Omar Quintero-Carmona, PhD
@omqu.bsky.social
Teacher-scholar, myosin enthusiast, microscopist, Associate Professor of Biology at University of Richmond. Senior Education Advisor for The Allen Institute. 🇵🇷🔬📷🤺⚽️👨🏾🔬
When my students do washes for immunostaining, they draw caterpillars on the white board and color in the body segments to keep track of how many washes they’ve done.
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
When my students do washes for immunostaining, they draw caterpillars on the white board and color in the body segments to keep track of how many washes they’ve done.
This was a fresh box of tips I started using today. :)
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This was a fresh box of tips I started using today. :)
Today, ~40 practicing scientists joined a Zoom lab meeting to hear my Mechanochemical Cell Bio undergrads give research progress talks on their quantitative microscopy studies in MYO10 stable knockdown cell lines. I’ve got graduating seniors looking for science jobs. These folks are ready.
April 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today, ~40 practicing scientists joined a Zoom lab meeting to hear my Mechanochemical Cell Bio undergrads give research progress talks on their quantitative microscopy studies in MYO10 stable knockdown cell lines. I’ve got graduating seniors looking for science jobs. These folks are ready.
When you were in grad school, did you have a “4th year itch?” Something different you felt like you needed to survive the slog? Mine was nature, sports, and music photography.
December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
When you were in grad school, did you have a “4th year itch?” Something different you felt like you needed to survive the slog? Mine was nature, sports, and music photography.