Kavi Mehta
@k4v1.bsky.social
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.
@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out!
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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 “filterable
agent” from chicken sarcom...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out!
journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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Forward!
For the first time in more than a decade, UW–Madison ranks among the top five universities in the U.S. for research expenditures in the National Science Foundation’s latest Higher Education Research and Development Survey. On, Wisconsin!
UW–Madison 5th in national research ranking for first time since 2014, surpasses $1.93B in research expenditures
The annual rankings, which cover fiscal year 2024, "highlight the importance of the decades-long partnership between universities and the federal government," says UW–Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnook...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Forward!
I’m really proud to have been selected as a New Voice in Virology by @jvico-eics.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’m really proud to have been selected as a New Voice in Virology by @jvico-eics.bsky.social
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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.
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.
ANTONY LAB SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Edwin Antony Lab Website
www.antonylab.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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!
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journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...
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.
September 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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.
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.
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
Very proud to be part of another study from the Mohni lab. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Very proud to be part of another study from the Mohni lab. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Truly awful. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
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.
www.npr.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Truly awful. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
I had the extreme privilege of meeting him. He was kind to me.
RIP
Even Jim Lovell could not survive the present administration.
Even Jim Lovell could not survive the present administration.
August 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I had the extreme privilege of meeting him. He was kind to me.
Day 3 #DNATVM2025 has been great. We had a wonderful time speaking to trainees about the future of science!
July 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Day 3 #DNATVM2025 has been great. We had a wonderful time speaking to trainees about the future of science!
Day 2 of #DNATVM2025. It’s another beautiful day.
July 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Day 2 of #DNATVM2025. It’s another beautiful day.
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!
July 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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!
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Looking forward to the next Helicase Conference! #HelicasesandNucleicAcidBasedMachines #Lisboa2025
July 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Looking forward to the next Helicase Conference! #HelicasesandNucleicAcidBasedMachines #Lisboa2025
I am proud to be part of this interesting work by our awesome collaborator @spanier55.bsky.social!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501906/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501906/
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...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I am proud to be part of this interesting work by our awesome collaborator @spanier55.bsky.social!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501906/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501906/
As a public service announcement, hand-reared. free range, organic eggs are $1.50 a dozen in Italy.
June 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As a public service announcement, hand-reared. free range, organic eggs are $1.50 a dozen in Italy.
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April 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Forward and On Wisconsin!
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Forward and On Wisconsin!
Great stuff!
Check out our review on DNA end resection! With Raphael Ceccaldi, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Great stuff!
Today was a very nice day.
March 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Today was a very nice day.
