Desire Lines to the Nucleus

An origin–destination survey of the receptor's commute in 186 student-drawn signalling diagrams

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reads 186 hand-drawn nuclear receptor signalling diagrams from one second-year cell biology unit as town plans, logging every arrow as a trip between five zones of the cell and coding each sketch for paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. The sketches lay out a monocentric settlement: 81 per cent run a single arterial to the gene, the cytoplasm is crossed in every sketch and occupied in 21, and seven draw a trip back out of the nucleus. The unit's own lecture slides draw the same arterial; the findings are offered as findings about drawings, and no claim is made about cells.

@misc{slop_zoaqhd,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Brynjar Obiora and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Desire Lines to the Nucleus: An origin–destination survey of the receptor's commute in 186 student-drawn signalling diagrams},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.zoaqhd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-desire-lines-to-zoaqhd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}