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  1. 7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors

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    Jan. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
    ... soon as you can. It is in your supervisor’s interest that you succeed, and if you cannot resolve a problem...on their promises, Wet-blanket negativist, who can bring down the morale of a group with their pessimism...to check in with you?” For a specific project you can ask when he or she would like an update, and whether...problem on your own, reach out for help so you can get the support you need. 2) Prepare an agenda for ...immediately get your supervisor’s attention so you can focus on the problems that need to be resolved. If...more about your work than your supervisor does. You can save yourself and your supervisor some time if you...your supervisor, you need to demonstrate that they can count on you to follow through on your commitments...

  2. Management for Scientists: Seeking Feedback

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    Jan. 8, 2015, 2:34 p.m.
    ...getting feedback from the team. Successful management can almost be boiled down to one, key concept: Creating...conversations and gestures are energetic.  This can take practice and training. This is important because...with the team leader. There is no way a manager can be efficient without delegating and empowering the...information flow so everyone knows what is going on and can contribute. Members periodically break, go exploring...effective team regularly seeks expertise wherever it can be found. Listen to our podcast interview with...anonymous surveys with regular frequency. Anonymity can be a great way to get honest feedback, but shouldn't...meetings with team members (don’t become known for cancelling these); ask for feedback and input on multiple...

  3. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...Secondly, fluorescence imaging of living organisms can be challenging due to issues with tissue autofluorescence...contains 11 β-strands and one central ɑ-helix that can be split into 3 parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and...so that they are parallel to each other and thus can no longer fit with β1-9. They connected β10-11 with...DEVD). Upon cleavage of the sequence, β10 and β11 can rearrange to their normal antiparallel position and...proof of concept that the designed used in FlipGFP can be applied to other fluorescent proteins to create...demonstrated that the FlipGFP-based caspase reporter can be used to visualize apoptosis of enterocytes in ...die or cells dying at the wrong time and/or place can lead to an array of diseases and pathologies such...

  4. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...endogenous RNAi pathways. These mutations however can interfere with other genetic pathways making it difficult...proteins within minutes, but requires H2O2, which can be toxic in living cells. BioID was derived from ...for labeling, but the process is much slower and can take as long as several days. In 2015, the laboratory...stomach flu and food-borne illnesses, noroviruses can infect millions annually. Because it is highly contagious...solution: a low-cost, cell-free detection assay that can be completed without special equipment. What’s more...detected through a toehold switch, an RNA sensor that can be used to detect the presence of any specific RNA...specific to a particular strain of norovirus, it can be tailored for the detection of other norovirus ...

  5. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...probes. You can follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   Marieke Mastop is a PhD candidate at the Section...This is time well spent and, if you do it right, can be (part of) figure 1 of your next paper or thesis...best fluorescent protein for a specific application can seem like a daunting task. Many fluorescent proteins...expressed at an equal level (Goedhart et al, 2011) can be used. An assay developed in our lab uses a reference...conditions, a ranking of the practical brightness can be made (Goedhart et al, 2012, Bindels et al, 2017...fluorescent protein, a ranking of practical brightness can be made. This strategy has been used in yeast by ...practical brightness provides a better picture of what can be expected in a 'real' application than the theoretical...

  6. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    March 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...type target in each sample can be quickly calculated (details in [2]) and can be used to quantify rates...many thousands of partitions, statistical modelling can be used to determine the actual number of target ...abundance, does not require standard curves, and can theoretically detect a single target molecule in ...digital PCR works, let’s explain what kind of assays can be used to sniff out your desired mutations. The ...assays often used in real time PCR. These assays can be designed to detect either a donor sequence integrated...product. Low detection limits: Digital PCR assays can accurately quantify low levels of mutant target (... of the plethora of available sequencing options can be found here. Good luck with your genome editing...

  7. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...embryonic, stem cell-like, or cancerous it is (Levin et al., 2017). These states can even be necessary and sufficient...This state, known as the resting potential (Vmem), can be measured as the imbalance of electrical charge...junction proteins cx43 GJB1 GJB2 Bioelectric states can alter cell types and patterning There is mounting...proteins which connect the cytoplasm of two cells) can also affect patterning and in some cases even override...despite having an otherwise normal genomic background, can even lead to the formation of whole eyes from cell...challenges of studying bioelectricity is that it can be hard to visualize or perturb these slower-changing...exhibits stabilized activity for over 30 minutes and can be deactivated using yellow light (590nm). BLINK2...

  8. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    Dec. 21, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...multiple secondary antibodies can bind to a single primary antibody, this approach can greatly increase the sensitivity...that a complete Western blot can be run in a single day, I really cannot recommend it except in the most...isotype subclasses, such as mouse IgG2 or IgG4. This can be important for some applications. Assay use While...conjugated in the lab. In the indirect approach, you can simply keep a stock of conjugated secondary antibodies...specific isotype subclasses of primary antibodies can increase the possible number of target proteins.   ...method. But in reality, multiple primary antibodies can and do attach to a single target protein, so this...analysis of a sample. Instead, relative quantification can be done using either the direct or the indirect method...

  9. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    July 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...proteins and the places in the genome where they can be found more quickly and efficiently, they’ve recently...already looking like it’s making a big difference. We can now look at many more transcription factors. Addgene... onto the transcription factors. By the way, you can actually use this for tagging any protein in all ...cells antibiotic resistance to neomycin so that you can select the population of cells with the tagged transcription...of 100 or 50 event. Cloning of the second plasmid can be done in one day in one assembly reaction. This...labor. That’s a huge deal. With Addgene, now these can be available to anyone for a modest cost without ...but the system is so flexible. Other investigators can easily adapt these vectors for use with their favorite...

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

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    Feb. 24, 2015, 7:50 p.m.
    ...optimize how we can deliver these tools because obviously, unlike the mouse, we can’t rely on genetic ... large one.  The question for her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 activators that work well...to test each one and make sure it’s working. You can only do that screen with a system you are really ...which expresses the activation helper protein. SAM can be combined with a human genome-wide library to activate...shown that the SAM system is robust, specific, and can facilitate genome-scale gain-of-function screening...of control in the system. First of all, the Cas9s can be turned on and off, to reversibly activate or repress...no theoretical limit on the number of genes that can be manipulated at one time. Weissman’s group has ...

  11. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...off-target sites that they can later sequence for mutations. One method a researcher can use to test predicted...and assayed phenotype. Verifying these connections can help alleviate the reproducibility crisis in biology... DNA. When these strands hybridize, the nuclease can detect strands with mismatches and cleave them. The.... These techniques differ in important ways, but can also complement one another by providing both broad...genome sequencing. Used in concert, these approaches can provide the researcher with a reasonable level of...2015). Low detection rates mean the investigator can be relatively certain that their samples don’t have...2015) for cell-based experiments. These strategies can be used in concert with in silico prediction to create...

  12. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    June 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...responses (Gunaydin et al., 2010). This can affect how rapidly you can activate or inhibit a cell in succession...only light. Optogenetics, or light activated tools, can control everything from electrical activity to gene...they activate downstream signaling pathways that can change both the membrane potential and a host of ...intracellular proteins come into play. Photoswitches can be used to activate or suppress secondary signaling...pharmacology techniques allow. Multiple photoswitches can be used in a single pathway to activate various protein...vectors have an optimal wavelength to use but can be activated by a range of wavelengths. While this may...flexibility when activating the optogenetic tool, it can also cause problems when using multiple optogenetics...

  13. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...reverse transcriptase so they can transpose. Both class I and II transposons can be autonomous or non-autonomous...transposon lands. For example, in bacteria, transposons can move antibiotic resistance genes between plasmids...result in human disease. While transposon insertions can be detrimental, it also drives genomic evolution ... (RT) enzyme to convert back into DNA. Then they can be inserted into new target sites. Created in BioRender.com...BioRender.com.   Autonomous vs. non-autonomous TEs You can think of autonomous transposons as “complete transposons... is provided in trans so that a gene of interest can be inserted between the transposon’s LTRs, similar... DNA footprint sequence after excision. piggyBac can mobilize DNA over 100 kB in size and is active in...

  14. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    July 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...table below and can be requested through Addgene. Their plasmid maps and GenBank files can be found on their...on the state cannot be undone and also limit the set of possible downstream states that can be achieved...leveraging qPCR data from multiple primer pairs, one can infer the predominant state of registers within a...register. However, each Sanger sequencing reaction can only be performed on one register at a time. If a...be considered as an alternative. The qPCR method can be performed on a sample of multiple registers. However...based on transcriptional regulation, as long as they can control recombinase activity. For example, post-transcriptional...software that automates the design of registers that can be used to execute user-specified two-input gene ...

  15. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ..., these challenges can be considerably reduced. The piggyBac™ transposon system can be combined with CRISPR... known upper limit [1]. The piggyBac™ technology can be used for numerous applications, including transgenesis...with piggyBac™, the number of integration copies can be tightly controlled by titrating the transposase... of integrations per cell and a super-piggyBacTM can be used to get an even greater number of integrations...interest. Importantly, by varying these ratios, you can either maximize or minimize expression levels of ...dominant-negative mutant. Reducing the copy number can also mitigate the deleterious effects of expression...overcome this obstacle, a positive selection cassette can be incorporated, and used during the differentiation...

  16. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...GAL80 repressor can bind to GAL4, partially inhibiting the binding of GAL4 to UAS. One can therefore place...previous post, we discussed inducible promoters, which can be switched from a default OFF to an ON state, and...Today, we’ll look at repressible promoters, which can be switched from a default ON to an OFF state, as... Like inducible promoters, repressible promoters can be regulated via positive or negative control. Positive...binds the repressor protein, the repressor protein can bind to the operator. The bound repressor then prevents...native context, the tetracycline repressor (TetR) can bind to the tetracycline operator sequences (TetO...in mammalian cells, and TRE-containing promoters can be used in the repressible manner described above...

  17. Phage Directory: From Phage Therapy to a Repository of Phage Information

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    Jan. 10, 2019, 2:38 p.m.
    ...lindy hop swing dance event,” Zheng says (networking can happen anywhere!). The pair quickly teamed up to ... phage matches. Email [email protected] if you can help! — Dr Steffanie Strathdee, 🗡️Superbug Slayer...right phage for the job. Phages are viruses that can infect and then kill bacteria they enter. But to ...have been exhausted. Theoretically, phage alerts can be sent out to the directory earlier, but the researchers...phage therapy, acceptable endotoxin levels, etc. can vary depending where treatment occurs. In addition...Sacher hopes that as Phage Directory expands, it can also fill this role by cataloging and archiving information...

  18. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    June 19, 2015, 3:08 p.m.
    ... Protein purification can be one of the most stressful lab activities. Working with proteins requires...the best way to express one’s protein of interest can save a lot of time later. Protein purification specialists...protein - two parameters that affect how well E. coli can produce your protein. Structural information for ...and PDBsum. After acquiring this information, you can then pick an expression vector and expression system...properly. If a TEV protease site is present, TEV can remove these tags from the purified protein. For ...the use of a thioredoxin A (TRX)-containing vector can improve disulfide bond formation. pCri also includes...

  19. Science as Art

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    March 2, 2015, 3:13 p.m.
    ... microscope, you too can become an artist. Scientists moonlighting as artists can compete in the Nikon...modern biologists focus on one aspect alone. They can study molecules, analyze terabytes of information... of the creature they deal with.” So photography can be used as a way to better understand and appreciate...biological importance. More of Daniel's stunning work can be found on his website http://www.microworldsphotography.com...holding scientific art competitions where creations can go on display for all to enjoy. The largest competition...

  20. The MTA at Addgene

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    July 23, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
    ...essential to sharing plasmids around the globe, it can be a bit of a mystery for those who aren’t familiar...like MTAs.  Addgene does a lot to ensure that we can facilitate a fast and agile MTA process. This is ... the depositing organization signs one form that can be used for every MTA request going forward.  After...Once they've signed and returned the MTA, Addgene can move forward with shipping the material to the requestor...requestor.  Why the MTA?  The MTA process can be a bit confusing, and it’s certainly frustrating to find...Golden Stopwatch award and seek feedback as to how we can make our process easier for others.  If you’ve still...still got questions about our MTA process, you can check out our Tech Transfer Webpage, help center articles...
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