Katherine King MD PhD
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. 🌈
- Happy to share our latest work on the epigenetic basis of trained immunity in hematopoietic stem cells! @bcmhouston.bsky.social @texaschildrens.bsky.social
- For decades, memory-like responses in immune cells have remained unexplained @thekinglab.bsky.social & team reveal epigenetic changes in hematopoietic stem & progenitor cells in a mycobacterial infection model that are retained in downstream macrophages: doi.org/10.1172/jci....
- TODAY at #ASH2025 New Frontiers in Neutrophil Biology. W311 at 4pm. Ostuni, Bonnet, Findlay. See you there!! @welner.bsky.social @leegrimeslab.bsky.social
- Caroline Sands @bcm-mstp.bsky.social and I met up at #ASH2025. So fun 😍
- Reposted by Katherine King MD PhDWhat 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!)
- ASH or bust! #ash2025
- 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 moderating— don’t miss it!
- Wow! My student Arushana Maknojia was awarded the Deborah K. Martin Award for best graduate student at BCM! So proud!
- Lab Halloween 2025 is in the books— can you guess our theme?
- Reposted by Katherine King MD PhDFor 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!
- 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
- Great science, food, and hospitality at #ISEH2025 Kumamoto. Several new collaborations planned!
- 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
- 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!
- 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...
- What is a pediatric infectious disease doc doing studying AD you might ask?
- We’re interested in infection as a driver of clonal hematopoiesis, and, conversely, how CH affects immune function.
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View full threadA 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.
- 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. 😍
- 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
- Perfect weather for our “annual” King lab crawfish boil— so fun to see current lab, alums, and lab babies! 😍
- Here’s the group shot!
- 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...
- 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
- Thank you to my lab members and mentors, colleagues, family and friends who helped me get here and celebrated with me. @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.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
- I think means I became an honorary Challenger?
- Special guest at lab meeting today thanks @thekinglab.bsky.social !!!
- 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 PhDHey! 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...
- 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!
- 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
- Interesting work from my colleague at @texaschildrens.bsky.social
- @e2e-spr.bsky.social Member, Dr. Vikram Raghu and SPR Members, Dr. Amy G. Feldman and Dr. Daniel H. Leung published research on the impact of inconsistent early immunosuppression practices on short-term outcomes following pediatric liver transplantation. Read more: ow.ly/Kw4z50VfQgo
- Reposted by Katherine King MD PhDCongrats to @bcm-mstp.bsky.social student @chiraagkapadia.bsky.social for his first author paper out yesterday in Nature!
- 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...
- So great @chiraagkapadia.bsky.social ! Congrats to you and the whole team.
- And immense thanks to all collaborators that helped this story come together, esp. @jamie-blundell.bsky.social @carolinewatson.bsky.social , @thekinglab.bsky.social , @mattyousefzadeh.bsky.social and others. Thanks to our referees, and funding @NIH and @wellcometrust.bsky.social and others. 16/n
- Right so we totally enjoyed a visit yesterday by the wonderful @beaudinlab.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social fabulous work and had so much fun that we forgot to take a picture!
