Kevin Cabrera

Incredibly happy to share the first major paper from the lab - led by Yuheng and published today at @eLife. Why the "success" of transposons substantially differs between species? We found that the secret may lie in the chromatin landscape! elifesciences.org/articles/81567

I'm pleased to share with everyone my most recent work on immune priming in Drosophila using E. faecalis (w/ the amazing @zebabw !) Read more for a story of survival, endurance (not resistance), and more! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in fly immunity and innate immune memory? Are you a fan of transcription, bacterial load, and survival analysis? Come visit poster 267B tomorrow at #Dros22!

I'm definitely barely surviving my postdoc financially to stay in academia. It's very hard when there's no money and companies start to offer you jobs with real pay. When you support your extended family and carry generational lift on your shoulders, it's hard to chase ideals.

@JusttheZooofUs @MaxFunHQ Got an awesome shoutout in today’s episode! Loved hearing about my favorite insects from one of my favorite podcasts

Why should you give this fiery-winged wasp plenty of personal space? What's going on inside real-life spider dungeons? And why have these little bees abandoned vegetarianism? Find out on episode 122 of Just the Zoo of Us wherever you get your podcasts!

A little late here, but here’s a paper I worked on as a rotation student looking at gene expression differences of mosquitos collected in different parts of Burkina Faso! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13…

Our departments Thesis Defense posters are OK but for @matilian26 defense it needes a little more razzle dazzle. So excited!

Last shout out, but if you think immune priming is cool, check out @CabreraKevin95 poster 503B! #Dros21

“we just need a little help with our data. i’m sure it’s like 5 minutes of work for someone like you...”

Teaching yourself a new protocol in a field you’ve never worked in before.

mfw I lost a whole week of analysis time to troubleshooting and the problem was that one mislabeled sample threw off my whole analysis

the biggest lie in science is "data and code available upon request"

I hate when people ask me “how do you feel your presentation went?” Excuse me I blacked out & astral projected the entire time, you tell me

Here are the publication records and research topic areas of 63 faculty candidates in the life sciences who interviewed at R1 institutions in 2019-2020. 70% have a first-author paper in Cell, Nature, or Science, 22% have a K99, and 30% have unpublished work on bioRxiv.

Fauci totally printed out the "extended PDF" and had to use a binder clip. Clearly he is the type of person who is going to check out Supp. Fig 5C and the full STAR methods section.

Thinking out loud: If most functional genomics data is usually aligned only to the canonical chromosomes (no weird contigs and stuff), why is it that FASTA files of ref genomes have those sequences by default? 🤔

This should be required reading for anyone designing a genomics project

2020 Mood: Have a 7 hour layover in Las Vegas so now I’m analyzing some ATAC-seq data at the Bellagio. That’s doing bioinformatics in style