Becca Simkin
@beccasimkin.bsky.social
PhD student in the Fratta Lab at UCL researching the vulnerability of the neuromuscular system in ALS 🔬🧬👩🏻🔬
Delighted to have won the FocalPlane x ELMI2026 Image Competition! Thank you to everyone who voted 🔬🦠👩🏻🔬😊
FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe have a winner! Congratulations to Rebecca Simkin @beccasimkin.bsky.social, whose image of a muscle spindle received the most votes (by one!) in our image competition with #ELMI2026. #FluorescenceFriday Check out Rebecca's image and the rest of out shortlist here:
Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social
If you're struggling to visualise mouse NMJs, we've got a protocol just for you! bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... Dissection and whole-mount immunofluorescent staining of mouse hind paw muscles for #NMJ analysis Lovely work from Rebecca Simkin @uclqsion.bsky.social @nicolbirsa.bsky.social
