# About *Fons Voyage* *Fons Voyage* is the lab notebook of the **Goff Lab** at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine — a slow-moving stream of dispatches from the neurogenic niche, the parts of the developing and adult brain where new neurons are still being born. We write here about: - **Cells.** Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics of the developing and adult mammalian nervous system — what cells are there, what they are doing, and how they got that way. - **Sequences.** Computational methods, pipelines, benchmarks, and the occasional bioinformatics yak-shave that we couldn't quite justify putting in a paper but want to write down before we forget. - **Cephalopods.** Because they deserve their own bullet, and because comparative neurobiology is more fun with eight arms. ## The name *Fons* is the Latin for *source* or *spring* — a fitting word for a lab that studies where new neurons come from. *Voyage* is what we do once we've left port: follow the current, sample the depths, and write down what we find. ## What to expect Posts will skew toward the in-between work that doesn't fit cleanly in a paper — methods notes, exploratory analyses, conference recaps, reading-group writeups, and (occasionally) finished work with figures and code you can actually run. Some posts are short field notes; others are long-form notebooks with embedded data and plots. We aim for **one or two posts a month**, give or take a grant deadline. There is no editorial calendar; this is a working notebook, not a magazine. ## Following along - **[RSS feed](/fons_voyage/rss.xml)** — the calmest way to follow. - **[Archive](/fons_voyage/archive.html)** — everything we've posted, in reverse chronological order. - **[Categories](/fons_voyage/categories/index.html)** and **[tags](/fons_voyage/categories/index.html)** — fill out over time as the corpus grows. ## The lab The Goff Lab studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of mammalian neurogenesis using single-cell and spatial genomics. We work on the developing cortex, the adult subventricular zone, and assorted comparative-neuroscience side projects. Find us at the [Institute of Genetic Medicine][igm] at Johns Hopkins, or on the [lab website][lab]. [igm]: https://igm.jhmi.edu/ [lab]: https://www.gofflab.org/ ## Authorship Posts are written by lab members — students, postdocs, staff, and the PI. By default authorship lives at the top of each post; if a post is unsigned, you can assume it's collective. ## Contributing & corrections This is an open notebook. If you find a mistake, want to suggest a correction, or have a follow-up question: - Use the **comments** at the bottom of each post — they run on [giscus](https://giscus.app/) and require a GitHub account. - Open an issue on the [site repo](https://github.com/gofflab/fons_voyage/issues). - Or just email us at the address in the [README][readme]. [readme]: https://github.com/gofflab/fons_voyage#fons-voyage ## Colophon The site is built with [Nikola](https://getnikola.com/), the theme is a fork of *bootblog4* dressed in a deep-ocean palette, and the source lives on [GitHub](https://github.com/gofflab/fons_voyage). The underwater feel is mostly a stack of radial gradients pretending to be caustic light, anchored to the viewport so the bottom of the screen is always the deepest.