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Fletcher Lab @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What if you had a light-triggered starting gun for #CRISPR diagnostics? Meet LUCas, a light-controlled #Cas13a system that stays silent until you need it. Now published in @narjournal.bsky.social. Congrats to all the authors! #moleculardiagnostics academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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LUCas: Light-Uncaged Cas13a using photocleavable interfering guide RNAs

Abstract. CRISPR diagnostics enable sensitive detection of infectious diseases, with the RNA endonuclease Cas13a providing specific, amplification-free RNA

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 2027! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social I’ll be launching the Deep Lab for Microbial Biomechanics. 🧵 1/8

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are continuing our efforts at iterative expansion microscopy of loricate choanos. Not only does the lorica expand, it seems you can iterate expansion pretty much infinitely. Here’s our latest - incredibly, it expanded to macroscopic size! #ProtistsOnSky

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Excited to be at the APS March Meeting/Global Physics Summit to give an invited talk. "Emerging Measurement Tools for Applied Biophysics and Soft Matter” session. Friday 8 AM, Convention Center, Bluebird 2E. Would be great to connect with folks attending who are still around tomorrow!

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Fletcher Lab @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Check out our latest preprint: LUCas! A direct light control of Cas13 trans-cleavage activity. Congrats to all the authors: Carlos (@carlosfng.bsky.social), Deepak (@deepakkrish.bsky.social), Andres, and Aymeric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Thanks @flamholz.bsky.social !!! It was amazing and enriching to visit, and learn about the amazing science @rockefeller.edu.

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Was great to host @deepakkrish.bsky.social at @rockefeller.edu this week. Thanks for the conversation and phenomenal talk.

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Meera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This was a great talk, so interesting !

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Super excited to be speaking at ASCB tomorrow at the "Cell Biology at the Extremes" session on our work on loricate choanoflagellates. In this talk I will explore "How can a single cell build complex extracellular structures in a noisy environment?" Saturday, December 6 from 11 AM Room 120.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Liking this Oceanography feed and getting five others to like it will bring you good luck. 🍀

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is a great read on the history of "marine snow": the ubiquitous underwater phenomenon, which Rachel Carson called "the most stupendous snow fall on earth". This constant rain of biological debris is critical in the ocean's ability to sequester carbon. www.nature.com/scitable/blo...

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Marine Snow Days | Saltwater Science

Marine snow isn't made of water, like regular snow. Instead, it is made up of "detritus," which is a fancy word for gunk. This gunk is a slimy mix of dead organisms, diatoms, sand, dust, and the slimy...

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Deepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Thanks to @schmidtfellows.bsky.social for this amazing opportunity to share my science and my sense of wonder about our oceans. This ended up being a fantastic learning experience.

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