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Keri-Lyn Kozul

@kerikozul.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the www.niemilab.com at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) | Studying how defective mitochondrial quality control affects disease

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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A couple of days late, but many congratulations to graduate student Youmian Yan for defending her thesis this week!! Dr. Yan gave an incredible presentation on her work on mitochondrial protein import. Well done and richly deserved. 🥳🎉
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Keri-Lyn Kozul @kerikozul.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Really excited to share the first preprint of my postdoc!! A huge thank you to our collaborators, the Niemi Lab powerhouse crew who were incredible helpful, and of course @nieminm.bsky.social who has been an AMAZING mentor through all the unexpected surprises and interesting discoveries we made!
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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Very excited to share our latest work, “Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function,” led by the fantastically talented @washubbsb.bsky.social graduate student Youmian Yan. A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function
Hundreds of mitochondrial-destined proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphipathic helices, presequences lack ...
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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Niemi lab graduate student Hannah Pletcher recently joined @prelights.bsky.social and wrote nice highlight of recent work from @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social - check it out here!
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Succinate Dehydrogenase loss causes cascading metabolic effects that impair pyrimidine biosynthesis - preLights
Not all aspartate limitation is created equal: An aspartate biosensor reveals that inhibiting succinate dehydrogenase results in defects in pyrimidine synthesis and replication stress, unique from oth...
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Keri-Lyn Kozul @kerikozul.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Could not have made it this far without the amazing mentorship of @nieminm.bsky.social !!
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Keri-Lyn Kozul @kerikozul.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I am incredibly humbled and grateful to be selected as a finalist for the UMDF Accelerators Grant!! Thank you to the UMDF for this opportunity! I look forward to pitching my research and continuing to learn from the Mito community through this inspiring initiative! x.com/umdf/status/...
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United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation on X: "We're excited to announce the FOUR accelerators finalists who'll be sharing their research proposals at this year's Big Pitch. Introducing Islam Alshamleh, PhD, Preona Bora, PhD, Anastasia Dimitriou, PhD, and @KeriKozul, PhD! Read their project summaries: https://t.co/ZuGxOJfE39 https://t.co/KVx0Mykvav" / X
We're excited to announce the FOUR accelerators finalists who'll be sharing their research proposals at this year's Big Pitch. Introducing Islam Alshamleh, PhD, Preona Bora, PhD, Anastasia Dimitriou, PhD, and @KeriKozul, PhD! Read their project summaries: https://t.co/ZuGxOJfE39 https://t.co/KVx0Mykvav
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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Niemi lab and @washubbsb.bsky.social graduate student Youmian Yan gave a fantastic presentation on her work at the @asbmb.bsky.social meeting in Chicago! #ProudPI (photo credit to @kerikozul.bsky.social)
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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Come to St. Louis this summer for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation MitoMed 2025 Conference! We have a fantastic line up with lots of opportunities for short talks. We're also running a Masterclass for Early Career Investigators. More info here: www.umdfconference.org
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WUSM BMB Women’s Group @wusmbmbwomen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Behind every great community is an even greater team! Meet the faces who make it all happen. 🙌 #MeetTheTeam @pelhamjackie.bsky.social @nieminm.bsky.social @jcubuk.bsky.social @kerikozul.bsky.social @tlochetto.bsky.social
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Jonathan Friedman @labfriedman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Looking for some holiday reading material? Our latest paper identifying a new player in mitochondrial fission is now out @jcellbiol.bsky.social! A wonderful early present to see this now online! rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Functionally conserved inner mitochondrial membrane proteins CCDC51 and Mdm33 demarcate a subset of fission events | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
Edington et al. determine that Mdm33 and CCDC51 are functionally conserved mitochondrial inner membrane proteins that are required for normal mitochondrial
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Natalie Niemi @nieminm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Happy holidays from the Niemi lab!! 🎄🎄🎄
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