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.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Excited about our new review! Spearheaded by an undergraduate in the lab!
The polymerase milieu of human papillomavirus | Journal of Virology
Shope papillomavirus was first discovered in 1933 to cause benign, hyperproliferative lesions in cottontail rabbits that could be induced to undergo malignant conversion following treatment with genot...
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This was just such an amazingly fun and productive collaborative effort with @spanier55.bsky.social. I am just so proud and happy that this is out and even happier to have worked with such an amazing and thoughtful team! Here’s to more discoveries!
The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 3mo agoSLX4IP acts as a genome-wide brake on BLM helicase activity to preserve replication fork stability under stress – both globally and at ALT telomeres Stephanie Panier @spanier55.bsky.social, Kavi Mehta @k4v1.bsky.social and coworkers link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My new model for fork reversal regulation may be controversial in the field, but I assure you it is both fragrant, beautiful, and high visibility. In summary, why did the stalled replication fork visit the orchard? It heard cherry trees were experts at branch migration.
I wish someone would develop an extremely private, hyper-focused, energy efficient AI tool that has a sole purpose — to fill out doodle polls.
@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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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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.
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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! journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...
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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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.
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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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.
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I had the extreme privilege of meeting him. He was kind to me.
Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12mo agoRIP Even Jim Lovell could not survive the present administration.
Day 3 #DNATVM2025 has been great. We had a wonderful time speaking to trainees about the future of science!
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!
I am proud to be part of this interesting work by our awesome collaborator @spanier55.bsky.social! 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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As a public service announcement, hand-reared. free range, organic eggs are $1.50 a dozen in Italy.
🇺🇸 Absolutely insane crowd here in Madison, Wisconsin — the Capital of Democracy! #Handsoff
