POP art, with its serial repetitions and many colour variations of otherwise identical objects perfectly embodies this systematic, impressively large-scale study and its key findings.

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!

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Spotted one of my illustrations on stage at the Singer-Polignac #fertility meeting in Paris! Big thanks to Andrea Pauli for the shout out!! 💫
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Notably, the sperm complex is conserved from fish to mammals whilst its oocyte binding partner differs, that is why we show both 🐠 and 🐁 on the door.

To design the door, I took inspiration from Art Nouveau - which had some of its prime examples in the Viennese art scene of early XX century, which o really love. Plus the Pauli Group is indeed based at the Vienna Biocenter!

The functional key is made of three different segments, exemplifying the tripartite complex of Tmem81, Izumo1 and Spaca6. But before identifying Tmem81, they ran an in silico screen - equivalent to testing a bunch of different keys 🔑🗝️🗝️🔐 until they found the correct one.

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. 🚪

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 🧵

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 🔥

Very excited to be in Freiburg for the #epigenetics meeting 🧬
Come say hi during the poster session to hear about oocyte epigenetics!

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

📢 anyone based in Trento & interested in scientific illustrations: come chat with me tomorrow at 5.30pm at CIBIO in Trento!
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🌄At the dawn of a new life, mammalian oocytes need to safely store what will be required for early embryogenesis. Out now in Cell, the Schuh lab et al shed light on cytoplasmic lattices, enigmatic structures that accumulate and store proteins needed by the early embryo!
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I see no better way to kick off this account than a brand new #sciart ! Out now in Nature, three studies report the generation of human embryo models starting from stem cells and I was lucky enough to illustrate the findings of the Zernicka-Goetz lab at Cambridge Uni & Caltech! 🔥