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vikasyadavsci.bsky.social
Molecular microbiologist studying fungal genome dynamics, cell biology, and pathogenicity using Cryptococcus. Senior Research Associate at Duke. Alumnus of JNCASR, India. https://scholars.duke.edu/person/vikas.yadav
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The story behind the science…that began like 30 years ago! A reminder to undergrad researchers to keep good notebooks (and freezer logs)! :)

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Elated to share that this story about an unexpected and important finding is now published @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... These findings have laid a strong foundation for us to now identify proteins critical for cell proliferation at 37°C in a human fungal pathogen.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Vikas Yadav @vikasyadavsci.bsky.social closes out the first session by exploring how Calcineurin drives thermal adaptation in Cryptococcus

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Calcineurin controls the cytokinesis machinery during thermal stress in Cryptococcus deneoformans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638697v1

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share my latest paper on the role of calcineurin in cytokinesis in a critical human pathogen. It started with a genetic screen to identify mutants that can provide resistance to calcineurin inhibitors, which took us to a very unexpected place. A short 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

A postdoc position in fungal pathogenesis and drug resistance mechanisms is available at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the labs of Bill Steinbach and Praveen Juvvadi. Details here:

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

The Medical Mycology Trainee Seminar Series is back! Our next seminar is November 14th at 4 pm GMT (5 pm Central Europe Time, 11 am Eastern Standard, 8 am Pacific Standard, 12 am in China). 1/12

submitted 219 days ago • 1 comment

A beautiful study that highlights SO MUCH about genome structure evolution with implications on the evolution of pathogenicity. Amazing piece of work led by Marco and Marcia in the Heitman lab in collaboration with Christina Cuomo's team. It comes with the most beautiful figures. t.co/XQj3KLykmv

submitted 376 days ago • 0 comments

Our new paper describing an unexpected role of #calcineurin signaling in #RNAi-mediated small RNA production is now out in GENETICS - implying a way to quickly adapt to external conditions by altering gene expression levels. #Fungi #Cryptococcus academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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Interested in chromosome number or centromere structure evolution? Giant chromosomes and mini-chromosomes? Pathogenicity-specific horizontal gene transfer? Find all these and more in this massive piece of work led by Marco and Marcia (Heitman lab) with Christina Cuomo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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