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Jessica Welch

Jessica Welch was formerly an Outreach Scientist at Addgene. She received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Queensland and moved to Boston from Australia in 2011. She would love to see Addgene's mission of scientific sharing spread to researchers all over the world.

Blog articles by Jessica Welch

Fluorescent Proteins

Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

Jessica Welch May 18, 2017

Addgenie Mary Gearing contributed to the content of this article. Biosensors (‘biological sensors’) are biological tools that monitor a process or detect a given molecule. The sensor component is usually a protein that undergoes a conformational change in response to the ...
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Addgene at the ASM Microbe 2016 Conference

Jessica Welch July 7, 2016

We’ve recently begun expanding our presence in the microbiology community. For our first concrete steps into this field, we’ve curated microbiology plasmids from the repository onto one handy Microbiology Resource page and, just a few weeks ago, we attended the American Society ...
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Introducing Addgene's Microbiology Pages

Jessica Welch June 13, 2016

Addgene will be at the American Society for Microbiology Microbe meeting here in Boston next week - be sure to come by booth #851 and say hello! Just in time for this meeting, Addgene is launching a new resource page for the Microbiology community. On our new curated ...
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Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

Jessica Welch February 4, 2016

Have you ever found yourself bamboozled by all of the different kinds of information on our plasmid pages? Well, to help make the most of these pages, we've written this post to guide you through them and make the best use of all the information provided by your colleagues.
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MassBioEd Career Exploration Day at Addgene

Jessica Welch November 13, 2015

Last week, 20 students and four chaperones from Denis-Yarmouth Regional High School visited our labs in Cambridge, MA to learn about the wide variety of science careers that Addgenies represent. They kicked off their day with breakfast and an introduction to Addgene with our ...
Yeast

Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

Jessica Welch October 22, 2015

Two hybrid systems were developed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1989 and are still used extensively to screen for molecular interactions in the cell, including protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA interactions. The 1980s saw a flurry of discovery in the field of ...
Plasmids 101

Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

Jessica Welch June 4, 2015

This post is part of our ongoing Plasmids 101 series. Plasmids 101 will provide you with an overview of general molecular biology knowledge and techniques. If you are interested in reading more, you can find the rest of the Plasmids 101 posts here. Now that we have covered ...

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