...of lab BBQ parties - despite BBQs being wishful thinking in England. The Cepko Lab throws going away parties...celebrate each other's accomplishments? Any tips on making time to relax and/or enjoy time away from the bench... Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking the time to speak with us throughout this series...

...write brief descriptions on each. Place the notes sticking up out of the top of the notebooks, so that you...use the search bar to quickly find what you’re looking for. Tip 3: Share protocols and spreadsheets with... knowing the information is backed up and edit tracking will help you identify when others have added ...

...nLightR greatly expand the toolbox for researchers looking to study norepinephrine, the Patriarchi lab continues...Ovchinnikov, S., & Steinegger, M. (2022). ColabFold: Making protein folding accessible to all. Nature Methods...Technique is Best for Me?  In Living Color: The Skinny on In Vivo Imaging Tools Resources on Addgene....

...because it finally feels to me like the postdocs are taking some steps to control their own future in science...speaker, Dr. Henry Bourne (shown in photo), has been speaking out and writing about issues in our science training...experience and encouragement.  Dr. Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs...

...Streptococcus and the “py” in pyogenes), capable of locking two peptide tags together. SpyLigase overcomes ...forces acting on them. For the application we were looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating tumor cells..., highly stable and has this amazing chemistry locking the domain together - no one knows what for. Many...

...mapping These tools are for viewing, editing or making plasmid maps, but can also analyze and annotate... Viewer: The free SnapGene Viewer is great for looking at plasmid maps and viewing sequencing traces, ... blank spaces, from the text of a DNA sequence, making it ready to copy and paste into other applications...

...video. Don't worry - no pipettes were harmed in the making of this photo!  Here, I was also given a mixture...such as stuffing new depositor welcome kits, note taking for protocol video production, and keeping inventory... my time here comes to an end, my worries about making connections with coworkers seem, in retrospect,...

...fluorescent signal and enables single molecule tracking  within living cells without affecting protein...managed to track run lengths of the motor protein kinesin across microtubules. Tanenbaum et al. then tested...photobleaching Simplified, long-term single-molecule tracking Caveats of SunTag Very large size: a 24x scaffold...

...background noise. This is not terribly problematic when working with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest...harvest large quantities of cells. However, when working on specific tissues or organs in whole animal models...major technical hurdle.   ChIP-seq requires  cross-linking during an initial fixation step. This serves to...

... cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking. Fortunately, there are many ways to do this involving... a successful uptake of your DNA of interest by taking advantage of bacterial characteristics such as ...for specific amino acids. When plated on media lacking the essential amino acid, the bacteria will only...