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Mike Lacy

@mlacyphd.bsky.social

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Always happy to celebrate cool science. Works @addgene.bsky.social curating DNA and web content - if I liked your paper, are you sharing your plasmids? #OpenScience Previously at ASCB, publishing and preprints. Yale Biophysics PhD. Opinions mine. He/him

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Ran my second Boston Marathon yesterday! A day of ups and downs - all for the kids at Boston Children's Hospital 💙 If you like, you can donate here: secure.childrenshospital.org/goto/mikelac...

Photo of a runner grinning ear to ear after the finish line of the 2026 Boston Marathon wearing a Boston Children's Hospital team jersey, and sunshine beaming down from above.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

reposting with alt text - Top cited antibodies are not always the best option! (and link to the paper cited: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) 🧪

A photo of a presentation slide titled "Top cited antibodies are not always the best option". Two pie charts and their annotations indicate "31% of publications used antibodies that passed our KO validation" and "69% used antibodies that failed KO validation" for western blot; and "22% of publications used antibodies that passed our KO validation" and "78% used antibodies that failed KO validation" for Immunofluorescence. The slide includes a reference to Ayoubi et al. eLife 2023 (link to paper: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91645.2).

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Screenshot of an array of biomedical icons, including viruses, anatomical parts, cells, proteins, lab equipment and more. Image from NIH Bioart homepage https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

It's a beautiful day to share plasmids - blue skies at the @addgene.bsky.social office!

Photo of Addgene's lab/office building, with bright blue sky and white fluffy clouds visible both above and reflected in the windows.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Super cool - Unreal video game engine renderings of biological systems. Be sure to check out the supplemental videos! 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure 3 from Chen 2023. Four panels showing cryoET data of NL63 coronavirus spike proteins, viral protein model based on subtomogram averages, and two renderings of atomic models of the viral particle floating in the sunny sky.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Wrapped up #CellBio2023 with some very cool talks on biosensors, optogenetic tools, and more. Plus one more meetup with my former advisor @berrolab.bsky.social

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Ready for another day of #CellBio2023! It's nice to be local - doing my part to reduce the carbon footprint of this conference 🚲

Me, wearing a bike helmet, sunglasses, and jacket, in front of a bike parked at the convention center.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Kicking off day 2 of #CellBio2023 with a packed house for the Porter Prize lecture, David Drubin.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Open sharing speeds science! #ILovebioRxiv #CellBio2023 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Did you know that you can deposit plasmids @addgene.bsky.social before they are published? We love preprints! (or you can even deposit plasmids without a manuscript at all)

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Our both is open! @addgene.bsky.social (next to the Career Center) stop by to chat about plasmids, antibodies, viruses, open science, and more!

Conference exhibit hall, with an arrow pointing out Addgene's booth next to the career center

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

It may be a rainy day out there, but I'm ready for some science! #CellBio2023

Me, wearing an Addgene branded shirt and jacket, face mask, and conference name badge.

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I'll be live and in person at ASCB #CellBio2023! Find me at the @addgene.bsky.social booth (no. 204), checking out some sessions, or wandering the posters👀

Banner image with the text "Cell Bio 23, an ASCB|EMBO Meeting. December 2-6, Boston, MA"

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Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

"High JIF does not correlate with lasting impact" Smart analysis of long-term impact by Heiko Heerklotz: www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...

Scatter plot of Cited half-life (years) versus Journal Impact Factor, with a variety of journals' data highlighted. Many high-impact factor journals (like Cell, Nature, Science, PNAS) have lower cited half-life than lower impact factor journals (like Biophysical Journal, FEBS Letters, JMB, Biopolymers).

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