DrawImpacts

Hello #PortfolioDay 💙! I am Emma, artist, illustrator, graphic, web designer, and founder of @DrawImpacts! I am passionate about science and love to create unique illustrations of novel research and scientific discoveries! #sciart ✨drawimpacts.com

Yesterday we spent time with the @Incyte team as part of our ongoing collaboration. Hearing the science directly from the people behind it is always where the best visual strategies start! #Biotech #ScienceVisualization #DrawImpacts

@AlejoFraticelli @NatureRevGenet @FraticelliLab @VictoriaParreno Congratulations @AlejoFraticelli !

INTERESTED IN SINGLE-CELL LINEAGE TRACING? New review @NatureRevGenet from the @FraticelliLab. 🎉🎉 nature.com/articles/s4157… With @VictoriaParreno we tried to update the modern manual for genetic tracing and clonal analysis. ENJOY! Read link: rdcu.be/e50gy

Color in scientific figures is semantic. In research communication, color carries meaning, often subconsciously. 🔴 Red = activation Inflammation. Upregulation. A pathway turned on. 🔵 Blue = baseline Control. Stability. Homeostasis. 🟢 Green = growth Proliferation. Recovery. Renewal. When colors are intentional, comprehension accelerates. When they’re random, cognition slows down. In high-stakes settings, journal covers, grants, investor decks, clarity isn’t just visual. It’s psychological. Color is part of the scientific narrative. — We design visual systems that make complex biology easier to grasp. #ScientificIllustration #ScienceCommunication #Biotech #DataVisualization

@alt_spliced @HelmholtzMunich @CompHealthMuc Congratulations Mariella!

I'm happy to share that since January, I have started my lab at @HelmholtzMunich @CompHealthMuc & Hauner CCRC (LMU) 🎉 We aim to combine single-cell, long-reads, computational modeling, and functional genomics to understand RNA-driven regulation in pediatric diseases.

@wickedneuro @zfreyberg Congratulations!!

@nancykgillis @NatureGenet Congratulations @nancykgillis !!

📢 Our review on clonal hematopoiesis + evolutionary dynamics using mathematics is now available online @NatureGenet Check it out! #CHIPsm

@wickedneuro @UMassChan Awesome! Congratulations Ryan!

We believe cohesion isn’t about making everything look the same. It’s about making every decision feel intentional!

We designed the slide deck for one of the 2025 @ASH_hematology plenary talks. Designing at that scale shifts your perspective. Slides aren’t just visual aids. They’re the stage design. At the plenary level, cohesion becomes critical. - Same margins. - Same typography logic. - Same visual rhythm. When a deck feels unified, the science feels clearer. When it feels fragmented, even strong work loses impact. In academia, cohesion signals rigor. In biotech, it signals maturity. Strong decks feel like they came from one mind. That consistency changes how the message lands.

@sciencyelmira Thank you!

incredibly beautiful cover!

#FromSketchToCover ✨ For the cover of @MolSystBiol Molecular Systems Biology (Vol. 19, Issue 3), we adapted Hope II by Gustav Klimt into a scientific visual language. The goal: preserve the themes of pregnancy, vulnerability, and protection, while translating them into a story about placental immune modulation by Group B Streptococcus. Art history meets molecular systems biology! 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.152… #SciArt #ScientificIllustration #SciComm #JournalCover #DrawImpacts

@jianhuamert @pashtoonkasi I see AI as a helpful assist for exploration, but effective scientific figures still hinge on intent and decision-making: who the reader is, what they need to understand, and how to guide attention, etc.

@DrawImpacts @pashtoonkasi I wonder what's your thought on AI-assistant illustration?

Before we illustrate, we ask: - What can we remove? - What’s doing too much work? - Is this figure trying to impress or to explain? Great scientific figures aren’t about showing everything. They’re about guiding attention to what matters. Illustration for Dr. @pashtoonkasi #SciComm #DataViz #ScientificIllustration #AcademicTwitter #DrawImpacts

@Goodell_Lab @KeystoneSymp @BeaudinLab @bloodgenes @leonard_zon @rschneiderlab @JswLab @shalinhnaik @KC_DC_01 @stefanispranger @SanchoLab Such a great panel! This Keystone Symposium is shaping up to be fantastic.

Excited to be speaking at the upcoming @KeystoneSymp on 🩸Hematopoiesis 🩸Feb 23-26 organized by @BeaudinLab and Esther Obeng. Poster abstracts due Feb 3. All-star cast w/ great science and networking! Doubleheader 2-for-1 with Myeloid Cells mtg!

@CRI_UTSW @Henry_de_belly @Zhu_Lab Congratulations @Henry_de_belly !!

🚨NEW PI ALERT🚨 @Henry_de_belly is in the house, and look at that *fresh* new office. Clean slate for his next #relentlessdiscovery in CRI's Tissue Regeneration Program (TRP). Onward! Read more about his new lab 👉 cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henry-…

@TheColonnaLab @PatFernRod @TongWu99 Excellent work!! Congratulations!

Excited to share that our work by @PatFernRod & @TongWu99 is published: RORγt⁺ DCs are a distinct lymphoid-derived lineage whose development is controlled by REV-ERBα/β, PRDM16 and PU.1, enabling pTreg induction and protection from Th2-skewed responses. rb.gy/lyvce8

@ishahjain @WillRFlanigan @arcinstitute @GladstoneInst @UCSF Congratulations Isha!!

New preprint time! 🎉 Excited to share the thesis work of the formidable @WillRFlanigan uncovering a protective role for basigin inhibition in cardiomyocyte hypoxia. Highly recommend his deep-dive thread 👇 @arcinstitute @GladstoneInst @UCSF

We had the pleasure of illustrating the summary figure for the review “Toward Precision Chemotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer Guided by Transcriptomic Signatures” in @UEGJournal . A special full-circle moment collaborating with the @crcm_marseille team in Marseille. Grateful for the trust! @NelsonDusetti 🗞️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ue… #ScientificIllustration #DrawImpacts #PrecisionMedicine #PancreaticCancer

@bsabari Exciting opportunity in a great lab! Go Sabari Lab!!

I am recruiting postdoctoral fellows to develop new research directions in the lab. We study transcriptional regulation through biomolecular condensates in development and disease, with an emphasis on first-principles and mechanistic discovery. Please RT or share with colleagues.