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Researcher @BSC_CNS 🇦🇷🇪🇸🏳️‍🌈 ENFJ | Bioinformatics | @fi_uner, @exactas_uba, @mpi_bpc, @embl, @dkfz alumnus | @iscb BoD | 3DSIG co-chair | Opinions my own
Jul 9 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨We've updated our preprint "Frustration, Dynamics, and Catalysis" ✨

A short 🧵1/8: We expanded the conceptual connection between the energy landscapes theory and catalysis, added new figures, and clarified how local frustration shapes enzyme function.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00600Image 2/8
Proteins aren't perfectly optimized machines, they’re frustrated. But that’s a good thing.
This review explores how local energetic frustration enables flexibility, catalysis, and evolvability, rather than locking proteins into rigid forms.
Sep 22, 2022 20 tweets 8 min read
[Thread 🧵] It is until now that I have time to tell about the great Birds of a Feather session we organised last Tuesday from the @Bioinfo4women project and that I chaired during #ECCB2022 @ECCBinfo! Nice discussion happened afterwards! (+) Image We started our discussion with @mjrementeria explaining why it is important to increase diversity within research groups and gave recommendations to do it at the institutional level (+)
Sep 22, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read
[Thread🧵] Congrats to the 3 #ECCB2022 @ECCBinfo poster winners! Thanks @mygobletorg & @jdelasrivas for funding the prizes!

It was a hard task to do which was conducted by a team of postdocs & early career researchers. We worked in two teams, one for each day session (+) Each session was 1.5 hours long. During the 1st 1/2 hour we screened all posters and selected our favourite 5. Then we selected each reviewer's favourite poster + those posters selected by +1 reviewer. We went through the preselected posters and evaluated them in depth (+)
Jul 21, 2021 14 tweets 9 min read
[Thread] [1/13] After 10 years of being part of the @iscbsc, within @iscb I am running as its "Board of Directors Representative". It would be an honor and a huge responsibility to represent our community in the BoDs! You can log in and see my candidate statement and vote! [2/13] I became involved in the @iscbsc Student Council in 2011/2012 when we created @RSGArgentina of which I was its 1st president and subsequent advisor until very recently. @RSGArgentina was the only active RSG in Latin America at that point, since @RSGBrazil was inactive.
Aug 14, 2020 13 tweets 9 min read
Finalizo el #5SAJIB y con ello, doy por finalizada tambien mi pertenencia al @RSGArgentina luego de 10 años de actividades. Ha sido una experiencia increible. Aqui dejo video de la charla que di el miercoles acerca de como crecimos como comunidad (+)
Arrancamos el grupo de estudiantes en bioinfo de argentina, cuando yo tenia 22 años y estaba en el ultimo año de la lic. en bioinformatica. En 10 años, me recibi, hice un doctorado y ahora estoy en mi 2do postdoc. Al comenzar, no habia casi nada, lo construimos todo desde 0 (+)