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Damian Dudka

@damiandudka.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Cell Biology at Lehigh University We study how the chromosome segregation machinery evolves at breakneck speed and why that matters for fertility, development, and disease. dudkalab.me

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Damian Dudka @damiandudka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My lab just opened at Lehigh University - we study the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of the rapid evolution of the chromosome segregation machinery. I'm looking for 2 team members (postdoc and lab tech) who are passionate about evolution and cell division! See the opportunities at dudkalab.me.
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The Dudka Lab at Lehigh University studies how rapid evolution of chromosome segregation machinery impacts health, fertility, and disease.
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Damian Dudka @damiandudka.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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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Takashi Akera Lab @takashiakeralab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🚨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...
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Stan Yatskevich @stanislauy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/02/2025
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Binyam Mogessie ቢንያም ሞገሴ @binyammogessie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Smile You Are On Candid Camera @kajamm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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.
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Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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...
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Takashi Akera Lab @takashiakeralab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
EMBO meiosis: Registration deadline Feb 15!📣
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Rebecca Tarnopol @tarnopol.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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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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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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Join us this morning at #cellbio2024 for an exciting line up of meiosis talks!
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