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Cristina Fracassi @C_Fracassi

Postdoc with @Giacomo_Cavalli, former PhD student in @BernardiLab • In love with Molecular Biololgy 🧬 Chromatin dynamics and transcription 🔬 🧫🔬

Joined December 2019
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Science Magazine
@ScienceMagazine
24 Nov 2025
"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/489m6bk
An illustration of a woman wearing an axolotl costume in front of an audience, with text: Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner

ALT An illustration of a woman wearing an axolotl costume in front of an audience, with text: Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner

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What a fantastic HFSP meeting in Melbourne! So much bold and brilliant science — super happy to be part of this awesome community. #HFSP #HFSPmtg2025
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HFSP@HFSP
8 Jul 2025
📑 Programs? Printed. 🏛️ Venue? Looking amazing. 🧪 Energy? Building fast. We're almost ready to welcome the HFSP community to Melbourne for an unforgettable week of science and connection! Who's coming to the 24th HFSP Awardees Meeting? #HFSP #HFSPmtg2025
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I'm proud to have been selected for this prestigious fellowship! 🎉 Looking forward to doing some great science 💥
HFSP@HFSP
31 Mar 2025
🥳Congrats to the 50 outstanding postdocs from 25 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPFellowships! 🎉These brilliant minds are shaping the future of #LifeSciences!🧪 🏆Are you one of them? Tag yourself & celebrate! 📖 Meet the fellows: hfsp.org/bookletFS2025#book/ #HFSP #NextGenResearchers
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Molecular Cell@MolecularCell
20 Feb 2025
Interchromosomal contacts between regulatory regions trigger stable transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Drosophila dlvr.it/TJ5Nvb
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Check out this wonderful work from my colleague @flora_paldi, a brilliant scientist and inspiring woman! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Transient histone deacetylase inhibition induces cellular memory of gene expression and three-dim...

Epigenetic memory enables the stable propagation of gene expression patterns in response to transient developmental and environmental stimuli. Although three-dimensional (3D) organisation is emerging...

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Flora Paldi@flora_paldi
26 Nov 2024
New preprint on #CellularMemory and #3Dgenome! Can cells remember their past? If so, how do they record prior events? To address this fundamental question, we disrupted the chromatin state balance of mESCs and looked to whether they can recover. (1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Cell@CellCellPress
5 Sep 2024
In the latest issue! TULIPs decorate the three-dimensional genome of PFA ependymoma dlvr.it/TCtKRQ
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Are you curious about the new features of the PML protein as chromatin organizer ? Check out this new paper from my post doc and @BernardiLab! cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2…

PML is a constitutive component of chromatin domains enriched in repetitive elements and duplicated...

Heterochromatin is a pivotal element in the functional organization of genomes. In our study, we delve into the heterochromatin pattern of association by the PML (promyelocytic leukemia) protein. By...

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Aurora Maurizio@aurora_maurizio
14 Feb 2024
Happy our SurfR package has been accepted in bioconductor! A a bioinformatics R package to surf the cells’ surfaceome starting from NGS data #bioinformatics #surfaceome #Rpackage @CosrLab @ASTascini @marcojmorelli github.com/auroramaurizio/Su…
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Thrilled to share the work from my PhD and @BernardiLab now out on @NAR_Open. Here we dissected the multiple and parallel transcriptional functions of #PML defining it as an important regulator of the epigenome in triple-negative breast cancer. academic.oup.com/nar/advance…

PML modulates epigenetic composition of chromatin to regulate expression of pro-metastatic genes in...

Abstract. The promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein organizes nuclear aggregates known as PML nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), where many transcription factors loc

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Congrats to my partner in science and life @DCampolungo. This amazing work makes the point of how small changes make the difference in biology! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

DUX4-r exerts a neomorphic activity that depends on GTF2I in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

DUX4-r oncogenic activity requires GTF2I, whose targeting abrogates DUX4-r chromatin binding and target activation in leukemia.

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The best of research ? Finding a family in your lab mates
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Cristiano@Clockris
11 May 2023
Hi PADs! Cristina Fracassi talking about "PML instructs chromatin composition towards expression of pro-metastatic genes in triple-negative breast cancer" at @IFOMresearch #4dgenomics
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Great scientific day at #MolMedRetreat #UiO! Thank you girls @NGaligniana @AnpBellanger and congrats for the talk @MadsenOesterbye!
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Mattia Santoboni@MattiaSantoboni
1 Mar 2022
Congratulations to my dear friend and amazing scientist @C_Fracassi for the completion of her PhD. I still remember the days when we were preparing our admission test to the biology faculty. But you run so fast and now you are a Philosopher of the field! Take everything you can🥳
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Bernardi Lab@BernardiLab
9 Apr 2022
So proud of our two young scientists @C_Fracassi and @MatildeSimoni who just got their PhD !!
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Trends in Biochemical Sciences@TrendsBiochem
2 Mar 2022
Online now - "#PML isoforms: a molecular basis for PML pleiotropic functions" by @BernardiLab et al. #PMLnuclearbodies #splicingisoforms #cancer bit.ly/3MeC9ZH
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Bernardi Lab@BernardiLab
27 Feb 2022
So proud to share our brand new review on the controversial functions of PML and its isoforms in #cancer. Check this out! authors.elsevier.com/a/1efEJ…
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Darrion Nguyen@lab_shenanigans
29 Dec 2020
y’all don’t understand how much i love this video 😂👌🏽
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MatildeSimoni@MatildeSimoni
27 Nov 2020
Replying to @C_Fracassi
@C_Fracassi how to be sexy while taking falcons and tips for autoclave. #25novembre
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