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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2016-10-01 to present | Professor (Physics)
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Pietro Cicuta

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2013-10-01 to 2016-09-30 | Reader (Physics)
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Pietro Cicuta

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2006-10-01 to 2013-09-30 | Lecturer (Physics)
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Pietro Cicuta

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2004-10-01 to 2007-09-30 | Oppenheimer Research Fellow (Physics)
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Uuniversity of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2003-04-01 to 2004-09-30 | Post-Doc (Engineering)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2000-01-01 to 2003-03-10 | PhD (Physics)
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Pietro Cicuta

University of Milan: Milan, IT

1994-09-01 to 1999-02-01 | Laurea (Physics)
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Cilia dynamics creates a dynamic barrier to penetration of the periciliary layer in human airway epithelia

2025-03-24 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.21.644548
Contributors: Erika Causa; Debasish Das; Luigi Feriani; Jurij Kotar; Pietro Cicuta
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Hyphal growth determines spatial organization and coexistence in a pathogenic polymicrobial community within alveoli-like geometries

2025-03-23 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.22.644766
Contributors: L Mancini; L Saliekh; R Claydon; J Kotar; E Benyei; C A Munro; T N Shendruk; A Brown; M Welch; P Cicuta
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Antibiotics change the population growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria

PLOS Pathogens
2025-02-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012924
Contributors: Morten Kals; Suckjoon Jun; Emma Kals; Jurij Kotar; Allen Donald; Leonardo Mancini; Pietro Cicuta
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Under conditions of high wall shear stress, several PfEBA and PfRH ligands are important forPlasmodium falciparummalaria blood-stage growth

2024-09-25 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.24.614720
Contributors: Emma Kals; Morten Kals; Pietro Cicuta; Julian C. Rayner
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Using old laboratory equipment with modern Web-of-Things standards: a smart laboratory with LabThings Retro

Royal Society Open Science
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240634
Contributors: Samuel McDermott; Jurij Kotar; Joel Collins; Leonardo Mancini; Richard Bowman; Pietro Cicuta
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Antibiotics Change the Growth Rate Heterogeneity and Morphology of Bacteria

2024-08-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.27.609914
Contributors: Morten Kals; Emma Kals; Jurij Kotar; Allen Donald; Leonardo Mancini; Pietro Cicuta
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Light management by algal aggregates in living photosynthetic hydrogels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-06-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316206121
Contributors: Sing Teng Chua; Alyssa Smith; Swathi Murthy; Maria Murace; Han Yang; Lukas Schertel; Michael Kühl; Pietro Cicuta; Alison G. Smith; Daniel Wangpraseurt et al.
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Multipad agarose plate: a rapid and high-throughput approach for antibiotic susceptibility testing

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2024-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0730
Contributors: Morten Kals; Leonardo Mancini; Jurij Kotar; Allen Donald; Pietro Cicuta
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A modern, rapid and simple investigation of Ampère’s law

Physics Education
2024-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/ad272c
Contributors: Pietro Cicuta; Giovanni Organtini
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Mucociliary transport in cystic fibrosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-02-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2400674121
Contributors: Pietro Cicuta
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Optical tweezers reveal that PfEBA and PfRH ligands, not PfMSP1, play a central role inPlasmodium-falciparummerozoite-erythrocyte attachment

2024-02-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.13.580055
Contributors: Emma Kals; Morten Kals; Rebecca A. Lees; Viola Introini; Alison Kemp; Eleanor Silvester; Christine R. Collins; Trishant Umrekar; Jurij Kotar; Pietro Cicuta et al.
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Surface versus volume synthesis governs growth-dependent efficacy of aβ-lactam antibiotic

2024-01-31 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.31.578235
Contributors: Rebecca Brouwers; Leonardo Mancini; Sharareh Tavaddod; Jacob Biboy; Marco Mauri; Elizabeth Tatham; Marie-Luise Enghardt; Ariane Zander; Pietro Cicuta; Waldemar Vollmer et al.
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Multipad Agarose Plate (MAP): A Rapid and High-Throughput Approach for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

2024-01-21 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.20.576355
Contributors: Morten Kals; Leonardo Mancini; Jurij Kotar; Allen Donald; Pietro Cicuta
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Light management by algal aggregates in living photosynthetic hydrogels

2023-09-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.28.559714
Contributors: Sing Teng Chua; Alyssa Smith; Swathi Murthy; Maria Murace; Han Yang; Michael Kühl; Pietro Cicuta; Alison G. Smith; Daniel Wangpraseurt; Silvia Vignolini
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The structure of a Plasmodium vivax Tryptophan Rich Antigen domain suggests a lipid binding function for a pan-Plasmodium multi-gene family

Nature Communications
2023-09-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40885-8
Contributors: Prasun Kundu; Deboki Naskar; Shannon J. McKie; Sheena Dass; Usheer Kanjee; Viola Introini; Marcelo U. Ferreira; Pietro Cicuta; Manoj Duraisingh; Janet E. Deane et al.
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Assessing motile cilia coverage and beat frequency in mammalian in vitro cell culture tissues

Royal Society Open Science
2023-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230185
Contributors: Ricardo Fradique; Erika Causa; Clara Delahousse; Jurij Kotar; Laetitia Pinte; Ludovic Vallier; Marta Vila-Gonzalez; Pietro Cicuta
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Conditional Neural ODE Processes for Individual Disease Progression Forecasting: A Case Study on COVID-19

2023-08-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3580305.3599792
Contributors: Ting Dang; Jing Han; Tong Xia; Erika Bondareva; Chloë Siegele-Brown; Jagmohan Chauhan; Andreas Grammenos; Dimitris Spathis; Pietro Cicuta; Cecilia Mascolo
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Effects of the G-quadruplex-binding drugs Quarfloxin and CX-5461 on the malaria parasitePlasmodium falciparum

2023-07-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.13.548827
Contributors: Holly M. Craven; Guilherme Nettesheim; Pietro Cicuta; Andrew M. Blagborough; Catherine J. Merrick
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Centripetal nuclear shape fluctuations associate with chromatin condensation in early prophase

Communications Biology
2023-07-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05074-9
Contributors: Viola Introini; Gururaj Rao Kidiyoor; Giancarlo Porcella; Pietro Cicuta; Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
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DNA-Origami Line-Actants Control Domain Organization and Fission in Synthetic Membranes

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2023-05-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01493
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Bortolo Matteo Mognetti; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Assessing motile cilia coverage and beat frequency in mammalian in-vitro cell culture tissues

2023-03-24 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.22.533861
Contributors: Ricardo Fradique; Erika Causa; Clara Delahousse; Jurij Kotar; Laetitia Pinte; Ludovic Vallier; Marta Vila-Gonzalez; Pietro Cicuta
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Controlling and scripting laboratory hardware with open-source, intuitive interfaces: OpenFlexure Voice Control and OpenFlexure Blockly

Royal Society Open Science
2023-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221236
Contributors: Samuel McDermott; Richard Bowman; Kerrianne Harrington; William Wadsworth; Pietro Cicuta
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A synthetic signalling network imitating the action of immune cells in response to bacterial metabolism

2023-02-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.02.526524
Contributors: Michal Walczak; Leonardo Mancini; Jiayi Xu; Federica Raguseo; Jurij Kotar; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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DNA-origami line-actants control domain organisation and fission in synthetic membranes

2023-01-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.09.523307
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Bortolo Matteo Mognetti; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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DNA-assisted selective electrofusion (DASE) of Escherichia coli and giant lipid vesicles

Nanoscale
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03105A
Contributors: Sho Takamori; Pietro Cicuta; Shoji Takeuchi; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Modulating membrane fusion through the design of fusogenic DNA circuits and bilayer composition

Soft Matter
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1039/D2SM00863G
Contributors: Miguel Paez-Perez; I. Alasdair Russell; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Reaction–Diffusion Patterning of DNA-Based Artificial Cells

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2022-09-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06140
Contributors: Adrian Leathers; Michal Walczak; Ryan A. Brady; Assala Al Samad; Jurij Kotar; Michael J. Booth; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Remote teaching data-driven physical modeling through a COVID-19 open-ended data challenge

European Journal of Physics
2022-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/ac79e1
Contributors: Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino; Guglielmo Pacifico; Valerio Firmano; Edoardo Bella; Pietro Benzoni; Jacopo Grilli; Federico Bassetti; Fabrizio Capuani; Pietro Cicuta; Marco Gherardi
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Multi-modal microscopy imaging with the OpenFlexure Delta Stage

Optics Express
2022-07-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1364/OE.450211
Contributors: Samuel McDermott; Filip Ayazi; Joel Collins; Joe Knapper; Julian Stirling; Richard Bowman; Pietro Cicuta
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The erythrocyte membrane properties of beta thalassaemia heterozygotes and their consequences for Plasmodium falciparum invasion

Scientific Reports
2022-05-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12060-4
Contributors: Viola Introini; Alejandro Marin-Menendez; Guilherme Nettesheim; Yen-Chun Lin; Silvia N. Kariuki; Adrian L. Smith; Letitia Jean; John N. Brewin; David C. Rees; Pietro Cicuta et al.
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The erythrocyte membrane properties of beta thalassaemia heterozygotes and their consequences for Plasmodium falciparum invasion

2022-01-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.13.476158
Contributors: Viola Introini; Alejandro Marin-Menendez; Guilherme Nettesheim; Yen-Chun Lin; Silvia N. Kariuki; Adrian L Smith; Letitia Jean; John N. Brewin; David C. Rees; Pietro Cicuta et al.
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autohaem: 3D printed devices for automated preparation of blood smears

Review of Scientific Instruments
2022-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1063/5.0076901
Contributors: Samuel McDermott; Jaehyeon Kim; Aikaterini Anna Leledaki; Duncan Parry; Louis Lee; Alexandre Kabla; Catherine Mkindi; Richard Bowman; Pietro Cicuta
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Amphiphilic DNA nanostructures for bottom-up synthetic biology

Chemical Communications
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC04311K
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Giacomo Fabrini; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Centripetal nuclear shape fluctuations associate with chromatin condensation towards mitosis

2021-11-25 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.25.469847
Contributors: Viola Introini; Gururaj Rao Kidiyoor; Giancarlo Porcella; Marco Foiani; Pietro Cicuta; Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
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Thermally Driven Membrane Phase Transitions Enable Content Reshuffling in Primitive Cells

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2021-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06595
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Derek K. O’Flaherty; Anna Wang; Francesca Coscia; Gianluca Petris; Lorenzo Di Michele; Pietro Cicuta; Claudia Bonfio
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Responsive core-shell DNA particles trigger lipid-membrane disruption and bacteria entrapment

Nature Communications
2021-08-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24989-7
Contributors: Michal Walczak; Ryan A. Brady; Leonardo Mancini; Claudia Contini; Roger Rubio-Sánchez; William T. Kaufhold; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Direct measurement of unsteady microscale Stokes flow using optically driven microspheres

Physical Review Fluids
2021-05-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.053102
Contributors: Nicolas Bruot; Pietro Cicuta; Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha; Raymond E. Goldstein; Jurij Kotar; Eric Lauga; François Nadal
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Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explains E. coli cell-division behavior in nutrient upshifts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-05-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016391118
Contributors: Mia Panlilio; Jacopo Grilli; Giorgio Tallarico; Ilaria Iuliani; Bianca Sclavi; Pietro Cicuta; Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
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A Modular, Dynamic, DNA-Based Platform for Regulating Cargo Distribution and Transport between Lipid Domains

Nano Letters
2021-04-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04867
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Simone Eizagirre Barker; Michal Walczak; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Changes in geometrical aspects of a simple model of cilia synchronization control the dynamical state, a possible mechanism for switching of swimming gaits in microswimmers

PLOS ONE
2021-04-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249060
Contributors: Evelyn Hamilton; Tom Waigh; Pietro Cicuta
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A modular, dynamic, DNA-based platform for regulating cargo distribution and transport between lipid domains

2021-03-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.02.433457
Contributors: Roger Rubio-Sánchez; Simone Eizagirre Barker; Michal Walczak; Pietro Cicuta; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Adaptable DNA interactions regulate surface triggered self assembly

Nanoscale
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR04461J
Contributors: Roberta Lanfranco; Pritam Kumar Jana; Gilles Bruylants; Pietro Cicuta; Bortolo Matteo Mognetti; Lorenzo Di Michele
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Cilia density and flow velocity affect alignment of motile cilia from brain cells

Journal of Experimental Biology
2020-12-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.229310
Contributors: Nicola Pellicciotta; Debasish Das; Jurij Kotar; Marion Faucourt; Nathalie Spassky; Eric Lauga; Pietro Cicuta
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Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres

2020-10-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.28.354738
Contributors: Nicolas Bruot; Pietro Cicuta; Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha; Raymond E. Goldstein; Jurij Kotar; Eric Lauga; François Nadal
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Helpful disorder in the lungs

Nature Physics
2020-09-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0896-7
Contributors: Pietro Cicuta
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Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explainsE. colicell division behavior in nutrient upshifts

2020-08-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.03.233908
Contributors: Mia Panlilio; Jacopo Grilli; Giorgio Tallarico; Ilaria Iuliani; Bianca Sclavi; Pietro Cicuta; Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
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Post-replicative pairing of sister ter regions in Escherichia coli involves multiple activities of MatP

Nature Communications
2020-07-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17606-6
Contributors: Estelle Crozat; Catherine Tardin; Maya Salhi; Philippe Rousseau; Armand Lablaine; Tommaso Bertoni; David Holcman; Bianca Sclavi; Pietro Cicuta; François Cornet
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Entrainment of mammalian motile cilia in the brain with hydrodynamic forces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-04-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910065117
Contributors: Nicola Pellicciotta; Evelyn Hamilton; Jurij Kotar; Marion Faucourt; Nathalie Delgehyr; Nathalie Spassky; Pietro Cicuta
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Criticality of plasma membrane lipids reflects activation state of macrophage cells

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0803
Contributors: Eugenia Cammarota; Chiara Soriani; Raphaelle Taub; Fiona Morgan; Jiro Sakai; Sarah L. Veatch; Clare E. Bryant; Pietro Cicuta
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The use of biophysical approaches to understand ciliary beating

Biochemical Society Transactions
2020-02-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1042/BST20190571
Contributors: Pietro Cicuta
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