Joy Franco

@engineeringjoy@mstdn.social
128 Followers
67 Following
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Mechanical engineer (community college, SJSU, Stanford) turned neurobiology postdoc (HMS) obsessed with sensory neuro and axonal biology. Doing a lot of microscopy, calcium imaging, coding, and bike racing. Probably too much bike racing.
GitHub (trying to be good about repos)https://github.com/engineeringjoy
Bird app (shenanigans)https://twitter.com/engineering_joy
Instagram (lots of bike things, some microscopy)https://www.instagram.com/engineeringjoy/
Personal Website (that needs updating)https://engineeringjoy.com/

🔥🔥🔥A ligand-receptor interactome atlas of the zebrafish

Our group's first preprint is out. First things first, thanks 🙏 to amazing @mlchodkowski and our collaborator @a_zielezinski

#zebrafish 1/n

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.15.520415v1

How did it take me so long to find the free Imaris Viewer?!?  
and why does it make me feel like I’m cheating on ImageJ?!? 
11 hrs on the confocal today (14 z-stacks). I think that’s a new single imaging session record for me.
Studying neuronal morphology in aging is a constant game of, “Are these structures severely damaged or am I just looking at an artefact from tissue processing?”

It’s not #FluorescentFriday, but I spent my Saturday morning on the confocal so it’s worth posting about. Still tweaking immuno, imaging parameters, and processing, but so in love with the hearing organ that I have to stop and share.

#MicroscopyLove

When your grant writing playlist doubles as a microdissections playlist 
How do we get a nail biting emojii?

Just registered to attend my first ARO midwinter meeting and am so excited about it! Any other inner ear enthusiasts on Mastadon?

#ARO2023 #AuditoryResearch

What's it with people reporting every single person they dont like..  

Please, stop with that.

This is not #Twitter. Please use features like mute or block if you don't like people but stop reporting otherwise I'll start banning people who keep reporting for nothing  

I'm trying to keep things running with so many new people and it's such a waste of time to hear whatever you don't like

Otherwise go waste Elon's time, not mine

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.