kaurr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UIC Studying Host-Symbiont-Virus Interactions in 🪰 and 🦟 #Wolbachia #ChromatinBiology #Epigenetics #Microscopy https://www.rkaur.org/
👤 Joined on 10 November 2024
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@kaurr.bsky.socialOut 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
Show PostSession 3: Evolutionary Biochemistry Georg Hochberg @georghochberg.bsky.social Angela Phillips Margaux Pinney Kimberly Reynolds @kreynoldslab.bsky.social
Show PostImportant work on H4K16 acetylation
Show Post🚨🚨Preprint alert!🚨🚨 We removed the main centromere 3 domain of Drosophila‼️ We designed an inducible dCas9-Fok1 system to cut 🧬 at unique sequences flanking the ~50-kb island where most of CENP-A sits. To our knowledge, this has never been attempted in a living animal!
Show PostRESEARCH 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
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