• Bench to Na­ture, A Call to Mol­e­c­u­lar Bi­ol­o­gists

    by Roberto — Along sev­eral decades my curio­si­ty drove me from the com­fort of pu­ri­fied en­zym­es to the com­plexi­ty of plant root mi­cro­bi­al com­mu­ni­ties, along the way pas­sing through sta­tio­na­ry phase phy­sio­lo­gy, bio­films, in­ter­spe­cies in­ter­ac­tions, to men­tion but a few. All along, some­where hid­den...

  • Trial by Fire

    by Roberto — If per chance you hear the phrase "press dis­tur­bance" you might con­jure up im­ages of chaotic news me­dia. What with all the dis­turb­ing re­ports of fake news go­ing around these days, who could blame you? At least, that was my first re­ac­tion when con­fronted with the term "press dis­tur­bance." But worry not reader, this post will...