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  1. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...started working in the pharmaceuticals industry after earning my Master’s in 2016 and then working four ...prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking at their LinkedIn profiles. This can help spark...your 1-hour presentation to your audience Start by asking the hiring manager or recruiter what presentation...improving a process or procedure, solving a problem, or making a key decision. Even deciding to stop pursuing ...sharing your screen and won’t be able to see who’s asking a question. Maybe you ask for questions after completing...
  2. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    March 22, 2018, 1:28 p.m.
    ...deposits per month!), manual transformations were taking a lot of time. Enter the Biomek FXP! We wanted ...improve our transformation protocol and, after looking at a few options, we decided on Beckman Coulter...protocol on the Biomek FxP is pretty simple. By clicking a few buttons you can quickly tell the Biomek ...pick up 8 tips and position the tips indepently making it easy to spread out your samples. This can be...scientists share plasmids across the globe, we’re working on ways to send plasmids as DNA as opposed to in...it suits our plasmid prepping needs perfectly. Working with Qiagen, we developed a protocol to run up ...
  3. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... (and Addgene depositor) Craig Mello. Taking his groundbreaking work in RNAi one step further, his lab...the majority of attendees were scientists still working at the bench. It was a fantastic opportunity to...cell membrane. His recent work shows that they are making fairly remarkable progress on establishing a system...the drug resistantance genes in the bacteria thus making the bacteria sensitive to known antibotics. These... CRISPR resources Read Joanne Kamens' Post on Networking at Scientific Conferences  ...
  4. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ... gRNA using restriction enzyme BsaI. If you’re working in Drosophila, a two-gRNA expressing plasmid is...outside of their recognition sequence, creating flanking overhangs. These overhangs can be customized to...vectors each contain Type IIS restriction sites flanking the promoter-gRNA construct, but with different...with the appropriate Type IIS enzyme, the unique flanking overhang sequences can link together to allow ...constructs with multiple promoter-gRNA cassettes, making them advantageous for small capacity vectors like... mammalian option described below, plasmids for making polycistronic gRNAs are also available from the... tyr gRNA, which causes hypopigmentation, thus marking cells that have undergone genomic modification....
  5. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...mentioned above basically involve taking the Myc1-9E10 variable regions and sticking them onto different scaffolds...tagging strategy, another group of researchers was working on isolating monoclonal antibodies to better probe...used in way more applications.   Fig. 1 Making a Protein Tag (Abridged) (1) Locate a promising...same antibody developed almost 40 years ago? Well…kinda. In some cases, antibody providers are distributing.... 1997; Schiweck, et al. 1997) with the goal of making the antibody more amenable to protein engineering...
  6. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    Jan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m.
    ...between skin and muscle 25–27 < 2–3 mL (~1 mL per site) Beginner Intradermal Anesthesia Between skin layers...Subcutaneous (SQ or SC) injections are given between the skin and the muscles. The most common injection sites... (ID) injections occur between the layers of the skin. While this could theoretically be performed anywhere...shaved first. Restraint: anesthesia Location: between skin layers Gauge: 26 Volume: < 0.05 ml Skill required...cringe or your experiment will allow you to avoid poking the mice, these “no needles” techniques may come...
  7. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ...in “crispr” and see what comes up. Before even clicking the ‘Search’ button a new content-aware suggestion...jump directly to the type of information you are looking for in our catalog or educational resources: plasmid... your lab. Instead of starting a new search or clicking through to a different part of the website, you...been deposited? In this example we’re going to be looking for recombinant monoclonal antibody plasmids from...finger protein involved in neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Knowing the primary investigator where...functionally (e.g. Base Editing) and by target organism. Clicking through to RNA Editing brings us to a page with...
  8. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...proficiency.  What kind of content are you sharing?  Sometimes your subject matter will drive the kinds of communications...others will avoid it like the plague. Instead of looking for The One Method to Rule Them All, consider the...embark on a project, do your best to understand what kind of resources - including your time - will be required...Podcasts Medium Easy for audience to engage while multitasking. Easy to host guests remotely. Easy access from...things to be physically interacted with. Public speaking is a common fear. Can be discouraging to build...
  9. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    Nov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic dependencies of individual tumors...dependencies across ancestry groups (right).    Seeking an explanation  First, they looked for a biological...unexpected discovery, which didn’t make sense in any kind of biological framework, suggested to them that ...information they needed to begin correcting the issue. Working with James McFarland, Jeremie Kalfon, Javad Noorbakhsh...CRISPR guides mapped to a SNP would be ignored. Working with Lia Petronio and Katherine Huang from Broad...process does not stop there. Currently, they are working with Broad's Genetic Perturbation Platform to modify...
  10. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    Sept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...employees spent this remaining time by elaborately pranking each other, dressing in costume, and holding competitions...the question, “What’s your favorite part about working at Addgene?” Most Addgenies reply with an enthusiastic...collaborators have completed their work thoroughly. It’s kind of a chicken and egg situation- do we work so hard...rose-colored-glasses-esque picture of how everyone is kind and collaborative and all we do is have fun all ... To keep the organizational side of things from taking too much of your time, scroll down for some tips...fall into that rut! We’ve done everything from kayaking, to field day, to relay triathlons, to 5Ks. Many...
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