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Mike Lacy

Mike Lacy is a Scientific Curator at Addgene. He received his PhD in molecular biophysics at Yale and worked in editing and publishing. He loves fluorescence microscopy, open science, and helping scientists share and discover the latest tools for their research.

Blog articles by Mike Lacy

Fluorescent Proteins

Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

Mike Lacy December 6, 2022

Here at Addgene’s headquarters, the skies are getting dark and wintry with the end of year approaching. We’re always looking for something to brighten our day, whether it’s memories of summer or just a bright new plasmid. One area with lots of bright new plasmids is our ...
Schematic showing MTRIA biosensors are generated by inserting a circularly-permuted GFP into an intracellular loop of various G-protein-coupled receptors
Science Communication

Summer SciComm: Preprints

Mike Lacy August 16, 2022

As a scientist, perhaps the most important part of your research is communicating the results of the work. Yes, those control experiments are important - but without letting other scientists know the results, your work won’t have any impact!
An image of CERN accelerator with
Fluorescent Proteins

Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

Mike Lacy May 3, 2022

Many, many techniques are available to assess protein-protein interactions. One popular approach is to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent protein (FP) and measure the signal produced when the candidate proteins’ interaction brings the pieces of the FP ...

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