Kathrin Leppek
@katleppek
Prof TT Uni Bonn & University Hospital Bonn | RNA & ribosome & biochemistry & innate immunology | Postdoc Barna Lab Stanford | PhD Stoecklin Lab DKFZ ZMBH Uni Heidelberg | triplet
Summer Lab Outing 2026 with the @ecsignalmetabolism.bsky.social lab after our joint 2-week MSc practical course is in the books. There was not enough water for kayaking so we went hiking above sea level instead. (Aishu and Peter unfortunately missing that day.)
Jirka is also the newly-minted organizer for next year's GBM RNA biochemistry study group meeting at CJD Bonn. Mark your calendars for September 21-24th 2027.
Today, Monday 13th July (instead of 1st AUG!), we had a great 12th Rhineland RNA Club meeting @dzne.science with great PhD/postdoc/invited speaker talks & ice cream. Our community covers a wide range of topics of RNA science. Special thanks to visitor Jirka Peschek from @bzh-hd.bsky.social!
I was happy to present our collaborative Early Career Award project at the HFSP Awardee Meeting in Geneva this week! And meeting up with my collaborator Drago Milovanovic and getting to know so many other awardees across such diverse disciplines. #HFSPmtg2026
In this new Preview @cp-devcell.bsky.social, postdoc Vivian Lobo and I set metabolic enzymes in the broader context of mRNA translation regulation: A moonlighting metabolic enzyme shines light on translation initiation. Sharable Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nPAk5Sx5h...
Not what you want to see on an evening after a holiday, or ever. #VEwater
🚨 1/5 Check out the 2nd preprint from our lab on how IRES-mediated translation of synthetic circRNAs is employed in cells and in cell-free translation extracts, a highly collaborative effort with @immagina.bsky.social & the labs of @andershlund.bsky.social and CK Chen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy to be invited to the @fmiscience.bsky.social Basel for the "FMI Young Investigator Seminar Series" last week, and to talk to PhDs and postdocs about career choices. www.fmi.ch/courses/yiss/
Friday 27th March, we had a great 11th Rhineland RNA Club meeting @mpiage.bsky.social with inspiring PhD, postdoc and invited speakers. It's great to see how the community covers a range of topics of all corners of RNA science. Special thanks to @mschosserer.bsky.social & @trentini-lab.bsky.social
DKFZ Alumni Event for PhDs and Postdocs about Uncertainty in Academia. Happy to be back and give back with perspective. DKFZ Careers & Alumni Relations #AcademicAfternoon @dkfz.bsky.social Event: www.linkedin.com/posts/dkfz-a... Take-Homes: www.linkedin.com/posts/dkfz-a...
We had a great day at the 1st RNA Confluence Meeting of Rhine-Main-Neckar region German RNA Clubs(+Strasbourg) with 200 attendees & trainee talks at EMBL Heidelberg yesterday. Particularly proud of Sam and Philipp taking home 2 poster prizes (of 100 posters)! 🎉 🐙 Special thanks to Alessia and Venki!
We are well into our 5-day Cluster Workshop on Ribosome Profiling (Ribo-seq) run by sabbatical scientist Ranen Aviner @czbiohub.bsky.social. We welcome PhDs and PIs from Bonn/Cologne for a hands-on and analysis course sponsored by the Cluster @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social UKB.
It was a double ribosome talk day for us in Bonn with talks today by Ranen Aviner from @czbiohub.bsky.social and Simon @bekkerjensenlab.bsky.social from BRIC Copenhagen. Simon is visiting for the @rhinelandrna.bsky.social tomorrow and Ranen is a visiting scientist in my and Ina‘s lab. #RNAsky
Lab pumpkins 🎃 2025. Vivian, Ranen, Martin and Lisa were missed (2 people not from our team).
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
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
And to round up Lana‘s lab exchange some German food and beer in Bonn. Wonderful to have her in our lab. (Martin and Philipp missing).
Update from the scope with Lana (PhD) from @mengmengfu.bsky.social‘s lab, Jakob (postdoc) from Drago Milovanovic‘s lab @dzne.science and Vivian (postdoc) from my lab. Only missing from the @hfspo.bsky.social team is Elarbi (postdoc) from Danny Broere‘s lab at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social.
This week, we welcome Lana Ho (right), PhD student from @mengmengfu.bsky.social's lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, to our lab to teach us some cool smFISH (in a heatwave) as part of a lab exchange in the @hfspo.bsky.social Early Career Award.
Back to the roots. Literally. It's been a while since my days of working on plant riboswitches with Breaker people. I kind of missed the combination of a dirty bench and RNA work. This time, we want their ribosomes for a crazy idea. #RNA
The lab just got a tube holder upgrade thanks to the brother with the 3D printer. #TimelineCleanse
This was a truly collaborative effort of my lab (with all ideas and data generated in Bonn) and Maria Barna's lab at Stanford. Congrats to Philipp, Martin and Saurabh! 🥳 (Image credit: UKB) Universitätsklinik Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social @immunosens.bsky.social
The first paper from the Leppek lab is published today at @embojournal.org!! 🎉 We designed and evaluated a versatile toolbox for determining IRES activity in cells and embryonic tissues. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
First in-person retreat of our #HFSP team in Berlin hosted by Drago Milovanovic at the Charite bringing Utrecht, Bonn and Berkeley (on Zoom) together to report, discuss and brainstorm about our fun Early Career Award joint project with all team members.
Very proud of our great team! 🎉 - Philipp, Martin & Saurabh for the amazing paper! - 3 year lab birthday on 10th January - Kathrin‘s W2 TT Prof promotion in January
We celebrated the lab's first paper (stay tuned!) last Friday where Philipp is shared first author and Martin and Saurabh contributed. Very proud of the team's achievement and we went all out! 🎉 #RNAsky @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social