Marzia Munafò
Exploring oocyte epigenomes @EMBL Hackett lab | PhD @Cambridge Uni Hannon lab | (small)RNA enthusiast.
Scientific illustrator outside the lab.
- Reposted by Marzia Munafò🔬🔦Our Imaging spotlight from @hiralshah.bsky.social & team highlights their U-ExM atlas of planktonic eukaryotes, including details on how you can explore this wonderful resource. Plus, check out Hiral’s top tips on getting started with expansion microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/20/i...
- Reposted by Marzia MunafòThe beautiful artwork accompanying this spotlight is by Marzia Munafò @munafomarzia.bsky.social. Marzia was one of the first artists that we highlighted in our #SciArt profiles back in 2021! thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...
- 🔬🔦Our Imaging spotlight from @hiralshah.bsky.social & team highlights their U-ExM atlas of planktonic eukaryotes, including details on how you can explore this wonderful resource. Plus, check out Hiral’s top tips on getting started with expansion microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/20/i...
- Reposted by Marzia MunafòA nice way to close the chapter on my PhD work: our team was awarded the Bruno Speck Award 2025 by the Swiss Foundation for Haematological Research for our publication on human intestinal evolution.
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- Breaking symmetry♋️ Another #NotTheCover from the same issue of @cellcellpress.bsky.social Here the @zernickagoetz.bsky.social lab @caltech.edu reports the earliest known symmetry breaking event in the mammalian embryo - right at moment of fertilisation! #sciart #scicomm 🧵
- Bringing sci-fi vibes into the microscopic world 🪐
- Another #notTHECover unfortunately. But this gorgeous, Tron-like vibe, drawn by the amazing @munafomarzia.bsky.social for our recent #ExM work with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social will still be printed out in the lab. Read here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐 Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species! A #sciart 🧵 @embl.org
- In this piece, we combined a traditional watercolour-style view of the outer shell of each species, inspired by Heckel’s beautiful illustrations of the natural world, with a sci-fi-style inner structure.
- So cool to finally see the flamenco piRNA cluster assembled in its full glory - a ~700kb transcript, almost completely unspliced!
- The multifaceted effects of paternal environments on offspring🌈 Latest from the @jamiehackett.bsky.social lab @embl.org, out now @embojournal.org: @bbbranjan.bsky.social & @mdura.bsky.social quantitatively investigate the impact of paternal environments on early embryogenesis. A #sciart 🧵
- Talking to students is by far one of my favourite parts of this job ✨ #EUCYS 2025 was a hive of brilliant scientists in the making, so grateful to @embl.org & EIROforum for the opportunity to be there with my science & art! #scicomm #sciart #stem @ec.europa.eu
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- Reposted by Marzia MunafòAt least for science in the #oocyte community, the future looks bright with so many curious & young minds thinking about big open questions in oocyte and reproductive biology! Thanks so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together in Paris!
- Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚
- Super oocyte community - had a fantastic time in Paris! 🙌
- Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚
- Spotted one of my illustrations on stage at the Singer-Polignac #fertility meeting in Paris! Big thanks to Andrea Pauli for the shout out!! 💫 #sciart #scicomm
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- Reposted by Marzia MunafòLast week @richabdill.com and @samanthagraham.bsky.social's paper was featured on the cover of Cell! The cover, portraying microbes on shelves shaped like a world map, was possible thanks to the amazing team of illustrators at SciStories ✏️🦠
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- Reposted by Marzia MunafòThank you, @munafomarzia.bsky.social, for this amazing artistic representation of our work! 🤩🐟❤️
- Reposted by Marzia MunafòI loved how subtle aspects were incorporated into this piece, like the tripartite key, drawings of sperm and egg on the door and even some phylogenetic trees! 🌟 But did you notice, what lies beyond the door? Ribosomes and molecules found within the egg!
- Reposted by Marzia MunafòCheck out this beautiful representation of our work by @munafomarzia.bsky.social uncovering the molecular bridge between sperm and egg! 🔑🤩 We had lots of fun brainstorming together with Marzia and seeing our discoveries come to life in this artistic rendition 🧵
- Unlocking fertilisation 🗝️ out today @cellcellpress.bsky.social , @vdeneke.bsky.social & @pauligroup.bsky.social uncover a conserved protein complex on vertebrate sperm that recognizes distinct egg ligands in mammals and fish, enabling fertilisation. @impvienna.bsky.social A #sciart and #scicomm 🧵
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- Unlocking fertilisation 🗝️ out today @cellcellpress.bsky.social , @vdeneke.bsky.social & @pauligroup.bsky.social uncover a conserved protein complex on vertebrate sperm that recognizes distinct egg ligands in mammals and fish, enabling fertilisation. @impvienna.bsky.social A #sciart and #scicomm 🧵
- Deneke, Blaha et al. report that a tripartite complex on the sperm heads binds to a receptor on the egg surface and is required for egg-sperm fusion. We decided to use a simple metaphor for this: a tripartite key unlocking the oocyte door and opening the way to embryonic development. 🚪
- One of my illustrations made an appearance at the MPI #epigenetics conference! thanks to the boss @jamiehackett.bsky.social presenting the cool science we do in the lab 🔥
- Reposted by Marzia MunafòPostdoc positions in epigenetics! We have several opportunities to investigate big picture questions on (epi)genome function & mechanisms Based @embl.org near Rome (Italy), we offer full scientific support/facilities, training & funding. Also...☀️🏛️🍕🏖️ See👇or contact me for other options. Pls RS
- Very excited to be in Freiburg for the #epigenetics meeting 🧬 Come say hi during the poster session to hear about oocyte epigenetics!
- Thanks Jamie for the shout out🙏 meet the other Hackett team members in his thread!!
- News from the Hackett group! Careful and systematic testing of the earliest molecular signatures of inter generational epigenetic inheritance - great work from Mathilde Dura & @bbbranjan.bsky.social!🙌🙌
- 📢 Preprint! How does the environment of a father before conception influence offspring? Even more, how do paternal genetics & ages interact with exposures to affect F1 outcome? We tested this systematically, with intriguing findings & some cautionary tales🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Super inspiring episode (out of one of my favourite science podcasts) for anyone looking into finding the next science idea 💡 open.spotify.com/episode/6KMh...
- Time for an new intro under these skies 🔵 I’m a molecular biologist (currently postdoc-ing at EMBL) & also a science illustrator - taking your scientific discoveries and turning them into unconventional, colourful and creative illustrations! ✨ #sciart #scicomm more at www.munafomarzia.com
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- 📢 anyone based in Trento & interested in scientific illustrations: come chat with me tomorrow at 5.30pm at CIBIO in Trento! #sciart #scicomm
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