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Kathrin Leppek

@katleppek.bsky.social

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RNAmed @rnamed.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎓RNAmed met at LMU on May 19 for a Topic Day on the immune recognition of RNA. Special thanks to Prof. Veit Hornung, Prof. Kathrin Leppek, and Prof. Min Ae Lee-Krisch for sharing their insights & joining the panel discussion. 📅On May 20, PhD students shared their methods in our first Methods Seminar

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 13d

I often think it would be great to have chloroplasts, do photosynthesis, and live off the sun.

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 13d

I often think it would be great to have chloroplasts, do photosynthesis, and live off the sun.

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Maria Barna @mbarnalab.bsky.social · 14d

Kathrin is definitely larger than life! Best recruit ever!!

Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 14d

This massive poster of the ad campaign for the new recruits at the @unibonn.bsky.social is the nerdiest version and the closest I’ll ever get to a superhero movie poster. #Bauzaun

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 14d

This massive poster of the ad campaign for the new recruits at the @unibonn.bsky.social is the nerdiest version and the closest I’ll ever get to a superhero movie poster. #Bauzaun

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20d

“Government plays an incredibly important role in supporting innovative work and discovery research,” Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at #TAF25. This is work that “just doesn’t get done in companies.”

Watch here: bit.ly/46a5DUE

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations! 🎉

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Jack Tierney @jackatierney.bsky.social · Sep 1

Many transcriptome regions are translated but not known to encode proteins. They remain poorly annotated and thus under studied, partly due to the lack of terminology for these features.

In @natmethods.nature.com we propose using "Translon" for any region decoded by the ribosome

Snapshot of the Correspondence titled 'Translon: a single term for translated regions'

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are happy to finally present our brand new lab website of the Leppek Lab! About time after 3.5 years of the lab. Perfectly in time for the #EMBLProtein meeting in Heidelberg where our 4 PhDs have posters and I have a talk! We would be happy about any feedback! 🎉 leppeklab.org

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Aug 24

Amazing! Congrats for the first Huppertz lab preprint. So proud of you Ina! 💪🏻

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Ina Huppertz @inahuppertz.bsky.social · Aug 24

🎉 We’re excited to share our very first preprint!! 🎉
"Metabolic Crossroads: AMDHD2 Couples the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway to Acetyl-CoA Homeostasis in Pluripotent Stem Cells"
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#FirstPreprint #StemCells #Metabolism #Epigenetics #AcetylCoA #HBP #Pluripotency #NewScience

Metabolic Crossroads: AMDHD2 Couples the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway to Acetyl-CoA Homeostasis in Pluripotent Stem Cells

Pluripotent stem cells (SCs) rely on metabolic rewiring to regulate self-renewal and differentiation. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) integrates multiple metabolic inputs to produce uridine ...

doi.org

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congrats Dagmar and team! 🎉

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Olena Zhulyn @ozhulyn.bsky.social · Aug 9

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowships (2 positions) in wound healing - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 1284...

Two Postdoc positions to identify & visualize translation dynamics & function of proteins that drive epithelial cell migration during wound healing.

www.nature.com

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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · Aug 6

RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis by chemically caging acp3U. Excited to report this work lead by Vinnie @vinnieviruses.bsky.social and in collaboration with @vijayrathinam.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Aug 6

Super cool Ryan!! Congrats!! 🎉

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh no. Just you wait. It will happen.

Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy 1000th citation anniversary, dear review ;)

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Rhineland RNA Club @rhinelandrna.bsky.social · Aug 3

The 9th Rhineland RNA Club on 1AUG #RNADay with great local speakers and @lenasteckelberg.bsky.social as invited speaker from Columbia was a super fun and well attended event with lots of #RNA discussions and networking. Organized and hosted by @katleppek.bsky.social at @dzne.science. #RNAsky

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 28

Reminder for the Rhineland RNA Club this Friday (1st AUG)

Rhineland RNA Club @rhinelandrna.bsky.social · Jun 24

We are very happy to invite you to our 9th Rhineland RNA Club at @dzne.science Bonn with great local speakers and Lena Steckelberg @lenasteckelberg.bsky.social as our invited speaker. All #RNA enthusiasts are welcome! Organized by @inahuppertz.bsky.social and @katleppek.bsky.social. #RNAsky

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 24

Can you spot the one pseudoU?

Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 24

I really don’t think we needed all those phosphos.

Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 24

Forever grateful to them.

Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 24

The 70s in RNA were quite a time.

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 10

Congrats Kelly!! 🎉