Rupinder Kaur

We are hiring a second TT position this fall in Cell Biology, again broadly defined. This one may be relevant to any physiologists out there. @uicbios.bsky.social has been a fantastically supportive place to start a research program, right in downtown #Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

This tiny squid, captured on a #MegaSPIM light sheet microscope, is helping scientists understand how cephalopods detect changes in their aquatic environment. 🦑 Learn more: bit.ly/48lUArz #MicroscopyMonday @carsten-wolff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social

Be my colleague! Biological Sciences at UIC is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Synthetic Biology. Nice group to work with, including lots of early-career faculty. UIC is an R1, MSI, many first-gen students, & ranks highly for social mobility. You can do great science and help broaden the talent pool.

#Jobalert 🚨 Our department is hiring!! Do apply if you're excited about developing innovative techniques to engineer biological systems across molecular, cellular, computational, and organismal scales. 📣 Know someone who might be a great fit? Tag them or spread the word! #SyntheticBio #Biotech

Out today in @jcb.org! Work from the Mogessie, Fachinetti & Redemann labs reveals how CENP-A/B/C cooperate to maintain kinetochore function in oocytes and how declining centromere strength predisposes aging eggs to aneuploidy. doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... @health.pew.org @valleefoundation.bsky.social

Important work on H4K16 acetylation

RESEARCH PAPER: Differential control of both cell cycle-regulated and quantitative histone mRNA expression by Drosophila Mute By Geisler et al. and Robert Duronio ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/19-20/1649.abstract Mark Geisler #histone #replication #mRNA #Drosophila

So proud of my lab mate @sagrill.bsky.social (whose on the job market 👀) for this magnum opus from @remlehmann.bsky.social lab @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social ScRNA-seq of 🪰 germ cells reveals new biology, answers age old questions, and proposes new paradigms! 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)

Excited to share this review that @needhibhalla.bsky.social and I wrote on meiotic checkpoints! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Most flies appear to follow the same aerodynamic blueprint. Mosquitoes are the exception, beating their wings up to 1,000 times a second and flying about three times less efficiently than similar-sized fruit flies. doi.org/hb926b

Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets

Google applies for permit to release 32 million mosquitoes in Calif. www.sfgate.com/tech/article... All hail to the power of a bacterium #Wolbachia. Wanna learn the nitty-gritties of behind-the-scenes mechanism? Check out our work 👇 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Want to find #prophage in your #bacteria genomes? We built PhiSpy a long time ago, and now we've created a new web page for it: linsalrob.github.io/PhiSpyWeb/ Best of all, the data never leaves your computer! #phage #phagesky

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Using light-activated CRISPR in zebrafish, we triggered synchronized DNA breaks and track the repair process. ⚡🐟⚡ 

 Well ... DNA repair is very different in embryos compared to tissue culture cells. Embryos repair DNA breaks incredibly fast - within minutes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Seeing is believing: Salk scientists, together with scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, developed a new tool to visualize proteins inside living cells—live and undisturbed. A new window into how biology works, and disease unfolds. www.salk.edu/news-release...

She’s in charge! In the new lab of @kaurr.bsky.social at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Proud of all she’s set up in just a few months. Are you ready for the sizzle of Kaur lab science?

Nice write up in the Chicago Tribune about a project involving one of our department faculty members, Dr. Gabby Nunez-Mir. Art meets invasive species awareness... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/24/u...

There's always something new to learn about #Wolbachia and its wonders. Preprint👇 shows Sperm chromatin defects don't just culminate at embryo death, but cause locomotor defects in offspring. More than just “on/off”, CI can be continuum of paternal-effect phenotypes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not to miss opportunity to work with a great mentor and develop your research portfolio using diverse model systems! Do check it out!

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Drosophila and anti-parasitoid defense gained through horizontal gene transfer from phages make a cameo at the end of this fun article by @vcallier.bsky.social...

A special collection: recent advances in biological control of spotted-wing drosophila #Drosophila

A high-affinity split-HaloTag for live-cell protein labeling. And much more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Grateful to be featured by the @vanderbilt.edu in their 'Beyond the Postdoc' series. If you're a postdoc and looking for some perspective, keep reading until the end - I share a few reflections and pieces of advice that helped me along the way. www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/rupi...

Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

What do you wish someone had told you before you went on the job market? What actually counts and what doesn’t? Looking forward to our panel discussion on navigating today’s job search landscape. Come with questions and hear the unfiltered version of our experiences. #SciCareers #Academia #ECRs

Epigenome Technologies offers an end-to-end single-cell Paired-Tag service, the first multiomic assay that simultaneously captures RNA expression and epigenetic marks from preparation to data analysis #Epigenetics #SingleCell #PairedTag #Multiomics bit.ly/3HWFoaw

Great read! Congratulations @katarinazimmer.bsky.social on your insightful @knowablemag.bsky.social piece exploring the remarkable biology of the Aedes aegypti #mosquito knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Goodbyes are never easy when you’ve built a strong community and lifelong friendships. But as they say “We don’t leave foundations behind, we build upon them.” Onward to the next chapter of my career at UIC, with immense gratitude to @symbionticism.bsky.social for extraordinary mentorship & support!

AI learns from chromatin data to uncover gene interactions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In the #gonad, #sex is not an irrevocable commitment, and requires active maintenance. Artyom Kopp explores a new @plosbiology.org study elucidating the molecular mechanisms that preserve sexual identity in the adult #Drosophila #testis 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4pMT6hq Primer: plos.io/3MRBBxG

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Such an impactful work showing that the "chromatin fatigue" is real to pose consistent stress for the survival of the cell! Kudos to the team! 👏👏

Beyond Wolbachia—Can a small molecule control insect reproduction?

This book has never been more timely. Thanks to @sonali-m-19.bsky.social for writing it and for sending me a copy.

🚨 New pub alert! Check out our latest one that showcases how chemical and genetic innovations can recreate complex host–symbiotic interactions in the absence of the symbiont. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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New research from EMBL Rome shows how paternal environment prior to conception can shape early embryo development. These findings are a step toward understanding the mechanism of epigenetic inheritance, opening up new possibilities for disease prevention. www.embl.org/news/science...

absolutely wild, from the Small Molecules Considered (SMC) branch: "...this work provides another piece in a complex biological puzzle aiming to understand the persistent and pervasive nature of 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 endosymbionts." (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...) #MicroSky #SymbioSky

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