Alzira Frota 🦋
@alzirafrota.bsky.social
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at University of Sao Paulo - USP, Brazil
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Not today, parasitic #wasps!✋🚫
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Not today, parasitic #wasps!✋🚫
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Stinkbugs use a fungus-carrying organ on their hind legs to coat their eggs in #fungi🍄🦵
This provides a physical defense against #parasitic wasp oviposition🛡️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Glucose capping of 5'-mRNAs in E. coli 😱, presumably is installed during transcriptional initiation #MicroSky #RNASky www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Glucose capping of 5'-mRNAs in E. coli 😱, presumably is installed during transcriptional initiation #MicroSky #RNASky www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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For those who celebrate October as #NobelPrize announcements month @nobelprize.bsky.social 🎃🇸🇪🇳🇴
#NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about...
#NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about...
September 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For those who celebrate October as #NobelPrize announcements month @nobelprize.bsky.social 🎃🇸🇪🇳🇴
#NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about...
#NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about...
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We don't think that recombined right either 🤨
August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We don't think that recombined right either 🤨
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New guidance published @ukrio.bsky.social to support responsible AI use in research
This guidance, part of UKRIO’s priority workstream on AI and research integrity, provides a principle-based, researcher-focused resource adaptable across disciplines and technologies.
ukrio.org/ukrio-resour...
This guidance, part of UKRIO’s priority workstream on AI and research integrity, provides a principle-based, researcher-focused resource adaptable across disciplines and technologies.
ukrio.org/ukrio-resour...
Embracing AI with integrity - UK Research Integrity Office
Embracing AI with integrity A practical guide for researchers The UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) has launched new guidance to help researchers navigate the research integrity challenges posed by...
ukrio.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New guidance published @ukrio.bsky.social to support responsible AI use in research
This guidance, part of UKRIO’s priority workstream on AI and research integrity, provides a principle-based, researcher-focused resource adaptable across disciplines and technologies.
ukrio.org/ukrio-resour...
This guidance, part of UKRIO’s priority workstream on AI and research integrity, provides a principle-based, researcher-focused resource adaptable across disciplines and technologies.
ukrio.org/ukrio-resour...
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Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
June 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨
The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠
Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/15 🧵
The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠
Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/15 🧵
June 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨
The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠
Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/15 🧵
The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠
Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/15 🧵
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commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab
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Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
May 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
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Well, somebody had to do it @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social 😬
Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Well, somebody had to do it @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social 😬
Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
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My latest. It’s feelings-forward and was hard to write.
“It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.”
www.chronicle.com/article/high...
“It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.”
www.chronicle.com/article/high...
Opinion | Higher Ed Is Adrift
While colleges duck and cover, their employees feel angry and abandoned.
www.chronicle.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My latest. It’s feelings-forward and was hard to write.
“It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.”
www.chronicle.com/article/high...
“It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.”
www.chronicle.com/article/high...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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My lab and Chuck Farah's at the University of São Paulo (USP) are seeking a postdoc to join an exciting project focused on applying structural biology to novel and unexplored targets in antibiotic discovery.
April 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My lab and Chuck Farah's at the University of São Paulo (USP) are seeking a postdoc to join an exciting project focused on applying structural biology to novel and unexplored targets in antibiotic discovery.
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Happy Easter! 🐣🧬 The Easter Rex is out delivering eggs… and nucleotides.
April 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Happy Easter! 🐣🧬 The Easter Rex is out delivering eggs… and nucleotides.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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oldies but goodies from 𝕏 - now for #MicroSky
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
oldies but goodies from 𝕏 - now for #MicroSky
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
on 𝕏 by 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗣𝗩/𝗘𝗛𝗨 @MagteriaUPV on Sep 10, 2020
Here is our contribution to #InternationalMicroorganismDay A group of the magnetotactic bacteria MSR-1 🦠 filled with nanomagnets (magnetosomes) 🧲 @femsmicro.bsky.social
Smiling based on my pain
December 2, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Smiling based on my pain
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@maxewilkinson.bsky.social when you're going to "shamelessly crossposting some of my molecular movies from the Other Place" anyway 😉 you could easily re-post this beautiful imagery from 𝕏 that I kept as bookmark for, hm... years >
x.com/maxewilkinso...
#CryoEM #CryoET #TeamTomo
x.com/maxewilkinso...
#CryoEM #CryoET #TeamTomo
November 23, 2024 at 6:04 PM
@maxewilkinson.bsky.social when you're going to "shamelessly crossposting some of my molecular movies from the Other Place" anyway 😉 you could easily re-post this beautiful imagery from 𝕏 that I kept as bookmark for, hm... years >
x.com/maxewilkinso...
#CryoEM #CryoET #TeamTomo
x.com/maxewilkinso...
#CryoEM #CryoET #TeamTomo