Deepak Krishnamurthy

@fletcherlabucb.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 2027! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social I’ll be launching the Deep Lab for Microbial Biomechanics. 🧵 1/8

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Fletcher Lab

Congrats Deepak!

Deepak Krishnamurthy@deepakkrish.bsky.social

Thrilled to be selected as image of distinction! Loricate choanoflagellates (Diaphanoeca grandis) in a sea of prey bacteria | 2026 Photomicrography Competition | Nikon Small World: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

nikonsmallworld.comLoricate choanoflagellates (Diaphanoeca grandis) in a sea of prey bacteria | 2026 Photomicrography CompetitionDeepak Krishnamurthy - Loricate choanoflagellates (Diaphanoeca grandis) in a sea of prey bacteria

@fletcherlabucb.bsky.social

Thanks Scott!!

Scott Coyle@cellraiser.bsky.social

Dude so stoked for you congrats!!!!! Go bears!

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Fletcher Lab

1 Sept

What if you had a light-triggered starting gun for #CRISPR diagnostics? Meet LUCas, a light-controlled #Cas13a system that stays silent until you need it. Now published in @narjournal.bsky.social. Congrats to all the authors! #moleculardiagnostics academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

academic.oup.comLUCas: Light-Uncaged Cas13a using photocleavable interfering guide RNAsAbstract. CRISPR diagnostics enable sensitive detection of infectious diseases, with the RNA endonuclease Cas13a providing specific, amplification-free RNA

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I’m deeply grateful to mentors Ganesh Subramanian, Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social , Dan Fletcher @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social and Nicole King. 7/8

Huge thanks to @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and the @bwfund.bsky.social CASI award; and especially to my parents, partner and extended village across two countries. More soon! 8/8

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To make these hidden phenomena measurable, we’ll take a "build it if it doesn’t exist" approach: multiscale microscopy, high-throughput force manipulation and molecular biophysics tools. We’ll bring experiments, theory and computation together across biophysics, engineering and ocean science. 5/8

We’re hiring! Searches for a research technician and postdoc will open soon for spring 2027 starts. I’d also love to hear from current Berkeley grads interested in rotations/co-mentored projects, and prospective students applying to Berkeley MechE for fall 2027. 6/8

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One initial focus will be loricate choanoflagellates. We aim to establish these remarkable single-celled critters as a model for biomaterial assembly, adhesion “in the wild,” biomineralization and bottom-up manufacturing. 3/8

We’ll also study how interactions among microbes and their environment cascade through ocean ecosystems. We will explore how cells move, adhere and interact with fluid flows to shape carbon-carrying particles that sink through the ocean and help regulate carbon transport. 4/8

@thibautbrunet.bsky.social

Microbes sustain life on our planet. The Deep Lab will ask how interactions between microbes, biomaterials and fluid flows give rise to structures that shape ecosystems and climate, from cell-directed biomaterial assembly to carbon transport through the ocean. 2/8

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Thibaut Brunet

1 Apr

We are continuing our efforts at iterative expansion microscopy of loricate choanos. Not only does the lorica expand, it seems you can iterate expansion pretty much infinitely. Here’s our latest - incredibly, it expanded to macroscopic size! #ProtistsOnSky

@fletcherlabucb.bsky.social

19 Mar

Excited to be at the APS March Meeting/Global Physics Summit to give an invited talk. "Emerging Measurement Tools for Applied Biophysics and Soft Matter” session. Friday 8 AM, Convention Center, Bluebird 2E. Would be great to connect with folks attending who are still around tomorrow!

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Fletcher Lab

12 Feb

Check out our latest preprint: LUCas! A direct light control of Cas13 trans-cleavage activity. Congrats to all the authors: Carlos (@carlosfng.bsky.social), Deepak (@deepakkrish.bsky.social), Andres, and Aymeric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@meera-sundaram.bsky.social

9 Jan

Thanks @flamholz.bsky.social !!! It was amazing and enriching to visit, and learn about the amazing science @rockefeller.edu.

Avi Flamholz@flamholz.bsky.social

Was great to host @deepakkrish.bsky.social at @rockefeller.edu this week. Thanks for the conversation and phenomenal talk.

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Avi Flamholz

@flamholz.bsky.social

8 Jan

Was great to host @deepakkrish.bsky.social at @rockefeller.edu this week. Thanks for the conversation and phenomenal talk.

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Meera Sundaram

6 Dec 2025

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This was a great talk, so interesting !

6 Dec 2025

Super excited to be speaking at ASCB tomorrow at the "Cell Biology at the Extremes" session on our work on loricate choanoflagellates. In this talk I will explore "How can a single cell build complex extracellular structures in a noisy environment?" Saturday, December 6 from 11 AM Room 120.

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

10 Sept 2025

Liking this Oceanography feed and getting five others to like it will bring you good luck. 🍀

nature.comMarine Snow Days | Saltwater ScienceMarine snow isn't made of water, like regular snow. Instead, it is made up of "detritus," which is a fancy word for gunk. This gunk is a slimy mix of dead organisms, diatoms, sand, dust, and the slimy...

This is a great read on the history of "marine snow": the ubiquitous underwater phenomenon, which Rachel Carson called "the most stupendous snow fall on earth". This constant rain of biological debris is critical in the ocean's ability to sequester carbon. www.nature.com/scitable/blo...

This video (linked in the above blog as well) from Mary Silver is also fascinating www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WB-...

This story highlights the ever-present tension between the way of "observation" (you can learn a lot by just watching) and "measurement" (which invokes in some sense a perturbation of what is measured)... But, why should one choose? To me as a scientist, there is joy and power in both approaches!