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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

Addgene News

Increasing Your Work's Visibility with Addgene: Citation, Search, and Collections

Tyler Ford March 10, 2016

With many interesting articles coming out in a myriad of journals every week, it can sometimes be difficult for great work to gain prominence among all the noise. Scientists have a variety of metrics they can use to evaluate the impact of their work (H-index for instance), but ...
Addgene News

Call for Guest Bloggers

Tyler Ford March 2, 2016

Whenever possible, we love to give scientists the opportunity to share their knowledge. One of our goals is to be a go-to source of information on recent advances in the biological sciences and techniques that simplify and expedite research. We recognize, however, that we can’t ...
Plasmids 101

Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

Tyler Ford February 18, 2016

When cloning by restriction digest and ligation, you use restriction enzymes to cut open a plasmid (backbone) and insert a linear fragment of DNA (insert) that has been cut by compatible restriction enzymes. An enzyme, DNA ligase, then covalently binds the plasmid to the new ...
Science Careers

Michael Koeris' Journey from Grad Student to Entrepreneur: The Story of Sample 6

Tyler Ford January 21, 2016

In the third installment in our podcast series, we chat with new Addgene Board Member, Michael Koeris. Dr. Koeris did his graduate work in Professor Jim Collins' lab (then at Boston University, now at MIT) where he worked on understanding bacterial antibiotic resistance. During ...
Addgene News

Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

Tyler Ford December 30, 2015

We’ve dug into the data from our repository to find our most requested plasmid in 2015. In line with all of the exciting developments surrounding CRISPR genome engineering in the past year, we're excited to announce that the plasmid most requested from the Addgene repository in ...
Other Plasmid Tools

28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

Tyler Ford December 23, 2015

At Addgene we're continually impressed with the amazing plasmid technologies developed by our community of depositors. With over 40,000 plasmids avaliable in the repository, we can't give all of them attention they righlty deserve, but, in this post, we'll provide a small ...
CRISPR

Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

Tyler Ford December 16, 2015

As evidenced by all the CRISPR publications, press, and plasmids out there, it’s obvious that CRISPR is a ground-breaking technology that’s already had a huge impact on research and will be affecting our everyday lives very soon. Not only is CRISPR having effects on various ...
Cartoon of CRISPR strand separation
Podcast

An Interview with Connie Cepko - Gene Therapy, Plasmid Tools and Insights to Success

Tyler Ford December 8, 2015

We recently sat down with Addgene Board Member, depositor, and Harvard Medical School researcher Connie Cepko. Listen to the podcast below to hear all about the research being conducted in Professor Cepko's lab and to get some insight into her management and mentoring styles. If ...

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