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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

CRISPR

CRISPR Cheat Sheet

Tyler Ford January 27, 2021

Originally published May 31, 2018 and last updated Jan 27, 2021 by Jennifer Tsang. We have some crisp new CRISPR material for you! The CRISPR field moves fast. That’s why we’re bringing you a brand new third edition of Addgene’s CRISPR 101 eBook. This new edition of the eBook ...

Plasmids 101

Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

Tyler Ford September 27, 2018

A similar genetic code is used by most organisms on Earth, but different organisms have different preferences for the codons they use to encode specific amino acids. This is possible because there are 4 bases (A, T, C, and G) and 3 positions in each codon. There are therefore 64 ...

Education

Enabling high school research at the Journal of Emerging Investigators

Tyler Ford September 5, 2018

In this episode of the Addgene Podcast, we introduce you to the Journal of Emerging Investigators, an open-access journal that enables high school students to publish peer-reviewed scientific research. You’ll meet some of the folks behind the journal and hear from a fantastic ...

Addgene News

BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

Tyler Ford June 26, 2018

We're excited to announce that, as in years past, we've been working with the Rare Genomics Institute to provide plasmid grants to researchers working on rare diseases through the BeHEARD Award. Congratulations to Paula Videira, Michael McMurray, and Richard Gronostajski who ...

Addgene News

Podcast: Interview with Addgene's Founders

Tyler Ford April 13, 2018

In this episode of the Addgene podcast, we sit down with Addgene’s Founders - Melina Fan, Ken Fan, and Benjie Chen. We learn what it was like to get Addgene off the ground and what the founders hope to see in the repository’s future. If you’ve ever been curious about what it ...

Viral Vectors

Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

Tyler Ford March 27, 2018

Guest blogger Todd Waldman, Professor at Georgetown University, contributed to this post. Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) make fantastic gene delivery vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system. For many years they ...

Podcast

Imaging Tools and Following a Passion for Basic Biology: Interview with Joachim Goεdhart

Tyler Ford March 9, 2018

Today on the Addgene Podcast, we have another interview conducted by European Outreach Scientist Benoit Giquel. Ben recently spoke with Joachim Goεdhart, a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to creating and sharing many great fluorescent protein tools, ...