...enable scientific reproducibility. This workshop was well received, and then when the team started brainstorming...widespread issue of irreproducibility. Use your network well to seek out valuable and impactful opportunities...course! Thanks to individuals in the group who were well connected, this diverse and international team assembled...website How-to-guide for Reproducibility workshops Levelling Up: Reproducibility for Everyone Addgene: a global...

...teams continue to keep up with the demand with excellence and dedication. We don’t have worry or wonder...right? Upgrades to the internal LIMS pages and excellent work on our external website appearance and functionality...support. The Addgene management team leads with excellence. They are one of the main reasons I have so few...Addgenies. I never worry about their dedication, excellent intentions, or incredible drive to succeed.  Thanks...

...read a 100-page genre fiction novella as it does to read an 11-page Cell paper - and sometimes, it might...obtain?” If the answer is yes, you will need to spell out that connection for your audience. I ask myself...needed. The trick is to communicate your key points well enough that the audience can take that knowledge...

... project aimed at understanding how a critical cellular pathway is regulated. You’ve read all the background...generated against a linear antigen tend to work very well for applications that denature a protein to its ...expression in knock-out or knock-down down tissues and cell lines; orthogonal strategies that compare antibody...References Uhlen M, Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T,...

...Facebook and Gmail, were launched. And Melina Fan, a cell biology graduate student, was frustrated by the ...to receive the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network Excellence Award for our electronic MTA system. We also ... our most popular lentiviral and AAV vectors, as well as developing and sharing supportive educational...stories we can, and to hear the stories others have to tell.  "Also thanks for being Addgene. You guys rock....

...practical solutions.  My PhD prepared me remarkably well for this task. Good scientists learn how to communicate...to say “I’m going to pour these plates now” to a fellow team member. But, at Addgene, we use seven different...different types of “plates” (Fig. 1). When you have to tell an engineer that you want the LIMS software to create...It is never really done. But if you implement it well, here’s what can happen: More effective meetings...

...transfer 100 µl of glycerol stock to each of 2 96-well microplates (identical copies, see image above)....integrates our database of over 2000 primers. Two 96-well PCR plates are prepared with the primer stocks for... be found here. Finally, you will want to have a well-organized database of expected sequences, either...some tips on how to get better sequencing reads? Tell us your favorite sequencing tricks in the comments...

...colony.  You should genotype all of your F1 mice, as well as progeny from future generations. 4. Continue ...strain, the promoter being used should be tested in cell lines to determine how it impacts the expression...on separate chromosomes in future generations as well, a concept known as linkage. This hinders the likelihood...interest. Cre may be expressed globally (in every cell of the mouse) or in a tissue-specific manner (with...

... Fragmid website, or through Addgene, has worked well in the hands of the Doench lab. Additionally, controls...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_051 (for stable fly cell lines; attL and attR sequences for genome integration...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_052 (for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration...rapid assessment of emerging CRISPR technologies. Cell Genomics, 4(3), 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/...

...answering help emails and phone calls, I feel compelled to share my years of accumulated wisdom so that...company’s FAQs? A lot of companies and organizations selling biological reagents have a ton of data on the catalog...their products from you, unless they’re knowingly selling a bad product (in which case, you should probably... some time. If the customer service rep does not tell you upfront how long it will take to get an answer...

...communication, and policy. In this post, I hope to tell you a little more about how I ended up at pgEd, ...starting conversations about both the benefits as well as the personal, social and ethical implications...broaden my training beyond the biological sciences, as well as to acquire leadership and communication experience...scientific, educational or industry conferences, as well as schools, community events, churches or mosques...

... thought about management skills before being propelled into the position of manager. I barely had any...check myself sometimes to make sure I am delegating well, but it does get easier over time! Communicate often...to recognize someone’s hard work and reward a job well done. Your report will (needs to) feel valued. Talk...should help you work through your situation, not tell you what to do. Unfortunately this is not always...

... on how your virus of interest causes cancer, as well as therapeutic strategies to target it, than you...at an unfamiliar venue. Finding your poster board well ahead of time ensures you aren’t scrambling to tack...published papers or “hot topics,” so be sure to be well-read on the recent literature in your field. Take...know every answer – don’t hesitate to be honest and tell your audience just that. Explain what you do know...

...uses a small molecule, a tag, and the endogenous cellular degradation machinery to function. The dTAG is...tag and small molecule. It does work in mammalian cells, mice, and even yeast, though (we have a kit!). ...and complete degradation of proteins in mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Dec 4;109(49):E3350...Tags Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags  ...

...is an excellent resource that has gained a lot of traction with researchers. It is an excellent way to... future career. If it wasn’t something I liked – well, I was used to experiments not working, so just ...programs and departments Graduate school was an excellent time to try new things, develop new skills, and...

...his own biases--many of which will be shared by fellow scientists--but that doesn’t make his introduction...have outgoing personalities to supplement their intellectual prowess and scientific skills. This is an era...has been such a great fit for me!), the book was a well-executed overview that recontextualized some areas...career.  Acknowledgements: I would like to thank fellow Addgenies Joanne Kamens, Marcy Patrick, Aliyah ...

...transformation efficiency of the strain: when asking the cell to perform multiple recombination events, all linear...linear fragments need to get into the same cell. For simple cloning requiring just one or two recombination...recombination events, homemade competent cells of 107 CFU/μg are perfectly fine, yet performing multiple modifications...modifications will require ultracompetent (109 CFU/μg) cells. Primer design Using specific primer design (Figure...

...using an electric charge to help the DNA enter the cells. Some samples require a reduced antibiotic concentration...concentration or need to be transformed into different cells than were originally requested. Most of our samples... Start by scanning the sample barcodes into the cells in the same order that they exist within the rack...storage process - from deposited DNA to transformed cells and finally to bacterial glycerol stocks that are...

...designed to help us work in large formats, such as 96-well microplates, and thanks to our dedicated product...: Customizable to our specific needs Modern and well-supported, so we could focus on our development ... workflow would handle plasmid sequences on a 96-well plate basis, but for rapid testing and refinements...blog:  The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: SeqwellHow to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatics AnalysesAAV...

... be safely used to deliver a genetic payload to cells, and the complexity of effectively deploying them... can be to use. AAVs, which can target different cell types depending on their serotype, are particularly...amount of vectors available and number of requests tell only part of the story. Viral vectors are, after...experimental data in a standardized format, sharing how well a given viral vector worked — or didn’t work — in...