Nicole CL Noel

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Research fellow at UCL. Photoreceptor biology, ocular genetics, and retinal ageing in turquoise killifish and zebrafish. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her #firstgen #disabledinstem

Section of zebrafish retina, with whole UV cones labelled in magenta, UV cone outer segments in cyan, and rod cell bodies and outer segments in yellow.
A cross-section of a retina, showing the distinct cellular layers. Cells are labelled with yellow, pink, and cyan punctate staining. Photoreceptor cells, apparent from their autofluorescent inner and outer segments, are in the top right of the image, while the ganglion cells are in the bottom left.
A fluorescent micrograph of a zebrafish larvae retina, showing blue, pink, and yellow labelling across the laminae. Outer retina is on the left, inner retina on the right. The blue labelling is restricted to long cells that span most of the tissue (Müller glia cells), pink is many cells in the inner retina, and yellow is largely limited to the synaptic and photoreceptor layers. On the very right of the image is a half-circle, which is the lens.
Fluorescent cone photoreceptor cells from an adult zebrafish retina, with alternating green and pink cells in rows.