Varnica khetrapal, Ph.D
@VarnicaK
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PhD from @NUSMedicine and @astar_gis. Currently a postdoc associate in the Palm Lab @YaleIBIO, @YaleMed. Friends with all bacteria and a few humans.
New Haven, CT
Joined July 2017
Update on the project closest to my heart!! It’s been a long journey but we are so grateful that this story finally found a home in @PNASNews! @swaine_chen @liyanaaoy thank you for your efforts #MAE @NUSMedicine @astar_gis This is a super useful tool for many #Enterobacteriaceae
Super excited to share a preprint ( for one of the lab’s long term, ambitious projects - doing effective, genome-scale, sexual genetics in E. coli. This is making F1 hybrids in bacteria! We call our new technique MAE (Mass Allelic Exchange) - 1/14
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RT @KimInGeneva: PhD student opening! We are collaborating with the team of David Johnson @EawagResearch to understand E. faecalis polymic…
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But - this is meant to be The Most Wonderful Time Of Your Life™️!! So you feel bad about worrying/being sad about work! Academic guilt and feeling adrift in your identity meet Mum Guilt 🤜🥺🤛 Welcome to feeling like you’re failing at *something* a lot of the time
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RT @Rego_Lab: Really excited about this work from the lab. @celenagwin, together with @Kuldeep_R_Gupta, worked to understand how mycobacter…
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@MoualiYoussef @ktstiftung @germanscholars @StrowigLab @Helmholtz_HZI Congratulations @MoualiYoussef!! This is huge!! :)
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RT @ASAP_Research: Last week over 200 members from across the 35 #CRN teams gathered in San Diego to share updates on #PDresearch, collabor…
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Team Hafler having a great time at #CRNSanDiego2023 It’s been an amazing and inspiring conference! @ASAP_Research @SChandraLab!
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Congratulations @CarolineSTawk 🎉
Understanding these processes will be key to predicting and promoting the ability of an individual’s gut microbiome to prevent infection. (6/7)
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RT @Rego_Lab: @Kuldeep_R_Gupta, working together with @celenagwin, discovered that a protein of unknown function in mycobacteria (PgfA) is…
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RT @BertSalvail: I am happy to announce that I will start my own group as an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida Burne…
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RT @swaine_chen: @VarnicaK @PNASNews @liyanaaoy @NUSMedicine @astar_gis So happy to see this out and immensely proud of @VarnicaK, @liyanaa…
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@Figlegend @PNASNews @swaine_chen @liyanaaoy @NUSMedicine @astar_gis Thank you, Shu-Sin!! And thank you for your support when many other people thought this would never work! :D
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It’s been an amazing year for the Palm Lab!! Congratulations @Kikyo_95 👏🏻 👏🏻 we miss you!!
Very excited to share our recent cool story! Commensal microbiota from patients with inflammatory bowel disease produce genotoxic metabolites
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RT @malycat03: Impactful words by @CarolynBertozzi today on how diversity in her trainees enabled creativity, not playing by the rules, and…
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So proud to finally see the recognition this work deserves!! The most meticulous scientist I know @KMehershahi!! DNA methylation in E. coli @NAR_Open
Took a Twitter break for a while, but better late than never to highlight this paper by @KMehershahi - very happy this got published @NAR_Open (, capping off a ton of his work. It all started with me saying “this project is a slam dunk!” (it wasn’t) 1/15
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RT @B_DuncanLowey: I’m excited to share our preprint describing the structure of the RADAR antiphage defense system! This was such a fun co…
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