Mike Lacy

@mlacyphd.bsky.social

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I work @addgene.bsky.social curating DNA and web content - if I liked your paper, are you sharing your materials? #OpenScience supporter, previously at ASCB, science publishing/preprints. Yale Biophysics PhD. Opinions my own. He/him

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.
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).
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/.
Photo of Addgene's lab/office building, with bright blue sky and white fluffy clouds visible both above and reflected in the windows.
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.
Photo of me and Julien Berro
Me, wearing a bike helmet, sunglasses, and jacket, in front of a bike parked at the convention center.
Me standing in front of a backdrop with bioRxiv logo, holding a whiteboard that says "I love bioRxiv because... open sharing speeds science!"
Conference exhibit hall, with an arrow pointing out Addgene's booth next to the career center
Rainy cityscape view of South Boston
Banner image with the text "Cell Bio 23, an ASCB|EMBO Meeting. December 2-6, Boston, MA"
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).