Associate Professor at University of Rome @SapienzaRoma Head of Laboratory of Genome Evolution @GiuntaLab studying Centromeres & Human DNA Repeats Stability🔬
Joined February 2013
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So humbled and grateful🙏 🧬💪Full acceptance speech here: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it… ❤️
#ERC #ERCStG #ERC2022
More than 3,000 ambitious young researchers entered the 2022 competition for ERC Starting Grants.
🎊 Congratulations to the 408 who were selected for 🇪🇺#EUfunded support this time!
Maybe you know one? List ➡️ bit.ly/StGlaureates
#ECR #PhDLife #PhDChat #AcademicChatter
What a year for the #centromere - It even rhymes! 2025 we celebrated 40 years since Bill Earnshaw's discovery of our favorite histone, CENP-A, a new era of centromere biology. Special Issue out now - with @BungoAkiyoshi @tatsuofukagawa1 @RachelONeill
rdcu.be/eWIpr 🧬
📢 Big year for human genomics from the @GiuntaLab
🧬 RPE1 genome released (Sept)
📍 Today: Matched-reference pinpoints the kinetochore on every human chromosome & haplotype
The power of isogenomic! @SapienzaRoma @NaturePortfolio @ERC_Research
Info: uniroma1.it/en/notizia/sapie…
Being HOL is more than running all day between meetings, troubleshooting, endeless writing of grants/manuscripts/etc. It requires sharing discoveries that took years, and are meaningful if of use to the broader scientific community.Thanks to our HPC for the prompt & support💻🧬💪
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@GiuntaLab, led by Prof. @Simona_Giunta, publishes two landmark studies: the first diploid RPE-1 reference genome and a new framework for high-precision functional genomics using matched reads–reference mapping.
🔗Discover more: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it…
Reference genome assembly of the human RPE-1 cell line finally out, available on the genome browser alongside historic HG. Unbelievably proud of this feat of the @GiuntaLab @SapienzaRoma @rockefelleruniv
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Visionary work by one of the greatest scientist and person I know - congrats to the whole team!
New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes?
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🚨 Hot off the press!!! Wanted to share this to celebrate the momentous achievement from the @GiuntaLab and for the human centromere / genomics communities as a whole... more posts to come next week but for now, happy Fourth & happy reading ❤️🧬💻 science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Just to add that our University Hospital @PoliclinicoUmb1 hosting childhood cancer patients from Gaza & other war zones, also kids needing complex prosthetics interventions. In a world that lost it, proud to be part of an institution showing our #Humanity uniroma1.it/it/notizia/arriv…
Very proud of my University @SapienzaRoma for a series of interventions for Palestine, Ukraine, students & professors in war zones, including fellowships and ad hoc positions. Please reach out to me personally if you are an eligible candidate✌️ ☮️ 🧬 (uniroma1.it/sites/default/fi…)
Very proud of my University @SapienzaRoma for a series of interventions for Palestine, Ukraine, students & professors in war zones, including fellowships and ad hoc positions. Please reach out to me personally if you are an eligible candidate✌️ ☮️ 🧬 (uniroma1.it/sites/default/fi…)
Phenomenonal talks at the #ESHG2025 this year! Can't wait to share our new data - now in press - from the @GiuntaLab tomorrow morning, so stay tuned! 🧬 Great to have such a large international conference at home 🇮🇹 the perfect science/weather/people/food combo! @eshgsociety
Like astronauts exploring a planet, no stone is left unturned in the @GiuntaLab when it comes to human DNA 🧬Our computational simulations show that centromere sequences are intrinsically prone to complex and unstable secondary structures correlated with chromosome missegregation
🚨 New from Chittoor & @Simona_Giunta
📰Comparative analysis of predicted DNA secondary structures infers complex human centromere topology
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La legge sugli appalti ha causato una situazione insistenibile! Gli acquisti concernenti la ricerca scientifica dovrebbero essere esenti da burocrazia (e poi magari anche dall'IVA, come nel resto del mondo!). Per favore, firmate l'appello e condividete
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Keynote address at 9 am, panel, talks, networking now finally some cool science-themed open bar 🍸 #NextGenOmics
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On this note, Chromosoma Editors @BungoAkiyoshi @Simona_Giunta @tatsuofukagawa1 have something *BIG*, something collaborative and something special cooking with #centromere experts! Tic Toc Tic Toc, stay tuned! (Clues: #Chromosoma circa 1985)
ERC-funded positions now open❗️❕❗️
Join the @GiuntaLab to understand human DNA evolution through the study of satellite repeats 🧬🧫🔬
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Alcune foto del nostro tour guidato alle Nazioni Unite del 24 Maggio 🤩Ringraziamo tutti i partecipanti e coloro che hanno reso questo interessante evento possibile, in primis l'Ambasciatore Maurizio Massari e il consigliere Andrea Speronello. #airicercany #UN #guidedtour
Italian human geneticists @v_colonna @nicolesoranzo @TPerteghella @GiuntaLab having a great time at the 37th annual meeting on Biology of Genomes at @CSHL #bog24 💪 🧬♀️
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New preprint from the lab led my talented postdoc @IsabelWassing!
She discovered that CDCA7's unique zf-4CXXC_R1 domain acts as a novel hemi-methylated DNA binding module to recruit the nucleosome remodeler HELLS and help DNA methylation! Check out her tutorial!
Very excited to announce our pre-print! Together with the labs of @NishiyamaAtsuya and @KyoheiArita, we’ve discovered that the protein CDCA7 (a long-time favourite in the Funabiki lab) exhibits a striking ability to sense hemi-methylated DNA. 1/7
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Wonderful science&time with the whole @GiuntaLab at Human Genome Meeting 2024 in our very own @SapienzaRoma Italy. Still to come, poster presentations from the lab + my talk tomorrow Wednesday at 2.30 PM (Main auditorium). Join us!
#HGM24 #HUGO2024 #HumanReferenceGenomes
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Almost starting the main sessions at the #HGM24 !
In the magnificent “Aula Magna” of La Sapienza (waiting for some authorities for greetings and speeches).
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Dear community, we are very happy to announce the next Giin webinar!! Don't miss it on Tuesday, April 9th, from 5PM Rome (11AM NYC), with Stephen Jackson @SPJacksonGroup and Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta. Zoom link: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/951499844…
