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Dr. Rachel E Reyes
Cell biologist, microscopist, and artist. I study the gut–brain axis as a multidirectional network: gut microbes, the metabolites they make, the gut barrier, and the brain all signal to one another.
Associate Project Scientist, UCLA Department of Surgery. Every page below has a small experiment to play with.
Scroll to send a signal down the axon.
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Node 1
About
From pharmacy to pathology to surgery, and where I'm headed next.
Patch clamp: hold a button to make a neuron fire -
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Skills
Imaging, cell models, LC-MS, and RNA-seq, from the bench to the dataset.
96-well plate: tap wells to run each assay -
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Projects
Creatine transport, brain clearing, oligodendrocytes, and gut–brain models.
Each project has its own neuron in the Lab -
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Lab
A gut-on-chip simulation of the gut–brain axis that keeps growing.
Gut-on-chip: feed good bacteria and watch neurons wire up -
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Microscopy & Art
Images from my work, and what I make outside the lab.
Virtual microscope: focus, zoom, and switch channels
Axon terminal
Make a connection
Open to collaborations, new roles, and conversations about the gut–brain axis.
Synapse: release a signal to reach me