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  TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 25, 2014, 7:11 p.m....must be utilized or a new combination needs to be created in advance of the experiment. The marker provided...physiological levels due to high copy numbers. This creates a potential metabolic burden on the yeast cells...
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Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m....the group mentoring format Adding peer advice increases the diversity of input and perspectives Provides...Have each person write a Development Plan. Set concrete goals with input from the group to make the plan... - 
  
Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m....delivery into recipients by conjugation. The labs screened for the host-range of the plasmids and suitability...of cells containing the particle exponentially decreases over time and the number of elapsed generations... - 
  
dTAG - You're it!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m....including rapidly depleting a protein-of-interest, increasing target selectivity, overcoming resistance to ...molecule binders. To overcome this limitation, we created a generalizable tag-based strategy, which we refer... - 
  
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m....excitation light less efficiently. Similarly, decreasing the power of the excitation light reduces the... excitation/emission cycles per unit of time, decreasing the likelihood that a fluorophore will bleach... - 
  
Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....synthesized at the ER, delivered to the vacuole via the secretory pathway, and then cleaved to generate an active...In both cases, red fluorescence in the vacuole increased with longer exposure to autophagy-inducing conditions... - 
  
Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... or phosphate molecules of the RNA backbone to increase stability. Nature has evolved ways to prevent...surprisingly well-tolerated by the Cas9 protein and can increase on-target efficiency. In the same vein, locked... - 
  
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....germane cognitive load refers to the work put into creating a permanent store of knowledge (a schema).” In...images, noises and music, spoken words, and any onscreen text. Be aware of the effort the audience is expending... - 
  
Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 30, 2021, 2:15 p.m....skills such as critical thinking, decision making, creativity, or data analysis. Conveniently, these are all...details. Or challenge yourself to think of more creative solutions. Ultimately, problem solving is less... - 
  
Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 5, 2024, 1:15 p.m....Light chain. C = Constant domain. H = Heavy chain. Created with biorender.com The modularity of antibodies...antibody and common antigen binding fragments. Created with biorender.com. Why Fabs? Antibody fragments... - 
  
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m....function, however longer histidine strings can increase that risk. Number of residues Deciding... very low level, try a longer histidine tag to increase capture. Longer histidine tags are also recommended... - 
  
Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2018, 3:20 p.m.... sometimes at odds with the space needed to be creative. “You need a lot of time to let you mind process...Sometimes finding that uninterrupted time to be creative is challenging,” says Susan. Another difficulty... - 
  
Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m....Most coaches have websites you can review and most create useful online content in the form of blogs or articles...us) offers a free report on her website called “Secrets to Success in Graduate School”. She has also launched... - 
  
5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2014, 12:13 p.m....institution. Moreover, avoidance of ‘to be’ verbs creates strong, well-directed meaning and delivers strength...for funding improves the associated skill sets. Increased experience in communicating and motivating research... - 
  
A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m....participants can identify you. You may also wish to make creative use of a footer in your poster. This is a section...scientific poster, you shouldn’t hesitate to be creative. After all, your poster is a representation of... - 
  
Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 1, 2018, 1:57 p.m....The Bethune Lab has overcome this limitation by creating Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable version... are expressed in cells via plasmids or by the creation of stable cell lines and these cells are then ... - 
  
CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.... off-target effects Prolonged Cas activity can increase the chance of off-target editing particularly ...Adenovirus Vector Expressing Anti-CRISPR Peptides Decreases CRISPR/Cas9 Toxicity in Human Hematopoietic Stem... - 
  
Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m....for NRN PAMs and to a lesser extent NYN. This increases the flexibility of gRNA placement significantly...NYN PAMs; it just isn’t always ideal. But the increased flexibility helps even when it’s not an ideal ... - 
  
Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2023, 3 p.m...., use a broadly reactive secondary antibody to increase the chance of primary/secondary antibody binding...cross-adsorption process filters out off-target antibodies increasing specificity and reducing cross-reactivity. For... - 
  
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m....-pot system will allow investigators to rapidly create multiple synthetic chromatin-modifying proteins...cells (Zhang et al., 2015). Recently the Ward lab created a tool-kit to expand upon these original tools ...