Ximena Garcia Arceo

@quexarce.bsky.social

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Current postdoc in Wallace Marshall Lab at UCSF🦠 🌁 | PhD at UCSD Chemistry 🧪⛱️ | BS at UCSB Physics🔬 🌊 Hoping to stay in academia if science and education survive🤞🏻so I can think and talk about stochasticity, entropy and geometry in cells

Cellphone video of a microscope viewer window. 3 chlamydomonas cells can be seen, with 2 moving their pairs of flagella/cilia.

Polaroid snapshot of Omar Quintero-Carmonas and me (Ximena)

DIC microscopy image of 2 chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells near each other. Both appear to be extending a flagellum towards each other, reminiscent of God extending a finger towards Adam in the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

DIC image of chlamydomonas reinhardtii with 4 flagella instead of 2

A meme that morphs Miley Cyrus's face onto the body of the green M&M (aka M&M Cyrus), reminiscent of the body plan of Mike Wazowski from the famous movie Monsters Inc. Her hands are clutched in front of her body/head as if in contemplation when, in reality, she is holding herself back from attacking with all her strength. Though she smiles politely, some of the pain escapes through her eyes. She knows we see not only her pain, but also the considerable force she exerts to restrain herself. Top line of text reads: Things are constantly. Bottom line reads: Happening. Text is in comic sans. M&M Cyrus knows life is a joke yet no one is laughing.