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  1. How to Negotiate a Successful Lab Start Up Budget

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    Sept. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...where you can start to identify which items aren’t critical to your research success. If you can get away ... most start-up P.I.’s. It doesn’t have to be complicated, or difficult to create this list. Start BEFORE...resources to keep, and which ones to abandon. It’s critical to make these decisions in the following order... budget can help you compare the monetary and empirical value that helps you determine whether or not ...know how to decide which components are the most critical to your research, negotiations can be much easier...negotiating finances, instead of solely discussing numerical values, try to keep conversations focused on research...discounts, collaborations, access to internal award applications, etc. If this is the institute that can help...
  2. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    Sept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ... or pharmacological manipulations on cells, and has potential use for a wide range of applications in ...platform at Addgene. Braselmann E, et al. Nature Chemical Biology. 2018 PubMed PMID: 30061719. New tools...expression vector (pRSETB). Fabritius A, et al. Cell Chemical Biology 2018. PubMed: PMID 30220597. ACE system...versatile in vivo fluorescent reporter for rapid quantification of base-editing and Cas9 cleavage activity ...plasmid that allows for rapid fluorescence-based quantification of base editors that utilize dCas9 fused to... The reporter constitutively expresses eGFP to indicate reporter abundance, and mCherry fluorescence is...frame-shift mutation within the mCherry reporter. Quantification of editing efficiencies simply involves tracking...
  3. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    Dec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
    ...tolerates occasional mismatches or indels. Empirical tests indicated that a reasonable rule is to require at... While there were software tools available to biomedical researchers manipulating DNA sequences on a daily...features such as antibiotic resistance markers and replication origins, but there is extensive heterogeneity...different microbial strains. It proved to be impractical to catalog every variant of a feature. Instead...that have different properties. To prevent misidentification, we augment the database with new fluorescent...protein variants. The future of DNA feature identification What’s next for common features? We plan to...Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago. He was an early depositor at Addgene, and conceived...
  4. The Strength of Story Telling

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    Dec. 19, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ...Storytelling is a crucial part of interpersonal communication, which makes honing your ability to tell stories...calmed the situation down by opening a dialogue specifically about the project and contributions, rather ...wherever it makes sense to start and try to be as chronological as possible — if you find yourself jumping backwards.... Your story should be too. Use drama Use any rhetorical technique you have in your arsenal to make sure...start point and it needs a good end point. One thematically pleasing option is to end at the present — ‘...other options. Choose something with emotional significance that is likely to be memorable. Work out what...Addgene Blog Check out our blog posts on science communication Find interviews scientists in SciComm careers...
  5. Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi

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    April 25, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
    ...structural characterization and applications in fluorescence imaging." Biochemical Journal 400.3 (2006): 531...fluorescent protein: identification of the molecular determinants of color and applications in fluorescence... be used as a fusion tag for a wide range of applications from traditional imaging to FRET and stochastic...492 nm, respectively), they gave this a teal classification rather than cyan and named the protein mTFP1...FRET reporters. mTFP1 is also insensitive to physiologically relevant changes in pH. Find mTFP1 plasmids...excitation maximum 399 nm) because it does not significantly excite at 400 nm while EGFP does. Find mWasabi...
  6. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    June 23, 2015, 8:37 p.m.
    ...type; however, their usage has been limited by technical problems. For instance, it’s much more difficult...protein-only transduction method and its potential applications to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.   Protein-only...that components in the buffer used for protein purification must be helping the untagged protein enter cells...Diego D'Astolfo. CRISPR/Cas9: a potential application of iTOP Having tested iTOP using Cre-lox recombination...showed up to 70% resistance to diphtheria toxin, indicating a 70% frequency of biallelic mutations. Importantly...Importantly, hESCs retained their stemness, indicating that iTOP may be valuable for CRISPR/Cas9 stem cell...potential for off-target effects. Third, protein purification (once a protocol has been established) may be...
  7. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    July 27, 2017, 1:11 p.m.
    ...researcher and science communicator.  Update (7/17/2018): Check out Fatima's recent publication on her HMO work...protein-protein interactions. Beyond these common applications, researchers are finding new ways to apply fluorescent...Zhou and Fatima Enam. There were many excellent applicants but Xin and Fatima stood out for their creativity...utility of these FLiPs in a variety of research applications and particularly notes their ability to be precisely...known to bind to the HMO of interest. Fatima specifically proposes using this sensor to detect HMOs found...endeavors, Fatima hopes to practice her science communication skills throughout her training and wants to ...work in Cell Chemical Biology! Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn More about Photosactivatable...
  8. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto. He is an author of 20+ scientific publications and ...quick turn-around time of Sanger sequencing have historically matched the needs of most molecular biology ...smaller fragments that are then barcoded for identification. This mixture of barcoded fragments is known... a collection of 96 plasmids on a plate) will typically have a wide range of input quantities. This variation...samples. As mentioned above, one of the primary technical benefits of plexWell™ is that normalized libraries... proprietary chemistry). This turns out to be critically important for getting adequate sequencing depth...computational biologist with a passion for solving critical sequencing problems. He received his PhD in Bioinformatics...
  9. The MTA at Addgene

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    July 23, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
    ...agreement on the transfer of biological materials in 1995: the UBMTA. Because biological materials are widely ...many different flavors of MTAs, but the Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement (UBMTA) is one of...MTA for that plasmid facilitated by Addgene — basically, instead of having to sign individual MTAs for...things being organized, tracked, and clearly communicated. And that’s where MTAs, and similar agreements...agreements allow for centralized tracking when biological reagents are shared — both at what time and with... options for the terms you want to share your biological materials under! While most plasmids at Addgene...portal automates a lot of the process, from notifications and emails to generating the UBMTA link for ...
  10. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...these proteins are FDA-approved or in clinical trials or preclinical studies already. We are following up...expand to other cell types, including more physiologically-relevant systems, to catch all the important... we found in our map have an impact on virus replication. While we and our collaborators are starting ... Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes an additional catalytically dead version of the viral protease, Nsp5. Our... 2xStrep-tag for easy detection and affinity purification. All but one are in a pLVX vector background...coronavirus, one FedEx package at a time Since the publication of our paper, our group has been inundated with...Eckhardt and Melanie Brewer are on the Science Communications Team at QBI UCSF. They are particularly interested...
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