Alright everybody, what will undoubtedly forever be the lab's strangest discovery is now out in Nature. It's a protein that evolved to self-assemble into a Sierpinski fractal. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n

1/n My postdoc work on the evolution of mitosis in Ichthyosporea Gautam Dey Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ @SchwabYannick groups is out nature shorturl.at/KPRQw Art by Nirupa Rao contrast fungal-like closed with animal-like open mitosis. Why do cells carry out mitosis in different ways?

How do karyotypes evolve? Turns out an intracellular tug of war within the metaphase spindle sets the limits for chromosome number evolution. Excited to see our study out today in Nature Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4155…  1/9

Our latest preprint: Sriram Garg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch! Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…  🧵(1/8)