...slides, handouts, and resources were hosted on the Plantae website blog post written by Ben Schwessinger, ...I realized that not all the materials would be relevant to everyone at this specific conference, and I...’s How-to-guide covers everything that you would want to know before, during, and after organizing such...was also recently awarded a Mozilla Science mini-grant, which will fund a project to support a dedicated... and impactful opportunities - There are many brilliant minds out there, but how do you get them to connect...

...not be important for a good friend, but if you are making a professional inquiry, you always want to read...many academic scientists are starting to see the advantages of using social networking to start, build, and...the easiest ways to help is to connect people that want to meet or that you think might be helpful to each...Do not post or comment on anything that is not relevant to business or volunteer organizational work. ...

...added using PCR-based amplification (Option 2). Advantages of Golden Gate cloning Golden Gate cloning is...potential clones. Golden Gate assembly has a few advantages over other cloning methods. Exonuclease-based...destination vector, making multiplexing easy.  Disadvantages of Golden Gate cloning Golden Gate cloning is...may not be amenable to "domestication", you might want to consider using an alternative method like Gateway...Gateway cloning or Gibson assembly. Another important consideration is the design of flanking overhangs...

...other references to scientific literature to substantiate the facts upon which it builds. This means you...your area. When you are in ‘writing-mode’ for a grant or a scientific manuscript, the reading will likely... you an overview of the topic and point you to relevant primary research articles. Then just start reading...key words and download what seems interesting or relevant. Harness the power of the Google search engine...Google Scholar will send you daily updates with relevant literature. Organizing the literature As a scientist...

...‘core’ complex is composed of a tightly-bound invariant group of proteins, whereas the more loosely bound...acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature afforded by coactivator complexes...comprehensive datasets that collectively address many important and fundamental questions in nuclear receptor ...states, their circadian regulation, as well as in important physiological states such as adipogenesis and ...coregulators. We look forward to growing this important relationship with Addgene for the benefit of the...

...altogether different. They are filled with blind anticipation. Their trust in the quality of the content is... manuscript could only have been viewed as a significant improvement. As a result, the software piñata...those engaging in CRISPR design, but it is a significant hurdle made worse by an ever increasing marketplace...for this purpose. This second area is extremely important and given the lack of attention to it, it is an... interact with the software. This category is important for users wishing to select tools based on their...Matchmaker, it provides a list of terms I think are important to define for the CRISPR software space. It is...

...CRISPR activation uses dCas9, a CRISPR protein variant lacking its endonuclease ability, to bind to genes...themselves. SunTag, SAM, and VPR have all shown significant improvements upon the initial dCas9-VP64 method... this method is its construction: it relies on antibody chains, which are relatively large and are not...Performance Generally, VPR is found to have significantly higher activation levels than the initial dCas9...activation levels are similar to that of SunTag. An advantage to this method compared to other notable CRISPR...

... would be infected by a lab-grown virus, it's important to understand the risks of the specific virus ...necessary step during production), there is a significant risk for aerosol contamination. As most centrifugation...ethanol (other surfaces). For AAVs, which are resistant to ethanol and isopropyl alcohol, 0.5% peracetic...sharps procedures for your organization will significantly reduce the risk of an accident (the most common...more likely to make a mistake and more likely to want to cut a few corners. For many researchers, viruses...

...Outbred strains of mice are useful for comparing dominant and recessive traits and their impact on diseases... case, a positive selection marker such as an antibiotic resistance gene is also included to select for... are injected into a blastocyst which is then implanted into a female animal for gestation. Nucleases ...are microinjected into a zygote, which is then implanted into a female mouse for gestation. All three can...nucleases to generate an engineered mouse model has advantages over the injection of a targeting vector alone...

...advocacy skills “bootcamp” for a focused group of participants. More information can be found at http://futureofresearch.org...graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants to join unions. The topic of unionization continues...productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills...of Howell Communications Philip Brenner, PhD - Assistant Professor of Sociology. University of Massachusetts... Developing effective science advocates is an important way to push the balance from challenge to opportunity...

...advocacy non-profits like Phipps Conservatory or the Brilliant Club and share your knowledge at local schools...Student Voice are two examples. Many blogs like Plant Science today, Soapbox Science (hosted by Nature...Science, Media and Communication. In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer...where you may take a science track. If you don’t want to commit time and money to a full-time graduate...communication. If science journalism is the path you want to follow, check out the distance learning courses...

...these communities, which is in turn crucial if we want to make sure that everyone can be informed and empowered...individual consumers of technologies and as societal participants in the political process. My role at pgEd I ...who are interested in such careers should take advantage of their academic environment and attend seminars...either giving or running these events will be important both in preparing you for future work in these...communicate your work to a non-technical audience is an important skill for every scientist. After all, scientific...

...strength as a determinant of gene expression levels, the terminator also plays an important role in RNA ...expression vectors use double terminators to reduce unwanted translation of downstream elements. A high affinity...polyadenylation. The addition of the poly(A) tail is important for stability of the mRNA, protection from degradation...Maitland NJ. An Internal Polyadenylation Signal Substantially Increases Expression Levels of Lentivirus-Delivered...

...at my workshops, I get nods from nearly every participant. Robert Bramson, author “Coping with Difficult...people: Hostile-aggressives, who are usually antagonistic and impolite, Complainers, who spend most ...people. Some students and postdoctoral fellows are hesitant about expressing their ideas, especially if their...solutions that will meet both of your needs. 6) Put important agreements in writing One of the most frequent...from your supervisor. Whenever possible, discuss important issues in person or over the telephone instead...

...regulation, but enhancers and chromatin looping play important supporting roles. Enhancers are cis regulatory...ligation creates chimeric circles of DNA that are distant linearly but close together in space. The chromatin...interactions. The chromatin story told by CAPTURE 2.0 is important, but it’s not the only plot line in gene regulation...CRISPR users Learn how to Choose the Best Cas9 Variant for Your Next Experiment Learn More About Designing...Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find Other Cas9 Variants for Purifying Genomic Regions of Interest Here...

...traveling for campus visits. This is definitely an advantage of surviving in a virtual world over the course...Having notes close to your computer with things you want to highlight in the interview is another way to ...staff have become a new way to allow you to get important information about the campus even if you can’t...and the in-person portion got canceled, taking advantage of virtual meetings can still be a great opportunity...exception. However, using the virtual world to your advantage can strengthen your application and help you decide...

...design, batch primer design or batch analysis. We wanted to relieve scientists of the burden of having to... to analyze  CRISPR repair outcomes, which is important for quality control. The only ones we found that...that worked with NGS data were: Crispresso CrispRVariants AmpliCan We chose to adapt Crispresso by Luca...their "summarisation score".) For CrispyCrunch, we wanted to consider both factors, as a bench scientist ...coding region in a UTR, CrispyCrunch flips the two important base pairs of the PAM (NGG -> NCC, CCN -> GGN)...

... in high-throughput libraries My labmates and I wanted to find a way to predict the efficiencies of pegRNA...Figure 1). Through this method, we found key determinants of prime editing efficiency such as the length...et al., 2024) have highlighted how chromatin substantially affects prime editing outcomes across many genomic..., A., Kuzmin, I., Raudvere, U., Peterson, H., Liberante, F. G., & Parts, L. (2023). Prediction of prime...efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants. Nature Biotechnology 2023, 1–11. https://doi.org...

...gRNAS1, and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP. Gonçalves says that advantages of AdVs include their episomal nature and very...efficient introduction of DNA into therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral ...Disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (most widely used so far) or for cancer...used, the CRISPR approach based on HDR has the advantage of being a potentially universal treatment (Stephens... could be realized via simple switching of the relevant gRNAs and donor DNA Adenoviral CRISPR/Cas9 genome...

... your research. RNA editing advantages RNA editing has multiple advantages over more traditional DNA editing...stretches of duplexed RNA. Using an ADAR2DD catalytic mutant, they showed that editing is mediated by ADAR2DD...precise than shRNA knockdown, it still displays substantial off-target activity. By mutating residues in ...discussed above, the ability to edit RNA has multiple advantages, including reversibility and use in non-dividing...