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Katherine King MD PhD

@thekinglab.bsky.social

Professor in Pediatric Infectious Disease researching effects of infection, inflammation, and the microbiome on hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny. How do infections affect bone marrow and vice versa? Co-Director of BCM MSTP. 🌈

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To my friends who are @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #hematopoiesis and #myeloid meetingsβ€” please check out two talks from my group TOMORROW: Ruoqiong Cao on central #trainedimmunity Thursday morning and Arushana Maknojia unravels #microbiome dependent hematopoiesis in the pm! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

25.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies Daniel Moskop! Don’t know where I got that spelling of your last name

25.02.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Visiting friends in science can be illuminating for the mind and refreshing for the soul. Thank you @ericpietras.bsky.social and Daniel Molosky for a fabulous visit!

24.02.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yahoo! I was the only girl in some of my classes in high school and college. Though we’ve come a long way, women are still a minority in science. Excited to see the blossoming careers of many young women in science today!

11.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to understand complex intrinsic and extrinsic metabolic regulation of HSCs? Our latest @natcellbio.nature.com review, led by @aysegulerdemm.bsky.social, synthesize insights into cell fate decisions and highlight implications for leukemogenesis. @nickvangastel.bsky.social
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11.02.2026 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Happy to share our latest work on the epigenetic basis of trained immunity in hematopoietic stem cells! @bcmhouston.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social

29.01.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks @insight.jci.org for highlighting our new work to investigate the epigenetic basis of central trained immunity. Hematopoietic stem cells carry many secrets! In this case memories that are transmitted to innate immune cells. Congrats to fabulous student Brandon Tran on this publication!

29.01.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool paper from @welner.bsky.social and Ferrell labs!

11.12.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TODAY at #ASH2025 New Frontiers in Neutrophil Biology. W311 at 4pm. Ostuni, Bonnet, Findlay. See you there!! @welner.bsky.social @leegrimeslab.bsky.social

06.12.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Caroline Sands @bcm-mstp.bsky.social and I met up at #ASH2025. So fun 😍

06.12.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What an awesome stem cell session speaker group for #ASH25 Workshop on Myeloid Development @vangalenlab.bsky.social @thekinglab.bsky.social @paralkarlab.bsky.social Sandra Pinho and Allison Yeh (love the photobomb!)

05.12.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ASH or bust! #ash2025

05.12.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ASH is coming! Excited to present alongside Vikram Paralkar, Sandra Pinho, Peter Van Galen, and Alison Yeh at the stem cell session of the myeloid workshop on Friday. @ericpietras.bsky.social will be moderatingβ€” don’t miss it!

02.12.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow! My student Arushana Maknojia was awarded the Deborah K. Martin Award for best graduate student at BCM! So proud!

14.11.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lab Halloween 2025 is in the booksβ€” can you guess our theme?

31.10.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For my lab lead friends, check out this article of best practices from my colleagues and I on the ISEH Junior PI committee on organizing a leading your team. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lxZ~,6sio...

15.10.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jak stat jak stat fun to have @mpndoc.bsky.social in town for a seminar! Thanks for inflammatory insights and inspiration to cure patients!

14.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Congrats to Nicole Wang and Jennifer Deger on their beautiful thesis defenses today in the MSTP October double header! So proud of you both! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social

13.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Negative Selection! For those who know.

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Great science, food, and hospitality at #ISEH2025 Kumamoto. Several new collaborations planned!

28.09.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so grateful to be able to spend time with colleagues at #iseh2025. Fantastic science and community.

25.09.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@rcao1001.bsky.social @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social

08.09.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells as a reservoir for trained immunity Inflammation supports selection, differentiation bias, and epigenetic reprogramming of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to generate innate immune memory.

Central trained immunity is still a nascent fieldβ€” is there true reprogramming of hematopoietic progenitors to influence innate immunity, or is this selection for lineage biased cells? We explore the nuances in this new review. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... awesome collab with Eva Kaufmann and team!

08.09.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Less than a month until ISEH @isehsociety.bsky.social annual meeting in Kumamoto! Bringing some new science to share and excited to see friends and try the food!

30.08.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just a noncompeting renewal, but I’ve never been so happy.

10.07.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social ! 😍

02.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw thanks so much Adam! Let’s talk more about how these mutations affect migration of immune cells across tissues.

02.07.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A huge thanks to our collaborative team for contributing to this story @eirinipapapetrou.bsky.social Michael Rauh, Samuele Marro, Sidd Jaiswal, @goodell-lab.bsky.social, @micrornax.bsky.social and so many more.

02.07.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of interesting pieces here including how immune cells get into the brain and how often they replace microglia.

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Human data corroborates a protective effect of TET2 CH against AD

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This is interesting since Dnmt3a and Tet2 are often lumped together but actually have opposite enzymatic functions.

02.07.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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