I earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology at University of Trieste in north-east of Italy, working firstly in a cancer research lab, and secondly, in a biophysics lab where my passion of nano-molecular objects started, along with my Atomic Force Microscopy experience. Then, I continued working on DNA origami technology to successfully create a Localized Surface Plasmon Resonant (LSPR) switching device triggered by DNA oligonucleotide molecules, obtaining, in this way, a PhD in Nanotechnology from University of Trieste in 2015. In January 2016 I started my international research experience working as a Post-Doctoral associate for 3 years, in the group of Kislon Voitchovsky at Durham University in UK, where I investigated the biophysical properties at the nanoscale of soft matter in bio-synthetic models extensively using Atomic Force Microscopy. After a short 6-months period in AFM bio-physics lab at INSERM-Marseille institute in France, I joined Micron School of Materials an
Study reveals how cells build mini-muscles underneath their nucleus
Research groups at the University of Helsinki uncovered how motor protein myosin, which is responsible for contraction of skeletal muscles, functions also in non-muscle cells to build contractile structures at the inner face of the cell membrane.
This is the first time when such mini-muscles , also known as stress fibers, have been seen to emerge spontaneously through myosin-driven reorganization of the pre-existing actin filament network in cells. Defects in the assembly of these mini-muscles in cells lead to multiple disorders in humans, and in the most severe cases to cancer progression.
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