Rebecca Simkin

PhD student in the @FrattaLab @UCLIoN researching the vulnerability of the neuromuscular system in ALS 🔬🧬👩🏻‍🔬

[Rebecca Simkin @RLSimkin]

Delighted to have won the FENS-EJN image competition! Thank you to @FENSorg @EJNeuroscience for the amazing opportunity to share my work on DRGs. You can see my image at the FENS Forum, and on the cover of EJN 🤩Congratulations to the shortlisted entries - beautiful images! 🔬👩🏻‍🔬

[FENS @FENSorg]

📸💫 Congratulations to @RLSimkin for winning the FENS-EJN image competition with this wonderful #shot depicting an Afferent #Neuron Subtypes in the Lumbar Dorsal Root #Ganglion!

😍 Discover all the beautiful shortlisted #images: https://t.co/ZFj4REXAjd
@EJNeuroscience

[PET @PET_BioNews]

Researchers in Sweden have reported an increased risk of certain #cancers in men who used ICSI to become fathers, compared to those who conceived naturally.
Rebecca Simkin writes more in BioNews: https://t.co/wdyIu43xHn

#Fertility #maleInfertility #FertilityTreatment

[FENS @FENSorg]

The latest Issue of @EJNeuroscience is here! 🧠📚

🌟 This issue features a stunning cover image captured by @RLSimkin, the talented winner of the FENS-EJN Image Competition 2024. 📸

Click here to check out the full issue: https://t.co/ibGyOHRRsw

[Annalucia Darbey @AnnaluciaDarbey]

Muscles 💪 and AAV 🦠 - what more could you ask for?

Our preprint highlighting strategies for effective transduction of skeletal muscle with AAV with @wenanlan @J_N_Slayer @FrattaLab :

https://t.co/BgdKC1g1Jt

@UCLIoN @UCLBrainScience @UCLDivofSurgery @TheCrick @UKDRI

[Rebecca Simkin @RLSimkin]

You can choose your favourite JCS cover of 2023! If you fancy voting, please consider Issue 17 🤩🥼👩🏻‍🔬

[FocalPlane @focalplane_jcs]

#JustforFun: We’ve been lucky enough to have fabulous cover images on @J_Cell_Sci in 2023. We’d like to take one more opportunity to celebrate these images and the research behind them. We invite you to pick your favourite cover here: https://t.co/cAbalafdkx

[FrattaLab @FrattaLab]

Want to deliver gene therapies broadly, but activate them only in diseased neurons?
TDP-REG "hacks" TDP cryptic mis-splicing to drive expression only WHEN and WHERE needed! Less toxicity, wider therapeutic window, new options for sporadic ALS therapies.
https://t.co/VWvioiXmAN

[FocalPlane @focalplane_jcs]

We are delighted to launch our new banner images on FocalPlane! Every day this week, we’ll release a new banner & highlight the scientist that acquired the image. We kick-off with an image from @RLSimkin, winner of our 2023 image competition. https://t.co/czjPJR0e6D

[MND Association @mndassoc]

Turning the Tide

A documentary highlighting pioneering MND research by a team at @UCL funded by the MND Association, @LifeArc1 and @MNDoddie5 Foundation.

Jo and Lucy, living with #MND, share an honest insight into how the disease has impacted their lives.

🔬 #TurningTheTide

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Happy Halloween 💀

[J Cell Science @J_Cell_Sci]

Issue 17 is complete

Explore our ToC here: https://t.co/0Z8O27Yexw
Our cover image, from @RLSimkin, won the 2023 @FocalPlane_jcs image competition. It shows 4 NMJs in a mouse hind paw, with the lower motor neuron in green & post-synaptic acetylcholine receptors in magenta.

[Peter Harley @PeteHarley95]

Happy to share our latest paper: "A scalable human iPSC-based neuromuscular disease model on suspended biobased elastomer nanofiber scaffolds"

Co-authored with the fantastic @ACheesbrough, @Song_Lab_UCL, published in Biofabrication @IOPPublishing
https://t.co/DAz1Otueru

[Rebecca Simkin @RLSimkin]

Proud and honoured to have won this fantastic competition! Thank you to everyone that voted, and also to @focalplane_jcs for the amazing opportunity to share the beauty of NMJs and have my image in JSC. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted too - your images were stunning 🔬

[FocalPlane @focalplane_jcs]

This #FluorescenceFriday is an exciting one for us, as we announce the winner of our image competition! After all the votes have been counted, the winner is
@RLSimkin with her image of neuromuscular junctions.
Find out more about Rebecca & her research: https://t.co/Dwh5zZ5sUA

[FocalPlane @focalplane_jcs]

It’s time to vote for your favourite image in our 2023 image competition! We were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries & are excited that we will be highlighting many of researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series over the coming weeks.
Vote here: https://t.co/uJ50ofGjsE

[Rebecca Simkin @RLSimkin]

Thank you @focalplane_jcs for shortlisting my image of neuromuscular junctions in your competition. Please vote for number 5 - it could be on the cover of Journal of Cell Science!🔬👩🏻‍🔬

https://t.co/hx28R8ZMJq

[FrattaLab @FrattaLab]

We are recruiting a lab manager! If interested in helping shape a growing lab and directly contribute to molecular and cellular translational research in ALS, in London, please apply below:

https://t.co/fWyR9CewVn

[Puja R. Mehta 🧠🩺🧪💙 @DrPujaM]

Pleased to share this first-author review, out now in @MolNeuro!

'The era of cryptic exons: implications for ALS-FTD'

We discuss recent discoveries & the exciting opportunities that cryptic exons offer for the development of novel therapies & biomarkers in #ALS #MND #FTD 🧠🧪