Electron microscopist/neuroscientist Assistant Research Professor and Manager of the EM Facility @CUAnschutz. She/her.

Joined March 2009
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All of this. I once had someone ask me if I was pregnant when I was presenting a poster at a conference (I wasn’t) and then proceed to stumble through a monologue about how hard it can be to lose weight...
oh boy, the viewers at home are really gonna write in on this one. i suppose, trigger warning? this is about body image issues. i’ve seen a lot of things on here lately and i have some thoughts.
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Contrary to popular belief, scientific research helps us better understand the unique and real transgender experience. Specifically, through three subjects: (1) genetics, (2) neurobiology and (3) endocrinology. | Analysis blogs.scientificamerican.com…

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I really dislike this video because it completely dismisses her fear of being followed by two strange men. You can question her response to it, but it doesn’t change the fact that women are constantly on edge about the potential threat of men.
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Kiko finds your manuscript boring and pedantic #reviewernumber3
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19 Feb 2021
Joint project with Lichtman lab on dendritic spine morphologies: we DONT find different subtypes of spines
Our preprint "Ultrastructural analysis of dendritic spine necks reveals a continuum of spine morphologies" is posted in bioRxiv @yusterafa biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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7 Feb 2021
What a moment. @TheAmandaGorman #SBLV
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Check out this awesome video from @ItsClaraLiao !
A COVID-19 mRNA vaccine whiteboard explanation youtu.be/188EY9Q4J7U
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Hey @Pixar, I have an idea for your next flick...
31 Jan 2021
33-year-old bat loves to curl around his mom's arm and fall asleep 💕 @batworld
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1 Feb 2021
meanwhile, at the smithsonian's national zoo
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The Skye Boat Song. Now 275 years since the Battle of Culloden, this song tells the story of the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Isle of Skye when the Jacobite army was defeated in 1746. Theme tune to @PrimeVideoUK original series Outlander which I'm loving watching #ad
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Fauci moods: Biden briefings vs. Trump briefings
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Did I upgrade to the iPhone 12 just to take fancy pictures of my cats? Maybe... #Caturday #iPhone12ProMax
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16 Jan 2021
Kamala Harris: “For all the little girls and boys out there who dream of growing up to be a super hero, super heroes aren’t just about our imagination, they are walking among us. They are teachers, and doctors and scientists… and you can grow up to be like them too”
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15 Jan 2021
The Citizen Kane of Neuroscience A time-lapse of a developing neuron hand drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal while he looked through his microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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My main PhD paper from Kevan Martin’s lab @ETH @UZH_ch now out in @nature: disq.us/t/3u5ot29. Combining electrophysiology and electron microscopy of the same neocortical synapses reveals multivesicular release and finally shows how synapse size predicts synaptic strength:

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A brief break in the clouds today for some mid-week Bach. Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1
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As with so many people spewing lies in the Trump era, I don’t know if they are cynically sharing false information, not smart enough to understand, or have psychological issues I’m not qualified to diagnose. But liars are liars.
Franklin Graham: "Most likely it was antifa." (Factcheck: It wasn't antifa.) religionnews.com/2021/01/06/…
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6 Jan 2021
Federal law defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”(28 C.F.R. 0.85)
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