addgene has shipped over 350,000 individual plasmids to 5,000 different...cells into pluripotent stem cells. Plasmids from Shinya Yamanaka's lab and James Thomson's lab were the...

...https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav7271 Yoshimi, K., & Mashimo, T. (2022b). Genome editing technology ..., Demircioglu, F. E., Moeller, L., Kocalar, S., Oshiro, R., Makarova, K. S., Macrae, R. K., Koonin, E....j.mib.2017.05.008 Makarova, K. S., Wolf, Y. I., Alkhnbashi, O. S., Costa, F., Shah, S. A., Saunders, S. ... S., Wolf, Y. I., Iranzo, J., Shmakov, S. A., Alkhnbashi, O. S., Brouns, S. J. J., Charpentier, E., Cheng...

...absorbed. This phenomenon is known as the Stokes Shift, or the difference in wavelength between peak excitation...background signals when used with the same protein (Hayashi-Takanaka et al., 2014). Other dyes may prove challenging...accurate and reliable imaging and assay results (Hayashi-Takanaka et al., 2014)​​. Conjugates with lower...for intracellular fluorescence live imaging ​​(Hayashi-Takanaka et al., 2014). Dyes can also vary in their...), 987–994. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4403 Hayashi-Takanaka, Y., Stasevich, T. J., Kurumizaka, H.,...

..., hypercompetition is corroding values, we are shifting away from PI driven basic research, there is resistance...be radically overhauled.  Finally, the science publishing system needs to be changed.  Dr. Bourne charged...applause when he talked about how he boycotts publishing in all but open access journals.  Dr. David Glass...systemic flaws” by Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley Tilghmanc and Harold Varmus     ...

...communication. When I started my Science Communication Internship with Addgene, I didn’t know a lot about scicomm... few Addgene guest blog pieces. Throughout my internship, my interest in scicomm has grown and now it ...is Hans Packer - science writer  When Hans was finishing up his PhD in Molecular Neuroscience at the University...Technologies (IDT). “It was fairly accidental. I was finishing graduate school, and didn’t have anything lined...

... Their cooler boxes come with a prepaid return shipping label. To return the box, simply peel your address...details on what they accept and to print a free shipping label. Recycle nitrile gloves Terracycle is a .... They’re really easy to spot and even easier to ship back. Be that person! If you use serological pipettes...in your tissue culture room for the wrappers and ship them back. Start a glove recycling program at ...