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Our warmest congratulations to PhD Candidate Xin Liu from Vrije University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), who was awarded the Agrisera Best Poster Prize during the Solar Energy to Biomass conference in Porto, Portugal, 11.02-14.02. The title of the poster is: "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Exhibits De Facto Constitutive NPQ Capacity in Physiologically Relevant Conditions".
The Agrisera antibody collection to Chlamydomonas reinhardii proteins can be found here.
This month, the Poster 4 of the Agrisera Educational Poster series is going to be launched. The title of this poster is Rubisco: "An Enzyme of Global Importance".
The poster is currently being consulted with several specialists in the field of photosynthesis.
Previous posters from the Agrisera poster collection can be viewied here.
All posters can be requested as hard copies by sending a message to: support@agrisera.com.
Rubisco is an amazing protein, and also the most abundant protein on Earth. Agrisera has provided specific antibodies to this enzyme for over 17 years. These antibodies have been cited in thousands of publications and used on a very wide range of species. The Agrisera anti-RbcL form I antibodies are made to a very conserved, 7 amino acid long peptide, and is therefore categorized as a Global Antibody. The specific peptide used is present in Rubisco form I from higher plants, algae and cyanobactera:
Anti-RbcL | Rubisco large subunit, form I antibodies (AS03 037) - provided at a 50 % discount in February.
Combined with the Rubisco protein standard (AS01 017S) and the Rubisco Western Blot quantitation kit (AS09 409), this antibody can be used for quantification of Rubisco using quantitative western blot method. A short video tutorial for this method can be found here.
For photosynthetic bacteria, archea and dinoglagellates, Agrisera offers another antibody:
Anti-RbcL II | Rubisco large subunit, form II antibodies (AS15 2955) - provided at a 50 % discount in February.
This antibody can be combined with RbcL II quantification standard (AS15 2955S) and applied to quantify RbcL II.
Agrisera's Rubisco antibody collection also consists of other useful antibodies, like: RbcS (AS07 259A), Rubisco activase (AS10 700), Rubisco chaperones and other proteins. The whole collection can be found here.
Good luck with your research!
The celebrations of The First Anniversary of the The Global Plant Events Calendar continue!
In total, over 200 events have been registered since January 2019. The heat map shows the reach/total views of the calendar, which is the most popular page on Plantae.
We are looking forward to even more events being registered and hope that the calendar will help plan your conference attendance!
From the customer feedback which we receive every week, we have chosen some to share with you.
We are very proud that we can serve scientific community and speed up your research on all pressing questions!
Our warm congratulations to Dr. Anita Kiss from Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, who received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize for her poster: "Novel ring-fused 2-pyridones to battle Listeria monocytogenes bacterial infections" at the Umeå Center for Microbial Research Day held on 23.01 in Umeå, Sweden.
In the above photo: Dr. Anita Kiss (right) and Dr. Teresa Frisan, one of the organizers (left).
Awaiting your free antibody choice!
The Agrisera collection to bacterial proteins can be found here.
Courtesy of Dr. Lea Vojta and Dr. Hrvoje Fulgosi, Laboratory for Molecular Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Division of Molecular Biology, Institute Ruđer Bošković, Croatia.
Antibody: TROL | Thylakoid rhodanese-like protein, AS19 4257.
Western blot protocol before optimization
Protein load/well: 20 µg
Blocking: 5 % milk
Primary antibody: 1: 2000 ON/4ºC
Secondary antibody: 1: 50 000 1h/RT
Western blot protocol after optimization
Protein load/well: 2 µg
Blocking: 5 % milk
Primary antibody: 1: 2000 ON/4ºC
Secondary antibody: 1: 50 000 1h/RT
Visible improvement was achieved with decreased protein load/well (10x).
In a need to optimize your western blot protocol?
Request a copy of the Agrisera Western blot trouble shooting brochure, or send your inquiry directly to support@agrisera.com.
We are celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the Global Plant Events Calendar!
The Global calendar project was initiated on January 2nd, 2019 as a mutual effort of Plantae and Agrisera to provide the plant community with a comprehensive list of worldwide events.
We hope that the calendar will provide a quick overview of plant meetings, conferences and congresses, to help you decide and plan which conference to attend. The calendar will also help promote a meeting, should you be organizing one. The calendar widget can easily be loaded on the conference website.
The Global Plant Events Calendar has already collected over 200 events! There are over 72 events registered for this year and even two events for 2021. We are looking forward to new conferences to be signed in and hope that we can cover most plant meetings taking place in the world.
Not familiar with the calendar yet? This short video will show you how to use it.
In 2019 Agrisera contributed to conferences held world-wide though The Best Talk and The Best Poster awards, which were handed out during 19 meetings. Awardees received a diploma and could chose any product from Agrisera catalogue, which is provided free of charge.
Researchers from following countries received 2019 awards: Germany, France, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Switzeralnd. More information about it can be found on Agrisera blog and twitter.
The Global Plant Events Calendar provides a comprehensive overwiev on world-wide plant conferences and listed over 155 events for 2019.
In January 2020 the calendar, which is initiative of Agrisera and ASPB/Plantae is celebrating one year.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2020
31st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2020), 6.07-10.07, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
ASPB Annual Plant Biology Meeting - (PlantBio20), 25.07-29.07, Wardman Park Marriott, Washington, DC, USA
International Congress on Photosynthesis Research 2020, 2.08-7.08, Rotorua Energy Events Centre, Queens Drive Rotorua New Zealand
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2020
Western Photosynthesis Conference, 2.01-5.01, Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory (BBML), Bodega Bay, USA
Umeaå Center for Microbial Research Day, 23.01, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
33rd Conference Molecular Biology of Plants, 11.02-14.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
Solar Energy to Biomass, 11.02-14.02, Hotel Vila Galé Porto, Porto, Portugal
CSPB/SCBV Western Regional Meeting, 18.02-19.02, Canmore, Canada
Meeting of the Spanish Society of Autophagy (SEFAGIA), 4.03-6.03, Cáceres, Spain
18th Scientific Conference of the Phycology Section, 8.03-11.03, Kall-Steinfeld, Germany
Understanding Plant Responses to Climate Changes: Redox based strategies, 16.03-18.03, Baeza, Spain
BioLOGIES: Bionspiration, Inventions and Breakthrough technologies, 30.3/1.04, Poznan, Polen
Eastern Region Photosynthesis Conference, 24.04-26.04, Woods Hole, USA
Austrian Plant Biology Society meeting, 21.05-23.05, Seitenstetten, Austria
19th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, 24.05-29.05, Les îles Paul Ricard, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
PostDoc Day at University of Geneva, 4.06, Geneva, Switerland
11th SPPS phd student conference, 2.09-4.09, Turku, Finland
4th International Plant Proteomics Organization Conference, 13.09-16.09, Toronto, Canada
This Christmas Agrisera made a donation to Vi Agroforestry, a Swedish aid organization that has been working for tree planting and poverty reduction in east Africa for over 36 years. Last year, Vi Agroforestry planted over 5 million trees, combating poverty and climate change. This way, the lives of 2.3 mln people were considerably improved.
We are proud to contribute!
We wish you all happy and merry holiday time and lots of success in 2020!
Agrisera Team
Looking for a X-mas present for yourself or a lab member? We recommend this very interesting book, with lots of good schemes:
Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life, By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee. Available here.
Warmest congratulations to Anis Meschichi, doctoral student at The Swedish University of Agriculturala Sciences (SLU), who received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize for his poster: "CHARACTERIZING CHROMATIN MOBILITY AND HISTONE DYNAMICS DURING DNA DAMAGE RESPONSES" during the Impact of Chromatin Domains on Plant Phenotypes meeting taking place in Madrid between 9th and 11th of December.
Awaiting your antibody choice!
Our warmest congratulations to Yi Ting Jeff Cheng, from University of Toronto, who received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize for his poster "Elucidating the role of poplar clade II BAHD acetyltransferases in very long chain fatty acid biosynthesis" during the 2019 Eastern Regional Meeting at Brock University, Canada.
Awaiting your antibody choice!
Agrisera antibody collection to poplar can be found here.
Jan Karlsson received the UPSC Agrisera Prize 2019 to acknowledge his ceaseless technical support for the UPSC community at UPSC (Umeå Plant Science Centre). The announcement was done during the Christmas lunch, and the motivation from one of the nominations was as follows: "He is always there for the whole institute to help to solve all kind of technical, computational, mechanical or physical strength-requiring problems. He has spent the night at work to make sure that the backup power system will not fail when there was a planned overnight power interruption. He did a tremendous amount of work with Thomas Hiltonen for the moving of Plant Physiology Department during the moving out from old labs, the reconstruction and moving into the new lab. He supervises all growth chambers, shakers and cabinets, and he is the one, who we hope to find in his office when we need a solution for a challenging technical issue. People can always ask for his advice or help, independently from which department they belong to."
This year the prize was presented by Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera and by the chair of the UPSC Board, Catherine Bellini. From left to right: Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund (Agrisera), Catherine Bellini (Chair of the UPSC board), Jan Karlsson. Photo: Anne Honsel.
Each antibody is made to a different protein and thus recognizes different epitopes. Therefore, even if many antibodies purchased from a given company worked well for your species, this does not guarantee that the next antibody will. There needs to be a match of the sequence the antibody is binding to in the sequence of the protein which is aimed to be detected. Based on our experience, at least a 70 % match in linear sequence needs to be confirmed. Many antibodies are made to short, 10 to 15 amino acids long peptides. Overall target protein conservation between species will not be relevant in such a case if there is no match in the exact sequence used to elicit the given antibody.
Therefore, before purchasing an antibody which has not been used on a given species or application, conservation of the antigen used to elicit such antibody should be confirmed.
Send your question to: support@agrisera.com and we will help to check sequence conservation and confirm your choice for the best outcome of your experiments.
Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Manuela Leonardelli from Roman Ulm lab at University of Geneva, who received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize for her poster: "UVR8 - mediated photoprotection in Arabidopsis thaliana" during the Plants in Changing World meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
Awaiting your antibody choice!
Agrisera Photosynthetic antibody collection covers various aspects of photosynthesis and offers a broad species reactivity.
Our warmest congratulations to Maria Belen Velasquez from Rosario National University in Argentina, who received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize for her poster: "The Secretome of the green alga Scenedesmus sp." during this year's meeting of Argentinian Society fo Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SAIB.
Awaiting your Agrisera product choice!
Agrisera antibodies have a broad reactivity including diatoms, algae, higher plants. For an overview, please click here.
Our warmest congratulations to PhD candidate Artem Iakunkov, from the Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden, who received The Best Poster Prize funded by Agrisera at the KBC Days 2019. The poster title was: "Strong effect of ageing on swelling properties of graphene oxide membranes in alcohols".
The awardee has also received a jar of honey made by KBC bees.
KBC Days is a yearly event at the Chemistry and Biology House at Umeå University. The programme this year included inspiring presentations by new faculty members and award recipients, and 11 poster presentations from midterm PhD students. Guided tours to present the infrastructures/platforms were also offered.
Thank you for this fruitful and interesting event!
Can listings a product numbers of primary and secondary antibody used in your research actually minimize waste of work and resources in the future?
More than half of the antibodies currently used in research cannot be properly identified, which makes it impossible to conduct a given experiment using the same set of antibodies. Companies often offer multiple antibodies to the same target protein (e.g. tags and protein modifications) and identifying a specific antibody used in a given publication is simply impossible.
There are no worldwide standard guidelines on how antibodies should be cited in publications and journals. Besides the product number for any primary antibody used in research, the secondary antibody should also be properly cited with product number. As primary and secondary antibodies in a successful experiment create a unique pair, such result may not be reproducible with another secondary antibody. Antibodies differ in their characteristics, and lots of time and money can be saved in the future if product numbers of both primary and secondary antibodies are listed in all publications.
You can also read about this topic in Citeab blog post: "Don’t forget about citing your secondaries!"
During the recent 45th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference in Indiana, the Agrisera Best Talk Prize was awarded to Kelsey Dahlgren from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Kelsey works in Dr Jeffrey Cameron’s lab and gave an outstanding presentation entitled, "Development of a proximity-based proteomics technique using APEX2 to determine the thylakoid lumen proteome of Synechococcus sp. 7002." She is using both mass spectrometry and immunoblotting to characterize the lumenal proteome.
Our warmest congratulations Kelsey. We are waiting your free antibody choice!
No, this is NOT the case.
Each protein-antibody pair may require slightly modified binding and detection conditions. The variations may for example be a membrane with another pore size and physical properties (nitrocellulose or PVDF) as well as different blockers, incubation times and primary antibody dilutions. Some antibodies may work better in TBS-T buffer, others with PBS-T.
These issues are disussed in Agrisera Western blot guide, which we recommend you to keep in your lab!
Western Blot Guide |
If no signal is detected in a total cell extract, it is worth fractionating, to obtain specific chloroplast, mitochondria or nuclei enriched fractions. This procedure will concentrate a target protein and lead to the detection of a desired band (for non-cytoplasmic proteins). This is shown in the example above - from no band in a total cell extract, to a specific band in photosystem I fraction.
This approach is especially important when working with proteins of low expression. Fractionation combined with using a specific organ, e.g. the root tip, or a leaf at a certain developmental stage, will greatly contribute to the successful identification of your protein of interest.
Examples of protocols to fractionate can be found here.
For Agrisera Western Blot Guide and video tutorials, check here.
In case of any questions, you are always welcome to contact Agrisera Technical Support.
In the example above, the same antibody was used (Anti-BAK1, AS12 1858) but the proteins were extracted with two different buffers.
Minor adjustments in the buffer components resulted in the improved detection of the target protein - from NO band to a band of correct MW.
If you are interested in more tricks to optimize your western blot, you are welcome to contact us or request a copy of the Agrisera Western Blot Guide.
Two primary antibodies incubated on the blot at the same time - save time in the lab
Thylakoid membranes (10 µg of total chlorophyll) extracted freshly from Hordeum vulgare leaves with 100 mM HEPES-KOH (pH 7.5), 0.3 M sorbitol, 2 mM EDTA, and 1mM MgCl2 and denatured with a Laemmli buffer at 80°C for 5 min were separated on 12% SDS-PAGE and blotted 1 h to nitrocellulose (pore size of 0.2 um), using semi-dry transfer. Blot was blocked with 4% milk for 2 h/RT with agitation. Blot was incubated in the primary antibody at a dilution of 1:3000 (PC and PetA, simultaneous western blot detection for both antibodies at the same time) for 1 h/RT with agitation in PBS-T. The antibody solution was decanted and the blot was rinsed briefly, then washed 3 times for 5 min in PBS-T at RT with agitation. Blot was incubated in Agrisera matching secondary antibody (anti-rabbit IgG horse radish peroxidase conjugated) diluted to 1:25000 in for 1 h/RT with agitation. The blot was washed as above and developed for 5 min with chemiluminescent detection reagent according to manufactures recommendations. Exposure time was 30 seconds. Simultaneous western blot detection can be applied if MW of detected proteins differs in min. 20 kDa.
Courtesy Dr. Anja Liszkay, CNRS, France
Between 15.09-19.09 Agrisera participated in Botanikertagung, International Plant Science Conference, which is a biannual meeting of German plant and algal scientists. This year it was held at Rostock University, Germany.
An Agrisera quiz, where the participants got to test their weight determining skills by predicting the weight of the Agrisera chemiluminescent reagents/secondary antibody set, attracted a lot of attention, and the winner actually provided the exact answer!
Our third educational poster, Regulation of photosynthesis was so popular that we ran out of it. Additional copies will be sent by post. Thank you to all who came by the Agrisera table and talked with us about western blot and antibody production service or shared their experience with antibody work. We will hopefully meet again in two years in Bonn!
Between the 9th and the 12th of September, Agrisera participated in the 9th biennial Polish Society of Experimental Biology Conference hosted by the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. The theme of the Conference was "New trends in plant reproduction and growth regulation". The Best Poster Prize was funded by Agrisera and awarded to Dawid Kubiak from the group of prof. Janusz Niedojadło (bottom left on the picture) from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń. The title of the poster was "Epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulation of gene expression".
On the third day of the conference, Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz Asplund from Agrisera, held a workshop named "Tips and tricks of antibody production and western blot - how to obtain good results?". Thank you to all who participated!
The winner of the Agrisera Kahoot interactive quiz, who received a secondary antibody ECL set, was: Aleksandra Rosińska (top left picture) from Dr. Krystyna Oracz lab. The set contains two chemiluminescent detection reagents (mid picogram and extreme low femtogram range) and an Agrisera goat anti-rabbit HRP-conjugated secondary antibody of high titer (min. 1: 25 000 1h/RT).
Conference participants could test their weight measuring skills in an Agrisera quiz, conducted during each day of a conference. The winner, who correctly determined the weight of our secondary antibody ECL set, was Magdalena Czołpińska from UAM in Poznań.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Agrisera table, to talk antibodies, share your experience with western blot, tell us about your work or participate in the quiz.
The Global Plant Events Calendar launched in the end of January this year, is already listing over 150 worldwide plant conferences, workshops and meetings. This calendar makes it much easier to obtain a good overview on what is happening and allow better planning of conference attendance and organization. Following this link you will find a short video, showing which features this platform has and how to use it.
We hope that it is going to be useful!
During last week ADAM8 conference, Agrisera award for The Best Poster was given to Kalyani Sanagavarapu, PhD Student from Lund University. ADAM8th is the Scandinavian Conference, Amyloid Diseases and Amyloid Mechanisms (ADAM 8) held this year in Lund, covering exciting developments in the research fields of amyloid structures, biochemistry and disease diagnostics and mechanisms. The awarded poster title was:
"On the role of phosphorylation of serine residues in aggregation mechanism of amyloid β-peptide"
Warmest congratulations from Agrisera to Kalyani Sanagavarapu and awaiting your product choice from Agrisera catalogue, which will be delivered to you for free. Agrisera provides a collection of unique antibodies, which support research on amyloid diseases.Good luck in your research!
Agrisera Team
Agrisera participated in the biannual Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society conference, between 28.08-30.08, held in Umeå, where one of Agrisera offices is located. As a surprise for participants, Agrisera conducted a Kahoot! quiz with questions regarding SPPS, Umeå and Agrisera. The happy winner of a free antibody from the Agrisera collection was Dr. Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi from the University of Turku. Second and third prize was the latest book about photosynthesis: Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee, available also in the Agrisera webshop.
Thank you for all interesting discussions and ideas, it is always a great pleasure to interact with resaerchers from Scandinavia!
Between the 3rd and 7th of August, you had the chance to meet Edith and Chris in the Agrisera booth at Plant Biology 2019. The meeting was hosted this year in San Jose, California. Thank you to everyone who came by and interacted with us, providing comments, new ideas and questions, as well as participated in the Agrisera quiz with a chance to win the recently published book about photosynthesis: "Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life" by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee. The book is also available for purchase in the Agrisera webshop.
Established by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), Plantae is a worldwide network of teachers, students, researchers, farmers, industry leaders and government scientists. It brings together plant scientists to address pressing societal challanges and offers variety of tools to organize a network for the lab, team, department, receive feedback on ideas, join various discussions, upload videos, access seminars and connect with the other plant scientists from around the world.
The community is open to anyone who is working in or is interested in the plant sciences with no restrictions to discipline, background, career phase, or geographic location. Plantae is supported by a hard-working ASPB team and an amazing group of The Plantae Fellows, early to mid-career scientist who volunteer in working with curating and writing content.
In February 2019, Plantae and Agrisera launched The Global Plant Events Calendar, which is currently listing over 140 worldwide meetings, congresses, seminars and workshops and serves as a useful tool for plant scientists in their planning of conference attendance and advertising for the coming meetings.
Dr. Sachie Kimura from University of Helsinki, (center of picture) was awarded with the Agrisera Best Poster Prize, by the Scientific Committee of the POG2019, taking place between 10-12th of July in Munich, Germany. The title of the poster was "Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase CRK2 directly regulates NADPH oxidase RBOHD in Arabidopsis".
In the picture, from the left to right: prof. Christian Lindermayr (Helmholtz Zentrum München – Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Germany), Dr. Sachie Kimura (University of Helsinki, Finland), prof. Elizabeth Vierling (University of Massachusetts, USA).
Our warmest congratuations to Dr. Sachie Kimura!
Msc. Rabadanova, from Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Laboratory of Molecular and Ecological Physiology (Head of Laboratory -- Dr. Olga V. Voitsekhovskaja) received the Agrisera Best Poster Prize during the 10th International Meeting on Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability. This meeting was held in honor of Kimiyuki Satoh (Japan), Tingyun Kuang (China), Cesare Marchetti (Italy) and Anthony Larkum (Australia), June 23rd to 28th, 2019, in the Palace of Beloselsky, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The poster title was: "TOR kinase and GORK channels in sensing of cellular potassium levels during induction of autophagy in Arabidopsis and barley"
Our warmest congratulations!
Daisuke Takagi from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, at Tohoku University, Japan received the Agrisera Best Talk Prize during the 10th International Meeting on Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability. This meeting was held in honor of Kimiyuki Satoh (Japan), Tingyun Kuang (China), Cesare Marchetti (Italy) and Anthony Larkum (Australia), June 23rd to 28th, 2019, in the Palace of Beloselsky, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The title of the talk was: "Phosphorus toxicity decreases both electron sink activity and anti-oxidative activity in rice leaves"
Our warmest congratulations!
Meet Agrisera at booth number 17 at ICAR 2019 in Wuhan, China. We are attending the meeting between the 16th and 21st of June.
In the above picture: Erika Gelfgren (CEO, Agrisera), Edith Kalén (Marketing and Sales, Agrisera), Maggie Yan (CEO, XMJ), Demi Hu, (Wuhan Sales Manager, XMJ), Xiaoxiao Zheng (Marketing Manager, XMJ).
Please feel free to come by our booth to discuss antibodies, participate in Agrisera contest to win a free book about photosynthesis or pick up a free photosynthesis poster, to decorate your lab wall with.
We are looking forward to meeting you at ICAR 2019!
Dr. Louise Lefrançois received the Best Poster Prize, sponsored by Agrisera, during the 2nd UNIGE PostDoc Day, organized at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The poster was titled: "Using Tn-Seq strategy in Mycobacterium marinum - Dictyostelium discoideum to understand the pathogenesis of Tubercolosis".
Our warmest congratulations!
We are happy to let you know, that Agrisera Team has new members on board.
Annika
Annika Nordstrand holds an MSc in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Oncology from Umeå University. She has over ten years of laboratory experience from research mainly targeted at understanding the importance of the tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer bone metastases. Her work has involved both development of new in vitro models and treatment experiments in different in vivo models, as well as establishment of cell cultures directly from patient tumors. She has experience in several techniques involving antibodies, such as western blot, ELISA, and immunohistochemistry. At Agrisera she is going to work with sales support. In her spare time she loves to do creative things and spend time with family and friends.
Caroline
Caroline Zetterström has a Master of Science in Biotechnology and a PhD in Chemistry from Umeå University. During her PhD the research focused on development of alternatives to antibiotics in gram-negative bacteria by inhibiting their virulence systems, their ability to cause disease. She has a long experience of lab work, with a variety of chemical and microbiological techniques e.g. western blot, cell culturing, organic synthesis, cloning, protein expression and purification. She has done click chemistry assays on live bacteria in a microfluid plate underneath the spinning disc confocal microscope. At Agrisera she is going to work with antibody purification, QC and product development.
In her free time she likes to be with her family out in the nature and sew clothing for herself.
Edith
Edith Kalén holds a degree in engineering science within the field of biotechnology, obtained at Umeå University. She did her master’s degree in plant physiology at Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), with prof. Stefan Jansson and Prof. Laszlo Bako. She obtained practical and theoretical knowledge in areas such as microbiology, functional genomics, gene expression and genetics. Edith also has a background in scientific writing and graphic design, and is involved in preparation of Agrisera marketing materials and conference attendance. You may meet her soon as she will be attending events such as the 30th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2019) in Wuhan, China, as well as Plant Biology (PB19) in San José, US.
In her spare time, Edith enjoys spending time in nature and attending various cultural events.
Jennifer Jiang from Rutgers Institute of Quantitative Biolgoy, gave a wonderful presentation titled "Structural and Functional Analyses of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes in Thylakoid Membranes of a Marine Diatom" at the 36th Estern Regional Photosynthesis Conference held at the Marine Biology laboratory in Woods Holeand, US, and was awarded the Agrisera Best Young Researched Talk Prize.
Our warmest congratulations!
The Agrisera Best Poster Prize during the TRI-National Arabidopsis Meeting (TNAM), 10.04-12.04, Zurich, Switzerland, was awarded to Dr. Paula Ragel de la Torre (Twitter @RagelPaula), Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg. Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow (H2020). The poster was titled "sigNal: signalling of sodium".
We warmly congratulate you and await your antibody choice!
The poster "Mismatch repair system in the control of crossover formation." by Dłużewska, J., Szymańska, M., Gazecka, M., Ziółkowski, P. was awarded the Agrisera Best Poster Prize during the Vth International Conference on Research and Education, 8.04-13.04, at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Our warmest congratulations to the whole group and the first author, PhD candidate Julia Dłużewska who holds the Agrisera diploma.
We are looking for your Agrisera product choice!
Agrisera sponsored "The Best Poster Prize" at the 11th Tri-National Arabidopsis meeting, taking place in Zurich, Switzerland, April 10th to 12th, 2019. Our educational materials were available on display.
Thank you to the organizers for giving us this opportunity.
According to the latest analysis performed by CiteAB, Agrisera antibodies perform above average on the market, in terms of dilution, in Western Blot. Average dilution at which our antibodies are used is 1: 7780, calculated based on available, published results.
The original blog post about this analysis can be found at CiteAB: "Which antibodies will go furthest in Western Blotting".
For success with your western blotting, you are welcome to explore Agrisera Western Blot Technical Resource, or order a free copy of the Agrisera Western Blot Guide, which contains many useful tips. You can also contact us directly with your specific question.
We offer prompt and efficient support to solve the most difficult western blot issues!
We wanted to share the pleasure of receiving an award for The Best Plant Antibody Supplier of the year 2018 with the staff from the Departments of Gene Expression, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. We have many fruitful years of good collaboration between us, with many ideas and suggestions for future antibody developments being born there and many tests performed with success.
The Book: Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life
Hardcover: 204 pages Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (7 Jan. 2019)
Is now available to purchase at Agrisera. Product number: AS19 4290Book
The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of plant biology, microbiology and biochemistry, and researchers in solar energy systems. It contains a variety of schemes and illustrations, prepared based on current knowledge.
About the authors:
Dr. Dmitry Shevela
Obtained BSc (Biology and Chemistry) in 2002 from Kaluga State University in Russia. PhD (in Biological Chemistry), in 2008, from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) on: "The role of inorganic cofactors in photosynthetic water oxidation". Currently Senior Research Engineer in the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University. The book contains many of Shevela illustrations.
Prof. Lars Olof Björn
Undergraduate studies in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Botany, at the University of Lund (Sweden) and at the University of California Berkeley (USA). PhD on "The effects of light on root plastids" under supervision of Hans Burström. Author of a very popular book "Light and Life", published in five languages. He is now Professor Emeritus of Botany at Lund University and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Govindjee
Is known as Mr. Photosynthesis. He has a unique teaching approach, to explain photosynthesis through drama, where the students play the roles of different molecules. He studied Plant Physiology at Allahabad University and Biophysics at the University of Illinois of Urbana Champaign (UIUC), where he since 1999 is Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology and Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Download the poster here or by clicking on the picture above.
Poster 3 provides a good overview of photosynthesis and respiration; two fundamental processes of the plant cell. The poster is developed by Dr Dmitry Shevela and Professor Govindjee, and consulated with many leading scientists in the field. This poster is available in A0 format, to be used to decorate your office or lab wall with, as well as in pdf format.
Agrisera's educational posters (1, 2 and 3) are available at the many conferences we attend or support this year. For a list of these conferences, please click here.
As more than half of the antibodies used in research cannot be properly identified, it is absolutely crucial to include information, which will allow antibody identification by researchers who want to repeat your experiments. Some journals provide a guideline for antibody citation, unfortunately most of them does not. This vital issue is most often completely overlooked.
If there are no recommendations from a journal, where you intend to publish your work, citing an antibody can be done in the following way:
Antibody name, product number, supplier name, country
For example: Anti-RbcL, AS03 037 (Agrisera, Sweden)
We would like to encourage you to cite antibodies in a way, which will allow their future identification. Especially in case of antibodies to tag proteins, it is really of a crucial importance.
Good luck with your research!
During the afternoon coffee break at Umeå Plant Science Centre, Agrisera celebrated The Best Plant Science Supplier of the Year award, which we have recently received from CiteAB. This award is given based on the amount of publications, which are using Agrisera antibodies. Our photosynthetic antibody collection comes from a close collaboration with researchers from the centre over the last 20 years.
We brought famous Swedish cakes and fruits and free samples of Agrisera chemiluminescent detection reagents:
Agrisera ECLBright (mid picogram detection range), suitable for proteins of moderate expression
Agrisera ECLSuperBright (extreme low femtogram detection range), pushing detection limits considerably, one of the most sensitive reagents available on the market!
We hope for many more years in echange of ideas and thank you for all your input so far!
On the 5th of March Agrisera visited the Molecular Biology department at Umeå University with a traditional Swedish "semletårta".
We were happy to offer Agrisera ECL reagents samples:
Agrisera ECLBright (mid picogram detection range), suitable for proteins of moderate expression
Agrisera ECLSuperBright (extreme low femtogram detection range), pushing detection limits considerably, one of most sensitive reagents available on the market!
If you have not received your free ECL trial sample, do contact us for one!
Updated photosynthetic posters developed by Professor Govindjee, Professor Lars Olof Björn and Dr Dmitry Shevela,are available in format A2 to decorate your office or lab wall.
Poster 1, gives a good overview on thylakoid membrane, while poster 2, is concentrating on dissecting Z scheme. According to feedback, which we have received, these posteres are a good and appreciated educational material. You are welcome to use them in your lectures and if you require, pdfs are available for download here: Thylakoid membrane and Z-scheme
Today we have received this beautiful post card from Turku, from the organizers of the 14th Nordic Photosynthetic Congress, which Agrisera is supporting with The Best Talk prize.
Come to Turku in spring and talk photosynthesis!
Agrisera sponsored, photosynthetic posters prepared by prof. Govindjee and Dr. Shevela are going to be availble as a take away, not to mention the Agrisera Western Blot trouble shooting brochure.
And, do not forget to check for other plant events, by using The Global Plant Event Calendar!
We were waiting impatiently for the announcement of the winners of the 2019 CiteAb awards this year and were really thrilled to learn that Agrisera received this brand new award! It gives spotlight to the supplier with the most antibody citations related to plant science in 2018, making Agrisera Plant Science Antibody Supplier of the Year.
We are glad that Agrisera antibodies are supporting research in plant science and promise to work hard to provide the community with even wider range of quality products.
CiteAb is the leading life science data provider, which has grown from an academic project to an innovative data company. Their antibody and biochemical search engine provides a simple way for researchers to find reagents that work, while the high quality market data and citations are used commercially by many of the world’s leading reagent suppliers and investment companies.
Last week, during the Molecular Biology of Plants conference, taking place in Dabringhausen, Germany, The Best Talk Award sponsored by Agrisera was won by the pdh candidate Katharina Winkel from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
We are sending you warm congratulations and are awaiting your decission on which product have you chosen from Agrisera catalogue!
The meeting is organized yearly, for 32 years by the Section of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology of the DGB.
The newly published book (World Scientific): "Photosynthesis - solar energy for life" by Dmitry Shevela, Lars Olof Björn and Govindjee, is filled with most recent data concerning this unique process, which is crucial for maintaining life on Earth. There are many challenges, which we are currently facing, to name a few: climate change, energy demand, food supply, pollution and many pressing questions which remain to be answered.
The book will definitely provide you with valuable insights and is filled with many useful and educational graphs and schemes.
Recommended reading!
Packed with tips and tricks about Western Blot optimization, showing what to do when an antibody is not working, an antibody validation list and much more!
Agrisera's guide is prepared based on over 20 years experience with Western Blots.
We do know what can go wrong and what can be done to help.
Inquire YOUR copy today by contacting us!
After many years of supporting hundreds of plant conferences, workshops and congresses the idea of a reliable and global Plant Science Event calendar was born. Agrisera contacted American Society of Plant Biology and our idea seem to hit the right timing. After discussions and brain storming the calendar started to take shape and since January 2019 all plant meetings, congresses, workshops and conferences can be signed up to the Global Plant Science Events Calendar. The aim is to cover most of worldwide meetings and provide a comprehensive listing. At the moment there are over 65 meetings registered already.
The calendar offers following functionality:
- There are few ways to easy receive an overwiev on coming meetings
- Using a simple tool, plant event can be easily included into the calendar
- A mini calendar widget can be loaded to a conference/society website, to obtain a widget contact: community@plantae.org
- There is an option to subscribe to the calendar
- Simple search can be done using specific key words
Blog post of Plantae about the calendar.
Over many years Agrisera supported and collaborated with plant organizations worldwide:
Amercican Society of Plant Biologists, The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology, International Society of Photosynthesis Research.
We value these relationships and are happy to be a part of an amazing plant community.
This Christmas Agrisera made a donation to Vi Agroforestry, a Swedish aid organization that has been working for tree planting and poverty reduction in east Africa for over 35 years. Last year, Vi Agroforestry planted over 5 million trees, combating poverty and climate change. This way, the lives of 2.3 mln people were considerably improved.
We are proud to contribute!
We wish you all happy and merry holiday time and lots of success in 2019!
Agrisera Team
Dr. Sascha Escamez received the UPSC Agrisera Prize 2018 for his exemplary brilliant scientific work, an extraordinary contribution in upgrading the UPSC microscopy platform and being a positive impact in, and an excellent ambassador for the UPSC (Umeå Plant Science Centre). Announcement was done during the Christmas lunch.
The UPSC Agrisera Prize is awarded every year to a PhD student, Postdoc or technitian at UPSC for outstanding scientific achievement and contributions to improve the UPSC working environment. This year the prize was presented by Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera and by the chair of the UPSC Professor Catherine Bellini. More information about Sr. Sascha Escamez achievements can be found here.
From left to right: Catherine Bellini (Chair of the UPSC board), Sascha Escamez (UPSC), Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund (Agrisera), photo: Anne Honsel
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2019
The 44th FEBS Congress, 6.07-11.07, Kraków, Poland
Plant Biology 2019, 3.08-7-08, California, USA
Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society congress, 28.08-30.08, Umeå, Sweden
9th conference of the Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, 9.09-12.09, Toruń, Poland
Botanikertagung 2019, 15.09-19.09, Rostock, Germany
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2019
Molecular Biology of Plants, 18.02-21.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
9th Intenational Sypomosium on Plant senescence, 1.04-4.04, Berlin, Germany
TRI-National Arabidopsis Meeting, 10.04-12.04, Zurich, Switzerland
Vth International Conference on Research and Education, 8.04-13.04, Poznań, Poland
EMBO symposium, sensing and signalling in plant stress response, 15.04-17.04, New Delhi, India
The Annual Eastern Photosynthesis Conference 3.05-5.05, Woods hole, USA
The 14th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 22.05-24.05, Turku, Finland
PostDoc day, 6.06, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Photosynthesis and hydrogen energy research for sustainability - 2019, 23.06-28.06, St. Petersburg, Russia
The 23rd International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, 25.06-29.06, Paris, France
Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants, 10.07-12.07, Munich, Germany
Amyloid diseases and amyloid mechanisms -ADAM 8, 28.08-30.08, Lund, Sweden
54th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis meeting, 25.10-27.10, Indiana, USA
SAIB 2019, 5.11-8.11, Argentina
Plants in a changing world, 6.11-8.11, Helsinki, Finland
Eastern Regional Meeting, 23.11, Brock University, Canada
Impact of Chromatin Domains on Plant Phenotypes, 9.12-11.12 Madrid, Spain
Short video instruction for The Global Plant Events Calendar
Agrisera attended Medica 2018 in Düsseldorf 12-15th of November. We had the opportunity to meet many of our distributors and other collaboration partners.
According to the latest report from Citeab, on individual antibody trends, Agrisera's anti-RbcL | Rubisco large subunit, form I and form II antibody, available for researchers since 2003, is the most published anti-Rubisco antibody, currently on the market. Together with 18 other Agrisera antibodies, this antibody is included in the list of the first 10 000 most published antibodies in the world.
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On the 6th of September Agrisera participated in Umeå Plant Science Centre Days 2018. It took place at Umeå Art Campus. The day was filled with talks about future visions for the centre and information about UPSC infrastructures.
Kahoot! antibody quiz prepared by Agrisera was well participated during the lunch break. The proud winner is Dr. Tim Crawford, who scored 7955 points. Congratulations and welcome to pick up an antibody from Agrisera Plant Antibody Collection.
In the afternoon 3 minutes flash talks took place with the aim to describe research in a concise and appealing way. The winners enjoyed cinema tickets with popcorn sponsored by Agrisera.
Thank you for this amazing day!
Between the 5th and 10th of August Agrisera participated in the 12th congress of International Plant Molecular Biology, taking place in Montpellier in France. The congress gathered over 900 participants from all corners of the world. It was a very intensive meeting time for us, with lots of fruitful interactions. Thank you for your appreciation of Agrisera products, for coming to our booth to meet us, provide suggestions, exchange experience about western blot technique.
We are already looking forward to the next meeting in 3 years, in Australia.
Agrisera attended the ASPB Plant Biology meeting 2018 in Montréal, Canada, July 13 - 18. We would like to thank the organizers for an excellent meeting and all of the participants from around the world who came together in Montréal for this conference.
We enjoyed many interesting discussions in the exhibit hall and received valuable feedback and new ideas on how we can continue to support the plant research society in the future. Thank you to all of you who came by our booth!
Agrisera attended the 29th ICAR held in Turku, Finland, June 25 - 29.
Researchers gathered to share their latest research and this resulted in excellent talks, wokshops and poster presentations.
We enjoyed meeting with researchers from across the world, thank you all who came by our booth!
On the 29th of June two phd candidates, Claudio Calvaruso from the group of professor Claudia Büchel (Institute of Molecular Biosciences Goethe University of Frankfurt in Germany) and Vincenzo Mascoli from the group of professor Roberta Croce (Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands), visited Agrisera facilities. The aim was to learn about Agrisera operations. Thank you for the nice discussions!
In the picture: Agrisera CEO, Greger Nordlund (middle).
Between 25.06 and 28.06 Agrisera participated in the 1st European Congress on Photosynthesis Research ePS-1held in the Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala. The meeting gathered over 400 researchers working on various aspects of photosynthesis.
Professor Govindjee was signing photosynthetic posters, printed by Agrisera.
We enjoyed many meetings with old and new Agrisera antibody users.
Thank you for participation in Agrisera's "Win an antibody quiz".
Agrisera, as a member of the Pivotal Scientific alliance, were attending this years Pivotal Links event, between June 19-20 in Oxford, UK. We had the opportunity to meet some of our distributors and other collaboration partners as well as establish new partnerships. It also gave us valuable insights into the antibody market. Thank you for a well-organized event!
Between the 17th and 21st of June Agrisera participated in the Plant Biology Europe conference, held in Copenhagen, Danmark. It was such a pleasure to meet collaborating partners, researchers interested in future antibody development, providing us with valuable suggestions and ideas. Both photosynthetic posters (thylakoid membrane and Z-Scheme) were very popular as well as Agrisera's new Western blot guide: How to obtain good results. We enjoyed meeting you all and thank you for such a valuable time!
Plant Biology Europe, 18.06-21.06, Copenhagen, Danmark (booth 028). Meet Joanna and Karolina
1st European Congress on Photosynthesis Research (ePS-1), 25.06-28.06 Uppsala, Sweden. Meet Joanna
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), 25.06-29.06, Turku, Finland (booth B8). Meet Linn and Magdalena
ASPB Plant Biology, 14.07-18.07, Montreal, Canada (booth 1205). Meet Linn
International Plant Molecular Biology, 5.08-10.08, Mont Peulier, France (booth 100). Meet Joanna
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Agrisera had the pleasure to participate in Umeå Cell Biology Symposium 2018, which took place on the 30-31st of May. Many great images enetered an image competition and the winner was announced during the meeting dinner. Interaction with all Agrisera antibody users was as always very giving and we are happy that we can serve the local Umeå University with same day, free of charge delivery of Agrisera products.
Agrisera supported a poster prize at the EMBO Workshop Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling in photosynthetic organisms, 15 – 19 May 2018 in Bischoffsheim, France. The prize was granted to Marie-Louise Fobian Thomsen. She is a PhD student from the University of Copenhagen. Her poster was describing the new signaling role of glucosinilates. Congratulations!
Agrisera antibodies can be found in thousands of scientific publications and have a publication record since 1990.
A list of chosen references can be found here.
Agrisera's Global antibody product range has a very broad reactivity. Peptides used to elicit these antibodies are conserved in thousands of plant and algal species.
The updated, educational Z-Scheme has been prepared by Dr Dmitry Shevela, Professor Lars Olof Björn and Professor Govindjee.
It is available for download or can be send by Agrisera as a hard copy. Request one today!
On the 23rd of March Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund held a lecture for Erasmus students within the course on Protein Separation Methods and Analytical Techniques (5KE171) at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.
Thank you for your attention, questions and discussion.
Agrisera attended the BIO-Europe Spring 2018 conference in Amsterdam, March 12-14.
It was a well-organized meeting including discussions with potential collaboration partners, interesting company presentations and a company exhibition. We enjoyed our stay in Amsterdam with many interesting meetings and discussion.
Between 20-23rd of February Agrisera was participating in 31st Molecular Biology of Plants Meeting in Dabringhausen in Germany. In the remote location and beautiful setting, the days were filled with exciting lectures, poster sessions and interesting discussions. Thank you all who stopped by Agrisera display, participated in our quiz and asked all the questions. We appreciate it!
On the 13th of February Agrisera visited the Molecular Biology department at Umeå University with a traditional Swedish "semletårta". We were happy to offer Agrisera anti-tag antibodies at 50 % discount. For details check here.
Thank you all who came by to talk to us and enjoy this cake together with us!
Between 25th and 26th of January, Agrisera participated and supported the 1st Artic Meeting on Clinical Tuberculosis. Thank you for coming by with questions and interesting suggestions.
Agrisera supports research on tuberculosis with catalog antibodies as well as offers custom antibody development services.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2018
Arctic clinical tuberculosis meeting, 25.01-26.01, Umeå, SwedenMolecular Biology of Plants, 20.02-23.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
The Mycotoxin Forum, 12.03-14-03, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Umeå Cell Biology Symposium, 30.05-31.05, Umeå, Sweden
Pivotal Links, partnering meeting, 19.06-20.06, Oxford, UK
Plant Biology Europe, 18.06-21.06, Copenhagen, Danmark
1st European Congress on Photosynthesis Research (ePS-1), 25.06-28.06, Uppsala, Sweden
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), 25.06-29.06, Turku, Finland
ASPB Plant Biology, 14.07-18.07, Montreal, Canada
International Plant Molecular Biology, 5.08-10.08, Mont Peulier, France
Umea Plant Science Day, 6.09-7.09, Umeå, Sweden
Medica 2018, 12.11-15.11, Dusseldorf, Germany
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2018
The 27th Annual Western Photosynthesis Conference, 4.01-7.01, Oracle, Arizona, USAThe 35th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, 4.05-6.05, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Target of rapamycin (TOR) signalingin photosynthetic organisms in photosynthetic organisms, 15.05-19.05, Bischoffsheim, France
Advanced imaging of cellular processes in vitro and in vivo, 25.05-27.05, Stockholm University, Sweden
The 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, 17.06-21.06, Carnegie, USA
Plant Molecular Biology Meeting, 4.07-7.07, Salamanca, Spain
13th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference (ENFC), 18.08-21.08, Stockholm, Sweden
International Association for Plant Biology Congress, 19.08-24.08, Dublin, Irland
The 6th European Workshop on Peptides and Receptors Signalling in Plants, 5.09-7.09, Málaga, Spain
1st international Plant Systems Biology meeting (iPSB), 10.10-14.10, Roscoff, France
Neuroscience 2018, 12.11-15.11, San Diego, USA
Read more about coming plant science conference on CiteAb blog or check EPSO plant meeting calendar.
Have a wonderful holiday and a happy New Year!
Please note that during the Christmas holiday Agrisera last shipment day is going to be the 22nd of December.
You are welcome to send your orders to orders@agrisera.com or place them directly on-line during that time as we will maintain e-mail communication and technical support.
Shipments will resume on the 2nd of January 2018. If you are going to be away from the office, please specify when you would like to receive your order.
We wish you all the best in 2018!
Agrisera Team
In the middle of December Agrisera visited three institutions at Umeå University for a traditional Swedish "julfika" with saffran cake and gingerbread. We visited the Department of Molecular Biology, the Department of Medical Biosciences and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Thank you to all for coming by to meet us!
Anna Gustavsson received the UPSC Agrisera Prize 2017 for her contribution to promote cell biology research at UPSC (Umeå Plant Science Centre). Announcement was done during the Christmas lunch.
This year's winner contributed to develop and improve UPSC confocal laser scanning microscopy/macroscopy platform and the platform services as well as helped to improve work environment at UPSC. Her work was supported by Agrisera products, however this was not required criteria for the nomination.
The UPSC Agrisera Prize is awarded every year to a PhD student, Postdoc or technitian at UPSC for outstanding scientific achievement and contributions to improve the UPSC working environment. This year the prize was presented by Linn Fransson and Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera and by the chair of the UPSC Catherine Bellini.
From left to right: Linn Fransson (Agrisera), Anna Gustavsson, Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund (Agrisera), Catherine Bellini (Chair of the UPSC board); photo: Anne Honsel
With a delicious cake from a local bakery, Agrisera staff celebrated high publication record of Agrisera antibodies, which makes us even closer to take the lead in Antibodies for Plant Science. At the moment Agrisera provides 1000 validated antibodies and kits for research on plant and algal cell biology. Our products cover antibodies with reactivity to a broad species range and so called "global antibodies", where, one antibody can be used on species including higher plants, trees, mosses, algae and cyanobacteria.
Last report, from the UK based company CiteAB, which is the world's largerst antibody search engine, with results ranked by citations, revealed that Agrisera is in the top of companies providing antibodies for research in plant science. CiteAB team analyzed citation data from 2012 to 2017, which means 1800 citations for 850 antibodies and 36 suppliers of antibodies for plant science. The research which is supported by 60 % fewer suppliers compare to other areas and 94 % fewer antibodies. Agrisera scored as a second supplier taking 20.06 % of citation share, just behind Abcam (20.64 %). You can read a complete CiteAB post here.
We are celebrating this achivement at Agrisera as it is reflecting years of our hard and steady work, to supply plant science community with reliable selection of antibodies.
An overview of references where Agrisera antibodies are used, can be found here.
On 25th of September Agrisera held antibody production and western blot trouble shooting seminar at Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Biology, Poznań, Poland. Thank you to all of you who attended, for very valuable questions and discussions.
Between 17th and 21st of September Agrisera participated in International Plant Science Conference, the Botanikertagung 2017 held in Kiel, Germany. It was overwhealming to meet all Agrisera product users. Thank you for such a great participation in Agrisera quiz and western blot workshop. It was a very fruitful meeting for Agrisera.
Between 21st and 23rd of August Agrisera participated in 50 years of plant science symposium which took place at KBC building at Umeå University. The symposium was divided into three days which described past-presence-future of plant research in Umeå. It was an amazing journey with many invited guests and speakers. Thank you all who participated in Agrisera quiz about most popular antibodies developed in collaboration with researchers at UPSC. Thank you all who stopped by to talk. We are happy for all years of fruitful collaboration with Umeå Plant Science Centre!
Between 16th-18th of August Agrisera participated in Nordic Plant Biology days 2017 - 27th SPPS Congress, which gathered researchers from whole Scandinavia. Presentations gave a very good picture of plant biology research in Scandinavia. Thank you all who participated in Agrisera: Win a free antibody quiz and all who came by to talk, share their experience and ideas. It was a great meeting to attend to!
Agrisera attended this year's annual ASPB Plant Biology meeting in Honolulu (HI), July 24 - 28.
Researchers from across the world gathered to share and take part of the latest research and development in plant science.
We enjoyed a well-organized conference and many interesting discussions.
Thank you all who came by our booth, sharing your experiences and suggesting new ideas for the future.
28th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) was held at the Hyatt St Louis Arch, an excellent venue for a meeting. Good food, good music and good science were on tap for this core group of plant (and algal) researchers. Thank you to all who came by Agrisera booth.
Agrisera's photosynthetic poster can be downloaded here.
International Conference of Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), BOOTH 9
American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting, BOOTH 208
Nordic Plant Biology days 2017 - 27th SPPS Congress, Naantali, Finland
50 years of plant research, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Between 29th of May and 1st of June, Agrisera participated in Rooting 2017 conference in Umeå. Thank you for interesting discussions, participation in Agrisera antibody quiz and all questions regarding western blot trouble shooting. Agrisera poster with: Tips and tricks for antibody production and western blot, can be found here. Winner of Agrisera antibody quiz is going to be announced soon.
Simultaneous immunodetection of ATPB (AS05 085), LHCSR3 (AS14 2766) and COXIIB (AS06 151) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii whole cell extracts. Whole cell extracts (30 µg protein) were loaded on Biorad 4-20% Criterion TGX Precast Mini protein gels. Gels were run at 85V. For electro-blotting wet transfer onto nitrocellulose membrane was performed (105 V for 1h). Overnight blocking with 5% milk in TBST in the cold room. Sequential 2h-long incubation with mixed primary antibodies each at a dilution of 1:20 000 in TBS-t., followed by incubation with anti-rabbit antibody and development with ECL. Image was taken using Chemidoc MP Imaging system.
Lane from the left: samples from dim light; Lane to the right: samples after 4h at 250 µmol photons m-2 s-1.
Courtesy of Msc. Angeliki Tsichla, Petroutsos and Finazzi lab, CEA Grenoble, France
Primary antibodies of similar titer and made in the same host can be used in simultaneous western blot.
Discover over 1000 antibodies for plant and algal resarch. New Plant Antibody 2017 catalog is filled with validated and ready to use antibodies to speed up your research. Agrisera antibodies have a broad reactivity range, from model species like: Arabidopsis thaliana | Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Cyanobacteria | Diatoms | Hordeum vulgare | Nicotiana tabacum | Physcomitrella patens | Populus sp. | Solanum lycopersicum | Spinacia oleracea | Triticum sp. | Zea mays | Sorghum bicolor to many more listed HERE. Agrisera antibodies are also very well cited in scientific publications and many of our antibodies were serving scientific community for over a decade.
On the 28th of February Agrisera visited the Molecular Biology department at Umeå University with a traditional Swedish "semletårta".
Thank you all who came by to enjoy this cake together with us!
Between 14th and 17th of February Agrisera participated in Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, UREM, organized by Umeå University, SLU and KBC institutions. Sessions covered topics from natural, artificial photosynthesis, material technology and biorefinement. Agrisera photosynthetic poster was very popular and attracted attention. Thank you to all who stopped by for a chat.
If the protein you aim to detect in Western blot following immunoprecipiitation with an antibody has a molecular weight ~50 kDa anti-Rabbit light chain specific antibody should be used.
If the protein of interest is ~25 kDa, an anti-rabbit IgG Fc specific antibody such as: Goat anti-Rabbit IgG Fc, HRP conjugated, min. cross-reactivity to bovine horse or human serum proteins
Good luck with your research!
We visited Umeå Plant Science Center, the Department of Medical Biosciences, the Department of Molecular biology,
and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Thank you all for coming by to meet us!
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During the traditional Umeå Plant Science Centre Christmas lunch Dr. Siamsa Doyle was awarded with 2016 UPSC Agrisera Prize for her scientific input to unravel new functions of the endomembrane system and her contribution to improve the UPSC work environment. Siamsa’s collaborative approach has not only resulted in several publications in high ranking journals, but it was also instrumental in science popularization and organization of technical seminars. Moreover, her outstanding involvement in the working environment and her diplomacy have made employment process at UPSC transparent and led to improvements in information flow around the institute. The diploma and flowers were handed in by Prof. Catherine Bellini, Chairman of UPSC board and Dr. Malgorzata Wessels from Agrisera. |
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2017
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, Umeå, Sweden
Root2017, 29.05-1.06, Umeå, Sweden
International Conference of Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), 19.06-23.06, St. Louis, U.S.A.
American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting, 24.06-28.06, Honolulu, U.S.A.
Nordic Plant Biology days 2017 - 27th SPPS Congress, Naantali, Finland
50 years of plant research, Umeå Plant Science Centre, 21.08-23.08, Umeå, Sweden
Germany International Congress of the German Society of Botanists, 17.09-21.09, Kiel, Germany
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2017
26th Western Photosynthesis Conference (WPC2017), 5.01-8.01, USAMolecular biology of plants, 21.02-24.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
Plant autophagy: Improving crop and energy production, 23.03-24.03, Madrid, Spain
National Conference on Biotechology and Environment, 10.04-11.04, New Dehli, India
ERPC 34rd Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, 28.04-30.04, Woods Hole, USA
Global Herbicide Resistance Challenge, 14.05-18.05, Denver, USA
Spanish Plant Physiology Society Annual Meeting, 26.06-29.06, Barcelona, Spain
SEB Annual Meeting, 3.07-6.07, Gothenburg, Sweden
GRC conference: Photosynthetic Plasticity: From the Environment to Synthetic Systems, 16.07-21.07, Sunday River Newry, ME, USA
Molecular control of flower development, 3.09-7.09, Italy
N-term 2017: Proteostasis via the N-terminus, 11.09-13.09, Halle, Germany
8th conference of the Polish Society of Experimental Biology, 12-09-16.09, Białystok, Poland
Cologne Excellent Women in Science International Symposium, 5.10-6.10, Cologne, Germany
Photosynthesis and hydrogen energy research for sustainability, 30.10-4.11, Hyderbad, India
On Friday 11th of November Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera conducted a Skype workshop for students from Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops in Germany. The workshop was focused on basics of successful antibody production and western blot trouble shooting. Many practical tips were given to support optimization of western blot technique and antibody validation. One of attendees provided following comment: "There were many things which were new to us. I hope we can now improve our Western Blot skills with the newly gained knowledge! Thanks a lot for your workshop!
To book Agrisera Skype Workshop about antibody production and western blot, please contact: joanna@agrisera.com
Agrisera is celebrating membership in PSL Alliance offered by Pivotal Scientific Ltd - an international biotechnology consultancy dedicated to helping companies worldwide, grow sales and brand awareness. PSL Alliance helped us to find interesting collaboration partners, distributors and gave valuable insights into antibody market. Utilising their in-depth industry knowledge and network they will help your business grow by supporting you at all stages of the business life cycle. Their goal is to be a “one-stop shop” offering a portfolio of services that biotech companies can pick and choose to suit their growth strategies.
After 10 years since an article about Agrisera ("Is there an antibody out there?"), there is time to write about us again!
You will find the article on page 48 of this special issue.
Between 4.09 and 8.09 Agrisera participate in 2nd International Plant Proteomics Organization world congress held in Bratislava, Slovakia. We were delighted to meet Agrisera old customers and collaborating partners which resulted in many valuable disussions and suggestions. Agrisera technical poster about antibody production and western blot trouble shooting received quite a lot of attention and is available here. Thank you so much for such a friendly atmosphere and very good organization!
Between 7th and 12th of August Agrisera participated in The 17th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research in Maastricht. We are delighted to meet users of Agrisera photosynthetic antibodies and collaboration partners. Our days were filled with discussions about antibodies and western blot technique as Agrisera had a poster: Tips and tricks for antibody production and validation process, how to obtain good results, which attracted a lot of attention. We gave away hundreds of copies of Oxygenic Photosynthesis poster, prepared by prof. Govindjee and Dr. Shevela, which was given away signed by prof. Govindjee. It was a very popular poster indeed! You are welcome to request both posters as printed copy or down load it from our website.
Agrisera is an associated partner of SE2B project: "Solar Energy to Biomass – Optimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae" which received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675006. The goal of SE2B network is to train young researchers to work at the edge of innovations that shape the bio-based economy. The programme will continue until March 2020.
Agrisera attented the 10th Post-trancriptional Gene Regulation in Plants (PGRP) meeting in Austin,
Texas, July 14-15. This was a very well organized meeting, with inspiring talks and posters from
different fields of gene regulation at the post-transcriptional level.
Thank you all for interesting discussions and for contributing to antibody ideas for the future!
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Agrisera attended the ASPB Plant Biology 2016 meeting in Austin, Texas, July 9 - 13. This is the annual Plant Biology meeting – powered by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Agrisera staff was accompanied by Christopher Brown, our long time collaboration partner from Environmental Proteomics. We would like to thank everyone who attented and organized the conference, and a special thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth. | |
In preparation to 17th International Congress on Photosynthesis in Maastricht 2016, Agrisera sponsored printout of Oxygenic Photosynthesis Poster 2016, designed by Dr. Dmitry Shevela and prof. Govindjee. To request your printed copy, e-mail us or come to Agrisera booth during the congress.
Between 26-30 of June Agrisera was participating in EPSO/FESPB 2016 Congress, which gathered over 910 scientists from 56 countries in a conference venue of Clarion Hotel in Prague. Agrisera poster about antibody production and western blot trouble shooting was displaued in a poster session: Protein World. Thank you so much for coming by to Agrisera table to talk about antibodies which you use, provide with suggestions about new antibodies and share your technical tips. Agrisera poster can be send to laboratories which would like to use it as educational material. It can be requested here.
Agrisera attended this year’s International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) taking place from the 29th of June to the 3rd of July in Gyeongju, South Korea. It was a well-organized conference with about 1000 participants and many good discussions took place at our booth. We were joined by Kelly Kim from Leehyo Bioscience, our distributor in South Korea.
Thank you all who came by and shared your experience with Agrisera antibodies and suggested ideas for new antibodies for plant research.
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On 30 and 30.05 Agrisera joined Umeå Plant Science Centre days in Umeå. Over 100 researchers attended with very interesting talks covering research at the centre and posters. Agrisera poster about antibody production and western blot trouble shooting was included in a technical session. It describes antibody production flow as well as presents a protocol for not working or unknown antibodies. If you are interested to receive a copy of this poster, please contact us!
Uppsala BioCentrum is a cluster of five departments, and research within the fields of Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Food Science, Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry is conducted there.
Thank you all who came by to meet us!
This is a solution to save YOUR time.
Agrisera's IncuBlocker will shorten western blot protocol by several hours. The key is that blocking, primary and secondary antibody incubations are ALL done in one step!
As you see on the image above standard protocol can be shortened considerably. In this example, primary antibody incubation can be shortened to 30 minutes time, which combined with blocking and secondary antibody incubations all taking place during those 30 minutes, gives a considerable time saving. Not to mention the cost. This kit contains blocking reagent and secondary anti-rabbit IgG antibody, HRP conjugated for chemiluminescent detection. It is suitable for work with primary antibodies of high titer, against medium and high abundancy proteins. IncuBlocer can be combined with Agrisera Enhanced ECL of high sensitivity detection. Interested to receive a free sample? Please inquire.
Thank you very much for this valuable technical seminar.
The image below is showing why pre-immune serum screening is of crucial importantce before starting custom antibody production. Serum from some animals may not be suitable at all due to increased background levels already before immunization is started.
Courtesy of Dr. Anna Gustavsson and Prof. Markus Grebe, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
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Agrisera supported XIVth Symposium on Metabolism and Mode of Action of Plant Hormones, which took place between 13th and 15th of April In Valencia, Spain. Even though we could not attend in person, Agrisera catalogs were on display as well as plant hormones flyer describing which antibodies and ELISA kits to plant hormones are available from Agrisera. We would like to thank you Dr. David Alabadi for making Agrisera support possible.
Antibodies form an essential part of the immune defence against microbes and have been explored as therapeutics and diagnostics due to their ability to bind proteins and non-proteins specifically and with high affinity. In clinical and research laboratories, antibodies are an indispensible tool for detecting, quantitating, and isolating proteins and other moieties in cells, tissues, and body fluids. While antibodies used for therapeutics and clinical diagnosis are subject to stringent regulations by health authorities throughout the world, there are no standards or third-party quality controls for research antibodies.
Hundreds of biotech companies offer research antibodies, which are either polyclonal, monoclonal, or more recently, recombinant. However, the specificities of these antibody reagents do not always match scientists' expectations. An antibody might bind non-specific targets and might not be suitable for a specific application. Utilization of such an antibody often leads to false positive results. These misleading results can nullify important discoveries, discredit a research team and impede scientific progress. Academic journals have withdrawn articles presenting data based on non-specific antibodies, and poor antibody quality has been attributed as one of the causes for the irreproducibility of published discoveries.
In order to help alleviate this antibody quality and specificity problem, Labome sought to organize antibody applications cited in formal publications since 2008 and has developed Validated Antibody Database (VAD). VAD, a manually curated database, compiles commercial and non-commercial antibodies whose specificities and applications have been independently reported in published results from formal articles. In particular, VAD catalogues antibody applications validated in knockout studies. VAD version 2.2 contains 143357 entries of antibody applications from 38430 articles, covering 35146 antibody reagents from 110 high-quality suppliers. The database is updated every other month. VAD is freely accessible for online browsing at www.labome.com.
Between 24th and 25th of February Agrisera participated in Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting UREM 2016. The meeting gathered researchers from distant continents and with background in various disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology and physiology. Presentations and discussions were focused on how sunlight energy can be applied in production of fuels and carbone-based compounds. It was great to meet Agrisera collaborating partners again and thank you all who stopped by Agrisera table!
Agrisera offers a free workshop on antibody production and western blot, by Skype. At a time suitable for your research group.
Do not miss this opportunity to get to know useful details of antibody production process as well as western blot technique.
Specific examples of western blot optimization are shown and ideas for improvement of your results will be given.
Comment after the workshop given by one of participants: I did not know I could learn so much about western blot during one hour!
To book Agrisera Skype Workshop, please contact: joanna@agrisera.com
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Dr. Malgorzata Wessels (née Pietrzykowska) joined Agrisera Team in January 2016 to help us to grow plant and algal antibody collection.
She grew up in Bialystok, a city in east of Poland located nearby the last primeval forest of Europe. In 2004 she moved to do her masters’ studies to Torun, Poland. There she studied Biology with specialization in General and Molecular Biology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University and took a particular interest in Plant Sciences.
In 2008, Malgorzata’s scientific interest was awarded with an UREKA (Undergraduate Research Experience and Knowledge Award) Scholarship from the Science Foundation Ireland. This allowed her to perform an independent research project during at the University College Dublin (School of Biology and Environmental Sciences) in the group of Dr. Carl Ng. She established a method for obtaining of embryogenic callus and for the propagation of suspension cell cultures from a model temperate grass species namely Brachypodium distachyon.
In 2009 Malgorzata has defended her MSc project under the supervision of Dr. Justyna Wisniewska at Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Cathedra at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Her studies helped with defining the subcellular localization of auxin and its’ efflux carriers in proliferating and differentiating calli by applying confocal laser scanning microscopy and aseptic techniques for in vitro tissue cultures.
Malgorzata lives in Sweden since 2010, where she moved to pursue her scientific interest in the group of Prof. Stefan Jansson at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, a part of Umeå University. She performed her doctoral research, as an Early Stage Researcher in the Marie-Curie Research HARVEST Network funded by the European Research Council. The investigations that granted her a doctoral degree in 2015 concentrated on establishing the specific functions of the light harvesting proteins Lhcb1 and Lhcb2, the second most abundant proteins on Earth. Thesis: The roles of Lhcb1 and Lhcb2 in regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting.
Recent publications:
The Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Binding Proteins Lhcb1 and Lhcb2 Play Complementary Roles during State Transitions in Arabidopsis. (2014). Malgorzata Pietrzykowskaa, Marjaana Suorsa, Dmitry A. Semchonok, Mikko Tikkanen, Egbert J. Boekema, Eva-Mari Aro and Stefan Jansson. The Plant Cell;
Very rapid phosphorylation kinetics suggest a unique role for Lhcb2 during state transitions in Arabidopsis. Claudia Leoni, Malgorzata Pietrzykowska, Anett Z. Kiss, Marjaana Suorsa, Luigi R. Ceci, Eva-Mari Aro, Stefan Jansson (2013). The Plant Journal;
On 8th of January Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera held a western blot seminar at Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Science in Poznń, Poland.
Thank you to all who came, asked questions and showed interest. Good luck with your research!
On the 17th of December Agrisera visited three institutions at Umeå University for a traditional Swedish "julfika".
We visited the Department of Molecular biology, the Department of Medical Biosciences and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Thank you all for coming by to meet us!
The 2015 Agrisera Travel Prize was awarded to Dr. Bo Zhang from Umeå Plant Science Centre for his scientific excellence and contribution to good working atmosphere at UPSC. Dr. Zhang has used Agrisera products extensively in his work and his nomination was signed by multiple persons. In addition to being a posibive, bright and dependable person, DR. Zhang makes everyone working around him better by being available to this colleagues for scientific discussions. The diploma and chocolate was handed out by prof. Catherine Bellini, Chairman of UPSC board and Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera.
On 27th of November Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera held a western blot seminar at Umeå Plant Science Centre.
Thank you all for coming on this dark autumn afternoon to listen to our tips what is important to know when ordering a poly or monoclonal antibody production and antibodies should be validated. Thank you for all questions and I am looking forward to receive more of them in a future. Please do not hesitate to contact me when you encounter troubles with your western blots! With several years of western blot trouble shootings i may be able to help you!
Agrisera attended Medica 2015 in Düsseldorf, 16-19th of November. We had the opportunity to meet our distributors and other collaboration partners as well as establish new partnerships.
On the 10th and 11th of November, Agrisera attended the 2015 KBC Days at Umeå University, Sweden. Around 300 members of the Chemical Biological Centre departments, as well as visitors and invited guests from other universities, attended this meeting. Thank you for two days filled with interesting presentations and great discussions!
The Biotechnology Days
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On the 6th of November, Agrisera participated during the 2015 Biotechnology Days. This is a yearly event arranged by students for students, held at Umeå University this year. It is a possibility for students at Swedish universities to meet each other, and a chance to meet with companies working in the field of biotechnology.
Many thanks to all of you who came by to talk about biotechnology and antibodies with us!
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2016
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, 23.02-25.02, Umeå, Sweden
Plant Biology Europe 2016 Congress, 26.06-30.06, Prague, Czech Republic
27th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, 29.06-3.07, Gyeongju, Korea
Plant Biology 2016, 9.07-13.07, Texas, USA
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants (PGRP), 14.07-15.07, Texas, USA
17th International Photosynthesis Congress (PS17), 7.08-12.08, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2nd INPPO World Congress 2016 organized by the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO), 4.09-8.09, Bratislava, Slovakia
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2016
25th Western Photosynthesis Conference, 3.01-6.01, Devil's Thumb Ranch, Tabernash, Colorado, USA
29th Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants, 23.02-26.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference (ERPC), 8.04-10.04, Susquehanna University, USA
XIVth Symposium on Metabolism and Mode of Action of Plant Hormones, 13.04-15.04, Valencia, Spain
European Molecular Maize Meeting, 18.05-20.05, Hamburg, Germany
Finish Plant Science Days, 25-26.05, Turku, Finland
Norwegian Plant Biology 2016, 15.06-17.06, Trondheim, Norway
Plant Biotech 2016, 19.06-21.06 Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
4th International Symposium on Plant Signaling & Behavior, 19.06-23.06, St. Petersburg, Russia
22nd International Plant Growth Sunstances Associaation meeting (IPGSA), 21.06-25.06, University of Toronto, Canada
Photosynthesis research for sustainability 2016, 19.06-25.06, Puschino, Russia
5th Pan-American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy, 4.08 - 7.08, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photosynthetic Electron and Proton Transport in Plants and Algae, 4.08-7-08, Arnhem, The Netherlands
4th European Workshop on Plant Peptide Signalling, 31.08-2.09, Alsace, France
Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting, 14.09-16.09, BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Transautophagy meeting, 6.10 -7.10, Warsaw, Poland
Plant proteostasis: towards a green based industry, Barcelona, Sepember, Spain
On October 20 Agrisera had a pleasure to host a visit of Atlas Antibodies, Swedish company which provides 18 000 highly validated antibodies for Human Proteome. The Human Protein Atlas started in 2003 led by Professor Mathias Uhlén as an effort to build up a complete immunohistochemistry map of human protein expression and localization in normal tissues, cancers and cell lines.
Agrisera supplies Atlas Antibodies with custom antibody production services and our fruitful collaboration dates many years back.
Between 3rd and 5th of September Agrisera participated in 3rd Peptide Signalling Workshop in Ghent, Belgium. Meeting was held in the historical building of Ghent University: the "Pand" situated in the city center. Participants were representing over 15 countries and workshop program included even a 2 hour city tour as a break during one of the sessions. Thank you all who came by Agrisera table, discussed antibodies, informed us about very interesting adjustments of western blot protocol and gave their suggestions for new product development. Thank you also for participating in Agrisera talk about antibody production and western blot technique which seem to inspire to make adjustment in current western blot protocols. And yes, we do like to trouble shoot not working antibodies!
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Many of you must have been in touch with Agrisera Antibody Production Manager Cathrine. Our dear friend and colleague who with her incredible engagement served Agrisera customers during last 30 years. Yesterday we honoured Cathrine during the farewell party at Åbrånets Limousin. Cathrine, known also as "Cattis" always told us that her friends and colleagues are like flowers in a bouquet, everybody is different. Therefore she received from us a vase called "meadow" and everybody brought her a personal flower. We will miss her!
Between 10th and 13th of August Agrisera participated in XXVIth Plant Biology Congress of Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society, which took place at Aula Magna of Stockholm University. It was a magnificient venue, where Nobel price talks in chemistry are taking place. Thank you all dear participants who stopped by and talked about your antibody requirements. It was a great pleasure to meet you all and we appreciate a possibility to do that. Please keep in mind a possibility for an antibody production and western blot workshop which is offered by Agrisera in person or by Skype.
Between 26th and 30 of July Dr. Chris Brown was representing Agrisera on Plant Biology meeting. The ASPB this year in Minneapolis drew just over 1300 attendees. It was a wonderful mix of topics and disciplines, from ecological to molecular, and from basic research to applied and industrial. The undercurrent of global change, biotic and abiotic stress, and food security could be felt at this meeting. We were happy to be present and to support the meeting.To the many who dropped by our booth, we are excited to incorporate all of your feedback, help with your research problems and embark on some new projects with you.
Between the 10th and 11th of July, Agrisera attended the Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants conference held in
Paris, France. We enjoyed a well-organized conference with many excellent speakers, sharing their interesting research results.
Agrisera also took part of lots of interesting results during the poster session, as well as presenting our poster about Compartment Markers.
Thank you all who shared your experiences with Agrisera antibodies, raised interesting questions and suggested ideas for new antibodies for plant research!
Between the 5th and 9th of July, Agrisera attended the annual International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Paris.
Nearly 1000 researchers from across the world gathered to share their cutting edge results and interest in the model plant
Arabidopsis thaliana.
Thank you all who came by our booth, sharing your experiences of using Agrisera antibodies and suggesting new ideas.
One day we have received a very special thank you card from the Wheeler High School students which were supported by Agrisera with reagents and consulations time to complete their final lab.
Good luck for the future!!!
Between July 2nd and 4th Agrisera was participating in Plant Biotic Stress & Resistance Mechnism conference in Vienna organized by VISCEA. It was great to learn about most recent advances in understanding and combating plant biotic stress and resistance mechanisms. Thank you all who came to Agrisera table. We do appreciate your input and comments to help us to develop Agrisera antibody collection.
On 1st of July at 1 p.m. Agrisera hold an interactive workshop about antibody production and western blot trouble shooting at Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna. Many thanks to Dr. Elwira Smakowska to organize it and thank you to all who came listened and asked many questions. We are always learning and are happy to share our knowledge!
Between 29th of June and July 1st Agrisera participated in a third Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance Conference in Vienna. Thank you all collaborating partners, old and new customers for coming by to Agrisera table with antibody questions, new ideas and suggestions which new antibodies to make in a future. It was a great time to talk with you and learn about your research. Thank you for participating in Agrisera workshop about Antibody Production and Western Blot Technique. We do hope it is going to be useful.
Agrisera attended the 4th European Workshop on Plant Chromatin, taking place from 25th-26th of June in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was well-organized with many excellent speakers who shared their interesting research results. We also enjoyed a wonderful conference dinner at Linné Garden.
Thank you all who came by and shared your experience with Agrisera antibodies and suggested ideas for new antibodies for plant science research!
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More detailed list can be found here.
Agrisera rised a concern about lack of clear guide line for citing commercial research antibodies in plant journals and started a discussion with several editors of plant journals. Such a discussion is aldready ungoing in a medical field. Introduction of specific antibody product codes will support reproducibility of published research and is a serious issue which should be addressed in a near future.
Tim Bernard, CEO of Pivotal Scientific a biotechnology consultancy, was visiting Agrisera on 28th of May. Agrisera is a member of PSL Alliance, a group of star-ups and SME companies in the research regents sector. We thank you Tim for valuable discussions and suggestions and connecting us with other companies to increase strength of Agrisera offerings.
Between 18th and 21st of May Agrisera participated in 9th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology in Wrocław, Poland. The conference was attended by 200 researchers from 30 countries. 58 lectures and over 300 posters, lots of discussions and suggestions for future antibody development for plant mitochondrial proteins were received. Agrisera held a lecture: "Tips and tricks of antibody production and validation - how to obtain good results". Thank you for all the questions which we received afterwards. We enjoyed friendly atmosphere, guided tour in Wrocław by night - thank you Dr. Michał Rurek! and wonderful conference dinner.
Between 26th of April and 1st of May Agrisera participated in the 1st International Solar Fuels Conference organized by The Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. Opening of a meeting took place in an aula of the oldest university in Scandinavia, Uppsala University. Over 500 researchers participated in this first meeting which brought together both physical chemists and biologists involved in issues of solar fuels production. Thank you to all of our customers and collaborating partners who came by to talk to Agrisera, share your ideas and questions.
Between 24th and 26th of April Agrisera participated in satellite meeting of the 1st International Solar Fuels Conference in held in Ångstöm Laboratories in Uppsala. Over 130 young scientists joined from over 20 countries. Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera presented a workshop: "Antibody production and western blot, how to obtain good results?". Thank you to all for joining it, for all interesting questions and discussion. It was great to meet young and dedicated scientists. Thank you for inviting us to participate!
Agrisera visited e-commerce 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhihition took place at Kistamässan between the 24th and 25th of March. We attended many interesting seminars and talked to a lot of people about e-commerce and digital marketing. We obtained a lot of ideas how to develop Agrisera webshop and make it even easier for our customers to use.
Between 25th and 27th of March Agrisera participated in the seventh Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting at KBC the Chemical Biological Centre at Umeå University in Sweden. This year's meeting covered a wide topic selection including: bioeconomy, advanced biomass fuels, thermal and biochemical conversion technologies, photovoltaics and natural and artificial photosynthesis. Dr. Pierre Joliot, a grandson of Maria Skłodowska-Curie held a closing lecture at the conference: 60 years in photosynthesis, the pleasure of research. Thank you for a very interesting meeting!
On the 19th of February Agrisera visited three institutions at Umeå University with a traditional Swedish "semletårta", which is a cake with almonds and cream. Thank you all who came to enjoy the cake, talked about antibodies and showed your appreciation of our speedy delivery times. As one of you expressed it: "I stopped my experiment for an hour and when I received the antibody I continued the same day".
Agrisera's #1 Plant Antibody Catalog in the World is available for download.
It contains houndreds of antibodies to various proteins, hormones and other compounds of plant and algae model species.
Primary antibodies are accompanied by a collection of Agrisera matching secondary antibodies HRP, ALP, FITC, DyLight®-conjugated.
Free samples of Agrisera matching secondary antibodies are available and can accompany your order.
ECL and TMB for ELISA, Protein Extraction Buffer for plant and algal samples are also included.
What does this unique poster made out of Swedish stamps have to do with Agrisera?
Well it is created from stamps received over several years of fruitful collaboration between Agrisera and Environmental Proteomics in Canada.
And it is for sure going to get even bigger in the future!
The Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology took place in Ventura California between Jan 18 and 23. This was the first GRC on this topic. The conference was exciting from beginning to end, with a mix of basic and very applied research presented. Attendees were from across North America and around the world. Agrisera presented a poster describing antibody compartment markers (picture above).
From January 8 to 11, Agrisera represented by Dr. Chris Brown from Environmental Proteomics (Canada), attended the 24th Western Photosynthesis Conference (WPC) in Asilomar California. This conference draws some of the top labs in the western US, as well as several from central US and from across the Pacific in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. This year’s WPC did not disappoint.
Agrisera AB has entered into commercial agreement with Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the global provider of proprietary diagnostic tools, consumables and reagents for human and animal healthcare. The aim is to develop Affimer based purification systems for proteomics applications. Agrisera has been established for over thirty years and specialises in development and marketing of antibodies and related research tools globally, offering several thousand antibodies for plant and algal cell biology research.
Plant proteomics is a rapidly growing field like human proteomics in which scientists are working to understand the relationships between proteins and diseases to drive a revolution in the way issues such as food security, safety and human health are addressed. In proteomics, samples are often dominated by highly abundant proteins making it difficult to detect the rare proteins that may be the most important in a disease process. Therefore, frequently, samples need to be enriched for non-abundant proteins to facilitate proteomic analysis. This is currently done using antibodies to extract the highly abundant proteins using a bead based affinity column. Affimers are an engineered alternative to antibodies. The market opportunity, whilst difficult to quantitate accurately, is significant. Agrisera AB and Avacta Life Sciences have entered into an agreement to develop Affimer based depletion products with improved performance and economics compared to the current systems. The agreement provides for commercialisation to be carried out by Agrisera under an undisclosed revenue sharing model.
Greger Nordlund, Chief Executive Officer of Agrisera, said: "We are very pleased to enter into this collaboration with Avacta employing their promising Affimer technology. This collaboration is fully in line with Agrisera's strategy to develop and provide novel, effective tools and reagents to the research community."
Dr Alastair Smith, Avacta Group Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Agrisera is a well respected, high quality provider of research tools for plant sciences research and I am delighted that we will be working with them to develop the first Affimer based product for the agri-bio market. "This market, in general, is not as well served as the human life sciences market by the large antibody suppliers, so there is a great opportunity for Avacta to establish Affimers in a growing market where there are many gaps, as well as pushing forward with our plans to address the human life sciences market."
Agrisera continues a very fruitful collaboration with the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. The Faculty recently obtained a status of a KNOW center – Leading National Research Centre, together with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan. This status, assigned through competition, can only be given to institutions carrying out scientific research at the highest level and providing PhD studies of the highest quality. Both units are well known for their studies on RNA structure, function, and metabolism. Poznan RNA Research Centre will get additional money to support various aspects of RNA research: from basic research on RNA metabolism in bacteria, plants and human, through more applied studies on RNA viruses and the role of RNA in cancer and inherited diseases and their therapies, up to the development of bioinformatics tools allowing advanced structure-function studies. Many new antibodies for proteins involved in RNA metabolism will be produced in a near future. To learn more about the Poznan RNA research Centre visit their KNOW center Poznan.
If your answer is yes - nominate us as Researcher's Choice of CiteAb and F1000Research award, nominations are opened!
The 2014 Agrisera Travel Prize is awarded to Dr. Delphine Gendre from Umeå Plant Science Centre for her excellent scientific contributions involving highly skilled work looking at protein trafficking. This has lead to important publications in prestigious journals such as Plant Cell and PNAS. Delphine is also a very collegial and helpful person and has contributed to important dicussions about UPSC working conditions through her work on the UPSC board. The diploma and flowers were received by Dr. Gendre during traditional X-mas lunch at Umeå Plant Science Centre on 16th of December.
December is a time to sum up the year which is about to pass. Agrisera Team met on a traditional "Jullunch" - Christmas lunch with traditional Swedish food to share our thoughts on what we have achieved this year and make plans for 2015.
It was our pleasure to host Dr. Jay Thelen from University of Missouri at Agrisera facility in Umeå on 27th of November. We discussed future antibody development and collaboration projects. Dr. Thelen is going to have a lecture in a series of Cutting Edge Seminars at Umeå Plant Science Center: Phosphoproteomic analysis of seed maturation - from discovering phosphorylation sites to identifying kinase clients.
On 27th of November Agrisera visited The Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics in the morning and Umeå Plant Science Centre in the afternoon. We offered nice cakes from a local bakery and good deals for our local customers: promptly made and free of charge delivery in 30 minutes for products in stock as well as good discounts on our products - 30 % off for all our secondary antibodies until end of this year.
Thank you for all of you who came by to talk to us!
At the 20th of November Agrisera visited the Department of Molecular biology and the
Department of Medical Biosciences at Umeå University.
Thank you all for coming by to meet us!
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Agrisera facility in Umeå was visited by our collaborating partner, Dr. Rossana Andrea Novo Lopes Henriques on 10th of November. We had good discussion about further antibody testing and development and appreciate very much the time Dr. Henriques spent at our facility during her busy time in Umeå. She gave a lecture at at Umeå Plant Science Centre:"From genome dark matter to biological regulation: uncovering long non-coding RNA function in plants".
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2015
WPC2015, Western Photosynthesis Conference, 8.01-11.01, Asilomar, USAChloroplast Biotechnology, GRC conference, 18.01-23.01, Ventura, California
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, 25.03-27.03, Umeå, Sweden
ISF-1 Young, 24.04-26.04, Uppsala, Sweden
1st Solar Fuels Conference, 26.04-1.05, Uppsala, Sweden
9th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology, 17.05-22.05, Wrocław, Poland
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance III, 29.06-1.07, Vienna, Austria
Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms II, 2.07-4.07, Vienna, Austria
26th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, 5.07-9.07, Paris, France
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants, 10.07-11.07. Paris, France
Plant Biology 2015, 26.07-30.07, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
26th SPPS, 9.08-13.08, Stockholm, Sweden
3rd European Workshop on Peptide Signalling in Plants, 3.09-5.09, Ghent, Belgium
KBC days, 10.11-11-11, Umeå, Sweden
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2015
ISF-BIDR Workshop, Surviving the extremes: Abiotic stress tolerance in extremophile plants, 2.02-5.02, Ben-Gurion, Israel
International Symposium on Plant Photobiology, 26.05-31.05, Austin, USA
The Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop, 1.06-5.06, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
FV2015, 14.06-17.06, Toldeo, Spain
12th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants, 24.06 - 26.06, Verona, Italy
The Dynamics and Regulation of Photosynthesis: From the Origin of Biocatalysis to Innovative Solar Conversion, 28.06-3.07, Bentley Universiy, USA
SEB Annual Meeting, 30.06-3.07, Prague, Czech Republic
15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, 2.08-6.08, Tübingen, Germany
XVIII ENPER meeting, 17.08-20.08, Leeds, UK
2nd International Molecular Mycorrhizae Meeting, 3.09-4.09, Cambridge, Uniteg Kingdom
International Workshop on PR proteins and Induced Resistance against Pathogens and Insects, 6.09-10.09, Aachen Germany
17th Annual Meeting of the ISE-G, 21.09-24.09, Berlin, Germany
Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability, in honor of George Papageorgiou, 21.09-26.09, Crete, Greece
X Reunión de Biología Vegetal, 1.12-4.12, Chile
Between 14th and 17th of October Agrisera was attending NPC12 in Uppsala which is taking place every second year, in a Nordic county for 20 years (with universary this year). There were many new ideas about antibodies for photosynthetic community.
Wonderful conference dinner with a live performance by Bill and Stefan. Thank you!
Agrisera attended the 5th Scandinavian Symposium on Amyloid Diseases and Amyloid Mechanisms. The meeting took place in Umeå, Sweden, between Sep 29 and Oct 2. The conference was well-organized with many excellent speakers who shared their interesting research results.
Many thanks to everybody who came by to our booth, we always appreciate your feedback!
Between 2nd and 3rd of October Agrisera participated in 2nd Swedish Developmental Biology conference in Umeå. The meeting gathered both, plant and animal developmental cell biology scientists. Thank you for all interesting questions and discussions. We are always happy to help with antibody trouble shooting!
Agrisera has been acting in antibody production busineess for the last 30 years and over 10 years of hard work to provide plant community with high quality antibodies.
Thank you all who helped us to grow Agrisera collection by coming with new ideas, antibodies and support!
Between 1st - 4th of September Agrisera participated in 1st INPPO World Congress in Hamburg which was a wonderful opportunity to meet researchers working with plant proteomics. Thank you so much for all questions, interesting discussions, product suggestions and attending Agrisera workshop on "Tips and tricks of antibody production and a successful western blot - how to obtain good results. ". If you wish to receive this presentation as pdf or would like to have such a workshop at your university - western blot workshop.
Between 24th and 28th of August Agrisera participated in Lignin 2014 conference organized by Umeå Plant Science Centre. It is one of four conferences in our home town in which we are participating this year. Thank you for very interesting talks, lots of questions and a great time at the meeting.
Between Aug 25 and 28 Agrisera attended the 5th Meeting of The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. The meeting took place at Aula Nordica at Umeå University, Sweden. It was a very well-organized and interesting meeting. Many thanks to all of you who visited Agrisera booth.
Between July 28 and Aug 1 Agrisera attended the 25th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Vancouver. The meeting took place at the beautiful campus of University of British Columbia, UBC. Thank you all who came by our booth and shared your experience with Agrisera Antibodies. We always appreciate your feedback and new ideas!
Agrisera attended this year’s ASPB meeting taking place from July 12-16 in Portland, Oregon. It was a well-organized conference with over 1200 participants, many good discussions took place at our booth. We were joined by Chris Brown from Environmental Proteomic and Cheryl Semotok from Cedarlane. Thank you all who came by and shared your experience with Agrisera antibodies and suggested ideas for new antibodies for plant science research!
Between 30.06 and 2.07 Agrisera participated in "Posttranscriptional Gene Expression Regulation in Plants" conference in Poznań, Poland. Placed amoung magnificent plants of Collegium Biollogicum we interacted not only with conference participants but also with Agrisera collaborating partners and new customers from Department of Biology. Thank you all for coming by, discussing, giving suggestions and congratulating on our 30 years aniversary.
Agrisera contributed with taking a photo of all participants :)
Between 22nd and 26th of June Agrisera participated in FESPB/EPSO congress in Dublin with over 800 participants and 500 posters, many showed results obtained with Agrisera antibodies. Thank you to all customers who came to our booth to meet us, discuss their results and ask questions. We are very grateful for this valuable feedback and look forward to our future collaboration with you!
Agrisera attended the 8th Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society PhD Students Conference, taking place from 16th-19th of June in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was well-organized with many excellent speakers who shared their interesting research results. We also enjoyed an interested guided tour of Uppsala city followed by a conference dinner.
Thank you to all who came by to our booth and shared your experience of using Agrisera antibodies and suggested new ideas.
The Molecular Life of Plants: from Theory to Application, 16.06-19.06, Uppsala, Sweden
Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress, 22.06-26.06, Dublin, Ireland
Posttranscriptional Gene Expression Regulation in Plants, 30.06 - 2.07, Poznan, Poland
Plant Biology 2014 meeting, 12.07-16.07, Portland, Oregon
Arabidopsis 2014, 28.07-1.08, Vancouver, Canada
Lignin 2014 - biosynthesis and utilization, 24.08-28.08, Umeå, Sweden
Welcome to come by our stand and talk to us!!!
Två etablerade svenska företag i biotech-branschen, Agrisera AB och Techtum Lab AB, har påbörjat ett samarbete på den skandinaviska marknaden. Techtum behöver komplettera sortimentet på proteinsidan och Agrisera har dessa produkter. Agrisera kan nu erbjuda kompletterande PCR-relaterade produkter via
Techtum. Techtum Lab AB är sedan 1975 en etablerad leverantör till forskningslaboratorier i Sverige och Norden. Techtum har ett brett sortiment av utrustning och reagenser för PCR/QPCR, extraktion och "Next Generation Sequencing". Techtum ingår i koncernen AlphaHelix Molecular Diagnostics AB (publ) tillsammans med dotterbolaget AlphaHelix Technologies AB.
Between 18th and 23rd of May you had a chance to meet with Natalie Donaher and Chris Brown who represented Agrisera at the "Aquatic science at a time of rapid change" meeting in Portland, Oregon. It featured research from four societies: the society for freshwater sciences (SFS), association for the science of limnology and oceanography (ASLO), phycological society of America (PSA) and society of wetland scientists (SWS). Conference talks often showcased the ecological changes associated with anthropogenic disturbance, organism-level changes in niche ecologies and molecular studies of nutrient cycling. Thank you to all interested in proteomic work using Agrisera antibodies.
Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Medical Biosciences
Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå Plant Science Centre
Thank you all for coming by to meet us and thank you for all congratulations Agrisera received!
 | CiteAb has performed an analysis of PubMed publication record from last five years and concluded that Swedish research output referencing antibody use has moved Sweden to position 6 in the world. This indicates extremely fast growth in life science research which is using antibodies. With a population of only 9.6 mln, Sweden is a home for many world known research centers, to name a few: Karolinska Institute, Lund University, Umeå Plant Science Center, Uppsala University. A great effort to create antibodies to all proteins of human proteome was also inititiated and conducted in Sweden and as a result The Human Protein Atlas is available for research community. Agrisera was one of the companies which produced antibodies for the purpose of this project. Whole blog post from CiteAb about Swedish life science growth can be found here. |
Look out for special invitations, promotions and other activities to come.
Agrisera can have more than 2 antibodies to the same protein (in some cases up to 8!) and distinguishing which antibody has been used in a specific work might be quite difficult without a product code. Also, some protein names might be differently used in scientific papers compare to what is listed on a company website. Therefore please do use our product codes when you are citing Agrisera antibodies in your scienfitic papers!
The following free samples of Agrisera secondary antibodies are available for testing:
Goat anti-Rabbit IgG (H&L), HRP conjugated AS09 602
Goat anti-Chicken IgY (H&L), HRP conjugated AS09 603
Rabbit anti-Goat IgG (H&L), HRP conjugated AS09 605
Rabbit anti-Mouse IgG (H&L), HRP conjugated AS09 627
Goat anti-Rabbit IgG (H&L), ALP conjugated AS09 607
Goat anti-Rat IgG (H&L), HRP conjugated AS10 1187
If a secondary antibody that you might be interested in is not included above, please contact us.
Our collection consists of over 1000 secondary antibodies (ALP, biotin, DyLight, FITC,TRITC and HRP-conjugated) as well as blocking serum.
All from your local supplier.
Therefore, our product information sheets are including information about confirmed (based on experimental data) and predicted reactivity (based on sequence conservation). In cases when you are not certain or your species is not listed on our product information sheet - please contact us providing a protein sequence you aim to detect in your assay and information in what assay you are planning to use our antibody. Some antibodies will not work in techniques which require binding to a native and exposed part of a protein.
Following those links, you can find out which of Agrisera antibodies are reacting with chosen model species: Arabidopsis thaliana | Chlamydomonas reinhardii | cyanobacteria | Conifers | diatoms | Glycine max | Hordeum vulgare | Medicago truncatula | Nicotiana tabacum | Oryza sativa | Phaseolus vulgaris | Physcomitrella patens | Pisum sativum | Populus sp. | Solanum lycopersicum | Solanum tuberosum | Spinacia oleracea | Triticum sp. | Zea mays | Vitis vinifera | Search an antibody by species reactivity here.
The PSL Alliance is a new network for SMEs supplying reagents for research use only. The aim of the Alliance is to help promote manufacturers of high quality products.
 | Commercial antibodies are developed to various antigens (more information about procedures can be found in Agrisera Antibody Production Guide), being often recombinant proteins of full length, truncated or 7-20 amino acid long peptides. Development of antibodies against specific peptides is a common approach for cases where a specific isoform of a protein family is to be targeted. Therefore such an antibody will be often rather isoform and species specific. Based upon antigen sequence it is possible to predict if an antibody in question has a potential to work on a protein from species not listed on the product information sheet. Agrisera product information sheets are listing both: confirmed reactivity (based on experimental results) and predicted reactivity (resulting from sequence alignment of peptide sequence used to elicit given antibody). If information regarding a specific sequence used to elicit given antibody is not available - please, do contact us, with a question and provide us with the protein sequence you are aiming to detect. Even if there is some conservation level found in protein alignment, the crucial is if a sequence of the antigen used to elicit given antibody is conserved in your protein sequence and to what extent. This will save you money and time in the future. You are welcome to contact us with your question! |
Welcome to come by, during this special year filled with many cultural attractions!
Agrisera attended the 2nd National Plant Biology Conference, PlantBio 2013, taking place from 7-8 November in Tromsö. The conference was well-organized with many excellent speakers who shared their interesting research results.
Thank you to all who came by to our booth and shared your experience of using Agrisera antibodies and suggested new ideas.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2014:
Aquatic science at a time of rapid change, 18.05-23.05, Portland, Oregon, USAPlants and BioEnergy 2014 Congress, 4.06-7.06, University of Guelph, Canada
The Molecular Life of Plants: from Theory to Application, 16.06-19.06, Uppsala, Sweden
Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress, 22.06-26.06, Dublin, Ireland
Posttranscriptional Gene Expression Regulation in Plants, 30.06 - 2.07, Poznan, Poland
Plant Biology 2014 meeting, 12.07-16.07, Portland, Oregon
Arabidopsis 2014, 28.07-1.08, Vancouver, Canada
Lignin 2014 - biosynthesis and utilization, 24.08-28.08, Umeå, Sweden
Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Umeå, Sweden
Plant Proteomics Congress, , 31.08-4.09, Hamburg, Germany
5th Scandinavian Symposium on Amyloid Diseases and Amyloid Mechanisms, 29.09-2.10, Umeå, Sweden
The Swedish Developmental Biology Organization, 2nd conference, 2.10-3.10, Umeå, Sweden
12th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 14.10-17.10, Uppsala, Sweden
Meetings which are going to be supported by Agrisera in 2014:
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, 4.04-6.04, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
9th International Workshop – Sulfur Metabolism in Plants, 14.04-17.04, Freiburg, Germany
Photosynthesis Reserch for Sustainability - 2014, 2.06-7.06, Pushchino, Russia
16th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, 8.06-13.06, Pacific Grove, CA
Austrian Society of Plant Biology Meeting, 19.06-21.06, Lunz, Austria
Biology of plastids - towards a blueprint for synthetic organelles, 21.06-26.06, Pultusk, Poland
Auxins and cytokinins in plant development, International Symposium, 29.06-4.07, Prague, Czech Republic
XVIth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Endocytobiology - Germans Section (ISE-G) 21.07-24.07, Black Forest, Germany
GRC meeting on Photosynthesis, from evalution of fundamental mechanisms to radical re-engineering, 20.08-15.08, West Dover, USA
10th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar, 17.08-21.08, Kórnik-Poznań, Poland
Intracellular communication in plant development and disease, 24.08-29.08, Bischoffisheim, France
Oxidative Stress, 3.10-6.10, Toledo, Spain
Arabidopsis: The Ongoing Green REVOLUTION, GARNet2014 Conference, 9.09-10.09, University of Bristol, UK
International PhD school PLANT DEVELOPMENT, 10.09-12.09, Retzbach, Germany
Oxygen and nitrogen reactive species and environment: A new vision for 2020, BAEZA, September, Spain
40th Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference, 24.10-26.10, Turkey Run State Park, USA
SEB Plant Transport group meeting, 5.12-7.12, United Kingdom
- European Plant Science Organisation overwiev on meetings and conferences in plant science
- American Society of Plant Biology plant meetings calendar
- Conference calendar of International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO)
Agrisera is supporting following organizations:
"Reporting research antibody use: how to increase experimental reproducibility", reporting format for experiments conducted with antibodies should include many important details like: antibody name and catalog number as well as a batch number, company/academic who supplied the antibody, the host species in which antibody was raised and its clonality (yes, monoclonal antibody are no longer only rised in mice but also in other species like rabbit or chicken). At present product number code and company name are absolute minimum which are however often omitted. Companies, including Agrisera are carrying multiple antibodies to the same protein and finding an antibody matching the work might be quite an effort. Also, there is actually a batch to batch variation in antibody world, which might undermine efforts to repeat certain results. In a blog post from CiteAb, you can find useful suggestions on how to cite antibodies used in your publications.
Over the years Agrisera antibodies were cited in thousands of publications and we are working hard to match them with our specific products. A list of chosen scientific references matching Agrisera antibodies can be found here.
Thank you all who joined for in depth questions and discussions!
Agrisera presented a seminar in Polish: Tips and tricks of antibody production and western blot - how to obtain good results, on 17.06 at Instutute of Dendrology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Kórnik and on 18.06 at Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Thank you all who attended and shared their experience!
A complete list of meetings supported by Agrisera this year can be found here.
Your meeting is not on that list yet? Please, contact us.
Recently Agrisera attended the 3rd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. It was a well-organized event with several excellent speakers who shared interesting research results. In between the sessions we had the pleasure to meet the participants and in the evening a delicious conference dinner was held at Norrlands Nation.
Thank you all for two pleasant days in Uppsala!
 | Agrisera exhibited on Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference Woods Hole Oceanography Institute, April 12 to April 14th 2013. Thank you for coming by and talking with us! |
It was a very giving trip with unforgettable memories and new contacts. Thank you!
Agrisera website is changed, merging information about our products and services, which you will find in the menu to the left. All functions concerning placing an order or finding our products are the same.
Information about our antibody and recombinant protein production can be found in the menu to the left, section called: SERVICES.
Following this link - you can find our catalogs for download.
All our secondary antibodies are listed here. Promotions and news can be found on this page.
We do hope you will find a new look improved!
Agrisera to work with new antibody search engine
Agrisera is working with a new antibody search engine called CiteAb to ensure antibodies are easy to find and that researchers can quickly see where they have been cited in the past.
CiteAb lists over 800,000 antibodies from 50 companies, along with the publications that cite them. CiteAb is the largest independent citation-ranked antibody search engine, and is regularly updated with new antibodies and citations.
The search engine has been developed by a team based in Bath in the UK, and has been both supported and rigorously tested by the University of Bath.
Dr Andrew Chalmers is behind CiteAb. He said: “Citations are the best guide to whether an antibody is likely to work in your laboratory, they are independent and easily verifiable. We’re aiming to make CiteAb as comprehensive as possible and are delighted to be able to include Agrisera antibodies.”
Agrisera provides CiteAb with data for all of its primary antibodies. CiteAb is asking users of our antibodies to submit their publications to the site - increasing the profile of your work and helping others to find the right antibody.
For more information visit www.citeab.com
From 3rd to 6th of January 2013 Agrisera was represented by Natalie Donaher from Environmental Proteomics - Agrisera collaborating partner, on 22nd Western Photosynthesis Conference held in Asilomar, USA. Warm thanks to everybody who came by to our stand for a chat. We always appreciate your feedback and ideas!
50 % off on all Agisera secondary antibodies.Offer valid until end of December 2012.Use a promotion code: NOV12 while ordering on-line,by e-mail or fax (+46(0)935 33044). |  |
Agrisera CEO, Greger Nordlund and Chairman of the Board, Benny Gotenstam recently attended Bio China in Shanghai and met Agrisera distributors. It was a very giving trip and many thanks to our distributors for fruitful discussions and very welcoming atmosphere during the meetings. The aim of our visit was to to improve the understanding and strengthen the collaboration between Agrisera and our partners in China and we do hope this will also contribute to increased service level for Agrisera products in China.
On 20 September Agrisera participated in Scandinavian Plant Proteomics Day organized by KBC Proteomics Facility (Umeå) in collaboration with the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO) and Plant Link.
The programm was filled with very interesting talks by international researchers:
Michael Palmgren, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Svante Resjö, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Alnarp
Ian Max Møller, Aarhus University, Danmark
Per Hägglund, Technical University of Denmark
Bob Buchanan, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Yogesh Mishra, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå
Gunnar Wingsle, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå
Sven Kjellström, Lund University
Johannes Hansson, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå
Thomas Kieselbach, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, and Umeå Plant Science Centre
From 11th until 14th of September Agrisera participated in 11th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress in Naantali in Finland in a picturesque location at a Baltic sea. Our investigation about antibodies needed by plant community continued. Many good discussions were held with our collaboration partners. Many thanks to all who came by our booth! A welcome party at a pool section of Nantali SPA hotel will be never forgotten :)
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2013:
22nd Western Photosynthesis Conference,3-6.01, Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA, USA
52st Annual Northeast Algal Society Symposium The Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference 12-14.04, Woods Hole, USA, 19-21,04, Mystic, USA
Finnish Plant Science Days, 13-15.05, Helsinki, Finland
Fascination of Plants Day, 18.05, Umeå Plant Science centre, Sweden
3rd International Conference on Neurodegenerative Disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, 23.05-24.05, Uppsala, Sweden
11th International POG Conference, Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants , 17.07-19.07, Warsaw, Poland
Plant Biology 2013 meeting, 20-24.07, Providence, RI, USA.
16th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research, 11-16.08, St. Louis, MO, USA
PlantBio 2013, The Second National Plant Biology Conference, 7-8.11, Tromsø, Norway
Medica, 20-23.11, DÜsseldorf, Germany
Meetings supported by Agrisera in 2013:
26th Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants, 26.02-1.03, Debringhausen, GermanyØ
3rd International Symposium on Chloroplast Genomics and Genetic Engineering (ISCGGE), 8.05-11.05, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
CCM8 The VIIth international sypomosium on Inorganic Carbon Utilization by Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms, 27.05-1.06, New Orleans, USA
International meeting on Photosynthesis, June, Baku, Azerbaijan
Non-coding RNA in plants, 10-12.07, Leucorea Wittenberg, Germany
XIII Congress of Portuguese Society of Plant Physiology, 24.07-28.07, Lisbon, Portugal
PVB 2013 - 3rd International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology, 26-30.07, Helsinki, Finland
Photosynthetic light harvesting, 8-11.08, St. Louis, MO, USA
25th Congress of the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS2013), 11.08-15.08, HelsingØr, Danmark
FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development, 11.08-16.08, Saxtons River, VT, USA
Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, 12-15.08, Halifax, N.S. Canada
European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research ENPER, 27.08-30.08, Ghent, Belgium.
European Plant Science Organisation 7th EPSO Conference "Plants for a Greening Economy", 1-4.09, Porto Heli, Greece
Black Forest Summer School 2013, Bioinformatics for Molecular Biologists, 10-13.09, Black Forest, Germany
6th Conference of Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, 16-19.09, Lodz, Poland
Plant proteases in health and disease, 2-4.10, Barcelona, Spain
39th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Metting, 8-10.11, Marshall IN 47859, USA
Seminar series in plant pathoglogy, Copenhagen University, 2013
- European Plant Science Organisation overwiev on meetings and conferences in plant science
- American Society of Plant Biology plant meetings calendar
- Conference calendar of International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO)
From 30.07 until 2.08 Agrisera participated in this year Plant Biology Congress in Freiburg. Many good discussions took place at Agrisera booth. Plenty of comments about our products and new antibodies for plant science research were received. The contest to win a free antibody in return for a suggestion continued. Results will be announced in September :)
Agrisera contributed to a well attended in spite of late hour, "Career workshop " - Career planning for plant scientists Organised by the Society for Experimental Biology, Sarah Blackford, which presented useful information from professionals (Joanna from Agrisera was one of the speakers) working in these careers and other fields to help you to decide which direction to take your future career. More useful information on carrier development can be found on Sarah's blog.
During the 20th to 24th of July, Agrisera was present at the ASPB meeting in Austin, Texas. At our booth we were soliciting opinions from researchers about the 80 most cited proteins in plant research. There were over 1100 registered participants, and many more "walk-ins" since Austin Texas is the location of several universities. The weather was a very hot 36 C but the beautiful air-conditioned convention centre was large enough to hold everyone, including the exhibits and 800 posters.
From 3.07 until 6.07 Agrisera was present on Arabidopsis 2012 in a very hot Vienna. A list of potential protein targets for antibody production was presented to the community and lots of feedback was received. Based on those opinions and valuable suggestions Agrisera will commit to produce several new antibodies which will become available in 2012 and 2013. Thank you for a fantastic meeting!
Summertime is very treasured for us Swedes and is one of our dearest traditions. After many months of snow and ice we celebrate the sun and the warmth by dance, singing, playing, eating and drinking.
Fascination of Plants Day was organized all over Europe on 18th of May. In Umeå it was hosted by Umeå University and included lots of various activities for a whole family. The event was very well attended. Agrisera joined in and gave away seed bags and talked about our support for plant science research.
Between 3-4th of May Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera participated in the meeting "Structure and dynamics of the thylakoid membrane" hold at The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall.The meeting was organised by Professor James Barber FRS and Professor Peter Horton FRS. During the meeting we celebrated 80 years birthday of Professor Jan Anderson, a pioneer of photosynthetic research. This was a fascinating journey of discoveries done over past 30 years to understand photosynthesis.
I would like to thank the organizers for inviting Agrisera to participate in this special event!
A pool of antibodies to proteins from various plant and algal species is available for free for testing.
You are welcome to contact us, to receive the list.
Agrisera supported annual skiing competition at KBC/Umeå. Even though winter is rather short this year there was enough of snow and excellent weather!
Agrisera antibodies listed on TAIR in the section: external links
All Agrisera antibodies for Arabidopsis thaliana are inlcuded as extrnal links on TAIR since December 2011. This information will be regularly updated with links to new antibodies. So far 300 antibodies have been linked.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2012:
21st Western Photosynthesis Conferemce, 5.01-8.01, Asilomar, USA
Structure and dynamics of the thylakoid membrane, 3.05-4.05, Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Buckinghamshire, UK
ICAR 2012, 3-07-707, Vienna, Austria
ASPB Plant Biology Meeting, 20.07-24-07, Austin, USA
Plant Biology Congress, 29.07-3.08, Freiburg, Germany
NPC11 - the 11th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 11.09 -14.09, Naantali , Finland
Meetings sponsored by Agrisera in 2012:
Havel-Spree-Colloquium, 17.01, Potsdam, Germany
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance II, 22.02-25.02, Vienna, Austria
25rd Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants, 25.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
Maize Genetics Conference, 15.03-18.03, Portland, Oregon, USA
4th PanAmerican Plant Membrane Biology Workshop, 16.05-20.05, Asilomar, USA
"Journées de la Société Française de Photosynthèse”, 24.05-25.05, Paris, France
9th European Workshop Biotechnology of Microalgae, 4.06-5.06, Nuthetal, Germany
15th International Conference on the Cell & Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, 5.06-10.06, Posdam, Germany
19th meeting of the Austrian Society of Plant Biology (ATSPB), 7-06-10.06, Osttirol, Austria
Salt & Water Stress in Plants, 24.06-29.06, Hong Kong, China
SEB annual meeting, 29.06 -2.07, Salzburg, Austria.
7th congress of young researchers of the French Society of Plant Biology, 4.07 -6.07, Grenoble, France
Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts, 29.07-3.08, Rhode Island, USA
21st Photosynthesis Workshop, 9.08-10.08, Mainz, Germany
Plant & Microbial Cytoskeleton, 12.08-17.08, Andover, USA
SOL2012 The 9th Solanaceae Conference, 26.08-30.08, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
10th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, 2.09-5.09,Munich, Germany
Black Forest Retreat 2012, on Molecular Plant Science, 10.09-13.09, Black Forest, Germany
NPC11 - the 11th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 11.09 -14.09, Naantali , Finland
7th SPPS PhD Sudent Conference, 12.09-15.09, Lauasmaa, Estonia
38th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynehtsis Meeting, 9.11-11.11, Turkey Run State Park, USA
Auxin 2012, 9.12-14.12, Hawai Island
European Plant Science Organisation overwiev on meetings and conferences in plant science in 2011
American Society of Plant Biology plant meetings calendar
Conference calendar of International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO)
Agrisera is supporting following societies:
Canadian Society of Plant Biologists
FESPB (The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology)
INPPO (International Plant Proteomics Organization)
ISPR (International Society of Photosynthesis research)
SPPS (Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society)
Agrisera exhibited on Botaniker tagung in Berlin during 19-22.09. It was a very fruitful meeting with our collaborating partners, students and all interested in working with antibodies. Many new product ideas has been born. Thank you to all who came by!
Agrisera exhibited on Agrisera on Experimental Plant Biology in 3P meeting in Wrocław, Poland between 6-9 of September. Many thanks to all who came by and took time to share your experience with Agrisera antibodies as well as suggested new products.
Thank you all for our time together!
Agrisera exhibited on ASPB annual meeting in Minneapolis. Thank you to all who came by to our booth and shared your experience of using Agrisra products, gave new ideas and participated in our contest to win a free antibody from Agrisera collection.
Agrisera workshop: Tips and Troubleshooting: qualitative, quantitative and multiplex immunoblotting of photosynthetic organisms will soon be available in a digital form.
Agrisera CEO, Greger Nordlund and Dr. Björn Löwenadler, Agrisera board member and scientific advisor participated 2011 BIO International Convention in Washington DC. They visited all US states that where present(26) as well India, Brazil, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, China and more. They have found out increasing interest in biofuels and crop science areas - "green biotechnology". Many new contacts were established which will help to understand and strenghten Agrisera position on the US market.
Agrisera participated in Plant Proteases meeting in Swedish mountains, Hemavan between 10-13.04. Participants were keeping me busy until late evening - with many new ideas for development of antibodies to Agrisera catalogue. Warm thanks to all our collaboration partners and researchers for fruitful discussions and good time together.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you duting the following meetings in 2011:
International conference on PLANT PROTEASES 2011 From biology to biotechnology, 10-14.04, Hemavan, Sweden
ASPB annual meeting, 6-10.08, Minneapolis, USA
Experimental Plant Biology in 3P Past, Present, Perspective , 6-9.09 Wroclaw, Poland
Botaniker Tagung 2011, 18-23.09, Berlin, Germany
Meetings sponsored by Agrisera in 2011:
Natural and Artificial Photosynthesic, 4-5.11, Pennsylvania, USA
20th Western Photosynthesis Conference 6-9.01, Asilomar, USA
Plant Transformation technologies II, 19-22.02, Vienna, Austria
Plant gene discovery technologies 23-26.02, Vienna, Austria
Specific light driven reactions in unicellular model algae, 25-27.03, Jena, Germany
28th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, 1-4.04, Woods Hole, USA
Botanical Microscopy 2011, 16-21.04, The Netherlands
Molecular Bioenergetics of Cyanobacteria: From Cell to Community, 10-15.04, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
22nd International conference on Arabidopsis Research , 22-25.06, Madison, USACO2 Assimilation in Plants: Genome to Biome, 30.05- 3.06, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Society of Experimental Biology, 1-4.07, Glasgow, United Kingdom
10th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants, 5-8.07, Budapest, Hungary
Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society Congress 2011, 21-24.08, Stavanger, Norway
Photosynthesis research for sustainability, 23-30.07, Baku Azerbaijan
XXIV SPPS Congress, 25-27.08, Stavanger, Norway
Plant organellar signaling, from algae to higher plants, 31.08-3.09, Primošten, Chroatia
Moss 2011, 11.09-15.09, Black Forest, Germany
Botaniker Tagung 2011, 18.09-23.09, Berlin, Germany
Molecular Basis of Plant Stress, 21-23.09, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
20 Photosynthese workshop, 11.08-12-08, Münster, Germany
PR-proteins and induced resistance against pathogens and insects, 4-8.09, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Plant Abiotic Stress:From Systems Biology to Sustainable Agriculture, 17-19.11, Limassol, Cyprus
Planned Meeting support for 2012
21st Western Photosynthesis Conferemce, 5.01-8.01, Asilomar, USA
Havel-Spree-Colloquium, 17.01, Potsdam, Germany
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance II, 22.02-25.02, Vienna, Austria
25rd Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants, 25.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
"Journées de la Société Française de Photosynthèse”, 24.05-25.05, Paris, France
SEB annual meeting, 29.06 -2.07, Salzburg, Austria.
7th congress of young researchers of the French Society of Plant Biology, 4.07 -6.07, Grenoble, France
ASPB Plant Biology Meeting, 20.07-24-07, Austin, USA
Plant Biology Congress, 29.07-3.08, Freiburg, Germany
22nd Photosynthesis Workshop, 9.08-10.08, Mainz, Germany
Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts, 29.07-3.08, Rhode Island, USA
European Plant Science Organisation overwiev on meetings and conferences in plant science in 2011
American Society of Plant Biology plant meetings calendar
Thank you to all our new and old customers for being with us during 2010, sharing your ideas, giving suggestions and helping us to grow up Agrisera catalogue.
Agrisera protein extraction buffer PEB and global antibodies (anti-PsbA and anti-RbcL) were used to validate high throughput protein extraction from tough,recalcitrant marine phytoplankton.
Standard microprobe sonication/flash freeze protocol has been compared with Precellys® (Bertin Technologies) bead-based system to extrat total proteins from multiple samples in parallel.
Comparison of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RbcL) immunodetection from phytoplankton after protein extraction through sonication or Precellys bead beating. RbcL was detected by immunoblotting using a chicken anti-RbcL primary antibody(AS01 017) and a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-chicken secondary antibody (AS09 603). MW, molecular weight protein ladder (in kDa).
The total yield of proteins extracted from each species was similar using the sonication/flash freeze protocol or Precellys® bead beating system. Using Precellys® system sample throughput and reproducibility are higher than with sonication/flash freeze protocol.
Agrisera has been visiting Biotechnica in Hannover. Discussing collaboration opportunities, scouting for new product development and new advertising platforms. There were two very giving days for us and we hope it will result in new products which contribute to your success!
Agrisera was intived to participate in 3rd Physcomitrella genome workshop with Industry Night presentation about: Design and validation of antibodies recognizing hihgly conserved proteins in a wide range of species.Panel of antibodies with confirmed reactivity to Phycomitrella patens has been presented, developed within framework of the Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology (FRISYS) for quantitative proteomics of Physcomitrella. Article including those results: Simultaneous isolation of pure and intact chloroplasts and mitochondria from moss as the basis for sub-cellular proteomics, is accepted for publication in Plant Cell Reports.
Many thanks to the members of prof. Reski group for good discussions and great hospitality. Many new ideas have been born!
Agrisera has been represented by our Chinese distributor Beijing Qwbio&Santainio INC during 15th International Congress on Photosynthesis in Beijing, 22.08 - 27.08. Thank you to all who visited the booth!
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Thank you all who came by our display during ASPB in Montreal and shared ideas and very valuable feedback. Our workshop on "Tips and Troubleshooting for Quantitative and Qualitative Immunoblotting of Photosynthetic Organisms" has been recorded and will be soon available on Agrisera web site.
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Biocompare has published an article on "Cool Tools for Plant Biologists" - result of an interview with Agrisera Team.
XVII congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) took place in Valencia, Spain, 4-9-07. Over 1250 participants attended. It was a great pleasure to meet Agrisera old customers, collaborating partners and new customers coming by our display. Many new ideas for antibodies to be included in Agrisera product list in the future were born.
There was a possibility to take home Agrisera new antibody catalogue or win an antibody by answering a simple question: "How many antibodies are in Agrisera catalogue".The happy winner of this competition is a researcher from Laboratory of Celll Biology in Czech Republic.
Agrisera candy, even though at first mistaken with antibodies, was very popular (left bottom corner on the picture) as well as Agrisera pens. Looking forward to meet you during next FESPB in 2012 in Freiburg!
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Conference centre in Uppsala was hosting 9th International Hydrogenase Conference in June this year. Agrisera was participating. It was a very interesting and giving meeting. Thank you to all who came by Agrisera display. We have received many new ideas for the future antibody development.
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Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in 2010:
2nd International Symposium on Chloroplast Genomics and Genetic Engineering, 20.06-23.06, co. Kildare, Ireland
9th International Hydrogenase Conference, 27.06-2.07, Uppsala, Sweden
FESBP 2010, 4.07-9.07, Valencia, Spain
Plant Biology 2010, 31.07-4.08, Montréal, Canada
15th International Congress on Photosynthesis, 21.08-27.08, Beijing, China
3rd Phycomitrella genome workshop, 13-15.09, Freiburg, Germany
Meetings sponsored by Agrisera in 2010:
19th Western Photosynthesis Conference, 7.01-11.01, Asilomar, USA
III PanAmerican plant membrane biology workshop,13.01-16.01, Puebla, Mexico
23rd Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants, 23.02-26.02, Dabringhausen, Germany
5th European Plant Science Organisation Conference, 18.04 - 22.04, Finland
27th Eastern Regional Photosynthetic Conference, 16.04-18.04, Woods Hole, USA
14th International Conference on the cell and molecular biology of Chlamydomonas, 6.06-10-06 Norton, USA
Congress of Internatinal Associacion for Plant Biotechnology, 6-11.06, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, 6.06-10.06, Yokohama, Japan
10th Cyanobaterial Molecular Biology Workshop, 11-15.06, UCLA Conference Center, USA
10th International conference on plant anaerobiosis, 20.06-25.06, Volterra, Italy
20th Conference of the International Plant Growth Substances Associaction, (IPGSA), 28.06-2.07, Tarragona, Spain
SEB Annual Meeting, 30.06-3.07, Prague, Czech Republic
Mechanisms in Plant Development, FASEB conference, Vermont, USA
1st International Symposium on the Nitrogen Nutrition of Plants, 26.07-30.07, Aichi, Japan
Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton, 8-13.08, Andover, USA
Photosynthese workshop 12.08-13.08, Frankfurt, Germany
XIth International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis, 29.08-3.09, TromsØ, Norway
6th SPPS PhD Student Conference, 2.09-5.09, Espoo, Finland
10th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 11.10-14.10, Tartu, Estonia
36th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Meeting, 29.10-31.10, Marshall, USA
Third snow has arrived and we hope that it will stay until spring (end of April). With such magnificent nature around Agrisera is creating new products to speed up Your research.
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Agrisera has been recently exhibiting at two conferences in Cracow, Poland: Eco-physiological aspects of plant responses to environmental stress and The 4th Conference of Polish Society of Experimental Biology. Many thanks to all of you who visited Agrisera booth and shared your experience with Agrisera antibodies as well as gave interesting suggestions for development of new products.
We appreciate it very, very much!
Agrisera has been recently exhibiting at Annual meeting of Society of Experimental Biology in Glasgow and at Arabidopsis 2009 in Edinburgh. Thank you to all of you who has been coming and visiting Agrisera booth.Thank you to everyone who has come out and visited the Agrisera booth.Thank you for your fruitful discussions, antibody wish lists and inspiration for how we can better serve the plant science research community.
If you have an interesting project in mind - please contact us for possible collaboration on antibody development.
If you would like to make your antibody available world wide through Agrisera - you are most welcome.
If you would like to start a custom antibody production project - use to your advantage Agrisera experience in making antibodies to plant proteins. Antibody production guide can be found here.
| Prof. Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska and Prof. Artur Jarmolłwski from the Insitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Poznań, Poland have visited Agrisera facility in May 2009. Possibilities of collaboration on antibody development and creation of an antibody collection to proteins involved in plant micro RNA biogenesis have been discussed. Work on this project will start during fall 2009.
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Agrisera sponsors and participates the Symposium on Bacterial Cell Biology and Pathogenesis & Workshop on Microscopy in Microbial Systems held on Umeå University, Sweden
June 14th rto June 18th
| 18.05.2009On 10th aniversary of Umeå Plant Science Centre, Agrisera's close collaborating partner, Agrisera has planted a fruit tree as a gift with congratulations and best wishes for the future.Agrisera is located in a close proximity to Umeå, where Umeå Plant Science Centre is operating. Collaboration with the centre has been carried out over many years and has been very successful.
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All Agrisera product information sheets are undergoing a very thorough update with images, references, useful links and any additional information which we think can be helpful. We estimate to be finished with this task in June 2009.
There is an option to add a comment about Agrisera antibody (Read/Add review) and receive 10 % discount on next order. If you are interested please contact us after you have made a comment on our web site.
Agrisera team is eager to meet you during the following meetings in Septmber 2009:
Eco-physiological aspects of plant responses to environmental stress, 16.09-19.09, Kraków, Poland,
The 4th Conference of Polish Society of Experimental Biology, Kraków, Poland, 21.09-25.09
We were present on following meetings this year:
4th European senescense network meeting (SenNet), Arvidsjaur, Sweden, 20.02-24.02
Annual meeting of Society of Experimental Biology, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Plant biology sessions 28.06-1.07
Arabidopsis 2009 Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 30.06 - 4.07
Meetings supported by Agrisera in 2009:
18th Western Photosynthesis Conference, 8.01-11.01, California, USA
4th European senescense network meeting (SenNet), Arvidsjaur, Sweden, 20.02-24.02
Plant abiotic stress tolerance, 8.02-11.02, Vienna, Austria
Cilia,mucus & mucociliary interactions, 22.02-27.02, Lucca, Italy
5th International Symposium on Plant Neurobiology, 25.05-29.05, Florence, Italy
III PanAmerican plant membrane biology workshop, 27.05-31.05, Puebla,Mexico
Protein complexes in signaling and development , Glasgow, 25.06 -27.06
Gordon Research Conference - Photosynthesis, 28.06-3.07, Smithfields, USA
ROS,Plant reactive oxygen meeting, 8.07-10.07, Helsinki, Finland
18th Photosynthesis workshop, 20.08-21.08, Potsdam/Golm, Germany
1st International Conference on Retrograde Signaling in Plants, 1-3.09, Berlin, Germany
Plants for the future, 06.09-10.09,Leipzig, Germany
XI Spanish-Portuguese Congress of Plant Physiology, 8.09-11.09, Zaragoza, Spain
9th IPMB Congress, 25.09-30.09, St. Louis, USA
After hard work Agrisera antibody shop web site is on line since 1st of October 2008. Our goal is to make antibody searching as easy as possible. There is also a possibility to ask questions immediately from our web site using the Live chat option in the left menu.
We are going to continue working on improvements on our site and product presentation to make it interactive and informative.
Our catalogue currently contains over 400 products.
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