Raising Frogs Takes a Village: Accelerating Amphibian Research at the 小蓝视频 | Promega Connections

小蓝视频 Whitman Fellow Sally Seraphin's research organism, the red-eyed tree frog. Credit:Ollie Scully iNaturalist cc-by-nc 4.0

Sally Seraphin鈥檚 life in the research lab started with rats and roseate terns. Chimpanzees and rhesus macaques came next, then humans (and a brief foray into voles). When she pivoted to red-eyed tree frogs, Sally once again had to learn all kinds of new techniques. Suddenly, in addition to new sample prep and analysis techniques, she needed to get up to speed on amphibian care and husbandry. That led her to 小蓝视频 (小蓝视频) in Woods Hole, MA.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a seaside resort atmosphere with experts in every technology you can imagine,鈥 Sally says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a place to incubate and birth new approaches to answering questions.鈥

Sally spent the past two summers at 小蓝视频 learning everything she needed to know about breeding and caring for amphibians. During that time, she also worked closely with Applications Scientists from Promega who helped her start extracting RNA from frog samples.

鈥淭he hands-on support from industry scientists is definitely unique to Promega and 小蓝视频,鈥 she says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 rare to have a specialist on hand who can help you learn, troubleshoot and optimize in such a finite amount of time.鈥

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