Dr. Alessandra Pontiroli

PhD (Microbial Ecology), nature lover, scientist, auntie, home baker, gardener, hiker. 4 languages + arts ( 🎼, 📚 🎥, 🥁, 🎭,👩🏻‍🎨 ) +🐢🌿🦡🦠🧬☮️🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

[Dr. Alessandra Pontiroli @asandra_pon]

Croquis-esquisse et saintetés: Vierge à la tombée de la Nuit, day after π- day and the passing away of S. Hawking. Mementoes.

[Dr. Alessandra Pontiroli @asandra_pon]

Jean Dubuffet e gli Outsider: scoprire o ritrovare l'Art Brut a Milano ? https://t.co/wESJHVyg6i

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 #AgarArt Contest! Congratulations to Jeeyoung Lee, our overall winner, for her piece titled, "Petri Dish Jazz Club." You can learn about the other winners on our website: https://t.co/XWwMQfKSzA

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A thorough and fascinating display of paintings, theatre staging, design, architecture of Peduzzi’s versatile artwork @MobilierNat

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Weekend in Paris: “Les mondes imaginaires” @espacemontecristo et “Faisons corps” @maifsocialclub, two vibrant exhibitions reflecting diverse interpretations of contemporary world issues.

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

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In-between Halloween 🎃 🦇 and dia de los muertos, lies a space in time full of memories and flowers, for the departed, for those who live and enlighten our days and for the ones that once did so, but we have not seen in ages. 🍂 🍁 🍃 🕊️ ❤️

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

making butterflies from ginkgo leaves in autumn

📹 guoguo1166

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Karbike

[📹 karbikes]

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Today is 🌎 🧠 health day! Let’s do not forget the issue for the rest of the year 🕊️ ❤️ #October10th

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A pleasant afternoon gardening at the local collective allotment and harvesting a few ripe veggies with more to come soon.

[Andy Howard @highland_andy]

It’s a privilege to have a clan of #badgers visit our garden on a nightly basis.
*Best viewed with the sound up*
#NationalBadgerDay

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Biodiversity in the garden

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Puglia is a region where ancient olive trees often sport bizarre, fantastical shapes, often twisting and turning about themselves.

This one is over 1600 years old and it looks like a hug.

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This is very interesting: 🐢 microbiome diversity shifts + resilience under the effect of simulated warming . https://t.co/VFVABZja8h

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*ageing

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remarkable proof of concept (and promising, in aging and disease prediction studies).

[zack chiang @z_chiang]

7 years ago, I met a junior fellow named @JD_Buenrostro who blew me away with a vision of futuristic genomic technologies

Today, we (@ajaylabade31, @carolinecomenho) are excited to share our first steps into that future: Expansion in situ genome sequencing

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[Dr. Alessandra Pontiroli @asandra_pon]

Some further vibes in London: wildlife and poetry.

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🇬🇧 vibes

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Remember the Aesop's fable?

These guys replicated the Tortoise and the Hare and the final result was the expected one.

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Farewell, Dame Maggie Smith, you have made the world a better place 🫶🏼

[ana @shivlestat]

rest in peace maggie smith you’ll always be loved