Rupinder Kaur, PhD

@KaurTweets

Assistant Professor @thisisUIC
Host-Symbiont-Virus interactions in 🪰 and 🦟
#Wolbachia #Spermatogenesis #Embryogenesis #Epigenetics #Imaging

University of Illinois Chicago bios.uic.edu/profiles/rupin… Joined March 2010

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Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets Oct 31

Nothing beats the reproducibility of mechanistic findings across different strains/systems pertinent to the success of #Wolbachia-based #vectorcontrol.

Seth Bordenstein @Symbionticism Oct 30

Cytoplasmic incompatibility is an epigenetic disturbance to sperm that leads to the paternal-effect lethality. Repeat three times for easy recall and model figuration. This is what the data in flies and mosquitoes now firmly show.

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Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets Oct 22

#Jobalert 🚨 Our department @UIC_BioS is hiring!
Do apply if you're excited about developing innovative techniques to engineer biological systems across molecular, cellular, computational, and organismal scales.
📣 Know someone who might be a great fit? Tag them/ spread the word!

Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets Mar 14

Grateful to be featured by the @VanderbiltU in their 'Beyond the Postdoc' series. If you're a postdoc and looking for some perspective, keep reading until the end - I share a few reflections and pieces of advice that helped me along the way.

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www.vanderbilt.edu Rupinder Kaur, Ph.D. Dr. Rupinder Kaur is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Chicago. Her research is focused on exploring the dynamic interplay between hosts and their microbial symbionts, with a...

Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets Oct 10, 2025

🚨 New pub alert! Check out our latest one that showcases how chemical and genetic innovations can recreate complex host–symbiont interactions in the absence of the symbiont.

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www.cell.com Histone acetylation modulation by a small molecule inhibitor recapitulates symbiont-induced... Kaur et al. identify histone acetylation as a host-encoded mechanism underlying Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). Chemical and genetic inhibition of histone acetyltransferase...

Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets Oct 3, 2025

#Wolbachia has puzzled us with its power to rewire host reproduction. What if I tell you we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule can use this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years.

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www.cell.com Beyond Wolbachia—Can a small molecule control insect reproduction? Kaur et al. demonstrate reduced histone acetylation as a key mechanism underpinning Wolbachia’s paternal-effect embryonic lethality trait in Drosophila melanogaster. Recapitulation of this trait by...