...note that these results could be biased for two reasons: 1) they are based on the US Occupational Employment...nonscientists, blur the line between professional and personal on Twitter. Or maybe scientist prefer to share...Tips: Online Social Networking for Scientists 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication 10 Ways...

...depolarization of R2 neurons using CsChrimson::tdTomato, an optogenetic tool (CsChrimson) attached to a fluorescent...Yang HH, Fisher YE, Wang IE, Ishida IG, Maimon G, Wilson RI, Clandinin TR (2019) SPARC: a method to genetically...

...primers for In-Fusion Cloning Design primers for Gibson Assembly and NEB HiFi DNA Assembly  OligoAnalyzer...cloning methods, such as restriction enzyme cloning, Gibson assembly, or In-Fusion cloning.  NEB Ligation ...resources were added in September 2023 by Rachel Leeson.  Additional resources on the Addgene blog: ...

...mosaic virus Dr. Fiona Robertson, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Dr. Fiona Robertson (far left) is a Senior...potential for this drought tolerant plant, Dr. Robertson aims to make use of the CRISPR/Cas9 technology...

...scientific community, what other reasons do we like being a nonprofit? One big reason is that scientists and technology..., Eric, Gizela, Henry, Ina, Inna, Ishrat, Jane, Jason, Jessica, Joel, Jonathan, Justine, Karen, Kate, ...

...Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET). BRET is similar to Förster Resonance Energy Transfer...heterotrimeric G protein dissociation by bioluminescence resonance energy transfer 2, or BRET2. With binding of the...

...matters! There are important societal reasons, self-interested reasons, and, given that science is largely...largely funded by tax-payers, there are reasons to feel obligated too, as experts on the subject brought out...

... mind from that session were words from Eric Hendrickson, loosely paraphrased in the tweet below. The... DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing Chris Richardson and members of Jacob Corn’s lab describe how ...Yinan, Brian Ruis, Taylor Takasugi, and Eric A. Hendrickson. Genome Res 27(7) (2017):1099-1111. PubMed PMID...

...AAV9  pAAV-CamKIIa-ChrimsonR-mScarlet-KV2.1 124603  AAV9  pAAV-EF1a-DIO-ChrimsonR-mRuby2-KV2.1-WPRE-...affect DREADD trafficking and localization. The Sternson lab recently deposited PSAM AAV, which encode ...

...visualization tools using CRISPR In 2015, Thoru Pederson’s lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical...CRISPR-Sirius Recently, Hanhui Ma and the Thoru Pederson lab developed CRISPR-Sirius (Ma et al., 2018)....order to label two loci simultaneously, Ma and Pederson created another sgRNA containing the PP7 hairpin...

...science trainee will spend 4-7 years working for one person and with a group who all strive for a common big-picture...rotation, which reveals their working habits, personality, and gives them the opportunity to see if the...extreme openness” of the lab (i.e projects like the Personal Genome Project and open source software, hardware...

...error rate for long sequence knock-ins by: Lucie Wilson Le Cong’s lab has developed a method using dCas9...error rates overall ranged from 0.3% to 10%, in comparison to the 62-90% error rate seen with Cas9 editors...barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing by: Rachel Leeson Multiplexed images in live cells remains a challenge...

... variations in DR sequences. Figure 2: comparison of Cas 9 vs. Cas 12a expression cassettes when...0600-6. The Penn State Protein Ladder  by: Rachel Leeson This simple, inexpensive plasmid-based ladder system...mammalian genome regulation and editing by: Rachel Leeson The large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion...

...Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B, Aldred SF, ...JoVE. https://doi.org/10.3791/54832  Lipman NS, Jackson LR, Trudel LJ, Weis-Garcia F (2005) Monoclonal ...

... proto-oncogenes and disrupt their expression (Robinson, 1982). To add insult to injury, retroviruses ...immunogenicity low! References and Resources References Robinson HL. Retroviruses and cancer. Rev Infect Dis. 1982...Gene and Cell-Based Therapies in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI...

... Cpf1 for multiplex genome editing.  For a few reasons, Cpf1 is a simplified system for editing multiple...guide page for a review of Cas9.  For a brief comparison of Cpf1 vs. Cas9, see the table below. Table...expression vector.  See the graph in figure 2 for a comparison of editing frequency resulting from transfection...

... the genome. Mendenhall and Richard Myers of HudsonAlpha (where Mendenhall is also an adjunct faculty ...the function of the protein. Myers: We’ve done comparisons of our new system versus standard ChIP-seq for... for transcription factors, but there are many reasons you might want a system like this. It’s actually...

... Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, Brunet E...P, Burkhalter MD, Oh S, Qaqish BF, Moore DT, Hendrickson EA, Ramsden DA (2014) The fidelity of the ligation...

...want to cover during the year. Suggest that each person bring 3 topics and write them on a board to see... and meet regularly no matter what, even if one person can’t make it. One of the biggest group mentoring...meetings. Experiment with the process. Have each person write a Development Plan. Set concrete goals with...

... on what makes them that way. Is there a senior person whose career path you are interested in following.... Finding potential mentors is one of the many reasons to always be growing your network. If you don’t...need for your current position Understand your interpersonal challenges if they know some of the people you...