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  1. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... to have either salaries raised or hours tracked, 3% of postdocs were at institutions focused only on ...of Information Act (FOIA) requests for their postdoctoral salary information as of December 1st. Salary...are an important step forward in helping the postdoctoral population continue to pursue academic work,...of the scientific enterprise by reducing the postdoctoral population which keeps growing despite a lack...
  2. Editor's Choice, September 2016

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    Oct. 7, 2016, 4 p.m.
    ...that could be useful for a wide variety of reasons. 3) I would love to see more posts like this on the Addgene...deposited plasmids on this trip. Here’s to hoping that October is even more awesome than September! Tyler J. Ford...
  3. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... level should now be automatically adjusted every 3 years. In May 2016, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez...exactly how postdoctoral salaries are changing. Transparent salary information for postdoctoral positions...institutions set their postdoctoral salary scales to the NRSA scale (Figure 21, National Postdoctoral Association...Stanford raised salary levels to $50,000, and as of October 1st the salary minimum was raised again to $51,...as having postdocs, representing ~85% of the postdoctoral workforce. Based on our communications with ...according to the NSF data, account for 18% of the postdoctoral workforce in the sciences. The Dana Farber Cancer...to have to get rid of postdocs; that current postdoctoral appointments may shorten in length; that postdoc...
  4. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    Blog Post
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    March 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
    ...acceptable. Aims should be mechanistic, doable by 1-3 people in 1-5 years, and contribute to resolving the...contributed by Erik Snapp, the Director of Student and Postdoctoral Programs at the Janelia Research Campus of the...from Oregon Health Sciences University, did his postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz...and now serves as the Director of Student and Postdoctoral Programs at the Janelia Research Campus of the...
  5. Celebrate National Book Month with Addgene

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 3, 2019, 12:47 p.m.
    ...Brandon Sanderson "The Mistborn series is the first 3 books of a larger epic of fantasy novels. Set in a...not - to inspire you to read a little more this October. Science favorites Musicophilia: Tales of Music...
  6. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    Blog Post
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    March 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
    ...100th birthday, as your mom will never forgive you… #3 Honor the work day and keep it holy Keep a regular...And, yes, your partner CAN take the kids to the doctor without your help. Your partner is equally responsible...eight-year-old daughter vehemently reminded her doctor that she was allergic to penicillin – I am much...
  7. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    Sept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m.
    ... scientists have certainly not lost site of that. 3. Stem cell science is hard, and expensive Dr. Yamanaka...differentiated cells simply by expressing four proteins Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and cMyc (the so called OSKM factors...
  8. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...great tool for someone starting cell culture work. 3. NEB Tools by New England BioLabs In my lab we do ...Management Software Resources on Addgene.org Find Protoctols for Your Research Catch Up On Your Molecular ...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...while AAV-PHP.S is typically used at a dose between 3 x 1011 and 1 x 1012 vg*. Most systemic capsids are...transduction in New World monkeys   Figure 3: Evolutionary tree depicting the phylogenetic relationship...414 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0097-3 More resources on the Addgene blog Viral Vectors 101...Sensory Ganglion Neurons Using AAV-PHP.S. eNeuro,9(3), ENEURO.0373-21.2022. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO...Are Limited to C57BL/6J Mice. Molecular Therapy, 26(3), 664–668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2018.01.018.... R., Flytzanis, N. C., Goeden, N., Christopher Octeau, J., Roxas, K. M., Chan, K. Y., Scherrer, J., Winchester...
  10. 7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors

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    Jan. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
    ... make it easy for your supervisor to support you. 3) Explain the problem and leave your emotions out of...the needs of other people. Some students and postdoctoral fellows are hesitant about expressing their ...
  11. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...PMID: 25599551. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4344395. 3. Lavis, Luke D., and Ronald T. Raines. "Bright ideas... tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine)– Nonnatural amino acids can be ...
  12. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Government (2016). 2. CDC Information Pages on Antibiotics 3. WHO Antimicrobial Resistance Fact Sheet  Additional...www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1uDYSfINA. When you go to the doctor, it will very likely take time to determine if ...
  13. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    Nov. 14, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ...www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-job-fairs-2014-3 https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/05/21/... students today is that many graduate and post-doctoral programs lack any formal or mandatory professional...
  14. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...biotechnology 16(7): 657–62. PubMed PMID: 9661200.  3. Cardin, Jessica A. et al. 2009. “Driving Fast-Spiking...guest blogger, Katrin Michel! Katrin Michel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT and is fascinated by the question...
  15. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    Sept. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the membrane is cut so each lane is its own piece (3). After incubation, blocking, and washing, the membrane...protein concentration decreases).     Figure 3: Testing the antibody’s dynamic range. A) The protein...resources with examples, like BioRad’s Western Blot Doctor page, or robust discussions, like ResearchGate’...
  16. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...or 1kb fragments are produced (see figure above). 3 Reasons The PSU Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are... through the expression of transcription factors OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC is the established model...Addgene and include a variety of cMYC, KLF4, SOX2 and OCT4 DNA binding domain and transcription activation ...
  17. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...should be ~60°C (between 50 and 65, with no more than 3 degrees between the two Tms)  Aim for 50-60% GC content...Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 28, Issue 19, 1 October 2000, Pages 3752–3761, https://doi.org/10.1093/...
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