Alessio Mengoni
@alessiome.bsky.social
Doing (some) science and teaching genetics @ Univ. of Florence, Italy.
Do you like blueberries? I do, but what's going on in declining wild populations of blueberry of Italian Apennines? Of course from the microbiota perspective! If you are curious see here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Another nice paper from @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Another nice paper from @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Do you like blueberries? I do, but what's going on in declining wild populations of blueberry of Italian Apennines? Of course from the microbiota perspective! If you are curious see here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Another nice paper from @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Another nice paper from @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
So glad and happy to be at the Biotechnology Summer School "The Green Side of One Health: From Basics to Industrial Applications” in wonderful #Kaszuby, Poland bss.ug.edu.pl
One week of science, fun and inspiration from young scientists. With @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
One week of science, fun and inspiration from young scientists. With @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
September 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So glad and happy to be at the Biotechnology Summer School "The Green Side of One Health: From Basics to Industrial Applications” in wonderful #Kaszuby, Poland bss.ug.edu.pl
One week of science, fun and inspiration from young scientists. With @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
One week of science, fun and inspiration from young scientists. With @francescavaccaro.bsky.social and Camilla Fagorzi
Glad to participate to the 🌞 school in #Padua on "Why do we study plants". Tnx to @lorellanavazio.bsky.social and Barbara Baldan for inviting me. @unipd.bsky.social
Fantastic lectures by
@christhorogood.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social on the #Rafflesia flowers
Fantastic lectures by
@christhorogood.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social on the #Rafflesia flowers
July 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Glad to participate to the 🌞 school in #Padua on "Why do we study plants". Tnx to @lorellanavazio.bsky.social and Barbara Baldan for inviting me. @unipd.bsky.social
Fantastic lectures by
@christhorogood.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social on the #Rafflesia flowers
Fantastic lectures by
@christhorogood.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social on the #Rafflesia flowers
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Happy to repost on my new Bluesky profile 🌱
In our study published on May 8,we successfully adapted the #PhenotypeMicroarray approach to plant #protoplasts, opening new possibilities for high-throughput metabolic phenotyping at cell level!
🔗 📖 rdcu.be/ek5iH
@springernature.com @alessiome.bsky.social
In our study published on May 8,we successfully adapted the #PhenotypeMicroarray approach to plant #protoplasts, opening new possibilities for high-throughput metabolic phenotyping at cell level!
🔗 📖 rdcu.be/ek5iH
@springernature.com @alessiome.bsky.social
Phenotype microarray-based assessment of metabolic variability in plant protoplasts
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July 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Happy to repost on my new Bluesky profile 🌱
In our study published on May 8,we successfully adapted the #PhenotypeMicroarray approach to plant #protoplasts, opening new possibilities for high-throughput metabolic phenotyping at cell level!
🔗 📖 rdcu.be/ek5iH
@springernature.com @alessiome.bsky.social
In our study published on May 8,we successfully adapted the #PhenotypeMicroarray approach to plant #protoplasts, opening new possibilities for high-throughput metabolic phenotyping at cell level!
🔗 📖 rdcu.be/ek5iH
@springernature.com @alessiome.bsky.social
New paper from the lab. Take-away message: redundancy of functions in consortia led to more effective lab-to-the-field translation. Great collaboration with IBBR-CNR and Univ. Palermo. With contribution by L. Cangioli, @francescavaccaro.bsky.social , C. Fagorzi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Soil bacteria and symbiotic rhizobia synergistically promote nitrogen fixation and biomass production of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants even under water shortage conditions without altering the n...
In modern and sustainable agriculture, the exploitation of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is an alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers whic…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
New paper from the lab. Take-away message: redundancy of functions in consortia led to more effective lab-to-the-field translation. Great collaboration with IBBR-CNR and Univ. Palermo. With contribution by L. Cangioli, @francescavaccaro.bsky.social , C. Fagorzi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New from the lab 📰 Toward deciphering the molecular dialogue in the rhizomicrobiota: Transcriptomic profiling of Trichoderma in rhizobia interaction. Work led by @francescavaccaro.bsky.social just few weeks before defending her PhD and Camilla Fagorzi! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Toward deciphering the molecular dialogue in the rhizomicrobiota: Transcriptomic profiling of Trichoderma in rhizobia interaction
Microbial interactions are of key importance for the emergent properties of microbiota and ecosystems, playing a pivotal role in plant health, growth,…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New from the lab 📰 Toward deciphering the molecular dialogue in the rhizomicrobiota: Transcriptomic profiling of Trichoderma in rhizobia interaction. Work led by @francescavaccaro.bsky.social just few weeks before defending her PhD and Camilla Fagorzi! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"We infer that the earliest aerobic bacteria emerged in the Archaean, predating the GOE by 900 million years."
Oxygen tolerance may have been a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Oxygen tolerance may have been a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
www.science.org
April 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"We infer that the earliest aerobic bacteria emerged in the Archaean, predating the GOE by 900 million years."
Oxygen tolerance may have been a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Oxygen tolerance may have been a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Flowering time and cell wall
Flowering time and cell wall
Mutations in HEADING DATE 1 affect transcription and cell wall composition in rice
A zinc finger transcription factor that is central to photoperiodic flowering also plays a role in determining cell wall composition and abiotic stress res
academic.oup.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Flowering time and cell wall
Flowering time and cell wall
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We also offer travel grants for Early Career Researchers thanks to the support of @amiposts.bsky.social & @jxbotany.bsky.social. Applications open until 15/04.
Check all the info in our website and stay tuned for all the upcoming news and a very exciting programme! ➡️ web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad9...
Check all the info in our website and stay tuned for all the upcoming news and a very exciting programme! ➡️ web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad9...
16th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
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March 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We also offer travel grants for Early Career Researchers thanks to the support of @amiposts.bsky.social & @jxbotany.bsky.social. Applications open until 15/04.
Check all the info in our website and stay tuned for all the upcoming news and a very exciting programme! ➡️ web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad9...
Check all the info in our website and stay tuned for all the upcoming news and a very exciting programme! ➡️ web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad9...
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We are looking forward to hosting the next European Nitrogen Fixation Conference in Oxford the 26th-29th August. We have already announced our invited speakers and are now excited to receive your abstracts!
Keep an eye on our key dates:
🗓️ 30/04 Early bird registration
📝 01/05 Abstract submission
Keep an eye on our key dates:
🗓️ 30/04 Early bird registration
📝 01/05 Abstract submission
March 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We are looking forward to hosting the next European Nitrogen Fixation Conference in Oxford the 26th-29th August. We have already announced our invited speakers and are now excited to receive your abstracts!
Keep an eye on our key dates:
🗓️ 30/04 Early bird registration
📝 01/05 Abstract submission
Keep an eye on our key dates:
🗓️ 30/04 Early bird registration
📝 01/05 Abstract submission
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Sinorhizobium meliloti FcrX coordinates cell cycle and division during free-living growth and symbiosis by a ClpXP-dependent mechanism
-in PNAS from Emanuele Biondi
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
-in PNAS from Emanuele Biondi
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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...
www.pnas.org
March 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Sinorhizobium meliloti FcrX coordinates cell cycle and division during free-living growth and symbiosis by a ClpXP-dependent mechanism
-in PNAS from Emanuele Biondi
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
-in PNAS from Emanuele Biondi
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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We are very happy to share our latest preprint! 📣
H-NS is a xenogeneic silencer that prevents the costly expression of horizontally acquired genes. In Salmonella, H-NS silences several Pathogenicity Islands (SPIs), including SPI-1, which is essential for host invasion.
🧵⬇️
H-NS is a xenogeneic silencer that prevents the costly expression of horizontally acquired genes. In Salmonella, H-NS silences several Pathogenicity Islands (SPIs), including SPI-1, which is essential for host invasion.
🧵⬇️
March 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We are very happy to share our latest preprint! 📣
H-NS is a xenogeneic silencer that prevents the costly expression of horizontally acquired genes. In Salmonella, H-NS silences several Pathogenicity Islands (SPIs), including SPI-1, which is essential for host invasion.
🧵⬇️
H-NS is a xenogeneic silencer that prevents the costly expression of horizontally acquired genes. In Salmonella, H-NS silences several Pathogenicity Islands (SPIs), including SPI-1, which is essential for host invasion.
🧵⬇️
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Probabilmente no, perché hanno agito di notte col passamontagna. E perché sia i media che la politica hanno speso ben poche parole quando questi episodi sono accaduti, nel giugno 2024 ai danni dell’Università di Milano e nel febbraio del 2025 ai danni dell’ateneo di Verona 2/3
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Probabilmente no, perché hanno agito di notte col passamontagna. E perché sia i media che la politica hanno speso ben poche parole quando questi episodi sono accaduti, nel giugno 2024 ai danni dell’Università di Milano e nel febbraio del 2025 ai danni dell’ateneo di Verona 2/3
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A controlled study on the sociology of science:
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
March 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A controlled study on the sociology of science:
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
Reposted by Alessio Mengoni
📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
February 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
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Eco-vandals target gene-edited Chardonnay in Italy. Antiscience stupidity strikes again: two experimental fields have been launched in the country, and both have been attacked #CRISPR #agriculture #vandalism (link below)
February 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Eco-vandals target gene-edited Chardonnay in Italy. Antiscience stupidity strikes again: two experimental fields have been launched in the country, and both have been attacked #CRISPR #agriculture #vandalism (link below)
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Due campi sperimentali avviati, due campi vandalizzati da ignoti. C'è la volontà politica di contrastare questi reati? #CRISPR #agricoltura #TEA #ecovandali crispr.blog/2025/02/16/v...
Viti TEA vandalizzate. E adesso?
Nella notte tra il 12 e il 13 febbraio ignoti vandali hanno fatto irruzione nel campo sperimentale dell’Università di Verona danneggiando le viti Chardonnay editate per combattere un’in…
crispr.blog
February 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Due campi sperimentali avviati, due campi vandalizzati da ignoti. C'è la volontà politica di contrastare questi reati? #CRISPR #agricoltura #TEA #ecovandali crispr.blog/2025/02/16/v...
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Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
microGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform large-scale bacterial genome-wide association studies
Identifying genetic variants associated with bacterial phenotypes, such as virulence, host preference and antimicrobial resistance, has great potential for a better understanding of the mechanisms inv...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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We found this gene that is important for correct carpel development in rice. It encodes for a plant mobile protein. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
OsMAINTENANCE OF MERISTEM LIKE 1 controls style number at high temperatures in rice - Plant Molecular Biology
OsMAIL1 encodes for a rice protein of the Plant Mobile Domain (PMD) family and is strongly upregulated during floral induction in response to the presence of the florigens Heading date 3a (Hd3a) and R...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We found this gene that is important for correct carpel development in rice. It encodes for a plant mobile protein. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Il mio intervento a Effetto Giorno sugli incendi in California.
Minuto 35:14
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Minuto 35:14
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January 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Il mio intervento a Effetto Giorno sugli incendi in California.
Minuto 35:14
www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/ef...
Minuto 35:14
www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/ef...
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Atomic spaghetti, an Italian story #mutationbreeding mycrispr.blog/2025/01/09/a...
Atomic spaghetti and mutagenesis B.C. (before CRISPR)
Before the advent of genome editing and GMOs, mutagenesis was achieved through radiation. This technique was also used to modify varieties of durum wheat, which, through crossbreeding, contributed …
mycrispr.blog
January 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Atomic spaghetti, an Italian story #mutationbreeding mycrispr.blog/2025/01/09/a...
"The Complex Epigenetic Panorama in the Multipartite Genome of the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti" After many rounds of revision and re-analysis I'm very happy to share the paper on genome-wide methylation analysis of S. meliloti.
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
The Complex Epigenetic Panorama in the Multipartite Genome of the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti
Abstract. In prokaryotes, DNA methylation plays roles in DNA repair, gene expression, cell cycle progression, and immune recognition of foreign DNA. Genome
academic.oup.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"The Complex Epigenetic Panorama in the Multipartite Genome of the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti" After many rounds of revision and re-analysis I'm very happy to share the paper on genome-wide methylation analysis of S. meliloti.
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness
December 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness
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The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth”
But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners?
Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts.
Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k
But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners?
Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts.
Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k
December 11, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth”
But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners?
Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts.
Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k
But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners?
Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts.
Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k
Reposted by Alessio Mengoni
Per chi volesse il 12 dicembre alle ore 21.00, presso la biblioteca delle Oblate, a Firenze, parlerò di Meteorologia nell'Arte. Organizzatore: Caffè Scienza.
Entrata: rigorosamente gratuita
Entrata: rigorosamente gratuita
December 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Per chi volesse il 12 dicembre alle ore 21.00, presso la biblioteca delle Oblate, a Firenze, parlerò di Meteorologia nell'Arte. Organizzatore: Caffè Scienza.
Entrata: rigorosamente gratuita
Entrata: rigorosamente gratuita