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Pietro Cicuta

@pcicuta.bsky.social
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Biological physics. Interested in bacteria, cilia, malaria, membranes, microscopy, tweezers, microfluidics and organ on chip.

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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... Motile cilia have won 2026 Nikon competition! Not from my lab though, we record in black and white....
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Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) | 2026 Small World in Motion Competition
Ning Xu - Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function.
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And day 5, almost the end of #icbp2026 and our last planary by Athanassia Athanassiou!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Day 4 kicking off with the epic Amos Maritan, physics of ecosystems! #icbp2026
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And the prize for grown ups... The IUPAP medal for the physics of life, Uri Alon! #icbp2026
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Awarded by Patricia Bassereau, from IUPAP C6 Biological Physics!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And Viola Introini also awardee!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Alexander Mietke 2025 early career awardee! Sorry you are not here in person! Congratulations!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Here we are day 3 plenary 3 the amazing super active Julia Yeomans! #icbp2026
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Kay O. @k1970.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our second day second plenary Toshio Ando! Fastest AFM? Lots of small things inside cells! #icbp2026
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What an amazing kick-off lecture by Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz at #icbp2026 #genova
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
International Congress in Biological Physics, Genova, Italy, 28 June to 3 July 2026. URGENT: submission deadline 25 March. Session topics, plenary and invited speakers: www.icbp2026.org IUPAP Physics of Life medal awarded at meeting. Spread the word - and act quickly to submit your work.
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ICBP 2026
We proudly invite experts in biological physics worldwide to the International Conference on Biological Physics 2026 (ICBP 2026) in the magnificent Italian city of Genoa from June 28 to July 5, 2026
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Introini Lab @vascularinfection.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@infect-net.bsky.social @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social
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Leonardo Mancini @mlaenoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
PhD project on offer - Savannah-on-a-chip - part of the Leverhulme DTC in ecological data science ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html at @glasgow.ac.uk Microfluidics, bacteria and phages. Interactions with eco-epidemiology and physics of life. Deadline early March - get in touch!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Yes was perfect!
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Happy new adventures Leonardo! I fully recommend working with him!
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Biophysical Paris @parisseminar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
www.icbp2026.org
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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Read our #DMMEditorsChoice highlight on the Research Article by Laetitia Pinte, @martavilagonz.bsky.social, @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social, @andresfloto.bsky.social, @pcicuta.bsky.social, @vallierlab.bsky.social and colleagues. doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
Transverse section images of cultures from reporter line stained with Haematoxylin and Eosin.
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Di Michele Lab @dimichelelab1.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thrilled to share our latest preprint on expressing synthetic organelles made from RNA nanostructures in bacteria! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Expression of nano-engineered RNA organelles in bacteria
Designing synthetic biomolecular condensates, or membrane-less organelles, offers insights on the functions of their natural counterparts, and is equally valuable for cellular and metabolic engineerin...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Came across this while traveling along the Italian coast: Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. Thor Heyerdal #BlueskyArtShow #TheJourney
Photo of a plaque inscribed with this quote:

Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. 

Frontiere? Non le ho mai viste. Ma ho senito che esistono nella mente di alcune persone.

Thor Heyerdal

In the background is the Mediterranean sea, with clouds on the horizon
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
and the introduction of a new metric MOR50, based on phenotype and optical imaging, which could really speed up MIC type assays in the context of AMR.
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Featuring an intense use of the recent platform MAP doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
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Multipad agarose plate: a rapid and high-throughput approach for antibiotic susceptibility testing | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
We describe a phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) method that can provide an eightfold speed-up in turnaround time compared with the current clinical standard by leveraging advances in ...
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Pietro Cicuta @pcicuta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy to announce our new bug paper! From Morten Kals' PhD, doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Antibiotics change the population growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria
Author summary Antibiotic drugs affect bacterial cells well beyond their specific molecular targets, and understanding their system-level effects could be key to combating antibiotic resistance. Using...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field. Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Top 4 misconceptions about science 1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns) 2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable) 3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial) 4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
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Anton Enright @antonenright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
4 New Faculty Positions at Cambridge University in the School of Biological Sciences www.bio.cam.ac.uk/news/school-...
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School of Biological Sciences strengthens commitment to
Four new academic positions have been launched in the School of Biological Sciences aiming to recruit outstanding scientists in areas of significant research importance: Associate Professor /
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
ooh Bluesky can do videos now... here's an emergency #cilia movie
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