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  1. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...for a liver transplant. My lab will combine bioengineered scaffolds with patient stem cells to generate... in your chalk talk, there's the vital task of engaging your audience. You need to make your audience ...search committees. If possible, do at least two full length practices (~1 h) and get feedback. It’s also helpful...outside your field. If they can understand and are engaged by your presentation, then you’re on the right ...
  2. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...16568824. Hmelo, Laura R., et al. "Precision-engineering the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome with two-step...PMID: 31201277. Liljeruhm, Josefine, et al. "Engineering a palette of eukaryotic chromoproteins for bacterial...bacterial synthetic biology." Journal of biological engineering 12.1 (2018): 8. PubMed PMID: 29760772. PubMed...Thomason, Lynn C., et al. "Recombineering: genetic engineering in bacteria using homologous recombination." ...
  3. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    ...for investigating neuronal signaling and for engineering improved sensors for these and other targets....this in mind, Ed Boyden and colleagues set out to engineer a potassium ion biosensor with a binding affinity...sensors. Using genome mining and structure-guided engineering of potassium binding proteins, they developed...and are a promising starting point for further engineering. Figure 5: Structure-guided design and genome...
  4. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...double strand break repair, it has proven more challenging to develop high efficiency CRISPR-based approaches...Howes, Rob, and Christine Schofield. "Genome engineering using adeno-associated virus (AAV)." Chromosomal...Benjamin E., and David V. Schaffer. "Combining engineered nucleases with adeno-associated viral vectors...editing." Precision Medicine, CRISPR, and Genome Engineering. Springer, Cham, 2017. 29-42. PubMed PMID: 29130152...
  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...natural inclination for this skill that you could strengthen. The right set of transferable skills, coupled...lack thereof): Information sharing gets more challenging the bigger an organization gets, and creating...conflict resolution is likely not one of your strengths. Empathizing with people, especially people with...recognize that conflict resolution may never be a strength for you. But if you are a problem solver, and ...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    ...sequence in the way that they like, the design and engineering of fusion proteins is relatively straightforward...properties of the protein of interest can be challenging. In this blog I discuss strategies to generate...before generating a fusion protein, e.g. linker length, the specific fluorescent protein variant, and ... (catalytic activity or interactions) can be challenging. If a fusion can complement a knock-down or knock-out...
  7. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ... validated first through the production of full-length protein (the TAG codon should encode phosphoserine... instead of a stop codon, which will allow full length GFP to be translated), and second, through a gel...for parameters such as induction temperature and length of induction, which will vary between different...phosphorserine has actually been incorporated into the full-length protein. Up to 80% p-Ser incorporation into E17TAG...
  8. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    ... genomic DNA to amplify the gRNA targets was challenging because you’re limited by the sequence of the...straightforward, and is a testament to how far genome engineering has come. For comparison, in 2007 it took about...lentiCas9-Blast (Plasmid #52962) was a gift from Feng Zhang and is described in Improved vectors and genome-wide... genome engineering...
  9. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...possible by the light: when hit with the correct wavelength, microbial rhodopsins enable ions to flow across...a laser. The laser flashes light of specific wavelengths, selectively turning neuron activity on or off...1977): 237-243. PubMed PMID: 20882. Mei, Yuan, and Feng Zhang. "Molecular tools and approaches for optogenetics...28772120. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5830081. Zhang, Feng, et al. "The microbial opsin family of optogenetic...
  10. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...selection. Knock-in events tend to be rare, and the challenge with any experiment is in efficient recovery of...Toolkit and SapTrap-SEC kit for C. elegans genome engineering have also facilitated CRISPR editing in C. elegans...Higgins CD, Goldstein B (2015) Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette.....113.156075 Ward JD (2014) Rapid and Precise Engineering of theCaenorhabditis elegansGenome with Lethal...
  11. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

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    ...Today's postdoctoral fellows (PFs) face a number of challenges ranging from long periods of training to limited...for a successful postdoc fellowship. 1. Reverse engineer success On Day 1 of your postdoctoral experience...data needed to rule out alternative models or to strengthen your new model?  PFs need to be regularly thinking...and answering questions. Organizing a thoughtful engaging talk takes significant effort. It requires evaluation...
  12. Hot Plasmids Podcast Episode 2: New RFPs, AAVs, & More

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    ...the nervous system, and vectors for zebrafish engineering. You can find additional hot plasmids in our ...Segment on mScarlet Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page! Edward B. Page is a Digital...Production Specialist at Addgene. He is the audio engineer and producer for the Addgene Podcast.     Additional...
  13. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...-1 Wang R, Xiang S, Feng Y, Srinivas S, Zhang Y, Lin M, Wang S (2013) Engineering production of functional...are between 5-8 amino acids long, with a typical length of 5 or 6 amino acids (Cruse et al., 2004). Because...natural immune system production and many more engineered methods. Each type of antibody and production...
  14. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ... cytokines like TGFβ and IL-6. However, when strengthened through efforts to boost the activity of the... form of immunotherapy in recent times. These engineered T cells are capable of recognizing targets like...the above therapeutics, techniques like genome engineering have played a huge role. For instance, researchers...at Binghamton University. She works on genome engineering and cancer immunotherapy, and is interested in...
  15. Trends in CRISPR and SynBio Technologies

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    ...the recent Keystone Meeting "Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology". His reflections on the...example, the authors Patrick Hsu, Eric Lander, and Feng Zhang acknowledge the role of data and materials...online user forums such as http://www.genome-engineering.org and http://www.egenome.org." At the Keystone...
  16. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...becoming an ever more ubiquitous tool for genome engineering, and studying its structure can help us understand... it’s the reason guide sequences have a maximum length of 20 bases: nothing longer will fit. Stabilization...structural insight also spurs the next generation of engineered CRISPR enzymes with their own tradeoffs. And ...the Addgene blog Components of CRISPR  xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility Cas9 vs...
  17. Deck the Lab 2022!

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    ...🎄🎁🎅🤶🎄 pic.twitter.com/rDaEjxTNZX— Heng Chooi (@YitHengChooi) December 4, 2021   I spent a year hoarding...used tip boxes for a lab supply tree and set a challenge to my lab mates. They did not disappoint. #deckthelab...
  18. Tips for Working in Industry & Success in Management: Interview with Crystal Shih

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    ...completing her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering with Harry Gray at Caltech, Crystal moved on ... @ShihCrystal.     Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page! Edward B. Page is a Digital...Production Specialist at Addgene. He is the audio engineer and producer for the Addgene Podcast.      Additional...
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