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Linda Koch

@linkonrg.bsky.social
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Chief Editor @ Nature Reviews Genetics (‪@natrevgenet.nature.com‬) Half 🇩🇪, half 🇫🇷, raised in 🇵🇹, now in 🇬🇧. Opinions my own.

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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In love with this cover that our fabulous art editor Pat drew for the October issue of @natrevgenet.nature.com 😍
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pleased to a share our new review paper on natural selection in human history—what we know, what we don't know, and what is frequently misunderstood. The opinionated result of many virtual cups of tea with @mathiesoniain.bsky.social, led by him! Readable link: lnkd.in/egGrKsRi
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
💡 Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history go.nature.com/3T3JKT5 #Review by @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social & @iainmathieson.bsky.social Free to read here: rdcu.be/MgjB7Jgsy2Fa
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you, @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social, for this wonderful Journal Club, which was a joy to read and edit, and for being cool with a playful image! Free to read here: rdcu.be/ft39p
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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I talked about these papers #smbe2026. If you are interested in doing research (PhD or Postdoc) on this topic, get in touch! (if were there, sorry for the abrupt end; somehow timing got off) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41763210/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39146405/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41699381/
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Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🌈 At a time when progress can't be taken for granted, I 'm especially proud to share this @natcellbio.nature.com Q&A piece. I had the pleasure to discuss with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his inspiring journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. #PrideInSTEM 👉 rdcu.be/fnXQ6 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A scientist can come from anywhere - Nature Cell Biology
This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...
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Emilie Brasset @emiliebrasset.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Love Drosophila genetics — this journal club was a great way to share that enthusiasm and pay tribute to the pioneers of transposons regulation 🪰 How classical genetics uncovered key determinants of TE silencing #transposon @igred.fr @igred.fr 👇👇
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I will be attending the Keystone symposium on Nucleic Acid Therapeutics and Targeted Delivery. If you’re attending and would like to chat about @natrevgenet.nature.com, editorial careers or review ideas, please reach out — or just say hi if you spot me! keysym.us/KSNATherapy26 #KSNATherapy26
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/11/2025
Review: AI to advance CRISPR-based genome editing technologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eQKtm)
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I highly recommend this fantastic review by Jennifer A. Korchak, S. Stephen Yi, @nlkproteomics.bsky.social, Nidhi Sahni and Gloria M. Sheynkman!
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
And it's a whopper of an issue!
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Walking around the office looking for a print copy yesterday... "Oh yeah, I saw your Stranger Things cover over there..." 😁
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It was a fun one!
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New commentary from @katholt.bsky.social just dropped 😊
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12/10/2025
The findings of a study in Nature shed light on germline selection dynamics and highlight a broader increased disease risk for children born to fathers of advanced age than previously appreciated. go.nature.com/4h5BglX 🧬 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows mutational burden and signature analysis in sperm and matched blood.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/03/2025
A reminder that you can follow all of our journals with one click by using our starter pack!
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@heykatray.bsky.social 🫶
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This was a really nice review to work on: A genomic view of Earth’s biomes go.nature.com/3VTLImU by Gitta Szabó, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, Jennifer Pett-Ridge & Tanja Woyke
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A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics
Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🎉 25 years of NRG! Feels a bit bonkers to think I’ve been at the helm for almost 12 years 🤯 Where did the time go???
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Sofya Garushyants @garushyants.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Very happy to have contributed to this review on "non-CG" #methylation in animals now out in @natgenet.nature.com. Working again with @obog.bsky.social and Tirsa is always a pleasure. We think this not so well studied form of methylation should be more widely considered, please read: rdcu.be/eFAEk
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Non-CG DNA methylation in animal genomes
Nature Genetics - This Review discusses noncanonical DNA methylation (mCH) in animal genomes and highlights the remaining need to clarify whether mCH represents a conserved regulatory layer or a...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 29/03/2025
Review: Transcriptomics in the era of long-read sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/efBjP) 🧬🖥️🧪
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
There is a lack of general terminology for translated regions that does not depend on the properties of their products or their sequence. Spearheaded by Pavel (Pasha) Baranov, this primer provides a unifying nomenclature for translation units: *Translon* www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Translon: a single term for translated regions - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Translon: a single term for translated regions
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/06/2025
A Review in Nature Reviews Genetics discusses how genomic advances have enhanced our understanding of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder, which could address limitations in diagnostic frameworks and future treatment strategies. go.nature.com/44bKTuy 🧬 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows a summary of genomic findings for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 26/06/2025
Autophagy genes in biology and disease go.nature.com/4lnHiiT #Review by Hayashi Yamamoto, Sidi Zhang & Noboru Mizushima
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Autophagy genes in biology and disease - Nature Reviews Genetics
Macroautophagy and microautophagy involve characteristic membrane dynamics regulated by autophagy-related proteins to degrade cytoplasmic material in lysosomes. In this Review, the authors summarize r...
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 27/06/2025
Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics go.nature.com/3GkzmzZ #Review by Katy Vandereyken, Alejandro Sifrim, @bernthie.bsky.social & Thierry Voet Free to read here: rdcu.be/c6JjL
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Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics
Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Review, the authors discuss the latest advances in profiling multiple molecular modalities from single cells, including genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic and...
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 27/06/2025
Targeted genome-modification tools and their advanced applications in crop breeding go.nature.com/3T8J8bs #Review by Boshu Li, Chao Sun, Jiayang Li & Caixia Gao Free to read here: rdcu.be/dFHti
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Targeted genome-modification tools and their advanced applications in crop breeding
Nature Reviews Genetics - Targeted genome modification using CRISPR–Cas genome editing, base editing or prime editing is driving base research in plants and precise molecular breeding. The...
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 14/07/2025
If you enjoyed our RNA splicing collection, this @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com Review may be of interest: Protein isoform-centric therapeutics: expanding targets and increasing specificity go.nature.com/44HDClo
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Protein isoform-centric therapeutics: expanding targets and increasing specificity - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Multiple protein isoforms arise from most genes by alternative RNA splicing and other mechanisms, but these isoforms are often neglected in drug discovery. This Review discusses the modes of action of...
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 02/07/2025
Evolution of splicing model architectures go.nature.com/4eweliE Figure from our recent Review: From computational models of the splicing code to regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic implications (free to read here: rdcu.be/dVNV4)
a, Early models built sequence motifs to describe the consensus sequences of individual core splicing elements, such as splice sites (SSs) and intronic and/or exonic enhancers and silencers. Statistical and machine-learning models were built to output the probability of a novel sequence acting as a core splicing element. The sequence logos shown for 5′SS and 3′SS were generated from Human hg38 RefSeq annotations (code available at https://www.github.com/ulelab/splicelogos). b, As our understanding of splicing mechanisms progressed, expert-selected features were extracted from sequences and used to train integrative models to predict splicing outcomes. c, With the advent of deep-learning, models could jointly learn features directly from raw sequence input. Although theoretically, sequence context could be as large as shown in part d, in practice smaller windows of up to 30 kb have been used. d, Supervised models with convolutional and transformer layers produce multimodal genome-wide data. These models use a much larger sequence context and can predict genome-wide data including RNA sequencing coverage, which can be further processed to evaluate splicing. e, By learning how to reconstruct partially masked genomic sequences across multiple species, self-supervised masked language models capture evolutionarily conserved sequence elements and their functional context in a very generic and flexible fashion. The informative numerical representations obtained by large language models can be used for splicing prediction tasks. Here 3′SS within different sequence contexts from multiple species are shown aligned for easier interpretation, but in practice sequences do not have to be aligned. Current masked language models with application to splicing use variable context windows from 1,000 to 1 million base pairs; however, it is currently unclear whether larger context windows confer better performance
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 18/07/2025
Our August 2025 issue is now live: go.nature.com/4kIXzOI Topics include: systems biology in the single-cell era; ADAR1-mediated RNA editing; retrotransposable element reactivation and its biological impact; transcriptional condensates as temporal signal integrators; X-linked competition
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Doug Fowler @dougfowler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU
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Multiplexed assays of variant effect for clinical variant interpretation
Nature Reviews Genetics - Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are highly scalable experimental approaches used to generate functional data for genetic variants. In this Review, McEwen et...
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Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt
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Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes
Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Review, Roux and Coclet outline current viromics approaches and discuss how they have contributed to our growing understanding of viral genomic diversity, focusing...
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Joao Ascensao @joaoascensao.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New review article with @mmdesai.bsky.social is out today! Grateful for the opportunity to contribute something we hope will serve the community well
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Genomics England @genomicsengland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More equitable methods are needed to ensure genomic research benefits everyone fairly, according to a new review article in Nature Reviews Genetics involving Genomics England researchers. Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natrevgenet.nature.com
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Massilani Lab @massilanilab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Happy to share my Journal Club piece in Nature Reviews Genetics, reflecting on the ancient DNA studies from Sima de los Huesos: 'A crossroads in the timeline of human evolution'. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A crossroads in the timeline of human evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Journal Club, Diyendo Massilani recalls two studies by Meyer et al. that reported a mitochondrial genome and nuclear DNA sequences from mid-Ice Age Sima de los Huesos hominins.
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thomas-walter.bsky.social @thomas-walter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to share our review in Nature Reviews Genetics on cell-type deconvolution! "Cell-type deconvolution methods for spatial transcriptomics" 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41... 📖 Free access: rdcu.be/el0Ka
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Cell-type deconvolution methods for spatial transcriptomics - Nature Reviews Genetics
Cell-type deconvolution methods are often needed to analyse spatial transcriptomic data to recover cell-type distributions. In this Review, the authors describe the process of cell-type deconvolution,...
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Akis (Argyris) Papantonis @akispapantonis.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is a piece that I and @karsten-rippe.bsky.social discussing a lot, and a topic that is very close to my heart. The editors @naturerevgenet.bsky.social gave us the stage to do so, and the final version of our review is now available under this link: rdcu.be/erP1u A short thread follows 1/n
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 19/06/2025
Our July 2025 issue is now live: go.nature.com/3ZzmXyQ Topics include: structural variation in the human genome; cytoplasmic mRNA decay; the mammalian segmentation clock; genetic models and genomic studies of cancer metastasis
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Just in time for #RNA2025 #RNA25!
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 21/05/2025
Our June issue is live and includes an editorial on RNA splicing (go.nature.com/3SdWVgk) that acts as a foreword for a new joint collection by @natrevgenet.nature.com‬ and ‪@natrevmcb.nature.com‬ on this topic (go.nature.com/3H0vEvp)
RNA ribbon that is being cut and re-stitched together, representing pre-mRNA splicing of introns and exon ligation
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Bas van Steensel lab (NKI) @basvansteensellab.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Together with the De Ridder lab www.deridderlab.nl we just published a review on deep learning as a tool for gene expression analysis/ prediction: rdcu.be/elQCc.
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Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models
Nature Reviews Genetics - Barbadilla-Martínez et al. review recent progress in deep-learning-based sequence-to-expression models, which predict gene expression levels solely from DNA sequence....
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Also, being able to rewind is an absolute godsend! 😁 #virtual #BOG25
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Playing catch-up on yesterday's #BOG25 talks virtually. Yay for meerkats! (there really should be a meerkat emoji)
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Farewell sweet seaside bank holiday weekend 💙
Ramsgate boating pool
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I missed this when it came out last week... Such a multi-generational tour de force!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human de novo mutation rates from a four-generation pedigree reference - Nature
Analysis of more than 95% of each diploid human genome of a four-generation, twenty-eight-member family using five complementary short-read and long-read sequencing technologies provides a truth set t...
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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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