Damian Dudka
@damiandudka.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at UPenn in the lab of Michael Lampson. Constantly amazed by evolutionary mechanisms in all aspects of biology. Chromosome segregation aficionado.
I am deeply grateful to @ASCBiology and truly humbled by this recognition of my research through the Postdoctoral Porter Prize for Research Excellence. Congratulations to all the awardees!
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August 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I am deeply grateful to @ASCBiology and truly humbled by this recognition of my research through the Postdoctoral Porter Prize for Research Excellence. Congratulations to all the awardees!
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🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
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Happy to share our latest work on the structure and assembly of holocentric kinetochores! Huge thanks to Ines for a very fruitful collaboration, Claudio for all the support, and congratulations to Christine and all co-authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Happy to share our latest work on the structure and assembly of holocentric kinetochores! Huge thanks to Ines for a very fruitful collaboration, Claudio for all the support, and congratulations to Christine and all co-authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Damian Dudka
Reposted by Damian Dudka
Some good news during these difficult times. Please check out our new preprint. We built a new tool to probe the origins of high oocyte aneuploidy rates at advanced female reproductive ages. This NIH funded work was led by a fantastic postdoc in the lab, Jiyeon Leem. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A versatile cohesion manipulation system reveals CENP-A dysfunction accelerates female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy.
Female reproductive aging is accompanied by a dramatic rise in the incidence of egg aneuploidy. Premature loss of chromosome cohesion proteins and untimely separation of chromosomes is thought to unde...
www.biorxiv.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Some good news during these difficult times. Please check out our new preprint. We built a new tool to probe the origins of high oocyte aneuploidy rates at advanced female reproductive ages. This NIH funded work was led by a fantastic postdoc in the lab, Jiyeon Leem. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Damian Dudka
Reposted by Damian Dudka
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
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New preprint! Eric Smith and Jimmy Ly reveal a beautiful example of repurposing of a molecular machine. RNase P + RNase MRP share 9 subunits and yet are functionally very different. We find key new subunits that act as specificity factors to distinguish MRP.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New preprint! Eric Smith and Jimmy Ly reveal a beautiful example of repurposing of a molecular machine. RNase P + RNase MRP share 9 subunits and yet are functionally very different. We find key new subunits that act as specificity factors to distinguish MRP.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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EMBO meiosis: Registration deadline Feb 15!📣
Registration now open for the 2025 EMBO workshop on Meiosis! June 22-26, 2025, Engelberg, Switzerland.
Deadline for abstract submissions and registration is Feb 15th, 2025. Lots of speaker slots will be selected from abstracts, so apply now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...
Deadline for abstract submissions and registration is Feb 15th, 2025. Lots of speaker slots will be selected from abstracts, so apply now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...
Meiosis: Exploring diversity to discover the fundamentals
Meiosis is an essential cell division for sexual reproduction and fertility across eukaryotes. It involves a series of tightly regulated processes, including entry into meiosis, pairing of homologs, …
meetings.embo.org
January 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
EMBO meiosis: Registration deadline Feb 15!📣
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Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr
Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids
Metazoan parasites have played a major role in shaping innate immunity in animals. Insect hosts and parasitoid wasps are excellent models for illumina…
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December 20, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr
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Join us this morning at #cellbio2024 for an exciting line up of meiosis talks!
December 18, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Join us this morning at #cellbio2024 for an exciting line up of meiosis talks!