K. Shkarina

This paper introduces Opto-Asc, a light-controlled inflammasome tool in zebrafish to study speck formation and cell death, finding distinct morphological features of pyroptosis in periderm cells.

This paper develops optoCDEs, optogenetic tools to induce apoptosis, pyroptosis, and necroptosis, and uses them to study bystander cell responses to different cell death types.

The paper identifies Minerva, an MFS protein, as a conserved regulator of O-glycosylation that facilitates macrophage dissemination and tissue invasion in Drosophila and vertebrates.