Illustrations

Scientific figures, graphical abstracts, data visualisation and digital artwork by Natalia Gumińska.

Figures for papers, press and teaching, and the drawing they came out of. Click any image for a larger view.

Scientific figures

Graphical abstract: rodent brain and synaptoneurosome samples feeding into nanopore sequencing and four downstream analyses.

Polyadenylation after long-term potentiation Graphical abstract

Method figure showing nanopore signal segmented, converted to Gramian angular field images and classified by a convolutional network.

ninetails, method overview Nature Communications, 2025

Three-panel figure: the polyadenylation complex on a pre-mRNA, a panel of Arabidopsis genotypes, and a sequencing and analysis workflow.

Polyadenylation machinery and sequencing workflow Arabidopsis thaliana

Circular diagram: an mRNA threading a nanopore, with TENT5-mediated adenylation on one side and MOV10 and TUT7 uridylation on the other.

Cytoplasmic control of the poly(A) tail Laboratory of RNA Biology

Illustration of an mRNA passing through a nanopore in a lipid bilayer, with a magnifying glass over the raw current trace and a syringe wound with mRNA.

ViveRNA ERC Advanced Grant, 2023

Data visualisation

Six-panel figure of horizontal bar charts and a pie chart summarising Academy Award nominations and wins.

Academy Awards, overview Postgraduate project

Line chart of annual nominations and awards with era markers, above a stacked bar chart by decade.

Academy Awards, timeline Postgraduate project

Six-panel figure comparing nominations, categories, win ratios and top performers across six eras of cinema.

Academy Awards, by era Postgraduate project

Digital art

More of this, and the science drawing behind it, on my Facebook page Biorysunki.

Digital painting of an armoured figure standing in snow before a mountain range.

Winter hunt Digital painting

Digital painting of sunlight breaking through trees over still water.

Light through the canopy Digital painting

Digital painting of two long-haired guinea pigs resting together.

Two guinea pigs Digital painting

Monochrome illustration of a chinchilla beside a phone screen showing the same chinchilla.

Nosy Digital illustration

Monochrome illustration: portraits of five women scientists above two girls stacking lettered blocks.

Girls just wanna RNA Digital illustration

Visual identity

DEGRONOPEDIA live

I prepared the visual identification of DEGRONOPEDIA, a web server for proteome-wide inspection of degrons, built by the Pokrzywa Lab (Laboratory of Protein Metabolism) at IIMCB.

Acknowledged in Szulc et al., Nucleic Acids Research 52(W1), 2024

Visit the server Paper

Tools

Inkscape, Krita, PaintTool SAI, Adobe Illustrator, and ggplot2 for anything data-driven.

Commissions and collaboration

I make figures for the laboratory’s papers and sometimes for collaborators. Get in touch.