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Giovanna Weykopf

@gweykopf.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Stark lab at IMP, Vienna | PhD in the Bickmore lab at MRC_hgu, Edinburgh | gene regulation, enhancer biology 🧬 | sport enthusiast 🏃🏼‍♀️🏋🏻‍♀️🏇

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Hannah Long @hannahlong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📣 Interested in non-coding disease-causing variants? Check out our review "Mechanisms underlying disease-causing variants in promoters and enhancers". Interesting mechanisms, challenges and future perspectives. Great to work with @wbickmor.bsky.social, Kun and Ryan! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mechanisms underlying disease-causing variants in promoters and enhancers - Nature Genetics
This Review discusses how rare-disease-causing variants in the noncoding genome impact gene regulation, why these examples are so few and how new approaches could accelerate discovery of noncoding var...
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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The IMP lab of Alexander Stark used AI to design enhancers—DNA switches controlling gene activity—for specific mouse tissues: the first from-scratch design in a mammal. News: imp.ac.at/news/article/ai-learns-to-write-code-that-activates-genes-in-mammals Paper: nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02729-1
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last by by no means least - I recently got to celebrate my PhD era and publications with a wonderful graduation ceremony 🎓 @uoe-igc.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our second story from my PhD is now published too! Great to see this out and thanks to all involved! @eliasfriman.bsky.social @wbickmor.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Identifying severe COVID-19 risk variants modulating enhancer reporter activity in lung cells
Author summary Individual humans show widely varying responses to viral infection, including from SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Part of this variation is driven by host genetic factors, where gen...
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Very happy to see the first story from my PhD now published! Genetic variants causing coding mutations in alternative isoforms are more common than we thought, plus a novel DPP9 isoform 🧬 @wbickmor.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Disease-associated genetic variants can cause missense effects in tissue-specific protein isoforms - Nature Communications
Isoforms are seldom considered in genetic variant interpretation. Here the authors map common and rare variants to alternative isoforms, which can be highly expressed and tissue-specific. A common DPP...
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Great to see this lovely functional genomics work from @gweykopf.bsky.social @jmarshlab.bsky.social @kennethbaillie.bsky.social @gorrellmsydney.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social published. What at first sight seemed to be non-coding turns out to be coding. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Disease-associated genetic variants can cause missense effects in tissue-specific protein isoforms - Nature Communications
Isoforms are seldom considered in genetic variant interpretation. Here the authors map common and rare variants to alternative isoforms, which can be highly expressed and tissue-specific. A common DPP...
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Distal and proximal transcriptional activation may not be so different - check out the latest pre-print from @eliasfriman.bsky.social Very happy to have contributed a small part and seen this story develop!
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Although cohesin-sensitive, long-range enhancer activation is equivalent in nature to proximal activation. Cooperativity can arise from different levels of activation inputs operating on a non-linear response function. @eliasfriman.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New pre-print identifying 29 Covid GWAS variants that drive allele-specific activity in a functional genomics screen in lung cells, from @gweykopf.bsky.social and @eliasfriman.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @uoe-igc.bsky.social @uk-fgx.bsky.social
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
*New pre-print* I’m delighted to share the second story from my PhD 🥳 We identify 29 severe COVID-19-associated human genetic risk variants that modulate enhancer activity in lung epithelial cells 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A personal milestone - PhD successfully defended (with no corrections 🥳) A heartfelt thank you to my supervisors @wbickmor.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @KennyBaillie and the entire Bickmore lab who made this a wonderful 4 years ✨
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Genetic variants can cause protein-coding mutations that result in disease. What about in alternative isoforms? Excited to share my first first-author pre-print! Here we show many variants reside in tissue-specific isoforms, causing coding mutations. 1/ bit.ly/455I6T6
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Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
GWAS to mechanism: when non-coding is coding. Beautiful insightful science from @gweykopf.bsky.social @simonbiddie.bsky.social Joe Marsh and many colleagues. @uoe-igc.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Simon Biddie @simonbiddie.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Congratulations to @gweykopf.bsky.social for her first first author manuscript, now on biorxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Many thanks to all involved - @wbickmor.bsky.social @mbadonyi.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social, Joe Marsh, Jasmine Nguyen, Mark Gorrell and others.
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Disease-associated genetic variants can cause mutations in tissue-specific protein isoforms
Genetic variants can cause protein-coding mutations that result in disease. Variants are typically interpreted using the reference transcript for a gene. However, most human multi-exon genes encode al...
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Truly amazing week at the #EMBOEnhanceropathies workshop at Hindsgavl slot, what a great community to be working in!
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Hannah Long @hannahlong.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The #EMBOenhanceropathies workshop was truly outstanding - such a wonderful community to be part of and exciting science from start to finish! Group photo in front of Hindsgavl Slot @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social - we had a blast! 🧬
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
That’s a wrap on the @gensocuk.bsky.social Epigenetics meeting in Belfast, what an absolute treat it’s been! #Epigenetics2025
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Giovanna Weykopf @gweykopf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Lovely ‘Hidden Cell, Dark Genome’ meeting right here in Edinburgh over the past couple of days! Really enjoyed and finally learned what hidden cell means
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