Jennifer Tsang was the Science Communications and Marketing Coordinator at Addgene and manages the blog and social media. She is particularly interested in science communication and microbiology. Follow her on twitter @jw_tsang.
As with many aspects of our lives that have gone virtual, scientific conferences have followed suit. Two Addgenies, Susanna Bachle and Yijun Zhang, recently attended virtual conferences (TAGC and ASGCT, respectively) and Addgenie Angela Abitua hosted a virtual Reproducibility ...
This year, Addgene welcomes three new members to the Board of Directors: Khandan Baradaran, Frank Stegmeier, and Luk Vandenberghe. We’re excited to grow the team and bring on scientists with a diverse set of experiences. Let’s meet the newest board members and get to know them!
Are you a grad student, postdoc, or bench scientist who began working remotely recently? Most of us at Addgene began working from home last week to flatten the curve, but working remotely can be more difficult if your work is based in the lab. If you’re unsure what to do during ...
In this quarterly blog series, we’ll highlight a few of the new CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. We will still periodically focus on specific CRISPR plasmid tools more in-depth, but we hope that this blog series will help you find more new CRISPR tools for your research! ...
Updated March 6, 2020. After months of input and polling, Blugene's new virus friend finally has a name! We thank you for your participation in suggesting names and voting in our poll. Now, we'd like you to meet..... *drumroll*
The ocean is full of striking visuals from fluorescent jellyfish, bioluminescent phytoplankton, and colorful corals, to name a few. What’s behind these sights are an abundance of biological molecules like chromoproteins, fluorescent proteins, and luminescent proteins. While ...
The holidays may be over, but signs of holiday spirit still linger (despite the unseasonably warm weather we had last weekend). We’ve spent the last week perusing the Deck The Lab contest submissions on Twitter and Instagram and we’re excited to share these creative entries as ...
UPDATE: The contest is now closed. Stay tuned to see the finalists and vote for your favorite! Our mascot who has supported us over the past eight years now has a new friend to join them. Blugene would like you to meet...