...By Justin Ng and Alyssa Cecchetelli Science is a constantly evolving and demanding field, requiring a...rats have some key differences in physiology, intelligence, and human correspondence that give them an ...routinely used in an array of neuroscience research (Ellenbroek and Youn, 2016). For these reasons rats were ...transgenic axolotls for an array of different studies. Elly Tanaka’s lab has constructed several vectors for...are often used to study vertebrate embryology and cell development. One major resource for frog research...Organism to Study and Model Human Genetic Disease. Cells Tissues Organs, 205(5–6), 303–313. https://doi.org...https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.50651 Vieira, W. A., Wells, K. M., & McCusker, C. D. (2019). Advancements to...

...activity which cleaves the supplied fluorescently labelled ssDNA substrates. Upon cleavage, the fluorescence...complementarity between the gRNA and a given fluorescently labelled substrate, gets activated and performs non-specific...strips to detect the cleavage of fluorescently labelled RNA, the authors employ a P51 cardboard fluorescence... with streptavidin coated beads. Fluorescently labelled dCas9 complexes containing sgRNA that have no ...Shravanti Suresh is a PhD candidate who investigates cellular aspects of CRISPR/Cas immune systems in the Sashital...2020.04.07.028167 Broughton JP, Deng X, Yu G, Fasching CL, Servellita V, Singh J, Miao X, Streithorst JA, Granados ...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0513-4 Kellner MJ, Koob JG, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Zhang...

... by guest blogger Natalie Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison...commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation ...translation of many stop codons and detrimental effects on cell growth. The C321.ΔA strain was genomically recoded...in stability of the p-Ser incorporated protein as well as context-specific effects of UAG suppression, ... Niemi! Natalie Niemi, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison...is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling, metabolism, and the mighty mitochondrion..."The origins of protein phosphorylation." Nature cell biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757...

...Farewell 2019, and hello 2020! As we're gearing up to start a new decade, we’re also looking back at ... by Alyssa Cecchetelli The introduction of nucleic acids into bacteria or eukaryotic cells is a common...Photoswitchable Proteins by Cary Valley, Shreya Vedantam, Michelle Cronin, and Angela Abitua Thanks to a team effort.... 5. Five Popular Model Organisms by Alyssa Cecchetelli and Lukas Morgan There are many model organisms...

...Or you don’t know how well your assay will scale. Or you don’t have enough cells to execute genome-wide...spreadsheet of random numbers that’ll leave you, well, #sad. Learn More About CRISPR Pooled Library...genome is limited by definition, the kinome is a well-annotated collection of genes that can provide a...lentiGuide expressing only an gRNA, for use with cells that already have Cas9). Each library consists of...be useful when screening for phenotypes, such as cell-non-autonomous effects, that do not lend themselves...

...How do you celebrate your lab’s achievements? Tom Ellis highlights the importance of acknowledging his teams...-off via a gift, card, and trip to the pub. Dr. Ellis adds “we probably don’t celebrate enough... I’ll... pizza or pub.” The Cepko Lab celebrates any fellowships, jobs, or paper submissions with dinner and champagne.... What does your lab do for fun as a group? The Ellis Lab self-organizes cinema nights, game nights, and...retreat. How do you manage work-life balance? Tom Ellis reveals “I don't. Ask me again in five years and...from you! Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr. Tom Ellis (Imperial College London), Dr. Connie Cepko (Harvard...

...mammalian cells. Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9...choice for a number of model organisms: mammalian cells, yeast, drosophila, plants, worms, zebrafish, frogs...pyogene’s SpCas9. These Cas9 proteins don’t work well at high temperatures, so to use them in thermophiles... 45 °C 50 - 70 °C Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells? Yes Yes Longevity in Serum?* No Yes Table ...experimental results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can...

...expression targeted to specific tissues, cell types or even subcellular regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches...approaches excel at discrete cell or tissue-subregion targeting down to the limits of light delivery. ...-wide targeting, as the ligand can reach target cells throughout the body. Controlling Stimulation Some... and chemogenetic tools need to be delivered to cells, commonly through viral delivery by AAV. You can...Further restricted to illuminated region Impacts all cells expressing receptors Invasiveness Mice require...

... add bells and whistles to your construct. If you are planning to track your protein in the cell or purify..., or express the insert they carry in the target cell. These vectors allow you to test the function of...selection cassette to screen for positive transfected cells. The addition of an in-frame fluorescent fusion ...get away with generating transiently transfected cells, you will not need a mammalian selection cassette.... Other vectors can be expressed in fly culture cells like S2 and carry the metallothionein promoter (...

...Tom Ellis highlights the importance of keeping up-to-date with the literature of a couple of well-known...yet attainable milestones that contribute to intellectual thought and discovery to the scientific community...ideas. What mentors are available for guidance, intelligent discussion, and/or brainstorming sessions to ...increase chances that your project will be fresh as well.” Don't underestimate the importance of choosing...for you.   Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr. Tom Ellis (Imperial College London), Dr. Connie Cepko (Harvard...

...desired mutation in mouse ES cells, select for the mutation and inject the ES cells into a mouse embryo to ...Cas-mediated genome engineering." Cell 154 (2013):1370-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.022 PubMed: PMID: 23992847...then electroporate it into mouse embryonic stem cells. After selecting for clones with the recombined ... your chimeric mice did not contain edited germ cells, your experiment would be unsuccessful. CRISPR made... targeting the same or complementary strands, as well as guides facing towards or away from each other...

...practice (GLP) (important buzzwords in industry) as well as skills in industry positions. There were, however...projects, this can cause conflicts and favoritism, as well as affect morale and cause gossip). These kinds ...that, when those contracts fall through or are cancelled, then redundancies can be made within the company...  Working abroad: Research in Australia I then travelled abroad to work at the University of Queensland...customer service (recruitment agencies often don’t tell you what company a job is with until just before...towards the scientific aspects of the company as well and use my other skills and interests. I was so ...flexibility of a ‘start-up’. I was surprised how well I fit in with the company and that my ideas and ...

...professional and personal development, is essential to excelling in the modern world. Talent knows no boundaries...me in my next steps. For example, how to get a fellowship to travel abroad, how to write cover letters,...mentees identified career opportunities in science as well as the developmental needs and resources needed ...the program included improvements in writing fellowships, giving oral presentations, and preparing for...profesional networks, and nominations for government fellowships. The closing and formal evaluation of the pilot...Spanish government’s support for the IMP program as well as for the Spanish scientific community overseas...particularly interested in breast cancer and metastasis as well as teaching and mentoring activities. Follow her...

... Below you’ll find brief summaries of several excellent guest posts from our depositors. Interested in...Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells GFP oligomerization can lead to misleading artefacts...which specific chemical inputs are received by a cell. These so-called recombinase-based state machines...required for viral replication and transcription as well as reporter genes. To learn how you can use minigenomes...used to deliver a genes of interest to a variety of cell types in-vivo. These are widely used by the optogenetics...activation and repression of different genes in a single cell, and localization of a fluorescent signal to your...

...community. Addgene's AAV preparations have worked well in my lab, including in applications where we have... can be used to deliver fluorescent proteins to cells as determined by the serotype. You can use these...determine if your AAVs are getting to the right cells using your particular delivery technique and conditions...expanding our viral vector educational resources as well, with both posts on the blog and pages on the Addgene...website you’ll find our updated viral vector pages as well as expanded virus protocols, information on how ...specific material page and includes western blots as well as other expression data. If you have any questions...

...protein purification as well. This tag is not suitable for use in apoptotic cells as Caspase3/7 both cleave...originally derived from jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) and can serve as an epitope tag as well as a fluorescent...Addgene’s catalog including a mouse monoclonal (M2) as well as a chimera (rabbit). Myc The Myc tag is a 10 ...fluorescent marker. The GFP tag is ideal for live cell imaging, FRET, flow cytometry, or immunofluorescence where...

...would rather fund excellent people with mediocre ideas than mediocre people with excellent ideas. I am lucky...your life making connections and finding mentors -- well, it's time you call upon these people for guidance...Don’t go it alone.  You’ll find that no matter how well you know your idea, you will rarely succeed in launching...partners.  You need a dedicated team that you know well and trust.  This will allow you to discuss each ...two close friends, Sreyan Chowdhury and Clinton Buell, who have very diverse educational backgrounds (...

...Fhearraigh, PhD, of www.phdadvice.com. I sold out, well in part that’s what leaving academia feels like ...would continue on with my academic dream of studying cell division. However, after 6 years in the business...products, so you have some of the best ideas on how to sell these products to other scientists. Tailoring my...introduction to the financial world. It teaches you about selling products which is an important part of the business...Cambridge University where he studied mechanisms of cell division. Recently Seán got the entrepreneurial ...information on ELISA troubleshooting, ELISA kits and cell death assays. You can find Seán on twitter @Macfhearraigh...

...an awake monkey is different from a cell in a dish. I always tell people, 'Be driven by your science.'...for neuroscience back in 2005, both activators as well as silencers of neural activity. Since then, there...to Addgene in a matter of days. Addgene: Can you tell us a little more about this new two-color tool and...and see how different parts of the brain or the cells within them work together or perhaps compete against...two-photon properties, so you could activate single cells in arbitrary patterns in the brain. Addgene: Do ...

...of viruses used to deliver CRISPR components to cells or organisms under study. In the past we’ve left... they want to do is to quickly generate a single cell line and proceed to use it for experiments.” - ...screen for genes involved in a wide variety of cellular processes. While these are widely requested and...representation in the viral prep, infect target cells, and, finally, conduct the screen. To help alleviate...of this labor for our users, we now provide the Brunello (targeting human genes) and Brie (targeting mouse...deliver gRNA and therefore, must be used to infect a cell line already expressing Cas9. As John Doench (Broad...