Cecilia G. Flocco
@ceciliaflocco.bsky.social
Bioresources | Cleantech | Cultural Heritage | #SciPol & Diplomacy @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social
Director @femsmicro.org Board
(frm) Prof. Industrial Microb.& Biotech. Univ. BuenosAires / Inst.Antartico Argentino
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliagflocco
Director @femsmicro.org Board
(frm) Prof. Industrial Microb.& Biotech. Univ. BuenosAires / Inst.Antartico Argentino
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliagflocco
Pinned
Now it is official:
I have been elected to the Board of Directors of FEMS, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, for the 2025-2027 term. I am deeply grateful to FEMS community for their trust.
I congrat. Evelyn Doyle & Michael Sauer -I look forward to joining forces.
#Microsky
I have been elected to the Board of Directors of FEMS, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, for the 2025-2027 term. I am deeply grateful to FEMS community for their trust.
I congrat. Evelyn Doyle & Michael Sauer -I look forward to joining forces.
#Microsky
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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 🗃️📜
-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 🗃️📜
August 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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 🗃️📜
-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 🗃️📜
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web?...
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.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
How AI Agents Will Change the Web as We Know It spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web?...
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪
An extraordinary result for ipilimumab immunotherapy given as a first line therapy for glioblastoma
share.google/485XFZxmBm26...
share.google/485XFZxmBm26...
Dad’s aggressive brain cancer vanishes after taking new drug
The NHS is now looking for patients with glioblastoma to take part in a new drug trial
share.google
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yesterday I was discussing the intractibility of glioblastoma with a neuroscience colleague--this could be transformative 🧪
📣 Open position:
We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️, who will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the #SILVA taxonomy🌳.
Read and share!
👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...
🧪🦠🌱🦋💽
We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️, who will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the #SILVA taxonomy🌳.
Read and share!
👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...
🧪🦠🌱🦋💽
November 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
As someone with Connexin-26 (GJB2) mutations, I've managed to so far study most forms of hearing loss that do NOT involve GJB2.
As a cell biologist, I've managed to study ER-organelle related processes and disorders with minimal connection to hearing loss.
Now this paper drops.
As a cell biologist, I've managed to study ER-organelle related processes and disorders with minimal connection to hearing loss.
Now this paper drops.
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
As someone with Connexin-26 (GJB2) mutations, I've managed to so far study most forms of hearing loss that do NOT involve GJB2.
As a cell biologist, I've managed to study ER-organelle related processes and disorders with minimal connection to hearing loss.
Now this paper drops.
As a cell biologist, I've managed to study ER-organelle related processes and disorders with minimal connection to hearing loss.
Now this paper drops.
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.
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.
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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
September 30, 2023 at 3:57 PM
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
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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 🌊 🧪
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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 🌊 🧪
#Microsky -have your say! ✍️
Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe. FEMS is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of microbiologists.
Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.
Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.
Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#Microsky -have your say! ✍️
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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
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
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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
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
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
"Stamps highlight beauty and importance of hashtag #fungi in Canadian #ecosystems"
🔗 www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-c...
#microsky #biodiversity
October 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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
"Stamps highlight beauty and importance of hashtag #fungi in Canadian #ecosystems"
🔗 www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-c...
#microsky #biodiversity
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
luckily, there are alternatives to PubMed, see libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=7252...
LibGuides: Alternatives to United States NLM Resources: Databases which use PubMed
LibGuides: Alternatives to United States NLM Resources: Databases which use PubMed
libguides.exeter.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
luckily, there are alternatives to PubMed, see libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=7252...
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
www.sciencecampus-bs.de/en/
@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
@tu-braunschweig.de
@fraunhofer.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
www.sciencecampus-bs.de/en/
@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
@tu-braunschweig.de
@fraunhofer.bsky.social
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
🚨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
🧪🧫🦠
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
🧪🧫🦠
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...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🚨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
🧪🧫🦠
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
🧪🧫🦠
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
Here is the published version of Manca's #NNF_INTERACT project in #ISMEcommunications from Scott Jarmusch and @neftalyl.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Cutter's 1878 patented "Box for Vaccine Matter".
For carrying and protecting smallpox scabs, which were to be used for vaccinations.
#MicroSky
images from my collection
For carrying and protecting smallpox scabs, which were to be used for vaccinations.
#MicroSky
images from my collection
September 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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...
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...
August 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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...
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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...
#phylogeny #secmet #bioinformatics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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...
#phylogeny #secmet #bioinformatics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
⬇️point of view matters
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
⬇️point of view matters
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
🖥️ 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
#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
September 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🖥️ 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
#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
Reposted by Cecilia G. Flocco
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...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...