Hana Marvanova
@hankamarvan.bsky.social
PhD student at IMBA (@imbavienna.bsky.social)
📌Vienna
genomic conflict, imprinting, fertilization, andrology
📌Vienna
genomic conflict, imprinting, fertilization, andrology
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Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction, but researchers are struggling to translate promising results in mice into benefits for humans, according to a feature in Nature. 🧪
The quest to make babies with lab-grown eggs and sperm
Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising results in mice into benefits for humans.
go.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction, but researchers are struggling to translate promising results in mice into benefits for humans, according to a feature in Nature. 🧪
Happy Birthday to @valeriyk1.bsky.social !🎉🎂🥳
October 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Happy Birthday to @valeriyk1.bsky.social !🎉🎂🥳
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“report the first 3D-printed artificial mini-placentas. These “placental organoids” are an advance over earlier efforts, and will give scientists new ways to study pregnancy and shed light on complications like preeclampsia.”
#Placenta #BioPrinting 🧪
theconversation.com/3d-printed-m...
#Placenta #BioPrinting 🧪
theconversation.com/3d-printed-m...
3D printed mini-placentas offer a new way to study pregnancy complications
‘Placental organoids’ may help research into the early stages of pregnancy and life-threatening conditions like preeclampsia.
theconversation.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“report the first 3D-printed artificial mini-placentas. These “placental organoids” are an advance over earlier efforts, and will give scientists new ways to study pregnancy and shed light on complications like preeclampsia.”
#Placenta #BioPrinting 🧪
theconversation.com/3d-printed-m...
#Placenta #BioPrinting 🧪
theconversation.com/3d-printed-m...
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best conference swag ever from the Prague Argonautes meeting from @svobodalab.bsky.social. Ago playing cards with helpful data on each one, bottle of Argonaut gin. special thing for poster winners, cards signed by the speakers, including @vambros.bsky.social! (+ian macrae @astridhaase.bsky.social).
August 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
best conference swag ever from the Prague Argonautes meeting from @svobodalab.bsky.social. Ago playing cards with helpful data on each one, bottle of Argonaut gin. special thing for poster winners, cards signed by the speakers, including @vambros.bsky.social! (+ian macrae @astridhaase.bsky.social).
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#argonautes2025
What to say: RNA U come around
What to say: RNA U come around
August 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#argonautes2025
What to say: RNA U come around
What to say: RNA U come around
So happy to be at #argonautes2025!
Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙
August 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
So happy to be at #argonautes2025!
Big thanks to NYRA (@youngandrology.bsky.social) and EAA for letting me join the club!
August 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Big thanks to NYRA (@youngandrology.bsky.social) and EAA for letting me join the club!
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Disaster strikes today. Czechia is mourning.
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Disaster strikes today. Czechia is mourning.
Reposted by Hana Marvanova
piRNAs are essential for transposon silencing in the animal germline.
But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response?
Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.
But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response?
Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.
Antisense transposon insertions into host genes trigger piRNA mediated immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667215v1
August 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
piRNAs are essential for transposon silencing in the animal germline.
But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response?
Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.
But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response?
Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.
Reposted by Hana Marvanova
We are hiring! "Researcher in DNA-Based Information Processing Systems" (PhD or postdoc level). Co-supervision by Prof. Ralf Reussner (KIT computer science) and myself (biological systems). Combination of experiments and computational work. Please Apply / Repost!
www.pse.kit.edu/english/karr...
www.pse.kit.edu/english/karr...
July 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We are hiring! "Researcher in DNA-Based Information Processing Systems" (PhD or postdoc level). Co-supervision by Prof. Ralf Reussner (KIT computer science) and myself (biological systems). Combination of experiments and computational work. Please Apply / Repost!
www.pse.kit.edu/english/karr...
www.pse.kit.edu/english/karr...
Czech readers, this one is for you!
A good read and an important research:
A good read and an important research:
Ve Velké Británii byla zveřejněna první studie o tom, jak se vede dětem počatým specifickou metodou umělého oplodnění, při níž se vedle spermie a vajíčka rodičů používá také mitochondriální DNA další ženy. Smyslem je eliminovat některé dědičné choroby.
Děti se třemi rodiči? Ne tak docela, ale bez problémů to stejně není
Dárcovství mitochondrií je samo o sobě cenný způsob, jak zabránit přenosu vzácných, ale smrtelných dědičných chorob. Práce v utajení a bez zveřejnění výsledků však škodí vědě i narozeným dětem.
denikn.cz
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Czech readers, this one is for you!
A good read and an important research:
A good read and an important research:
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I love a good animal communication article.
New research by @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika highlighted in @us.theconversation.com suggests turn-taking, a core feature of human language, also plays a role in how chimpanzees communicate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/atdjn6mb
#langsky #linguistics
TLDR 👇
New research by @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika highlighted in @us.theconversation.com suggests turn-taking, a core feature of human language, also plays a role in how chimpanzees communicate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/atdjn6mb
#langsky #linguistics
TLDR 👇
Whose turn is it? The question is at the heart of language and chimpanzees ask it too
Chimpanzees’ turn-taking shows skills that may have supported the evolution of human conversation.
tinyurl.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love a good animal communication article.
New research by @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika highlighted in @us.theconversation.com suggests turn-taking, a core feature of human language, also plays a role in how chimpanzees communicate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/atdjn6mb
#langsky #linguistics
TLDR 👇
New research by @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika highlighted in @us.theconversation.com suggests turn-taking, a core feature of human language, also plays a role in how chimpanzees communicate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/atdjn6mb
#langsky #linguistics
TLDR 👇
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1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
Reposted by Hana Marvanova
In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
March 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
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The Burga lab discovered a selfish genetic element that is silenced only when inherited paternally, a potential evolutionary origin for genomic imprinting. bit.ly/ImprintingEN
December 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
The Burga lab discovered a selfish genetic element that is silenced only when inherited paternally, a potential evolutionary origin for genomic imprinting. bit.ly/ImprintingEN
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#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement: