Rahul K
@theresearch.bsky.social
I run, ski, and engineer cells and materials; asking how nutrient sensing & signaling work: bit.ly/RK-GoogleScholar
🇪🇪: TalTech| Ex: Tartu Ülikool; 🇸🇪: Karolinska Institutet, Chalmers; 🇯🇵: Kyutech; 🇮🇳: IITD
🇪🇪: TalTech| Ex: Tartu Ülikool; 🇸🇪: Karolinska Institutet, Chalmers; 🇯🇵: Kyutech; 🇮🇳: IITD
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Rahul K
@theresearch.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh
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🎉Paper alert! How do #axolotls regrow their limbs to match their body size? A new publication by PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social along with @tatianasg.bsky.social @crtd-tud.bsky.social shows that opposing morphogen gradients scaling with animal size are key.
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Morphogen Math: A Model of Axolotl Limb Growth during Regeneration
In a new publication led by the Friedrich group at PoL and the Sandoval-Guzmán group at CRTD, scientists propose a model of morphogen scaling during limb regeneration in axolotls.
tud.link
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎉Paper alert! How do #axolotls regrow their limbs to match their body size? A new publication by PoL @friedrich-group.bsky.social along with @tatianasg.bsky.social @crtd-tud.bsky.social shows that opposing morphogen gradients scaling with animal size are key.
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
Curious? Read our news: tud.link/z6tj5y
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We celebrate Thanksgiving with a new issue of #AppEnvMicro in ASM Journals‼️
And, as appetizers, these fantastic articles I selected for the Spotlight section (see 🧵 in the comments below).
doi.org/10.1128/aem....
And, as appetizers, these fantastic articles I selected for the Spotlight section (see 🧵 in the comments below).
doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Compost is a valuable amendment for suppression of soil pathogens. Logo et al. (e01100-25) describe biomarkers of disease-suppressive composts, laying the groundwork for targeted
isolation and functio...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We celebrate Thanksgiving with a new issue of #AppEnvMicro in ASM Journals‼️
And, as appetizers, these fantastic articles I selected for the Spotlight section (see 🧵 in the comments below).
doi.org/10.1128/aem....
And, as appetizers, these fantastic articles I selected for the Spotlight section (see 🧵 in the comments below).
doi.org/10.1128/aem....
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Outstanding PhD fellowship call OPEN for excellent students.
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
This is for students incoming from outside Spain. And it is VERY well supported (ie at European levels).
If you’re interested in doing a PhD in our lab @irbbarcelona.org, reach out!!!!
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
This is for students incoming from outside Spain. And it is VERY well supported (ie at European levels).
If you’re interested in doing a PhD in our lab @irbbarcelona.org, reach out!!!!
Doctoral INPhINIT fellowships - Incoming Call 2026
We grant 30 fellowships for researchers of any nationality who wish to pursue a doctorate in a STEM discipline at research centres of excellence in Spain or Portugal.
www.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Outstanding PhD fellowship call OPEN for excellent students.
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
This is for students incoming from outside Spain. And it is VERY well supported (ie at European levels).
If you’re interested in doing a PhD in our lab @irbbarcelona.org, reach out!!!!
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
This is for students incoming from outside Spain. And it is VERY well supported (ie at European levels).
If you’re interested in doing a PhD in our lab @irbbarcelona.org, reach out!!!!
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Synthetic niches enable co-culture bioprocessing but are prone to mutational escape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690348v1
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Synthetic niches enable co-culture bioprocessing but are prone to mutational escape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690348v1
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I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below!
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below!
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
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The effects of rapid mitochondrial gene loss on organellar proteomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690252v1
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The effects of rapid mitochondrial gene loss on organellar proteomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690252v1
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A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
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Interested in research on soft and biological materials in Germany?
Our lab alumnus Lotta is starting her own group at RWTH Aachen 🎉Huge congrats, Lotta!
Her lab will focus on soft and biological materials towards biomedical and sustainable applications, and she’s looking for motivated PhD students!
Our lab alumnus Lotta is starting her own group at RWTH Aachen 🎉Huge congrats, Lotta!
Her lab will focus on soft and biological materials towards biomedical and sustainable applications, and she’s looking for motivated PhD students!
Doktorand*in (w/m/d) im Fachbereich Biophysik, Biochemie und/oder Biomaterialien: Struktur komplexer phasenseparierender Flüssigkeiten | Jobs bei DWI Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien e.V. ...
🎉Very happy to share that I will start my own research group as an independent group leader at the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials at RWTH Aachen University in February 2026!
🚀We w...
www.linkedin.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Interested in research on soft and biological materials in Germany?
Our lab alumnus Lotta is starting her own group at RWTH Aachen 🎉Huge congrats, Lotta!
Her lab will focus on soft and biological materials towards biomedical and sustainable applications, and she’s looking for motivated PhD students!
Our lab alumnus Lotta is starting her own group at RWTH Aachen 🎉Huge congrats, Lotta!
Her lab will focus on soft and biological materials towards biomedical and sustainable applications, and she’s looking for motivated PhD students!
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Check out our most recent published paper in @natcomms.nature.com about the effects of cell surface crowding in cell-cell fusion: rdcu.be/ezCOF
Cell surface crowding is a tunable energetic barrier to cell-cell fusion
Nature Communications - Cell-cell fusion is fundamental to physiological processes such as muscle formation and viral infection. Here, the authors show that the proteins embedded on the plasma...
rdcu.be
August 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Check out our most recent published paper in @natcomms.nature.com about the effects of cell surface crowding in cell-cell fusion: rdcu.be/ezCOF
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Check out our latest published manuscript: SurFlex microscopy, a new technique to measure molecular flexibility. Congrats to Aymeric, @sid592.bsky.social, @blenackmon.bsky.social, and Andres! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
SurFlex microscopy: Measuring flexibility of surface-tethered biomolecules | PNAS
The flexibility of tethered molecules, such as those bound to biological membranes,
is an important property that can influence molecular height, m...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Check out our latest published manuscript: SurFlex microscopy, a new technique to measure molecular flexibility. Congrats to Aymeric, @sid592.bsky.social, @blenackmon.bsky.social, and Andres! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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#OPENACCESS: Chromatin unfolding via loops can drive clustered transposon insertion. Roshan Prizak, Aaron Gadzekpo, and Lennart Hilbert.
Chromatin unfolding via loops can drive clustered transposon insertion
Transposons, DNA sequences capable of relocating within the genome, make up a significant portion of eukaryotic genomes and are often found in clusters. Within the cell nucleus, the genome is…
www.cell.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#OPENACCESS: Chromatin unfolding via loops can drive clustered transposon insertion. Roshan Prizak, Aaron Gadzekpo, and Lennart Hilbert.
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Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
www.un.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
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Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips
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New preprint with @pyjiang.bsky.social and @kelleyharris.bsky.social! The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations
Most mutations are neutral or deleterious, and mutator alleles that increase the mutation rate of an organism are considered rare and short-lived. Here, we report a genomic signature consistent with t...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New preprint with @pyjiang.bsky.social and @kelleyharris.bsky.social! The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A new and fascinating story from @bencarty.bsky.social and the group, with crucial help from the teams of @naltemose.bsky.social, Simona Giunta, and @dfachinetti.bsky.social. Many thanks to all for a fantastic collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A new and fascinating story from @bencarty.bsky.social and the group, with crucial help from the teams of @naltemose.bsky.social, Simona Giunta, and @dfachinetti.bsky.social. Many thanks to all for a fantastic collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our paper is out! Analysis of 30K+ genomes revealed that CPR bacteria assemble their ribosomes in unconventional ways, and that these assembly processes appear to have co-evolved with ribosome structure. doi.org/10.1093/molb... #Ribosome #Evolution #Patescibacteria #MBE
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our paper is out! Analysis of 30K+ genomes revealed that CPR bacteria assemble their ribosomes in unconventional ways, and that these assembly processes appear to have co-evolved with ribosome structure. doi.org/10.1093/molb... #Ribosome #Evolution #Patescibacteria #MBE
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Supramolecular Carbohydrate Assemblies with Tunable Glycan Surfaces out today in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
Congrats to Nives, Marlene, Junki, Jaap, Kai, Yu, and Katharina!
@mpici.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Congrats to Nives, Marlene, Junki, Jaap, Kai, Yu, and Katharina!
@mpici.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Supramolecular Carbohydrate Assemblies with Tunable Glycan Surfaces
Synthetic cellulose-based oligomers assemble into supramolecular nanomaterials with a molecularly controlled, dense presentation of carbohydrates on their surfaces, serving as biological cues.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Supramolecular Carbohydrate Assemblies with Tunable Glycan Surfaces out today in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
Congrats to Nives, Marlene, Junki, Jaap, Kai, Yu, and Katharina!
@mpici.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Congrats to Nives, Marlene, Junki, Jaap, Kai, Yu, and Katharina!
@mpici.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Paper of @kevinballu.bsky.social finally out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Tailoring the Morphology of Cellulose Nanocrystals via Controlled Aggregation
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are elongated nanoparticles derived from natural cellulose, with potential applications ranging from rheological modifiers and emulsion stabilizers to photonic pigments a...
pubs.acs.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Paper of @kevinballu.bsky.social finally out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times!
embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
embopress.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times!
embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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📢 Paper alert 📢
Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 Paper alert 📢
Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)
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Biophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundances https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690267v1
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Biophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundances https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690267v1
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The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689970v1
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689970v1
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Creating an energy efficient central metabolism for boosting biosynthesis without compromising cell growth of yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689960v1
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Creating an energy efficient central metabolism for boosting biosynthesis without compromising cell growth of yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689960v1