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TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m....standards for hybrid, virtual, and in-person events change seemingly daily (and are inconsistent between universities...both sets of interviews. I also had universities change their format of interview from a travel day to ...response to challenges on their end. Though the quick changes in plans was stressful in and of itself, the flexibility...everyone involved in the process. COVID-19 has changed many aspects of academia, and the PhD application...
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PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m....pipetting error or an incredible discovery. The range of RQ values used to call copy numbers should be...confident determination of copy number, albeit within a range of RQ values as noted above. In both applications.... Muhamad P, Chaijaroenkul W, Congpuong K, Na-Bangchang K. SYBR Green I and TaqMan quantitative real-time... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m.... Protocol Exchange Website: http://www.nature.com/protocolexchange/ Nature Protocol Exchange (NPE) is ...your favorite protocols for future reference. The exchange currently boasts over 2,500 protocols covering... -
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m....increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines (Bangera & Brownell, 2014; Duboue et al., 2022), as they... now connects MDH-focused CUREs at 50 schools, ranging from R1 institutions to community colleges, and...instructors, and provides opportunities for students to exchange ideas and results with peers and faculty at other...classroom. References and Resources References Bangera, G., Brownell, S. 2014. Course-based undergraduate... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m....10 closely related yeast strains. Adaptation to changing conditions - Organisms often need to express genes...conditions. With varied codon usage, an organism can change which proteins are highly expressed and which are...idea and has been used successfully in the past (Angov et al., 2008), but there are still many more features...bodies and is folding properly. References 1. Angov, Evelina, et al. "Heterologous protein expression... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m....DNA 5' TTN Specific DSB in target DNA with 5' overhangs Cas13a (C2c2) 2x HEPN crRNA RNA 3' A, U, or... Cas13a targeting with a single crRNA The Feng Zhang lab used Cas13a from Leptotrichia shahii (LshCas13a...and cleavage through a series of conformational changes in the Cas13a molecule. Like Cas9, Cas13a tolerates...Ladha et al., 2020). Cas13a in mammalian cells The Zhang lab made the exciting discovery that some Cas13a... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m....you to track a cell line’s age and monitor any changes. Your tracking system could be as simple as a piece... stocks to work from. The future Attitudes are changing but yet more is needed to convince people of some... to carry our independent quality control for a range of testing, from animal doping to forensics, DNA...Delivery Systems for Mammalian Cells Learn about the Dangers of Using GFP for Protein Localization Resources... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m....experience will be a little different. Some of these changes you may enjoy immediately and some of them may ... just take some getting used to. Just remember: change is good. You can experience a real onboarding...re also getting the opportunity to learn their “language”, and in doing so you may discover that your career...eventually. If you approach that transition dreading the change, the adjustment period will be that much longer... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....skipped or whether selecting colonies and performing Sanger sequencing will suffice…and the answer is no. Due...screening - An excellent protocol paper by the Feng Zhang lab describing construction, lentiviral production...CRISPR/Cas Systems Forum- Moderated by the Feng Zhang lab, this is a useful place to ask experimental ...Abudayyeh OO, Platt RJ, Brigham MD, Sanjana NE, Zhang F. Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.... often weren’t easily accessible, due to a wide range of logistical barriers. Addgene worked to identify...availability vs accessibility issue was found in a less tangible form: knowledge and information about the materials...is achieved through interconnected incremental changes. It was only after creating a plasmid repository...learned about the importance of smaller, systemic changes, like using alt-text, captions, and inclusive design... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m....reduce off-target effects of gene therapy, Feng Zhang’s lab has developed a system called DIRECTED (Delivery...Design). This modular approach combines an interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to...where the fusion and targeting components are interchangeable. Image from Strebinger et al., 2023, reused...be tethered on the viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible... -
Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2020, 2:15 p.m....General Meeting seven other times I had subsequently changed fields and my cohort of friends and colleagues ...in Atlanta, GA, in 2018. A lot of my experiences rang true with theirs. It was at this dinner and the...Singletons logo. Image: James et al., 2020. Help me stranger - Finding mentors for the meeting Just like analysis... cells regulate gene expression in response to changes in cell density. At the mixer, they meet other ... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.... has a temperature optimum of 37 °C (Buchholz, Angrand, and Stewart 1998). FLPe’s performance was further... single cell with all its synapses and how it rearranges these synapses in the living brain over time ...Channelrhodopsin-2 to Multiple Cell Types for Imaging and Long-Range Circuit Mapping.” Journal of Neuroscience 28(28)...Central PMCID: PMC2593125. 2. Buchholz, F, P O Angrand, and A. Francis Stewart. 1998. “Improved Properties... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.... Today in our transferable skills guide: Time Mangement for Scientists. Back when I used to do mammalian...immediate deadline - even the best of friends get hangry at some point. My cells, on the other hand, could...terrible handwriting, is copied below): Read new Zhang Lab Paper Find plasmids similar to those in the ...while I may have found splitting cells boring, hanging out in the tissue culture room also gave me time... -
Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....institution, you can order plasmids covering a wide range of fields from Addgene. What you might not know ... Academy of Sciences 113.9 (2016): 2388-2393. Huang, Shijie, Xuechen Zhu, and Charles E. Melançon III...et al 2015[2]). The proteins encoded in this set range in size from 4 to 156 kDa, enabling the user to ...5373-5383. Walkiewicz, Katarzyna, et al. "Small changes in enzyme function can lead to surprisingly large... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m....that certain polymerases such as Taq generate A-overhangs (a feature used in TA-cloning). Such non-complementary...near the 5’-end) and that also generates 4 bp overhangs. You can then use the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase...polymerase I to generate blunt ends from these overhangs and ligate these blunt ends together in a standard...Xia, Yongzhen, et al. "New insights into the QuikChangeTM process guide the use of Phusion DNA polymerase... -
Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m....caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and ...RM, Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D, Gersbach CA. In vivo genome editing improves...Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ. In vivo...Shalem O, Wu X, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Sharp PA, Zhang F. In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m....References Hao, Y., Yan, J., Fraser, C., Jiang, A., Anuganti, M., Zhang, R., Lloyd, K., Jardine, J., Coppola...reagents, researchers can measure this conformational change to investigate the role of specific integrins in...reagents to study the difference in cell morphology changes induced by integrins binding the RGD motif compared... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....added, it binds tTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning...added, it binds cTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning...acid to Drosophila cells. Work by Wei et al. from Kang Shen’s lab has also shown that the Q system is also.... Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling gene expression with the Q repressible... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m....training in a globalized world where individuals can exchange ideas, network, collaborate, and innovate internationally...challenge. On top of that, in the midst of a rapidly changing, globalized environment re-emerging from international... University of Valencia): “IMP showed me a wide range of professional opportunities that are outside of... this conference, mentors and mentees met and exchanged impressions of the IMP experience. Conference ...