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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urldefense.proofpoint.com
And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Lab Halloween 2025 is in the books— can you guess our theme?
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Lab Halloween 2025 is in the books— can you guess our theme?
Reposted by Katherine King MD PhD
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...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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...
Jak stat jak stat fun to have @mpndoc.bsky.social in town for a seminar! Thanks for inflammatory insights and inspiration to cure patients!
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Jak stat jak stat fun to have @mpndoc.bsky.social in town for a seminar! Thanks for inflammatory insights and inspiration to cure patients!
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
October 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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
I am so grateful to be able to spend time with colleagues at #iseh2025. Fantastic science and community.
Ready for #ISEH2025 Scientific Session? After 1.5 days of rich, productive discussions, @isehsociety.bsky.social leadership & Board of Directors are all set—with the full program and even the social events lined up!
@thekinglab.bsky.social @smckinneyfreeman.bsky.social @nickvangastel.bsky.social
@thekinglab.bsky.social @smckinneyfreeman.bsky.social @nickvangastel.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I am so grateful to be able to spend time with colleagues at #iseh2025. Fantastic science and community.
Central trained immunity is still a nascent field— 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!
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.
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Central trained immunity is still a nascent field— 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!
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!
August 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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!
It’s just a noncompeting renewal, but I’ve never been so happy.
July 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It’s just a noncompeting renewal, but I’ve never been so happy.
And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
urldefense.proofpoint.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
We had not one but TWO bottles of bubbly to celebrate paper acceptances in the lab!! Exciting stories forthcoming which I am excited to introduce when they’re online!
June 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We had not one but TWO bottles of bubbly to celebrate paper acceptances in the lab!! Exciting stories forthcoming which I am excited to introduce when they’re online!
This post is almost a week late but huge congratulations to the 14 fabulous students who earned their MD PhD degrees last week @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social So amazing to see you all complete this journey. 😍
June 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This post is almost a week late but huge congratulations to the 14 fabulous students who earned their MD PhD degrees last week @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social So amazing to see you all complete this journey. 😍
Big day for Dr. Brandon Tran yesterday as he became a PhD graduate! Beautiful presentation of rigorous work on conservation of epigenetic marks after infection through myeloid differentiation. 🥳🤩🥳
May 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Big day for Dr. Brandon Tran yesterday as he became a PhD graduate! Beautiful presentation of rigorous work on conservation of epigenetic marks after infection through myeloid differentiation. 🥳🤩🥳
Congrats @micrornax.bsky.social on this study on let7 in lung injury/repair and thanks for including us as collaborators!
(1/n) Our article is out in @natcomms.bsky.social! We set out to examine the contribution of the ancient Let-7 microRNA over alveolar type 2 (AT2) stem cell plasticity in the genesis of pulmonary injury and interstitial lung disease i work led by Matthew and Shafiq in my lab.
Paper: rdcu.be/elun3
Paper: rdcu.be/elun3
Let-7 restrains an epigenetic circuit in AT2 cells to prevent fibrogenic intermediates in pulmonary fibrosis
Nature Communications - Loss of let-7, a key microRNA, causes lung alveolar stem cells to grow abnormally and dieprematurely, leading to scarring and lung damage. Here the study links let-7 loss to...
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May 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Congrats @micrornax.bsky.social on this study on let7 in lung injury/repair and thanks for including us as collaborators!
Perfect weather for our “annual” King lab crawfish boil— so fun to see current lab, alums, and lab babies! 😍
May 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Perfect weather for our “annual” King lab crawfish boil— so fun to see current lab, alums, and lab babies! 😍
Congrats Dan on this cool study!
Super interesting- aging and altered intestinal barrier function results in circulation of bacterial metabolites that drive clonal hematopoiesis. #Hematopoiesis #Blood #Aging
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbial metabolite drives ageing-related clonal haematopoiesis via ALPK1 - Nature
ADP-heptose binds to ALPK1, triggering transcriptional reprogramming and NF-κB activation, endowing pre-leukaemic cells with a competitive advantage due to excessive clonal proliferation.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congrats Dan on this cool study!
Yesterday I was humbled to receive the E. Mead Johnson Award from the @socpedresearch.bsky.social Since 1939, the award represents SPR’s commitment to outstanding science- stunned to join the list of trailblazing investigators. What a weekend! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yesterday I was humbled to receive the E. Mead Johnson Award from the @socpedresearch.bsky.social Since 1939, the award represents SPR’s commitment to outstanding science- stunned to join the list of trailblazing investigators. What a weekend! @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social
Tremendous honor today to receive the WashU alumni achievement award. I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such amazing mentors, teachers, colleagues and friends. @origamidoc.bsky.social @davidperlmutter.bsky.social @geoffuy.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Tremendous honor today to receive the WashU alumni achievement award. I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such amazing mentors, teachers, colleagues and friends. @origamidoc.bsky.social @davidperlmutter.bsky.social @geoffuy.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
I think means I became an honorary Challenger?
Special guest at lab meeting today thanks @thekinglab.bsky.social !!!
April 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I think means I became an honorary Challenger?
Great visiting with all the folks at WashU today! So fun to catch up! Forgot to take pics with everyone!
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Great visiting with all the folks at WashU today! So fun to catch up! Forgot to take pics with everyone!
Reposted by Katherine King MD PhD
Hey! Check out @drjanexu.bsky.social discussing @cohesinlab.bsky.social’s first preprint on @isehsociety.bsky.social simply blood preprint watch! www.simplyblood.org/2025/04/prep...
Preprint Watch: April
Welcome to our monthly Preprint Watch, where we highlight some of the most relevant preprints for the ISEH community! This month we cover so...
www.simplyblood.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey! Check out @drjanexu.bsky.social discussing @cohesinlab.bsky.social’s first preprint on @isehsociety.bsky.social simply blood preprint watch! www.simplyblood.org/2025/04/prep...
Amazing fundamental insights about hematopoiesis from tons and tons of sequencing.
Delighted to share my PhD thesis work is now published in @nature.com! This study tracks the journey of blood stem cells in aging mice, examining how the clonal dynmics of blood production change over time. A short 🧵1/n #aging #stemcells #clonalhematopoiesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse - Nature
Isolating and studying haematopoietic stem cells in young and aged mice demonstrates evolutionary processes related to blood production and provides a framework for interpreting future work using labo...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Amazing fundamental insights about hematopoiesis from tons and tons of sequencing.
Honored to have Dr. Bonnie Maldonado visiting today as the Feigin distinguished lecturer. Important leadership on RSV prevention.
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Honored to have Dr. Bonnie Maldonado visiting today as the Feigin distinguished lecturer. Important leadership on RSV prevention.
Look at these details from my visit to St Jude’s— raising the bar on hospitality! Being here at the same time as @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social was so fun!
March 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Look at these details from my visit to St Jude’s— raising the bar on hospitality! Being here at the same time as @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social was so fun!
Incredible hospitality at St. Jude for the Danny Thomas Lecture. Thanks so much to Jian Xu for hosting me and to all the wonderful colleagues who made time for me today. Special surprise to see @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social here at the same time!
Had an amazing visit to St. Jude for a seminar at HRSS! Huge thanks to Masa for hosting, and to Katherine King @thekinglab.bsky.social for the lovely surprise dinner! Grateful to the incredible hematology and stem cell team for engaging discussions on collaborations! @einsteinmededu.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Incredible hospitality at St. Jude for the Danny Thomas Lecture. Thanks so much to Jian Xu for hosting me and to all the wonderful colleagues who made time for me today. Special surprise to see @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social here at the same time!