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Cecilia G. Flocco

@ceciliaflocco.bsky.social
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Bioresources | Cleantech | Cultural Heritage | #SciPol & Diplomacy @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social Director @femsmicro.org Board (frm) Prof. Industrial Microb.& Biotech. Univ. BuenosAires / Inst.Antartico Argentino 🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliagflocco

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SILVA @arb-silva.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢 We are excited to announce that the new SILVA 144 Release is now live! See more details here: www.arb-silva.de/news/item/si...
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SILVA Release 144 is here
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International Microbiology Literacy Initiative - IMiLI @imili-micro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Summer is the perfect time to relax—and explore the microbial world! At IMILI, we promote #MicrobialLiteracy through film. Discover movies featuring microbes on our website, and watch for our favorite #BioFilms coming soon! grupos.eez.csic.es/imili/recurs... grupos.eez.csic.es/imili/en/tea...
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MicroArte – IMiLI en Español – International Microbiology Literacy Initiative
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks Are Whole Again, 400 Years After a Collector Cut Them Apart www.discovermagazine.com/leonardo-da-...
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Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks Are Whole Again, 400 Years After a Collector Cut Them Apart
Learn how a new digital archive reunites Leonardo da Vinci’s scattered manuscripts, reconnecting drawings and notes that were cut apart more than 400 years ago.
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 12/05/2026
📬The latest edition of the Joint Research Centre's newsletter is out now. 🧪 Stay up to date with the latest research, datasets, new publications, tools, and upcoming vacancies and opportunities. Subscribe here: link.europa.eu/7PWf8w #JRC #ScienceForPolicy #SciComm
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
For #AncientSiteSaturday the aqueduct of Segovia/Spain. It was built in the late 1st/early 2nd c. AD and supplied water to the city until the 20th century. It's one of the best-preserved #Roman aqueducts and an impressive work of engineering. 📷 🏺 #archaeology
An elevated view of the Roman Aqueduct of Segovia, featuring long, towering rows of stone arches spanning across a public place.
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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
When evidence is scattered and conclusions diverge, a review can add real value. FEMS Microbiology Reviews publishes authoritative, high-impact reviews that clarify context, debate, and direction across microbiology. Cut through complexity by exploring a review: buff.ly/zKCx7RR
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Matt Hutchings @handle.invalid · 28/03/2026
The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Pier Antonio Micheli on some parasitic plants (1710), outlining that the practices of rustics (agricoltori) are sometimes ineffective, especially when not paired with theoretical knowledge of plants! #envhist #histsci #agriculture #plants #histplants #botany
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#microsky Prokaryotic nomenclature in 2050
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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Hot off the press; an update from last year's conference on Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes, highlights from our collection in MGen & tiny 2027 teaser 😊@fionahenriquez.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky #Protistonsky 💻🧬 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Bringing the band back together: eukaryotic microbes in microbial genomics
Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#microsky Prokaryotic nomenclature in 2050
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Winter sculpture ❄️ Rügen, Germany Original post: Unwetterfreaks linktr.ee/unwetterfreaks
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 21/01/2026
It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team! If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it. Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"if life gives you lemons..." #attitude
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
#microsky
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History of science & technology @EPFL @lhst-epfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
On January 14–15, the Musée d’Histoire des sciences in Geneva will host the international conference “Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in Libraries”, which we are co-organizing with Rossella Baldi, Samuel Gessner, and Laurence-Isaline Stahl Gretsch. Join us if you're around! Full program 👇
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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 29/12/2025
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
#Winter in the city ❄️ Braunschweig, Germany #Solstice #invierno
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄 Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️ Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei Happy holidays!
Confocal microscopy image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) viewed from the oral side. The animal has a five-armed, star-shaped body with a central nerve ring. The nervous system is labeled in green, forming radial nerve cords extending into each arm, and cell nuclei are labeled in red throughout the animal. The image appears against a black background and has a holiday-ornament-like appearance.
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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The 2025 #BacDive 🦠 release is now online. 🎉🥳 The database now contains information on more than 100,000 strains 🧫. For this update, new data provided by @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social and information on type strains of newly described species from the #LPSN database were added.
BacDive is celebrating surpassing the 100,000 strain mark!
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maxplanck-latam.bsky.social @maxplanck-latam.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Inauguramos la presencia de la Representación de la Sociedad Max Planck para América Latina en Bluesky. Comenzamos compartiendo la reciente visita del Presidente Patrick Cramer a Argentina y Brasil, clave para la cooperación científica con la región. #MaxPlanck #LatinAmerica
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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Calling all archaeal enthusiasts! 🔬🔥 From molecular machines to microbial communities, Archaea never fail to surprise us! We are excited to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea, 6–10 July in Cambridge, UK! Sign up here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... #ArchaeaSky
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#microsky Professional pathways & perspectives -brought to you by @vaam-microbes.bsky.social ⬇️
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago! Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone #Archaeology
Photo of an intact Roman two-handled translucent cobalt blue glass cup dated AD 30-70. The cup has a cylindrical body with vertical sides and two narrow strap handles attached to each side as ear-shaped loops. The cup is mould-blown with relief decoration on the body which incorporates two inscriptions in Greek, one on each side of the cup. One side reads ‘ENNIWN/ENOIH/CEN’ (‘Ennion made [it]'). The other side reads ‘MNHOH/O AOPA/ZNW translated as ‘May the buyer be remembered’. 

Dimensions: Height 2½ in. (6.4 cm), diameter (rim): 3% in. (9.5 cm) 
Collection Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria, Italy.

Incredibly this is one of two matching cups blown from the same mould, found together in a Roman tomb at Cuora, near Adria, Italy, in the early 1900s. The matching cup is now part of the collections at the Corning Museum of Glass
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
These #snowflakes are going viral..❄️ ☃️ Informative, creative and educational #scicomm piece by @cvrinfo.bsky.social -available under a generous CC BY 4.0 licence #microsky #virusSnowflakes
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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes - Nature
Microflora Danica—an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes—reveals that although human-disturbed habitats have high alpha diversity, species reoccur, revealing hidden homogeneity.
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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🧬🖥️SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity 📑The new publication about the #SILVA database for the #NAR database issue is now online. 👉 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity
Abstract. Since 2007, the SILVA database (https://www.arb-silva.de/) has served as a comprehensive resource providing quality-checked, aligned, and classif
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/11/2025
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Do you: -Love #literature? 📚 -Adore #art? 🎨 -Fancy #film or #photography? 📽️📸 -Thrill to the #theater? 🎭 -Relish #RareBooks? 📖 Apply for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships! Learn more & submit a proposal by Nov. 3: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/ #Humanities #Research #CFP #CFA 🗃️📜
A scholar examines a postcard in the Harry Ransom Center's reading room. Her photo is framed by a blue square with "FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN" written on each side. That image is positioned in front of a section of the etched windows on the Ransom Center's first floor, which showcase highlights from our collections.

More info about the Ransom Center's fellowships: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web?...
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How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It
What happens when AI agents become the primary users of the Internet? Discover the potential benefits and the security risks of this coming digital shift.
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Throwback to my lab stories for a #Halloween-inspired #microbiology snapshot: Reading hemolysis halos on a blood agar plate produced by a bacterium isolated from a medieval manuscript. 🩸 🧫 📜 Blood agar is used to grow fastidious organisms & to differentiate bacteria based on hemolytic properties.
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
This time of the year, pink and purple hues cut through #BuenosAires city's constructed #landscape -the #jacarandá trees were brought from the north of 🇦🇷 by french architect & paisajist #CarlosThays ca. 1890, & their splendor enjoyed since then. #urban #primavera #spring
Birdeye picture of 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, lined with pink- purple rows of blooming jacarandá trees.
Source (en español)  https://www.mdzol.com/sociedad/2021/11/3/jacarandas-como-llegaron-buenos-aires-donde-encontrarlos-198414.html
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/10/2025
Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪
This is extended data figure 1, which shows photographs of different families of scleractinians.
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#Microsky -have your say! ✍️
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INOUE lab. (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo) @labinoue.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our paper on the first UV-sensitive rhodopsin channel, the Apusomonad rhodopsin, has been published in PNAS! 🎉 This is a new family distinct from canonical ChRs with a novel transport mechanism🦠—paving the way for future multi-wavelength optogenetics! 🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Canada Post features nature´s recyclers 🇨🇦📯 "Stamps highlight beauty and importance of hashtag #fungi in Canadian #ecosystems" 🔗 www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-c... #microsky #biodiversity
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
luckily, there are alternatives to PubMed, see libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=7252...
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LibGuides: Alternatives to United States NLM Resources: Databases which use PubMed
LibGuides: Alternatives to United States NLM Resources: Databases which use PubMed
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Warm Autumn palette on Science Campus Braunschweig-Süd 🍂🍁 www.sciencecampus-bs.de/en/ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social @tu-braunschweig.de @fraunhofer.bsky.social
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Rhys White @rhystwhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨New paper out! Why does Staphylococcus aureus ST1 dominate in BOTH people🧑‍⚕️ & cows🐄 in New Zealand… but rarely elsewhere? Our latest comparative genomics study unpacks this mystery👇 📄 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @asm.org #AMR #Genomics #OneHealth 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠
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Comparative genomics of endemic Staphylococcus aureus ST1 in New Zealand | mSphere
This study presents a comprehensive genomic analysis of S. aureus ST1, a lineage that is unusually dominant in both bovine and human populations in New Zealand. Leveraging New Zealand’s geographical i...
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#MicroSky 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘪 vs 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 what a cool story! thx ákos for the shoutout 🙏
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#hpbio
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Erich M. Schwarz @erichmschwarz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
After 10 years of work, a complete telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome for C. elegans finally exists: it has 106 Mb rather than the textbook 100.3 Mb, and up to 366 additional genes. genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...
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Nadine Ziemert @nadineziemert.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Happy to share our newest preprint. PhyloNaP as a user friendly database of phylogeny for enzymes involved in natural product production and as public repository for well curated phylogenetic trees. Happy Tree Building!!! #phylogeny #secmet #bioinformatics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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PhyloNaP: a user-friendly database of Phylogeny for Natural Product-producing enzymes
Phylogenetic analysis is widely used to predict enzyme function, yet building annotated and reusable trees is labor-intensive and requires extensive knowledge about the specific enzymes. Existing reso...
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.dw.com/en/virtual-p... #privacy #vpn #cybersecurity
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Anything but safe: Using VPN can bear immense risks – DW – 09/20/2025
A new study reveals that virtual private network (VPN) connections provide less safety than widely believed. The findings are alarming, especially for users in authoritarian states.
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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44... #microsky #phagesky #synbio
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Non-model bacteria as platforms for endogenous gene expression in synthetic biology - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Microbial synthetic biology might greatly benefit from the application of non-model organisms, which have been evolutionarily optimized for the production of specific proteins and metabolites. This Review discusses the design and application of endogenous production in non-model organisms.
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Cecilia G. Flocco @ceciliaflocco.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
⬇️point of view matters
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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🖥️ New design for #SILVA #SILVA 🧬 joined @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social 🧫 and the @dsmzd3.bsky.social in 2023. This is now also visible on the redesigned website 🖌️, which has been restructured reorganized in a first step towards an improved and modernized #SILVA! Try it out at www.arb-silva.de
Screenshot of the new SILVA website
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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
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FEMS @femsmicro.org · 17/09/2025
Happy International Microorganism Day! 🎉 Today, we are celebrating the tiny powerhouses that have a massive impact on our world. From the bacteria in our gut to the fungi that give us antibiotics, these incredible organisms are essential to life. Let's make some noise for the microscopic!
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