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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Institute of Infection, Immunity and Transplantation in North London always serving the best lab views!

Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are recruiting a research technician! Fantastic opportunity if you want to culture 3D organoid models and analyse transcriptomics data in the heart of London! We want to understand how a UTI infection reshapes the bladder long-term. Repost please 🙏

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seized work, fundings received after 50y … academia in the 18th century was not a vibe 😬but also a stunning 250y old clock that would miss a second only every 100 days (!) and a sundial ring I would wear myself. Greenwich Observatory Museum

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just realised this is my first paper as Microbiologist: milestone! 🤯Thank you @microberamon.bsky.social and @jennyrohn.bsky.social for making this happen!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ecstatic to have contributed to this wonderful work of my fantastic colleague @microberamon.bsky.social ! Bottom line is that environment, including fluidics, matter for antibiotic treatment which might contribute to treatment failure. Precious collaboration with bioengineers!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is incredibly exciting Simon! Well done and thanks for the web app: wonderful resource for the community!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The wonderful feeling of recognising names of known ECR fellows in the list! Congrats Ana Lopez-Jimenez former member of the @sergemostowylab.bsky.social and all the other awarded applicants!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wonderful concept, goes straight in my “to read” list!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1,500x !!!! Incredible how much the limit has been pushed on expansion microscopy!

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No, it’s not AI - this is a real species, the purple harlequin toad! Native to the rainforests of French Guiana, their psychedelic skin warns predators of their toxicity. Sadly, this tiny toxic toad is critically endangered.

A top-down view of a toad with deep purple skin and bright pink markings resting on a leaf, credited to Nick Stacey @‌indicator_species

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Insane fortune: can you imagine reading on a newspaper about queen Victoria’s coronation, the start of World War I or the 19th century revolutions across Europe?!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Important highlight on a deadly worrying topic!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you want to explore how fluidics affects infection dynamics and you are in Oxford, you can now learn from the best, @microberamon.bsky.social ! deadline August 17th. We’ll be hiring a Research Technician in our group at UCL soon as well, stay tuned! #UTISky #microbiology

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Perfect grant writing cabin by the sea!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Landed back in London after an unforgettable @toxo18.bsky.social conference in Brazil! Thank you to the organisers for selecting a wonderful location and program. Grateful to be part of this ever-evolving community that feels home and to meet old colleagues and future collaborators!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yam! The flower filled with anchovies and mozzarella and fried is an Italian favourite

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m using Zotero and is ok, even though I am always looking for better alternatives: it’s perfect to save papers with the chrome plugin and to add to word documents, however worse at organising folders and couldn’t transfer my Mendeley library (RIP). I did manage to have shared folders!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If I didn’t have a wonderful project already I’d apply straight away! Sounds exciting!

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Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How climbing the academic ladder feels like! (also, nature is pretty incredible)

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Such an original idea with big consequences! Congrats!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Oh my god, how disgraceful. “Britain reached his wealth because of migrants and needs to continue to welcome and integrate migrants”

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Massive congratulations @virpc.bsky.social !! What a stunning location for such a milestone for both you and Ramón!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It’s graduation day at UCL 🎉

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Incredibly fascinating story with wider relevance touching anybody interested in AMR and tolerance!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Deadline for this fantastic meeting is tomorrow May 12th!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Volume-sensing: fascinating! I wonder how much you need to shut down that pathway when intracellular pathogens increase the host cell volume of >10x! Like for Plasmodium liver stage, Toxoplasma in neurons, UPEC in urothelial cells … classic elephant in the room situation

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Fungal pathogens are incredibly fascinating!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

CO2 tolerance as a virulence trait, or just extreme adaptability as a fitness determinant, my favourite topic

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

2/2 and they are worryingly predicted to be the cause of >30% zoonoses! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26038558/ Interestingly, they are also key to propagate prions in the lab (do you remember the incurable mad cow disease ?!) journals.plos.org/plospathogen... I hope more researchers will focus on voles!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

With so much attention on these lethal Hantavirus cases, I wanted to share that in my PhD I studied the virus’ natural reservoir: these cute bank voles! We developed new tools for research on voles(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29434310/ and more soon) 1/2

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oh my god, what an incredible study!! Beautiful and unique design! Congrats all!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Such a good start in the day when you see beautiful expanded Toxoplasma on a cover!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Easy when you have to present data beautiful like that 😉

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Do i understand well? A bacterial protein that does ncRNA > RNA bypassing the DNA step? 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

Science | AAAS

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London Infection Network for/by ECRs (LINE) @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

📢📢📢 Our next LINE seminar will be at KCL: On Thurs 23rd April, we'll hear from @safimicro.bsky.social about Salmonella and from James Griffiths about Candida! Come for the science and stay for the networking social! All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/544sdm5e

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Alyssa’s talk was fantastic! Well done!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Currently in Nashville to talk about uropathogens for the next couple days! Those persistent, hard to treat bugs! Come by to poster 57 on Friday to see how I screen a gof pathogenic library on bladder organoids #UTICONF26 @globaluti.bsky.social

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LabEx ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🧑‍🔬 The program for the scientific session of the ParaFrap Next Generation in Parasitology Workshop is now available! 🎟️ A few places are still available to attend the session in Montpellier. Registration is free but mandatory. 👉 forms.gle/q1ZZJbqu87CD...

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Love this! A bad weather day in Sicily is still a dream!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Oh damn! I hope it will clear up enough to do an excursion in the next days … if not you could still enjoy food in beautiful Ortigia, Noto and Taormina!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

OMG you there now? Best place on earth!!! Enjoy the food and the kind people! Dying of jealousy here in cold London

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Unfortunately this year I won’t be able to attend but it’s such a good meeting!

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Francesca Torelli @fratorelli.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Neat work about my favourite topic: stress adaptation! It seems that most UPEC virulence factors are neighbours in the same pathogenicity island

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