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Tyler Ford

Tyler J. Ford is a former Outreach Scientist at Addgene. His professional duties at Addgene included helping maintain the blog (blog.addgene.org), talking to people about Addgene, and improving Addgene's services. His non-professional duties include running, biking, drawing, hiking, playing tennis, reading, and writing.

Blog articles by Tyler Ford

Addgene News

Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

Tyler Ford December 7, 2015

2015 has been an exciting year for the Addgene blog. We’ve released over 80 posts on a diverse array of topics pertinent to the research community, two eBooks (Management for Scientists and the Plasmids 101 2nd ed, the 3rd edition has now been released), and have started ...

Science Careers

Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

Tyler Ford November 25, 2015

Addgene recently attended and sponsored the Future of Research (FOR) Boston Symposium 2015. I personally participated as a member of the Career Paths Panel on the second day of the symposium and live tweeted throughout the event (look for a ton of tweets from the Symposium under ...

Viral Vectors

New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

Tyler Ford September 22, 2015

This article is based on an interview with Novartis researcher, Carrie Bhang. The ClonTracer Library, deposited by Carrie Bhang, a research investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis Oncology, is an exciting new tool that allows researchers to individually label ...

Addgene News

Addgene Welcomes John Doench to the Advisory Board

Tyler Ford August 13, 2015

The Addgene Advisory Board consists of prominent members of the bioscience and tech transfer communities who help guide and promote Addgene in its mission to make research easier. Addgene is excited to announce that we’ve added John G. Doench, PhD to the Advisory Board. John ...

Science Careers

Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene

Tyler Ford July 2, 2015

Just over a month ago I finished up my PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University and entered a new role here at Addgene as an Outreach Scientist. I used to spend my days (and often my nights :D) engineering E. coli to produce biofuels in Pamela Silver’s Lab ...