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  1. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ... There is no way around the fact that new team members need to be trained, which may seem like a waste... a seasoned report, there should be questions! Remember that delegating is not just a way to create more...for yourself, but it will help develop your team members by giving them new opportunities. I still need...comfortable with awkward silences but I’ve learned to embrace them after one ended with the person in front of...going to get you what you really want to know. Remember that one on one discussion can be confidential...Protect your team Make you team feel safe. Your team members need to trust you and you need to encourage them...
  2. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...kinetics over 14 hours of expression in C. elegans embryos. However, this initial timer was a tetramer with...mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course, timers may be sensitive to changes ... of vesicle fusion and release from the plasma membrane by fusing various vesicle cargoes to FP timer ...controlling pancreatic differentiation) in mouse embryos (Miyatsuka et al.) Distinguish between models for...fusing Medium-FT to LAMP-2A, a lysosome-associated membrane protein, and following its subcellular localization...with changes in gene expression. In a developing embryo, for example, a researcher could determine whether...
  3. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...is rare these days), and a room of 5-30 faculty members. The session lasts up to an hour. You will get ...outcome with some specifics, the search committee member cannot either. Therefore, you need to be able to...idea to bounce your ideas off of senior faculty members who can help you identify overly ambitious goals...you will be interrupted frequently by committee members. As mentioned above, plan to give your 10 minute... possible to do? Research accomplishments are remembered for the problem solved, not for the amount of...faculty positions. You need to practice with faculty members that have served on search committees. If possible...
  4. Deck the Lab 2022!

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    ...pic.twitter.com/rExV3b8Q8u— Michael Früh (@Michelderapfel) December 19, 2022   Congratulations to all our #DeckTheLab...Borris Aldonza (보리스) 🇰🇷🇵🇭 (@PrecursorCell) December 12, 2022          View this post on Instagram... for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2022.  Follow @Addgene, use the hashtag #DeckTheLab...pic.twitter.com/rDaEjxTNZX— Heng Chooi (@YitHengChooi) December 4, 2021   I spent a year hoarding used tip boxes.../X4eKUGnQMe— Alex Dainis, PhD 🧬 (@AlexDainis) December 18, 2017...
  5. #DeckTheLab with Tinsel and Test Tubes, Fa La La La La La La La La

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    ...It’s finally December, and here at Addgene HQ in Massachusetts that means it’s time for near-freezing...decorating skills. To join the contest, simply embellish and adorn your lab space or your work from home...pic.twitter.com/OOrwo9feyJ — BTC Institute (@BTCInstitute1) December 23, 2020 Contest 2: Deck the Lab - Home Edition...pic.twitter.com/qDylF8TdHH — Matthijs Dorst (@MattNeuro) December 4, 2020 Here’s how to enter: Post your picture... for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2021. Let us know which contest you are entering...
  6. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    ...accessible to your team members only, under the specific permissions set for every member of your team. Do you...pricing, it is good to know how many of your lab members will use the ELN. If your lab is planning to grow..., notifications, sharing files, assigning team members to certain tasks, etc. How is security and user...to assign specific permissions to different lab members to avoid any issues later on. Do you need external...software solution that makes it much easier for lab members to manage and organize their work at every step...
  7. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ... Cell Free Protein Expression Kit FREQ Seq PUF Assembly Kit Below you’ll find information about what ...engages the ribosome for translational complex assembly. PhD student Dejan Gagoski used SITS to create...Academy of Sciences 109.52 (2012): 21408-21413. PUF Assembly Kit PUF proteins are composed of repeat segments...The Zhao lab has made this easy with their PUF Assembly Kit. The kit contains all the variant PUF segments...Sequence‐Specific Detection of RNAs in Two Colors."ChemBioChem 17.10 (2016): 895-899. Choudhury, Rajarshi,...15875. See Kendall Morgan’s blog post on the PUF Assembly Kit for some insights on its potential from its...
  8. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    ...an ideal model organisms for embryonic development studies as their embryos are completely transparent...., and produce 50-300 eggs at a time. Zebrafish embryos are also laid and fertilized externally, allowing... them. Scientists can simply inject one-celled embryos with DNA or RNA to edit their genomes or to create...be easily visualized in a living organism from embryonic development to adulthood. This ability to genetically... and integration of transforming sequences." The EMBO journal 10.12 (1991): 3959-3970. PubMed PMID: 1935914...
  9. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    .... Get the PUF Assembly Kit! Tips and tricks For those interested to try the PUF Assembly Kit out for themselves...tool…designer PUF proteins! A newly available PUF Assembly Kit makes it possible to devise RNA binding proteins...factors (PUF). In a single step, researchers can now assemble designer PUF domains for RNA specificity engineering... Reference Abil Z, Denard CA, Zhao H.  Modular assembly of designer PUF proteins for specific post-transcriptional...
  10. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response to visible light...across the axon's membrane: once a certain number of positive ions crosses the cell membrane, a threshold ...rhodopsins enable ions to flow across the axon’s membrane, thereby controlling neural activity (Bernstein...Stoeckenius. "Rhodopsin-like protein from the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium." Nature new biology...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid

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    ...also encodes the Assembly-Activating Protein (AAP) and the recently discovered Membrane Associated Accessory... AAV genome and docks with the genome onto an assembled capsid. Then Rep52/40, which also bind the capsid...generate the three VP proteins. The three VP proteins assemble into capsid at a 1:1:10 ratio (VP1:VP2:VP3). There...reading frame (ORF). While AAP promotes virion assembly, the role of MAAP has not been clearly defined...
  12. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    ...apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11) to increase fluorescence...animals. To do this they modified a different self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-9 and GFP10-11) by flipping a...rectify this the Shu lab first improved the self-assembling capability of sfCherry approximately 20 fold ...FlipGFP to study apoptosis in HeLa cells, zebrafish embryos, and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing...the spatiotemporal dynamics of apoptosis during embryo development. GFP fluorescence increased over time...
  13. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...three different membrane-targeting flavors – PDGFR, GPI, and SGZ, to improve neuronal membrane trafficking...segment (PDGFR TMD) that anchors the sensor to the membrane and displays it on the extracellular side. In .... PDGFR is a C-terminal fusion to the PDGFR transmembrane domain in the mammalian expression pMinDisplay...glycosylphostidylinositol anchor. SGZ contains a PDGFR transmembrane domain, followed by a modified form of the cytosolic...
  14. A Deep Dive into BioBuilder

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    ...they hear in their classes,” she said, “but they remember the moments when they discover something new for...focused on an emerging scientific field, BioBuilder embraces new opportunities for scientific exploration, ... Lab is a fully equipped, state-of-the-art lab embedded in LabCentral’s community of innovators that opened... Blog Synthetic Biology and the Importance of Assembly Standards Synthetic Photobiology: Optogentics ...Posts Resources on Addgene.org Guide to SynBio Assembly Standards Find Plasmids for Creating and Controlling...
  15. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...Receptor: GPCRs are also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, due to the seven alpha helices...helices that transverse the cellular membrane. The receptor recognizes the appropriate ligand to activate...proteins on the intracellular side of the cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular...kit at Addgene! TRUPATH: Bryan Roth’s lab also assembled a collection of plasmids to elucidate the role...DREADDs) (Roth, 2016). DREADDs were engineered from members of the human muscarinic receptor family and are...
  16. Lentivirus Production

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    ...drifted. Filter the solution through a 0.22 μm membrane. Aliquot 500–1000 μL into sterile tubes. Store...
  17. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...cell divisions of the C. elegans embryo when all essential embryonic genes are individually depleted via...reminded of the extent that C. elegans researchers embrace open science and share resources and tools. That...flybase. microPublication is run and maintained by members of the worm community but there are Drosophila ... lab. SapTrap is a reagent toolkit and plasmid assembly line for the creation of CRISPR targeting vectors...
  18. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    ...fundamental takeaway. Writing these points will help you remember what to say and provide your audience with a clear...venue and professionalism of the conference, and remember to wear comfortable shoes, as you will likely ...your breath before diving in to the next figure. Remember your outline: Instead of getting bogged down in... the minutia or coming off as a broken record, remember the outline you created for yourself. Hit the ... Resources on the Addgene website Become of a member of the Addgene depositor community Learn about ...
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