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Kavi Mehta

@k4v1

I believe in science, education and curiosity. PhD, Laimins lab. K99/R00 fellow, Cortez Lab. Assistant Professor at UW-Madison DNA repair, mutagenesis, and HPV. All my views.

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Nice work pal!

07.01.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology Tumor viruses, or viruses that are etiological agents of tumorigenesis and/or cancer, were first discovered in the early 20th century when Peyton Rous isolated a β€œfilterable agent” from chicken sarcom...

@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out!

journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

07.01.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Forward!

29.12.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m really proud to have been selected as a New Voice in Virology by @jvico-eics.bsky.social

19.12.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing!

23.11.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ANTONY LAB SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Edwin Antony Lab Website

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org

Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.

Please share.

18.11.2025 19:05 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Voices in Virology Annual competition for early-career virologists to publish a minireview in JVI. Their minireviews will be peer reviewed & published in a collection.

I am very proud of this as well as my good friend and colleague @spurgeonlab.bsky.social and the strong @uwmadscience.bsky.social representation. Forward!

journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...

14.11.2025 12:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The speed of Apple’s Simplefold is astonishing. I ran it on a MacBook Air last night on GPU. Less than four minutes for a 600 amino acid protein.

25.09.2025 12:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone have another source besides BD for the B44 anti-brdu antibody or one that reacts with Idu and limited with Cldu. It’s badly back ordered.

19.09.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ubiquitin-specific protease 15 interacts directly with the HSV-1 alkaline nuclease and facilitates viral recombination and replication fork stability | Journal of Virology HSV-1 is a ubiquitous pathogen in the global population that causes lifelong latent infection with sporadic reactivation in the host. It has long been appreciated that HSV-1 DNA replication exhibits h...

Very proud to be part of another study from the Mohni lab. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

18.08.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Truly awful. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

15.08.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had the extreme privilege of meeting him. He was kind to me.

09.08.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 3 #DNATVM2025 has been great. We had a wonderful time speaking to trainees about the future of science!

16.07.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2 of #DNATVM2025. It’s another beautiful day.

15.07.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ope! That was to say #DNATVM2025 Too excited after Bucky!

15.07.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#DNATVM2015 is going well!

15.07.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an extremely good point. Do you have some Badgers gear I can wear as well?

14.07.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@drsprggs.bsky.social‬ You pumped?

14.07.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are just so excited to welcome you all here in Madison for #DNATVM2025. It’s going to be a beautiful day. We have a wonderful crew of trainees at the airport to guide you to shuttles. I will also be there to greet at intervals. See you soon!

14.07.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to the next Helicase Conference! #HelicasesandNucleicAcidBasedMachines #Lisboa2025

07.07.2025 14:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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SLX4IP acts in parallel to FANCM to limit BLM-dependent replication stress at ALT telomeres - PubMed Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) is a telomerase-independent telomere maintenance mechanism that enables cancer cells to gain unlimited replicative capacity. ALT relies on recombination-medi...

I am proud to be part of this interesting work by our awesome collaborator @spanier55.bsky.social!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501906/

03.07.2025 17:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See you soon!!!!

19.06.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations pal!!!!

19.06.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If they keep the original orientation does it look too much like the PBS logo?!

11.06.2025 11:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a public service announcement, hand-reared. free range, organic eggs are $1.50 a dozen in Italy.

03.06.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Madison, WI #HandsOff
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05.04.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 1033 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Absolutely insane crowd here in Madison, Wisconsin β€” the Capital of Democracy!

#Handsoff

05.04.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 30286 πŸ” 5702 πŸ’¬ 417 πŸ“Œ 268

Forward and On Wisconsin!

02.04.2025 11:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome!!

30.03.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been seeing them dance in the sky from Bakke!

27.03.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0