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Pratik Kumar

@dyechemist.bsky.social
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Assitant Professor ncbsbangalore.bsky.social Making dye based molecular tools for imaging, cell biology and proteomics. Previously @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social, IISER-Kolkata, and JNCASR. Lab news: DyeCraftLab.com

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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We have a review out in the Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (Molecular Imaging issue). Co-written by Mousumi Baruah, Hassan Rasiwala, Uma Vaidya, and me. dyecraftlab.com/publication/...
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Small molecules for genetically encoded control and imaging of protein proximity | DyeCraft Lab
Many cellular processes are regulated through the conditional association of existing proteins, motivating methods that provide precise spatial control over protein proximity. Controlling and imaging ...
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Claire Deo @clairedeo.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Photoswitchable HaloTag for Spatiotemporal Control of Fluorescence in Living Cells
Photoswitchable fluorophores are critical for advanced bioimaging. Here, we develop a photoswitchable self-labeling HaloTag that can reversibly modulate the emission of a bound fluorogenic dye via a ....
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This work is now out @pnas.org. Result of fantastic collaborations with @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social and Jason vevea @St Jude. Look out for two cool fluorescent ligands.
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Optimizing multifunctional fluorescent ligands for intracellular labeling | PNAS
Enzyme-based self-labeling tags enable the covalent attachment of synthetic molecules to proteins inside living cells. A frontier of this field is ...
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National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
#AwardHighlight Mousumi Baruah, post-doctoral researcher from Dr Pratik Kumar's lab, is the recipient of the National Post-doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) by The Anusandhan National Research Foundation, India Congratulations!🎉 @dyechemist.bsky.social
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National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#CampusVisit We recently welcomed 11th & 12th-grade students from DPS (N). They interacted with Dr Pratik Kumar & visited the labs of Prof Sanjay Sane & Dr Shashi Thutupalli. The students learned how science is interdisciplinary and not done in silos. @dyechemist.bsky.social @stpalli.bsky.social
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National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#CampusVisit Students of Bangalore International School visited NCBS last week. They started the visit with an activity to learn critical thinking. @dyechemist.bsky.social spoke about life as a scientist & Aksha Chowdhary, wildlife master’s alum, shared her journey. They also visited the Ear Lab
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Come and do some chemistry for biology with us!
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If making chemical tools for biology excites you, consider applying to the NCBS graduate program! My lab plans to hire 1–2 graduate students this cycle. More info on my lab @ dyecraftlab.com
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Alternate abstract image for our latest manuscript
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Alex Moloney @amoloney.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ow boy! Just when I thought I couldn't be impressed by a JQ1 containing compound anymore... it gets mashed with my favourite Janelia Fluor dye (JF635) and a halotag ligand. Exceptional work #chembio
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🧵Prepint alert! Optimizing Multifunctional Fluorescent Ligands for Intracellular Labeling | tinyurl.com/3n55hvsc. With Jason Vevea, Ed Chapman, and @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social, we combined dye chemistry, HaloTag, microscopy and cell biology to make protein purification and manipulation tools.
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Rashmi Agrata @rashmiagrata.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New to #ubiquitin? Been with it for a while? Either way this review may be for you 🤩 Excited to share our review article in @molcell.bsky.social, diving deep into everything #ubiquitin Read here 👉: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... @cellpress.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social
'Ubiquitin Lysine-Linkages' from the review 'Ubiquitin: a structural perspective' in Molecular Cell
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Claire Deo @clairedeo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pratik Kumar @dyechemist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Super excited to start my lab @NCBS_Bangalore in March 2025! The lab will primarily be powered by chemistry, and we will build chemical tools for biology with a strong focus on fluorescence imaging. We will collaborate widely and are open to any relevant areas of biology.
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