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Agrisera sponsored the 1st and 3rd place in the Best Poster competition.

Out of 165 posters, the Best Poster Prize was awarded to Joanna Wójtowicz, from the Warsaw University, for her poster "Unraveling the Role of Proteins, Lipids, and Pigments in Etioplast Prolamellar Body (PLB) Formation". She received a diploma and can choose an antibody of her choice from the Agrisera catalog, free of charge.

Zofia Szlachtowska,from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, who came in 3rd place, received a book on photosynthesis from Agrisera. 

The winners of the Agrisera Quiz, who received the book "Photosynthesis: Solar Energy for Life", are Anna Domańskaf from the University of Wrocław, and Máthéné Szigeti Zsuzsa from Biotechnológiai Intézet, Hungary.

The success of your research has been our focus for over 20 years. If you require antibodies to support your project, that are not available anywhere, you are always welcome to contact us with your antibody suggestion. We will promptly evaluate if it is feasible to produce an antibody to the protein you aim to detect. If it is, we will provide you with 50 µg of this antibody, antigen affinity purified and completely free of charge, within a couple of months. Please send us the gene ID or protein sequence in FASTA format for your suggested target, and we will promptly let you know if an antibody to this protein target can be included in the Agrisera catalog.

The Agrisera catalog has grown and developed over many years, through us listening to researchers' suggestions and requirements. Taking into account hundreds of model species in plant science, and thousands of proteins, we have created a comprehensive catalog of antibodies, and we are always working to further expand and refine our antibody collection.

Antibodies that are currently under development and available for testing are collected here.

To suggest a new antibody, please contact [email protected].

Looking forward to hearing from you!

CCD cameras are often used for visualizing the binding of an antibody to a target protein, through chemiluminescent or fluorescent detection. In cases where a CCD camera is not available in the laboratory, secondary antibodies conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (ALP) can be used, and the reaction can instead be visualized using Agrisera TMB reagents. This way, medium and high abundancy proteins can be visualized easily, and the obtained results can be saved in the lab book (although please remember that there is a fading effect).

Take advantage of Agrisera high-titer secondary antibodies, offered with different hosts (rabbit, chicken, goat, donkey) conjugated with ALP enzyme, combined with Agrisera TMB solution, delivered together in one package with your primary antibodies.

ALP-conjugated secondary antibodies are discounted by 10% until end of 2023. Order easily online on the Agrisera website, or by sending your order to [email protected].

If you are not certain which secondary antibody to choose, our technical team will promptly answer all your questions.

TurboID is a proximity labeling technique used in cell biology and molecular biology research to study protein-protein interactions and subcellular protein localization. This approach has many great benefits, such as: 

1. Rapid Labeling: Hence the name, TurboID. This technique has significantly faster labeling kinetics, compared to other proximity labeling methods, and can capture transient or short-lived protein interactions that might be missed by slower labeling techniques.

2. Low Background Noise: TurboID exhibits low background noise, and is therefore less likely to produce false-positive results.

3. Versatile Applications: TurboID can be used to study a wide range of cellular processes, including protein-protein interactions, protein localization, and protein dynamics.

4. Specific Labeling: TurboID can be targeted to specific subcellular compartments or organelles, allowing researchers to focus on particular regions of interest within the cell.

5. Compatibility with Multiple Host Systems: TurboID can be used in a variety of host systems, including mammalian cells, yeast, and other model organisms.

6. Applicability to Proteomics: TurboID can be used in combination with mass spectrometry to identify proteins that interact with the target protein of interest. This can provide valuable insights into protein complexes and networks within the cell.