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  1. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...failure in Type 2 Diabetes. Birmingham, AL, USA 33.5207°N 86.8025°W - Jonathan Aguilar Galileo wrote, “now...scientists have 1) the courage to make mistakes and 2) the integrity to recognize these mistakes quickly...available to people who want to join the dialog and 2) remember that science should not be partisan: everyone... before.  These attacks on science ultimately galvanized scientists to rally in Ottawa to protest the ... large one” (http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/galilei-dialogues-concerning-two-new-sciences). This is...
  2. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ... Multiple Introns.” Plant Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, Elsevier BV, Mar. 2021, p. 100135. Crossref, ...Constructs.” PLoS ONE, edited by Jean Peccoud, vol. 6, no. 2, Public Library of Science (PLoS), 18 Feb. 2011, p... vol. 5, no. 10, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2 May 2016, pp. 1059–69. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1021...of Plant Genomes.” The Plant Genome, vol. 16, no. 2, Wiley, 9 Mar. 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1002...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02388-2. Stuttmann, Johannes, et al. “Highly Efficient Multiplex...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46171-2. Resources on Addgene.org Modular Cloning (MoClo...Modular Cloning System.” PLOS ONE, edited by Alvaro Galli, vol. 13, no. 5, Public Library of Science (PLoS...
  3. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    ...studies have shown that the conditions Sotos-type 2 and Marshall Smith Syndrome are due to mutations in...accurate diagnosis of NFIX-related syndromes (Sotos-type 2 and Marshall-Smith) and could be expanded to NFIA-...Faculty of Sciences of NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. She leads the Glycoimmunology group based at ... the Glycoimmunology group at UCIBIO, FCT-UNL, Portugal. Her main work focuses on unraveling the pathophysiological...
  4. Empty Backbones - Choosing Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone

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    ...lab collection for more) pLexA and pACT2.2 - Yeast 2-hybrid plasmids Fly UAS, MT Targeted...or localization experiments Yeast GAL4, PGK, ADH1, ADE2, TRP1 Gateway destination ...expression with N-terminal GFP pAG306GAL-ccdB - Yeast Gateway expression... vector (TEF1 promoter, CEN/ARS) pAG304GAL-ccdB - Yeast Gateway expression...expression vector (PGK1 promoter, 2μ) pAG305GAL-ccdB - Yeast Gateway expression...expression vector (PGK1 promoter, 2μ) pAG303GAL-ccdB - Yeast Gateway expression...
  5. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...Hrit et al. 2018, Kaas et al. 2013). Figure 2: CRISPR TET-based epigenetic editing. In reality, ...approach for targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discov 2, 16009. https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9.  ...interact with DNA independently of dCas9 targeting (Galonska 2018). This means that off-target loci – in neighboring... 301, 89–92. https://doi.org/10.1038/301089a0. Galonska C, Charlton J, Mattei AL et al (2018). Genome-...
  6. Church Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ... gRNA_DNMT3b A gRNA to DNMT3b Yeast System: Table 2 To function in yeast cells, we designed Cas9 protein...budding yeast) from the TEF1 promoter 43804 p415-GalL-Cas9-CYC1t A human codon-optimized Cas9 for expression...expression in S. cerevisiae (budding yeast) from the GalL promoter 43803 p426-SNR52p-gRNA.CAN1.Y-SUP4t A gRNA...
  7. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...the light-inducible heterodimerizing cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) and calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 ...inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1; and 2) the activator - the CRY2 photolyase homology region... fused to both the N- and C-termini of dCas9; and 2) CRY2FL-VP64, a fusion of full-length CRY2 and the...researchers saw an 11-fold increase in mRNA levels after 2 hr and a 400-fold increase after 30 hr. The system...authors fragmented Cas9 into N-terminal (residues 2-713, N713) and C-terminal (residues 714-1368, C714...nMagC714 instead of nMagHigh1-C714, generating paCas9-2. This change did not significantly alter the system...prior work, the Sato lab also showed that the paCas9-2 system could be spatially controlled and reversibly...
  8. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...our deposit spreadsheet to complete Step 1. Steps 2 and 3 are usually very easy — our tech transfer team...columns are shown in red in the spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down...Filling out and sending the deposit spreadsheet Figure 2: Example of the deposit spreadsheet showing the first...), M. musculus (mouse), R. norvegicus (rat), G. gallus (chicken), B. taurus (bovine), X. laevis (frog)...
  9. Spurred by COVID-19, Addgene Bridges Plasmid Sharing Between Academia and Industry

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    ...constructs for tagged and untagged expression of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells. ...approximately 3,000 constructs to support SARS-CoV-2 research.  Browse the entire Ginkgo Bioworks COVID...Realizing this limitation, we worked closely with the legal partners and Tech Transfer Offices at universities...
  10. Cre-ating New Methods for Site-specific Recombination in Drosophila

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    ...CHO) cells, as well as in cortical neurons in layer 2/3 of the mouse brain. Rubin’s work shows that the ...Drosophila, where expression of Cre from the standard UAS/GAL4 system is toxic to proliferating cells. A Cre-estrogen... recombinase with flies heterozygous for tubulin-GAL4. For Dre, Flp, KD, R, B2 and B3, approximately 50%...50% of offspring carried both the recombinase and GAL4, indicating that the recombinases were inherited...In contrast, 0/79 offspring carried both Cre and GAL4, further emphasizing the toxicity of this enzyme...
  11. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85176  pBK-YE2-...quantum yield of 0.54) and mScarlet-H with M164H (2-fold improvement in photostability compared to mScarlet...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects associated...pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target activity...activity than BE3; editing window ~1-2 nt  87438  pET42b-HF-BE3  HF-Cas9 (NGG)  Very low off-target activity...Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised of 2 plasmids, pPSU1 and pPSU2, that can be amplified affordably...libraries The Gross Lab at UCSF recently deposited 2 Bacillus subtilis libraries with Addgene – the B. ...
  12. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...retain their individual activities when separated (2), and that DBD and TAs from different systems could... Enzymol. 1983;100:293-308. PubMed PMID: 6312261. 2. Keegan, L., Gill, G., and Ptashne, M. Separation ...Although the original Y2H systems utilized the yeast Gal4 activator, bacterial LexA DBD and the lacZ reporter...Martinez-Arias A., Shapira S.K., Chou J. Beta-galactosidase gene fusions for analyzing gene expression in...
  13. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...base pair to another base pair at a specific site. 2. Temporal, spatial, or conditional control of CRISPR...difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz et al., 2018). Only viral particles that...Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses 10:695 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120695... Jiang F, Liu J-J, Bray NL, Rauch BJ, Baik SH, Nogales E, Bondy-Denomy J, Corn JE, Doudna JA (2017) Disabling...
  14. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...Currently available from the Kim lab are 2 presynaptic and 2 postsynaptic targeting mGRASP plasmids. Additionally... cells were pulsed with 2µg/ml of Doxycycline for 2 hours, and imaged on the Keyence BZ-9000 fluorescence...work! Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1...promotes the formation of an isopeptide bond between 2 peptide tags, SpyTag and KTag. The group demonstrated... of three sets of cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, or 2) which can be utilized in three successive assembly...1 modules can be similarly assembled into a Level 2 vector, thus forming a functional genetic circuit....circuit. Flexibility has been built into the Level 2 vectors to allow for additional iterations of Level 1 assembly...
  15. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ... Plant Methods. BioMed Central, 2(1), p. 19. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-2-19. PubMed PMID: 17087829. PubMed...PMID: 24032037. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3759027. 2 Harrison, S. J. et al. (2006) ‘A rapid and robust ... as anthocyanin production, or disease, such as fungal growth. Healthy plants produce lots of seeds. More...
  16. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    ...(S) labeling of the cell population. Figure 2: Dense (c), intermediate (d), and sparse (e) labeling...in Drosophila (Fig. 1):  GAL4-UAS, a transcription factor binding site. GAL4 expressed in the fly binds...of SPARC Figure 1: SPARC and SPARC2 use the GAL4-UAS system along with precisely truncated attP sites...
  17. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...presented in a series of quick (10 minute) or very quick (2 minute) talks so we got to hear from everyone. Addgene...evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and on at least 2 separate continents. Mimulus (Andrea Sweigart) Monkeyflowers...Organisms, Part 1 Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2 ...next project. Gymnotiformes and Mormyridae (Jason Gallant) Weakly electric fish are excellent systems to ...
  18. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...A-B+ cells. If you look at the dot plot in Figure 2, you might assume that all cell populations are positive... the different populations. In the case of Figure 2, one population is B- and another two are B+. Our ...are in the lower right corner.      Figure 2: This flow plot has two populations that are B+ and..., Eguía, J., Gonzalez-Martinez, G., Alfaro, R., Galián Megías, J. A., Campillo, J., Moya-Quiles, M., Minguela...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...ITR, which can either be “flip” or “flop” (Figure 2). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep...site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013). Figure 2: AAV2 wild type ITR in flip and flop orientation. ...Y., Nauwynck, L., Bonnin, D., Merten, O.-W., & Galibert, L. (2017). Impact of Inverted Terminal Repeat...
  20. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    ...melanogaster." Molecular and cellular endocrinology 215.1-2 (2004): 1-10. PubMed PMID: 15026169. Soo, Rochelle...point where the temperature and humidity favors fungal growth. The ants bites down and locks their jaws...its muscles atrophy. After the ant’s death, the fungal fruiting bodies being to sprout out of the ant’...
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