Emma Kals, Morten Kals, Rebecca A. Lees, Viola Introini, Alison Kemp, Eleanor Silvester, Christine R. Collins, Trishant Umrekar, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta and Julian C. Rayner Optical tweezers reveal that PfEBA and PfRH ligands, not PfMSP1, play a central role in Plasmodium-falciparum merozoite-erythrocyte attachment Link bioRxiv
Samuel McDermott, Jurij Kotar, Joel Collins, Leonardo Mancini, Richard Bowman and Pietro Cicuta
Using Old Laboratory Equipment with Modern Web-of-Things Standards: a Smart Laboratory with LabThings Retro Link arXiv
Golnaz Najafi Gol-Vandani, Simone Di Leo, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta and Seyyed Nader Rasuli
Two Microspheres in an External Flow: a Dance of Cause and Effect Link arXiv
Laetitia Pinte, Marta Vila-Gonzalez, Eleanor C Williams, Erika Causa, Ricardo Fradique, Tekle Pauzaite, Charlotte Passemar, Silvia Becca, Christopher Gribben, Shiqi Ye, Maha AL-Thani, Fabian Bachinger, Floris JM Roos, James A Nathan, Irina Mohorianu, Andres Floto, Pietro Cicuta, Ludovic Vallier Investigating the potential roles of EHF in cystic fibrosis lung disease
Ashleigh Howes, Clare Rogerson, Nikolai Belyaev, Tina Karagyozova, Radu Rapiteanu, Ricardo Fradique, Nicola Pellicciotta, David Mayhew, Catherine Hurd, Stefania Crotta, Tanya Singh, Kevin Dingwell, Anniek Myatt, Navot Arad, Hikmatyar Hasan, Hielke Bijlsma, Aliza Panjwani, Vinaya Vijayan, George Young, Angela Bridges, Sebastien Petit-Frere, Joanna Betts, Chris Larminie, James C Smith, Edith Hessel, David Michalovich, Louise Walport, Pietro Cicuta, Andrew J Powell, Soren Beinke, Andreas Wack The FAM13A long isoform regulates cilia movement and co-ordination in the control of airway mucociliary transport
Rebecca Brouwers, Leonardo Mancini, Sharareh Tavaddod, Jacob Biboy, Marco Mauri, Elizabeth Tatham, Marie-Luise Enghardt, Ariane Zander, Pietro Cicuta, Waldemar Vollmer and Rosalind Allen Surface versus volume synthesis governs growth-dependent efficacy of a beta-lactam antibiotic
Testing Link bioRxiv
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Book Chapters and Outreach
E Causa, R Fradique, P Cicuta Measuring Biophysical Properties of Cilia Motility from Mammalian Tissues via Quantitative Video Analysis Methods
chapter 16 in Cilia: Methods and Protocols - Methods in Molecular Biology 2725, 251-262 (2023), ed. Vito Mennella
Sarah L. Veatch and Pietro Cicuta Critical Lipidomics: The Consequences of Lipid Miscibility in Biological Membranes
chapter 4 in Physics of Biological Membranes; eds. P. Bassereau and P. Sens
Springer, pp 141-168, 2018 Link
Pietro Cicuta Digging the trenches of biological physics
a book review of `Some Critical Questions in Biological Physics: A Guided Tour Around the Bugbears', by Thomas Waigh, Physics Today
71 (12) 2018 Link
Avelino Javer, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta Bacterial Chromosome Dynamics by Locus Tracking in Fluorescence Microscopy
chapter 13 in Chromosome Architecture - Methods in Molecular Biology 1431; ed. Mark C. Leake.
Springer, pp 161-174, 2016
Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta Interfaces and Membranes
chapter 13 in The Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter; ed. Eugene M. Terentjev and David A. Weitz.
Oxford University Press, pp 535-588, 2015
Alex J. Crick, Eugenia Cammarota, Katie Moulang, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta Advances in single cell experimental design made possible by automated imaging platforms with feedback through segmentation
chapter 26 in Methods in Cell Biology -
Biophysical Methods in Cell Biology 125, 471-88 (2015), ed. Ewa Paluch.
P.Cicuta Critical Fluctuations in Lipid Mixtures
entry in the Encyclopedia of Biophysics,
Springer, pp 387-390, 2013 Link
P.Cicuta Tackling Malaria CavMag (Cavendish Laboratory Newsletter),
July 2012 Link
P.Cicuta various lectures at undergraduate level within the
Institute of Physics' (IoP) project on Biological Physics,
(2011) Link
P.Cicuta Measuring cells with light Physics Review (a Physics journal aimed at high school students),
April 2010 Link
P.Cicuta Rheology of bi-dimensional systems. Part I: Examples of interfacial films and rheometers Panta Rei (bulletin of the Italian Society of Rheology),
vol. 4 (2005)
P.Cicuta Rheology of bi-dimensional systems. Part II: Rheology of protein and polymer layers. Panta Rei (bulletin of the Italian Society of Rheology),
vol. 5 (2006)