Damian Dalle Nogare
@damiandn
Leading the bioimage analysis facility at Human Technopole Milan. Formerly cell and developmental biologist at the NIH. Serial immigrant 🇦🇺➡️🇳🇿➡️🇺🇸➡️🇮🇹🇪🇺. Fan of dogs, open source tools, and gin.
Had an abundance of cherry tomatoes from the garden so we're making one of the simplest - and best - pasta sauces. Garlic and tomatoes in a pot, cook long and slow with salt until they've broken down completely, add fresh basil at the end.
My fav laptop sticker, courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social at CBIAS last year
Update from rural lunigiana: apricots and pears coming along nicely, and one lonely asparagus coming up from the patch
Big day here in rural lunigiana: it's orto planting day! Before and after:
And lastly, you'll get to live in one of the most beautiful countries on earth. We're based in Milan, in northern Italy, a short train ride away from some of the most stunning scenery on the planet.
Our team is embedded within the Human Technopole National Facilities, a national-scale infrastructure serving the entire Italian research community with advanced equipment and methods.
First, you'll join an awesome international team -- Our two amazing RSEs, Joran 🇫🇷 (who leads the RSE team) and Milly 🇬🇧, and two brilliant Bioimage analysts, Juan 🇦🇷 and Eugenia 🇮🇹, as well as myself 🇦🇺🇺🇸.
Conad is the CVS of Italy. *Somewhere* on this receipt is the barcode I need to exit the self service area.
The ruins of the Linari abbey. First described in 1045, now not much remains.
Tonight was the Falò San Nicolò, where the first of two factions in Pontremoli compete to see who can build the biggest fire 🔥
First cocktails of 2026, a negroni for @angelahvitved.bsky.social and a last word for me. Good riddance 2025, here's to a better 2026!
One of my favorite Italian Christmas "traditions" - the Canettone! It's a panettone, but for dogs!
Enjoying the long weekend with some spiced negroni gin from Four Pillars in Melbourne (which amazingly you can buy here from Amazon UK).