Jonas Koeppel
jonaskoeppel.bsky.social
Jonas Koeppel
@jonaskoeppel.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Shendure & Pinglay labs @UW

Trying to understand and engineer our wonderfully weird genomes 🧬
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New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome.

🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇
Generating long deletions across the genome with pooled paired prime editing screens
Engineered deletions are a powerful probe for studying genome architecture, function, and regulation. Yet, the lack of effective methods to create them in large numbers and at multi-kilobase scale has...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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What is a promoter? And how does it work?

We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility.
I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters

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Enhancer-promoter compatibility is mediated by the promoter-proximal region
Gene promoters induce transcription in response to distal enhancers. How enhancers specifically activate their target promoter while bypassing other promoters remains unclear. Here, we find that the p...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We're hiring to expand on the work to understand the human genome by engineering it!
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February 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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@science.org Genome recombination on demand | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... a Perspective by @seczmarta.bsky.social Lars Steinmetz @stanford.edu on two studies bit.ly/4hzFRMg + bit.ly/4jyT4Hf that generate large genome rearrangements in mammalian cells @ unprecedented scale #synbio #genome
Genome recombination on demand
Large genome rearrangements in mammalian cells can be generated at scale
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February 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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If tinkering with genomes - designing, writing, shuffling and augmenting them excites you, come join us! We are hiring at all levels.

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https://www.pinglay-lab.com/
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January 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Now out in @science.org w/ @jshendure.bsky.social we present 'Genome-shuffle-seq': a method to shuffle mammalian genomes and characterize the impact of structural variants (SVs) with single-cell resolution in one experiment.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Multiplex generation and single-cell analysis of structural variants in mammalian genomes
Studying the functional consequences of structural variants (SVs) in mammalian genomes is challenging because (i) SVs arise much less commonly than single-nucleotide variants or small indels and (ii) ...
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January 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Rearranging mammalian genomes with recombinases to study structural variants at scale provides insights into genome organization and dispensability #NBTHighlight
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Randomizing the human genome by engineering recombination between repeat elements
We lack tools to edit DNA sequences at scales necessary to study 99% of the human genome that is noncoding. To address this gap, we applied CRISPR prime editing to insert recombination handles into re...
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January 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We're delighted to share our work on scrambling the human genome using prime editing, repetitive elements, and recombinases in @science.org , led by @jonaskoeppel.bsky.social , @f-raphael.bsky.social , with @proftomellis.bsky.social and George Church.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Randomizing the human genome by engineering recombination between repeat elements
We lack tools to edit DNA sequences at scales necessary to study 99% of the human genome that is noncoding. To address this gap, we applied CRISPR prime editing to insert recombination handles into re...
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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We are happy to share our enhancer scramble story, a strategy to create hundreds of stochastic deletions, inversions, and duplications within mammalian gene regulatory regions and associate these new architectures with gene expression levels 🧵
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January 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Excited to share my latest preprint on establishing a generalizable toolkit for decoding the gene regulatory landscape using two types of CRISPR screens. Big thanks to my amazing mentor @nevillesanjana.bsky.social for the in-depth thread below. Looking forward to feedback and comments!
🎇🎄Some holiday reading: Overdue TWEETORIAL on the latest preprint from our lab 🎇🎄

In this work, superstar postdoc @xinhexue.bsky.social combined 2 kinds of pooled CRISPR screens to pinpoint noncoding regulatory elements and the transcription factors that activate these elements.
December 28, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Does my mutation have the same impact as yours? Population genetics 🤠 🥸 🤓 🤡 meets single cell CRISPRi ⚡ ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Claudia Feng, Oliver Stegle, Britta Velten, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social .
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December 2, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Structural variants are ripe for interrogation using genome engineering. Jonas Koeppel Juliane Weller Thomas Vanderstichele (Wellcome Sanger Institute) and I review technology progress, insights gained to date, and challenges and promise for the road ahead. www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01981-7
Engineering structural variants to interrogate genome function - Nature Genetics
Structural variations (SVs) impact gene expression, genome stability and disease susceptibility. This Review discusses recent advances in genome-engineering tools that enable precise SV generation and...
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November 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM