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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

Genome Engineering, CRISPR, and Research in Singapore: Interview with Wei Leong Chew

Tyler Ford February 6, 2018

In today’s podcast, we sit down with Wei Leong Chew, a researcher at the Genome Institute of Singapore who recently started his own lab. We discuss some of the joys and difficulties of getting a lab up and running, and learn a little bit about what it was like for Wei Leong to ...
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Addgene News

Top Requested AAV of 2017: pmSyn1-EBFP-CRE

Tyler Ford January 17, 2018

We began distributing ready-to-use virus preps through our viral service in late 2016 and requests are still pouring in! While our lentiviral service is going strong, the AAV service has shown incredible growth this year. pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry was the top requested AAV ...
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Addgene News

Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G

Tyler Ford January 10, 2018

Plasmid technologies are constantly evolving, but sometimes a technology is so useful it forever enhances biological research and discovery. CRISPR is a great example (the top requested plasmids from 2015 and 2016 were CRISPR plasmids), but so are lentiviral vectors, many of ...
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Addgene News

15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

Tyler Ford January 9, 2018

Every quarter we highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These brief articles provide a synopsis of a plasmid or group of plasmids' functions and applications. We hope that these articles make it easier for you to find and use ...
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Viral Vectors

A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

Tyler Ford December 15, 2017

Addgene recently attended the Society for Neuroscience 2017 conference in Washington DC (#SfN17). This massive conference attracted over 30,000 attendees (scientists and nonscientists alike). My only in-depth exposure to neuroscience prior to this conference was a rotation in ...
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Podcast

Hot Plasmids: Bacillus subtilis Libraries, iPSC Reprogramming, CRISPR Tools, & More!

Tyler Ford December 11, 2017

In the fourth episode of our Hot Plasmids podcast series, you'll learn about new libraries for studying B. subtilis biology, plasmids for enhancing iPSC production, and CRISPR tools for plants. You can find additional hot plasmids in our quarterly newsletter or on our hot ...
Science Careers

Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

Tyler Ford December 5, 2017

A recent survey of PhDs found that many researchers feel that they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene we've set out to fill this gap by both highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering ...
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Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology, Artificial Chromosomes, iGEM & More - Interview with Tom Ellis

Tyler Ford November 29, 2017

Today’s episode of the Addgene Podcast features guest host and Addgene European Outreach Scientist, Benoit Giquel. Traveling from our offices just outside of London, it was a short journey for Benoit to interview Addgene Advisory Board Member and lead researcher at Imperial ...

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