Kay Polland

@kaypolland.bsky.social

4th Year PhD student at the Centre for Biophotonics at the University of Strathclyde.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to share my work on diseased human palatine tonsil morphology using Fourier ptychographic microscopy at Focus on Microscopy 2026. Thanks to everyone who came along. Looking forward to many more talks and poster sessions in the next few days. Come have a chat! 🔬.

Poster is giving a take on Fourier ptychographic microscopy, she is next to a podium with slides on a screen behind her

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

Çağrı Çevrim@cagricevrim.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Deadline approaching 👀: There's still time to submit for a poster for the upcoming GIN symposium at the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre at Glasgow University. Deadline is on the 28th ! This is a great opportunity to connect with ECRs and showcase your imaging work and its applications! 🔬🧬⚛️