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  1. 6 Steps to Submitting a Resume That Gets Seen

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    Blog Post
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    July 9, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...submission of a job application. 3) Read job descriptions carefully Be open minded and be bold. You don...qualifications to apply for a position.  A job description is usually a wish list and the hiring manager...skills and experience. Most Addgene PhD level job descriptions clearly describe that the roles do not involve...
  2. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    Blog Post
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    May 2, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...integrate within an exon of a gene to generate a transcriptional fusion. This may disrupt the endogenous function...spliced into the gene product resulting in a transcriptional fusion, much like promoter traps. While this...likely disrupt the gene it monitors due to transcriptional fusion.   Examples of promoter, enhancer...
  3. Five Questions to Ask If You're Deciding Between a Master's or PhD Program

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...a job search website like Indeed. Do the job descriptions sound interesting? Is the work something you... types of jobs people with master's have Job descriptions often fail to capture all of the responsibilities...to present your work at conferences, help with manuscript and grant preparation, and lead your own research...
  4. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 8, 2019, 1:19 p.m.
    ...to construct the beginning of my review - "The manuscript by ZZZ et al., describes ... The authors share... ask that data and resources described in the manuscript are accessible to the community, increasing the...recognize the hard work that the authors put in the manuscript. As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes...
  5. Single-cell tracking of lineage and identity with CellTag

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    Blog Post
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    May 9, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...reprogrammed into iEPs by retroviral expression of transcription factors Foxa1 and Hnf4α, a process that like...reprogramming (CellTagMEF), at the end of the three-day transcription factor reprogramming treatment (CellTagD3), ...determined by at least day 13. However, distinct transcriptional states were seen as early as day 6. All together...
  6. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...analysis scripts available, some associated with specific libraries, but any analysis script should return...automated manner. Addgene commonly uses a custom script derived from the count_spacers.py file from Feng...
  7. Unique and persistent IDs for improved reproducibility: Addgene now supports RRIDs and compact identifiers for all plasmids

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 20, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
    ... lacks context unless it links to a verified description of that reagent online. Furthermore, if the link... link between the catalog number and reagent description is lost (e.g. a supplier is bought out by another...specific information about the plasmid: name, description, how the plasmid was generated, validated sequence...
  8. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...fusion to a receptor-transcription factor fusion. TEV protease cleave the transcription factor from the receptor...parallel receptorome expression and screening via transcriptional output - TANGO) (Kroeze et al., 2015). PRESTO-TANGO...
  9. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

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    Blog Post
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    June 12, 2018, 11:40 a.m.
    ...times have you looked at a diagram depicting transcription, or DNA repair, or replication, or any number...researching enhancer elements that control the transcription of a gene a megabase away, or looking at the... protein ZMYND8 in chromatin recognition of transcription-associated DNA damage that promotes homologous...
  10. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    Blog Post
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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ..., the ability to detect mRNA transcripts of toxins and other transcripts of interest is a benefit of this...the organisms present while sequencing of all transcripts gives clues into what the microbes are doing....
  11. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 11, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
    ...includes overview information, key dates, funding description, research plan, award information, eligibility...aspects are understood. While reading the funding description, pay attention to the keywords used and think...project are clearly stated and align with the description of the RFA and funding institution. Emphasizing...
  12. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    Blog Post
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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...spreadsheet Data Field Description Plasmid Name Use a descriptive plasmid name and match the...does this plasmid do?” in <200 characters. A descriptive purpose focuses on the practical application ...
  13. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    Blog Post
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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...loop-mediated isothermal amplification after reverse transcription (RT-LAMP) and a colorimetric readout that can... 45 minutes. The team deposited the reverse transcriptase, protease, and Bst polymerase constructs from...toolkit include ones for expressing MMLV reverse transcriptase and Taq polymerase that can be used in a one-step...
  14. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...'ve overlooked regulatory fragments of these transcripts. I remember when small RNA was just something...’t give tRNAs much thought. High throughput transcriptome sequencing methods including work done by the...circRNA datasets and download the custom python scripts needed to discover circRNAs in RNA-seq data. As...
  15. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...histone modifications, which can influence the transcription of genes by RNA polymerase II, or by the addition...methylcytosine in CpG islands makes  genes less transcriptionally active. The role of epigenetics in studying...of tumor suppressor genes can repress their transcription and inactivate them. Global hypomethylation,...
  16. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...Unlike promoters which will create unique mRNA transcripts for each gene that is expressed, multicistronic...your gene as they are both derived from the same transcript. Of course multicistronic vectors do not have...efficient translation of multiple genes from a single transcript. The two strategies most widely incorporated ...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    Blog Post
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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...backbones for constructing fluorescent fusions. Transcription Reporter: Placing GFP under the control of a...promoter in a given cell type. This type of transcription reporting was among the earliest uses of GFP... gene of interest, or expressed from the same transcript as the gene of interest, but after an internal...
  18. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    Blog Post
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    May 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... with tRNAs, which are cleaved out of the RNA transcript by endogenous processing enzymes (Figure 1). ...processing only occurs on the RNA polymerase III transcript, the sgRNAs were encoded on the lentiviral minus...including modifications to the Cas9 or reverse transcriptase enzymes, inhibition of host cell proteins, and...
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