Wenesday 24 April 2017 - The Bugs Within

Emeryville, California:

There will be a seminar on  microbial genomics and next generation sequencing "The Bugs Within: Illumina Sequencing Takes You Inside Human Health" The time is of the seminar is 9:30AM - 12:30.  
More information and registration here
(No cost, hosted by Illumina)

CRISPR/CAS9 Delivery Webinar 4-18-17

Allison Mayle, PhD. Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Teaching Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center presents this webinar.  
The webinar covers best practices for increasing CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficiency. Viewers will learn discover online tools to aid in CRISPR/Cas9 design and delivery, and tips for optimizing your CRISPR/Cas9 experiments.

Dr. Mayle will review the factors influencing genome editing, including target sequence selection and CRISPR/Cas9 delivery methods. A comparison of plasmid and viral vector delivery will be provided, as well as an introduction to DNA-free CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein reagents. Additionally, Dr. Mayle will cover best practices for CRISPR knock-in mutagenesis via homology-directed repair (HDR) and applications available from new Cas9 protein variants.

The webinar is free but registration is required HERE by the hosts GenScript.

Dragon blood inspires synthetic peptide

The peptide DRGN-1 may have a pharmaceutical application to prevent wounds from becoming infected.

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-017-0017-2

win a pink spectrophotometer

This contest will end in a couple of days.  A new DS-11 FX+ will be being given away to a lucky winner, enter here