Simona Giunta

Associate Professor at University of Rome @SapienzaRoma
Head of Laboratory of Genome Evolution @GiuntaLab studying Centromeres & Human DNA Repeats Stability🔬

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

So humbled and grateful🙏 🧬💪Full acceptance speech here: https://t.co/lqgnUAlxSJ ❤️
#ERC #ERCStG #ERC2022

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

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 ➡️ https://t.co/NnGilOvX3z

#ECR #PhDLife #PhDChat #AcademicChatter

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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
https://t.co/VQFLax3asY 🧬

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

📢 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: https://t.co/6oqpKdelsN

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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💻🧬💪

[TeraLabSapienza @TeraLabSapienza]

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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: https://t.co/ltoxKGIv8J

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@HorizonsMolBio Thanks so much to all the students for putting together such a phenomenal meeting - not only great science but also great fun! Thank you again for inviting me, till next time! 😊

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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
https://t.co/yOuwgHpXYm
https://t.co/aLYF6ibL8t
https://t.co/Ku9gajF84u

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@HorizonsMolBio Thanks to the PhD students of the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology for thinking of me - The invitations from students are the most precious and humbling ones! Looking forward to a great meeting and talking about everything centromeres with you! 🧬

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

Visionary work by one of the greatest scientist and person I know - congrats to the whole team!

[Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman]

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?

https://t.co/2CCq7AgYWS

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@itsmudaud That's a great point - Two key aspects contribute to centromere diversity: intact inheritance (different maternal & paternal haps) + rapid evolution/changes. But I agree, our work points to not being as different as they seem... Looking forward to see centromere parodoxes unfold!

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@frangelelli @GiuntaLab Thank you, Francesco - with the whole @GiuntaLab we can't wait to have you & Hamza join our lab in the fall, and we are actively interviewing more candidates, so if anyone is interesting in the fascinating world of human centromeres, please do reach out! 🧬https://t.co/zfOhqwSufa

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@LabVincenzo @LucaFava14 @GiuntaLab Thank you, means a lot coming from you - please, come visit us if you are ever in Rome, and always open to collaborations!

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

🚨 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 ❤️🧬💻 https://t.co/PGDRKwqQr9

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@humantechnopole @ERC_Research @nicolesoranzo Truly well deserved 👏 congrats!

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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 https://t.co/3mBeV5wdE9

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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✌️ ☮️ 🧬 (https://t.co/CNpUUI1URL)

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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✌️ ☮️ 🧬 (https://t.co/CNpUUI1URL)

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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

[AJHG @AJHGNews]

🚨 New from Chittoor & @Simona_Giunta
📰Comparative analysis of predicted DNA secondary structures infers complex human centromere topology
https://t.co/9DT0UHpcYA

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

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
https://t.co/bcP0AyLvOA

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

Keynote address at 9 am, panel, talks, networking now finally some cool science-themed open bar 🍸 #NextGenOmics

[Chromosoma_Edboard @Chromosoma_EB]

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)

[Simona Giunta @Simona_Giunta]

@jallepap @MSKCancerCenter Thank you, Prasad @jallepap for organizing a fantastic day at @MSKCancerCenter, meeting with over 12 PIs, lunch with motivated students and great engagement during the talk - cherry on the cake, sampling Belgian beers + delicious dinner! Days like this make science extra special!