Dr. Brittany J. Carr

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Assistant Prof @UAlberta. Genetically-modified frogs 🐸, retinal development & degeneration, imaging. She/Her. Views are my own. Canadian 🇨🇦

A photo of a pelican flying overhead. The sky is colored rainbow gradients instead of a normal blue sky.
A sad cut down jasmine plant. There are only green sticks and no leaves left.
John Cena (a very muscular man) dressed in a pink and purple frilly dress with a large bow in the front near the neck. He is also wearing a long blonde wig with yellow and pink flowers in his hair, and a small white cross-body handbag.
A small pine tree decorated with paper ornaments and fairy lights. It's sitting in a little white pig pot with orange and black accents. The pig pot is wearing a santa hat.
Two people walking through a green forest surrounded by large trees.
A spillway clogged with large trees, but still taking in a lot of water. It can't keep up, which has caused a large waterfall and flooding.
A microscope image of liver cells labeled with a nuclei stain (blue) and a lipid stain (red). The green cells are red blood cells. The black spots are stain particulates.
A watercolor painting of a beaver pond surrounded by green grass, trees, and bushes. There is a blue lake and a beaver lodge in the pond.
A large clump of black catepillars on a branch.
An image of a crazed man smoking a cigarette and pointing at a wall filled with paper and strings attached them to show possible connections.
A watercolour painting of a large green and grey mountain with some rustic, broken down fence posts in the foreground.
A page from a sketchbook with two paintings made from watercolor. The top painting is a tv surrounded by plants. The bottom painting is a view of a balcony surrounded by a large tree with white flowers. There are hanging lights, some flowers hanging from the railings, and a small table with a candle on it.
A short video of what looks like a small rock sitting on a glass dome. Then a hand comes into frame to show that the rock doesnt exist, and it's just a 3D reflection of a rock that is placed inside of the dome, instead of on top of it like it appears.
A Pakistani "Jingle Truck", which is elaborately decorated with paint, tassels, and many other types of ornamentation.
An image of a stuffed frog hanging over the back of a black transport truck. The truck is elaborately decorated with neon pink, yellow, and orange filigree, metal bells, and rhinstones. There is a label on the truck that says "Brittany".
An image of a piece of gut tissue showing cell nuclei in grey, cell membranes in orange, and autofluorescent gut stuff in orange and blue.
A short video of a walk down a sidewalk during a blizzard.
Three people standing and smiling at the camera. There is a man with red hair and glasses wearing a white collared shirt and blue pants on the left. A woman with red hair wearing sunglasses on her head, and a dark blue shirt and black pants in the middle, and a woman with black hair wearing an orange flowery shirt and brown pants on the right.
A black and white penguin with a golden eye.
Two small swallows in the bottom right corner of the image. One is flying upside down and the other is sitting on a stump.
An image of Muller Glia cells (green) co-localizing with a cytoskeletal marker (purple). There are two red blood cells hiding on the bottom of the image. In frogs, red blood cells have nuclei.
A blue heron swallowing a large trout.
An image of a person waving. They are far away in a large pool in front of a rocky wall, a pirate ship, and a wooden bridge. The pool is inside of a mall.
Frog photoreceptors showing a blue outer segment and a bright orange inner segment. Near the top of the orange inner segment is an area with small holes, where mitochondria are packed in very tightly to support the metabolic needs of outer segment synthesis. This area is called the ellipsoid.
Fingernails painted to look like trout. They have yellow eyes, red gills, and black spots. The background is a pinky-blue-green color. The fish look more blue-green.
An image of a frog retina with photoreceptor labeling. The same image is shown 6 times in different colors. In the far left image, the small cones are difficult to detect in both the RGB and the color-blind simulated version. The middle image is the best representation of the data for fully sighted and color blind people, since the cones are easy to detect for both. The image on the right is better than the image on the far left to see the cones in RGB, but is still not color blind friendly.
A grey clay sloth curled up in a hanging position. It is smiling.
A grey squat clay llama with lumpy hair and stubby legs, sitting beside a clay two toed sloth, folded up in a hanging position. They are inside of a white plastic bag.
An image of frog photoreceptors but in a top down view, so it looks like a fuzzy shag carpet.
A close up image of a happy, very satisfied looking young seal. It's eyes are closed and it has a blissful look on it's face.
A small brown and white bird with a sharp beak and an open mouth. It is sitting on a spiked branch, surrounded by green leaves.
A large robin sitting on a branch with lichens. It has ruffled feathers and its eyes are tightly close. It is looking to the left.
A fluffy yellow gosling standing amongst beach rocks covered in seaweed and algae.
A fluffy grey waterbird splashing in a pond. The water droplets are reflecting light and ripples are visible in the water.
A stack of skulls with coins in their eyes. The top of a broken skull lies beside the pile filled with coins. Behind the stack are thick walls made from stacked skulls and other bones that form a tunnel.
A room in the Sedlec Ossuary. There is a large chandelier hanging from peeling cathedral walls. It is made from human skulls and bones. It is surrounded by chains and towers, also made from skulls and bones.
A collage of different microscopy images. From top left across: tadpole tailbud, olfactory neurons, lucifer yellow labeled cones, a color depth map of peripherin labeling of rod outer segments, red mutant cone outer segments, multiciliated skin cells, prom1 labeling in outer segments, and actin labeling in a tadpole tail.
An image of a parrotfish peaking out from behind a large bed of coral. It is green and orange, and has a goofy toothy smile.
An image of a large rolling garbage cart overflowing with clocks sitting in a barren hallway.
A drawing of a hand holding a frog out. The text says, "You must accept the frog."
A small model greenhouse surrounded by darkness, with a light on inside
A video of a moving view of a model greenhouse filled with small items such as plants, books, shelves, and garden tools.
An image of multiple houseplants sitting on a window ledge and a small brown table. There is a ZZ, Christmas cactus, alocasia, begonia, and snake plant. The ZZ plant has a pride flag in the pot.
A person dressed like a doll slides rigidly down a slide with their arms sticking straight out. When they reach the bottom of the slide they fall over on their side and remain motionless. The style of filming is dark and looks like a damaged videotape.
An image of a dark teal moody landscape of an island in a body of water under dark clouds. Its drawn in a coiled sketchbook.
A pen and ink drawing of a spiny lumpfish. It is drawn using orange ink. No thoughts, only fish.
An image of a whole frog eye that has been labelled with a photoreceptor marker (cyan) and a nuclear marker (orange). The retinal is the striped tissue and the lens is the large round tissue with the orange interior. You can also see the optic nerve at the top middle of the picture (12:00).
A watercolour painting of a black beetle with shiny yellow, pink, blue, and green rings.
An image of a woman wearing a black hooded sweater. It has a rainbow decal on the front with hands pushing a very fat cat. The caption says, "ROLLING FATTIES".
A painting of a frog floating in blue water. It is surrounded by some green plants and some large blue amd white circles.
A picture of a male-presenting person wearing a black shirt and a black toque (beanie). Text on the bottom of the pictures says "I am amazed at myself".
An image of 3 pie graphs that categorize nail polish. The one on the left categorizes color, the one on the top right effect, and the one on the bottom right brand.
An image of an unknown cell type that looks like a little green ghost with blue eyes and mouth.
An image of a website showing a round metal file with a blue handle. The name of the file is "POWERFIST Round bastard file"
A red-headed woman wearing sunglasses, a blue shirt, and a yellow backback. She is smiling at the camera.
A cow elk laying in the grass. She looks very healthy.
The head and nose of a beaver poking out of the water. It's reflection is also visible in the green water.