Wearing this badge with so much pride! I am now a Plant Bacteriology researcher at Embrapa (the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)! 🥳 This is an important step for me, and I'm looking forward to contributing to my country 🤞. #newPI

collecting my last common bean seeds for the common bacterial blight resistance breeding program. This sounds like the ending of my PhD... cause it is

guess the tomato bacterial spot severity note!

I wish you a happy birthday. Here is my favorite: the eccentric 💞 passionfruit 💕 flower

Brazilian Plant Pathology Conference (last week) 🌱🦠! I presented some intriguing results from a bioinformatics course homework on Xanthomonas effector activity inside common bean cells. coming soon to Zenodo 😉

images from the gallery of a plant pathologist on vacation 🦠🌱. spotting beautiful symptoms on passionfruit, banana, and sugarcane leaves

everything has its time 🧘‍♂️. the rhythm of drops

I’m always stunned by a seed begining to sprout. such a small act, yet a powerful phenomenon. I deeply love to work with living organisms

a tiny bacterial spot lesion. Xanthomonas perforans making its mark on tomato leaves

[...] and voilà! there are the expected ribosomal RNA band pairs 🥳

ending the day with *that* all-important electrophoresis. Fingers crossed! 🤞🧪

my adorable little tomato seedlings 🥰. if only they knew what was coming... but it's all for the greater good (I hope)! getting ready for my bacteria inoculation methods class, like pigs to slaughter 🌱

I asked DALL-E to generate an illustration of effector delivery through bacterial T3SS, emphasizing scientific accuracy. well... I’m starting to worry about the kind of scientific literature DALL-E has been reading 😅🧪