Kathrin Leppek

Lab pumpkins 🎃 2025. Vivian, Ranen, Martin and Lisa were missed (2 people not from our team).

Really beautiful! 🤓

List of talks at the 10th Rhineland RNA Club meeting on 14 November @MPI Age in Cologne. Generously supported by the RNA Society, Lexogen, siTOOLs, Immagina Biotechnology, Twist Bioscience, and NEB.

We would like to invite all Rhineland RNA enthusiasts to attend our next series of in-person talks, featuring local and invited speakers. Highlights include the external talks by Didier Stainier, Simon Bekker-Jensen and Ranen Aviner. Please, register: tinyurl.com/RhinelandRNA

Congrats Meng2!! 🎉

@sedonamurphy.bsky.social Sedona, how did I not know you are at the MPI in Berlin now!! Welcome!! 🎉

🎓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

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

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

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

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

“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

Congratulations! 🎉

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

🎉 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

Congrats Dagmar and team! 🎉

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.

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...

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...

Super cool Ryan!! Congrats!! 🎉

Oh no. Just you wait. It will happen.

Happy 1000th citation anniversary, dear review ;)

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

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

Can you spot the one pseudoU?

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

Forever grateful to them.

The 70s in RNA were quite a time.

Congrats Kelly!! 🎉