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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m....alone. A few years ago when I started my career transition from bench science to software product management...explaining more of her role, which eventually led me to transfer to her team and begin my product management (PM...science backgrounds, most did not. It was my job to translate complex lab operations workflows into a format... help improve their work. Then, I distill and translate that valuable information back to the rest of ...science companies, try to find internships with translatable skills: working with data, working with people...
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Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2019, 1:21 p.m.... Also, many people on LinkedIn don’t appreciate random requests without a personal message and they may...trolls. People don’t like to connect with complete strangers as it borders on my first rule of networking--...a useful way to build or use a network. Total strangers can’t really help or refer you. Do not ask people... lot about requesting connections to complete strangers for informational interviews. Many have had success...considered intrusive and it’s still connecting with a stranger so is highly discouraged. You should be using ... -
Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m....Signal transduction pathways are a lot like cell phone networks. Protein kinases deliver messages to ..., and how long their signals last all impact transduction of the message. To study signaling pathways,... game of telephone, often the signal must be transmitted by intermediate messengers. Optical control of...signaling by using psMEK1 and an ERK kinase translocation reporter with a mRuby2 fluorescent reporter ...feedback loops are a common feature of signal transduction pathways, but are often hard to decipher because... -
Antibodies 101: Conjugation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m....microscopy, flow cytometry, or spectrophotometry. The range of fluorophores available for antibody conjugation... choice for ELISAs. Biotin Biotin is used in a range of antibody-based assays. Biotin itself is not visible...Endogenous carbohydrates added to antibodies post-translationally. 4) Modifications made to antibodies, such ...commercially conjugated antibodies available, that never guarantees the antibody you need will be conjugated, or ...Stephenson W, et al (2017) Simultaneous epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells. Nat Methods 14:... -
The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m....Ambika, et al. "Transforming training to reflect the workforce." Science Translational Medicine (2015)...better solution would be to reduce the number of entrants into PhD programs to more closely reflect the ...symposium. Eve Marder, professor of Biology at Brandeis University, has recently published an article ...Among other involvements, he helped to establish grants through the Sloan foundation for postdoc-related... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m.... linked to a certain behavior. It is a very old branch of science, dating back several hundred years, ...genes. A popular method uses Cre recombinase on transgenic flox animals to introduce modifications at the...Timing: High expression levels of the viral vector trangenes typically occur two weeks after injection. Therefore... after several weeks which may also depend on transgene or promoter choice. Behaviors you can study using...Stoica L, Ahmed SS, Gao G, Sena-Esteves M. Gene transfer to the CNS using recombinant adeno-associated ... -
Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m....easy — our tech transfer team will communicate with your organization’s technology transfer office or other... Send plasmid information to Addgene Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) approval Send plasmids to Addgene...require that you send your samples to Addgene pre-transformed in this strain. Hazardous If the plasmid...samples to Addgene and contact your technology transfer office about the MTA. Pro Tip! Download a new... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m....editing assemblies are sensor-actuators, either transcriptional regulators or chromatin-modifying enzymes. ...cell surface. When the cells interact, GFP is transferred to the receiver cell, and the receiver cell turns...et al., 2021. The AID system relies on a transport inhibitor response 1 (TIR1) expressed under a ...These libraries encode target sites flanked by randomized nucleotides in place of a protospacer adjacent.... Check out the new additions. Image calcium transients in PV interneurons with AAV-S5E2-GCaMP6f, now... -
Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m....looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate... plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection of all three plasmids into a producer cell line...HEK-293T, production of viral particles, and transduction of a target cell line with those particles. ...Env, Gag, and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates...without endangering yourself or others. Happy transducing! Resources Resources on Addgene.org Addgene... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m....including excision or insertion, inversion, translocation or cassette exchange. By utilizing recombinases...delivery constraints and scientists seeking a wider range of targetable genomic sequences could benefit from...spatially and temporally target single cells. Now, Francois St-Pierre’s lab developed a new form of FACS-based...-based Dual-fluorescent DSB Repair) is a double-strand break repair assay for mammalian cells. It's based...deposited by Leopold Parts. This library delivers 2 randomly paired guides per construct and allows a reduced... -
Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....pattern opens up the possibility of directional gene transfer, analogous to traditional restriction enzyme cloning... cloning. Sticky-end mediated gene transfer would be particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells...gene delivery due to their low immunogenicity and range of serotypes allowing preferential infection of ... yet characterized the potential “sticky end” transgene insertion mediated by Cpf1-generated overhangs...Alkhnbashi OS, Costa F, Shah SA, Saunders SJ, Barrangou R, Brouns SJ, Charpentier E, Haft DH, Horvath ... -
Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m....sites directs the Cre recombinase to invert, translocate, or excise a DNA fragment. The availability of...infected and would have the potential to express the transduced reporter gene. Generating a FLEx switch to control...level in the mouse. 2003 PubMed PMID: 12665802. 2. Branda, CS and Dymecki, SM. Talking about a Revolution...Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit mapping. PubMed PMID: 18614669. PubMed Central...adeno-associated viruses for Cre activated and inactivated transgene expression in neurons. PubMed PMID: 2286602. ... -
10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.... are sensitive to pH. Anything between orange and light orange usually indicates that the cells have grown...culture media contain the pH indicator phenol red (pH range 6.0 (yellow) - 8.0 (red)). Blood pH normally lies...too young and should not be used for important transfection experiments right after they’ve been thawed.... spent organizing, an hour is earned (Benjamin Franklin)! It’s good practice to label your plates and/... -
Common Injection Routes in Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m.... 0.07 ml Skill required: advanced Intranasal instillation Intranasal instillation is very similar to its...behind the eye. IV injections are used for a broad range of substances, as it circulate what is injected ...target the lungs. The main differences are that intranasal is easier, less invasive, and only requires a...Anesthesia Trachea 20–23 (tubing) < 0.07 mL Advanced Intranasal Anesthesia Nose n/a < 0.05 mL Beginner Oral... -
Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m....generate a classic double-stranded break, while modulators regulate transcription and chimeric efforts make...Countries shown are the top 10 requesting countries. FR=France; KR=South Korea; CH=Switzerland; AU=Australia. ...Pyhtila et al., 2023). Our thanks to Rodolphe Barrangou for his authorial contributions to, and support...References Pyhtila, B., Kasowitz, S., Leeson, R., & Barrangou, R. (2023). The Expanding Dissemination and Distribution... -
Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.... work has always been focused on gene transfer, from transgenes to plants, chloroplast to the nucleus,...to expand the toolkit. We have included a wider range of terminators than are commonly used as we have...well in plants and give similar stability to transcripts as the ones that people use all the time. Now...Plant SynBio Reading: Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids ... -
Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m....requires more photons. For example, moving from transient overexpression of protein fusions to gene-edited... lipoic acid ligase, biotin ligase, phosphopantetheinyltransferase) – These enzymes catalyze the covalent... tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine)– Nonnatural amino acids can be ...improved brightness, photostability, and spectral range. Nevertheless, these fluorophores were designed ...analogs without sacrificing their small size and membrane permeability (Figure 2c). These cell-permeable... -
An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 23, 2020, 2:45 p.m....to be translated into Modern Greek to be easily accessible today. Roughly speaking, we translated our software...see these improvements, you are benefited with reassurance your plasmids will not get lost in a freezer ...Another advantage of Scrum is that it provides transparency to everyone involved about the status of each...accelerating research and discovery. We work with transparency, gladly share our knowledge, and love to collaborate... -
New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m....PRIME, PASTE relies on single-stranded nicks instead of the double-stranded breaks used in other insertion...target. In addition, when they looked at the transformed E. coli expressing Cas7-11, they found no evidence...broadly similar to shRNA and Cas13 systems in a range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same ... of landing sites via Cas9-directed reverse transcriptases, followed bylanding site recognition and integration... -
Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 9, 2017, 2 p.m....high-impact journals, and the requirement for a high grant success rate. At this point, candidates are highly...requirements (and maybe also the proposed salary range) should help. In smaller companies, technical support... The benefit is that these skills are highly transferable and will help you enter other roles in project...departments such as research and manufacturing, quality assurance, product management, marketing, and sales (to ...drive to help others. These roles offer an easy transition from an academic lab to industry without being...