Current people

Groupleader

Associate Professor

Jeppe did his undergraduates studies in Organic Chemistry (BSc, Technical University of Denmark) and Human Biology (MSc, UCPH) before receiving his PhD on Human Papillomavirus gene regulation in 2003 from Department of Molecular Pathology, UCPH. Later as a postdoc at the Department of Biology, UCPH, he became interested in noncoding RNAs regulation and did some of the early experiments that demonstrated miRNA regulation on the protein level (Vinther 2006). After starting his own own group the Department of Biology in 2009, he focused on development of new experimental and computational protocols for the analysis of sequencing-based RNA structure and RNA modifications (Kielpinski 2014, Poulsen 2015, Enroth 2019) and for the design of antisense oligonucleotides-based drugs (Rukov 2015, Kielpinski 2016, 2017). Most recently, the VintherLab has studied modifications at the 5’ end of viral RNAs (so called RNA caps), which led to the identification of 5’FAD capping of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA (Sherwood 2023) and the 5’NAD capping of related viruses (Larsen, 2026).

Labtech

Amal joined the Department of Biology in 2006 and has been associated with the VintherLab since 2009.

Assistant Professor

Anna did her PhD with Tina M. Henkin at Ohio State University before joining Gordon Simpson’s lab at the University of Dundee as a postdoc. Anna joined VintherLab in 2019 and is working on RNA oxidation as well as metabolite RNA capping.

PhD Student

Nanna is a MSc in Biochemistry from UCPH and has worked as a Research Assistant and Scientist in Metabolic Engineering at Cysbio, Hørsholm, before joining VintherLab as a PhD student in 2025. Nanna is working on noncanonical RNA capping in E. coli. 

Research Assistant

Klára Viktorinová did her MSc in the Cahova Lab, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences. She joined the VintherLab in 2025 and works on the discovery and characterisation of novel non-canonical RNA caps.

Xiaoshan Su (PhD)

Nicklas Wilstrup Langvad (MSc)

Annaleigh Orth Fehler (PhD)

Gabriele Indrisiunaite (Postdoc)

Klara Marie Andersen (MSc)

Sesilie Weiss (MSc)

Line Dahl Poulsen (PhD, Postdoc)

Agnieszka Podolska-Charlery (Postdoc)

Lasse Votborg Novél (MSc)

Lisa Marie Simon (MSc)

Thorsten Brodersen (MSc)

Søren Iversen (MSc)

Lukasz Jan Kielpinski (PhD, Postdoc)

Jakob Lewin Rukov (PhD, Postdoc)

Signe Olivarius (MSc, PhD)

Isabel Bro Høy (MSc)

Mads Marquardt Hedegaard

Ditte Lindschouw (MSc)

Kirsten Reichwald (MSc)

Christian Weile (MSc)