Dr Pietro Cicuta

Primary publications

1. Avelino Javer*, Zhicheng Long*, Eileen Nugent, Marco Grisi, Kamin Siriwatwetchakul, Kevin D. Dorfman, Pietro Cicuta, and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
   Short-time loci displacement unveils E. coli chromosome organization
   Nature Communications accepted (2013)
   
   
2. Elodie Aumaitre, Sebastian Knoche, Pietro Cicuta, Dominic Vella
   Wrinkling in the deflation of elastic bubbles
   European Physical Journal E accepted (2013)
   
   
3. Alex Crick, Teresa Tiffert, Sheel Shah, Jurij Kotar, Virgilio L. Lew and Pietro Cicuta
   An automated live imaging platform for studying merozoite egress-invasion in malaria cultures
   Biophysical Journal accepted (2013)
   
This work discussed in CavMag: Link
and Research Horizons: Link


4. Zhicheng Long, Eileen Nugent, Avelino Javer, Pietro Cicuta, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Kevin D. Dorfman
   Microfluidic chemostat for measuring single cell dynamics in bacteria
   Lab on a Chip 13, 947-954 (2013)
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5. Simon Wongsuwarn, Yan Ji, Pietro Cicuta and Eugene M. Terentjev
   Fast and reversible microscale formation of columns in carbon nanotube suspensions
   Soft Matter 9, 235-240 (2013)
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6. Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Filippo de Lillo, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
   Driving potential and noise level determine the synchronization state of hydrodynamically coupled oscillators
   Physical Review Letters 109, 164103 (2012)
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7. Romain Lhermerout, Nicolas Bruot, Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
   Collective synchronization states in arrays of driven colloidal oscillators
   New Journal of Physics 14, 105023 (2012)
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8. Loïc Damet, Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
   Hydrodynamically synchronized states in active colloidal arrays
   Soft Matter 8, 8672-8678 (2012)
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9. Vincenzo G. Benza, Bruno Bassetti, Kevin D. Dorfman, Vittore F. Scolari, Krystyna Bromek, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
   Physical descriptions of the bacterial nucleoid at large scales, and their biological implications
   Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 076602 (2012)
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10. Julia R. Gog, Alicia Murcia, Natan Osterman, Olivier Restif, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Mark Sheppard, Sarra Achouri, Bin Wei, Pietro Mastroeni, James L. N. Wood, Duncan J. Maskell, Pietro Cicuta and Clare E. Bryant
    Dynamics of Salmonella infection of macrophages at the single cell level
    Interface 9, 2696-707 (2012)
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11. Simon Wongsuwarn, Daniele Vigolo, Roberto Cerbino, Andrew M. Howe, Alberto Vailati, Roberto Piazza and Pietro Cicuta
    Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles
    Soft Matter 8, 5857-5863 (2012)
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12. Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella
    The capillary interaction between two vertical cylinders
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 284104 (2012)
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13. Davide Orsi, Giacomo Baldi, Pietro Cicuta and Luigi Cristofolini
    On the relation between hierarchical morphology and mechanical properties of a colloidal 2D gel system
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 413, 71–77 (2012)
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14. Elodie Aumaitre, Simon Wongsuwarn, Damiano Rossetti, Nicholas D. Hedges, Andrew R. Cox, Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
    A viscoelastic regime in dilute hydrophobin monolayers
    Soft Matter 8, 1175 (2012)
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15. Giovanni M. Cicuta, Enrico Onofri, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
    Patterns of synchronization in the hydrodynamic coupling of active colloids
    Phys. Rev. E 85, 016203 (2012)
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16. Nicolas Bruot, Loïc Damet, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
    Noise and Synchronization of a Single Active Colloid
    Physical Review Letters 107, 094101 (2011)
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17. Aidan T. Brown, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
    Active rheology of phospholipid vesicles
    Phys. Rev. E 84, 021930 (2011)
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18. Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta, Robert Woodward, Jonathan Weaver and Wilhelm T. S. Huck
    Microfluidic production of monodisperse functional o/w droplets and study of their reversible pH dependent aggregation behavior
    Soft Matter 7, 4214 (2011)
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19. Elodie Aumaitre, Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
    On the measurement of the surface pressure in Langmuir films with finite shear elasticity
    Soft Matter 7, 2530 (2011)
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20. Young Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta
    Red blood cell dynamics: from spontaneous fluctuations to non-linear response
    Soft Matter 7, 2042 (2011)
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21. Jakob M. A. Mauritz, Alessandro Esposito, Teresa Tiffert, Jeremy N. Skepper, Alice Warley, Young-Zoon Yoon, Pietro Cicuta, Virgilio L. Lew, Jochen R. Guck and Clemens F. Kaminski
    Biophotonic techniques for the study of malaria-infected red blood cells
    Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 48, 1055-1063 (2010)
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22. Natan Osterman, Jurij Kotar, Eugene M. Terentjev and Pietro Cicuta
    Relaxation kinetics of stretched disclination lines in a nematic liquid crystal
    Phys. Rev. E 81, 061701 (2010)
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23. Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar, Aidan T. Brown, Ji-Ho Noh and Pietro Cicuta
    Hydrodynamic coupling in polygonal arrays of colloids: Experimental and analytical results
    Phys. Rev. E 81, 051403 (2010)
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24. Jurij Kotar, Marco Leoni, Bruno Bassetti, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
    Hydrodynamic synchronization of colloidal oscillators
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107, 7669-7673 (2010)
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    see also Supplementary Material: Link
    
25. Anuphon Laohavisit, Aidan T. Brown, Pietro Cicuta and Julia M. Davies
    Annexins: Components of the Calcium and Reactive Oxygen Signaling Network
    Plant Physiology 152, 1824–1829 (2010)
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26. Young-Zoon Yoon and Pietro Cicuta
    Optical trapping of colloidal particles and cells by focused evanescent fields using conical lenses
    Optics Express 18, 7076 (2010)
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27. Young-Zoon Yoon, John P Hale, Peter G Petrov and Pietro Cicuta
    Mechanical properties of ternary lipid membranes near a liquid–liquid phase separation boundary
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22, 062101 (2010)
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    see also Supplementary Material: Link
    highlighted in IoP labtalk: Link
    
28. M. Leoni, B. Bassetti, J. Kotar, P. Cicuta and M. Cosentino Lagomarsino
    Minimal two-sphere model of the generation of fluid flow at low Reynolds numbers
    Phys. Rev. E 81, 036304 (2010)
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29. Young-Zoon Yoon, Ha Hong, Aidan Brown, Dong Chung Kim, Dae Joon Kang, Virgilio L. Lew, and Pietro Cicuta
    Flickering Analysis of Erythrocyte Mechanical Properties: Dependence on Oxygenation Level, Cell Shape, and Hydration Level
    Biophysical Journal 97, 1606–1615 (2009)
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30. Elisabetta Spigone, Gil-Young Cho, Gerald G. Fuller, and Pietro Cicuta
    Surface Rheology of a Polymer Monolayer: Effects of Polymer Chain Length and Compression Rate
    Langmuir 25, 7457–7464 (2009)
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31. Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
    Granular character of particle rafts
    Physical Review Letters 102, 138302 (2009)
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32. Marco Leoni, Jurij Kotar, Bruno Bassetti, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
    A basic swimmer at low Reynolds number
    Soft Matter 5, 472 - 476 (2009), DOI: 10.1039/b812393d
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33. Sarah Veatch, Pietro Cicuta, Prabuddha Sengupta, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, David Holowka and Barbara Baird
    Critical Fluctuations in Plasma Membrane Vesicles
    ACS Chemical Biology 3, 287 (2008)
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34. Young-Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Gilwon Yoon and Pietro Cicuta
    Non-linear mechanical response of the Red Blood Cell
    Physical Biology 5, 036007 (2008)
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35. Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pietro Cicuta, Marcus D. Collins, Sarah L. Veatch, Marcel den Nijs, M. Schick and Sarah L. Keller
    Line tensions, correlation lengths, and critical exponents in lipid membranes near critical points
    Biophysical Journal 95, 236–246 (2008)
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36. P. Cicuta and A. M. Donald
    Microrheology: a review of the method and applications
    Soft Matter 3, 1449–1455 (2007)
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37. P. Cicuta, S.L. Keller and S.L. Veatch
    Diffusion of Liquid Domains in Lipid Bilayer Membranes
    J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 3328-3331 (2007)
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38. P. Cicuta
    Compression and shear surface rheology in spread layers of beta-casein and beta-lactoglobulin
    J. Coll. Interface Sci. 308, 93-99 (2007)
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39. T.A.M. Ferenczi and P. Cicuta
    Shear and compression viscoelasticity in polymer monolayers
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, 3445-3453 (2005)
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40. P. Cicuta and E. M. Terentjev
    Viscoelasticity of a protein monolayer from anisotropic surface pressure measurements
    European Physical Journal E. 16, 147-158 (2005)
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41. P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
    Scaling of dynamics in 2d semi-dilute polymer solutions
    Europhysics Letters 68, 65-71 (2004)
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42. P. Cicuta, A. R. Tajbakhsh and E. M. Terentjev
    Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation
    Phys. Rev. E 70, 011703 (2004)
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43. P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
    Recent developments of surface light scattering as a tool for optical-rheology of polymer monolayers
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 233, 97–107 (2004)
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44. P. Cicuta, E.J.Stancik and G.G.Fuller
    Shearing or Compressing a Soft Glass in 2D: Time-concentration superposition
    Physical Review Letters 90, 236101 (2003)
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45. L. Cristofolini, P. Cicuta and M.P. Fontana
    Looking for the glass transition in a single molecular layer on the water surface
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, S1031 (2003)
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46. Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
    Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 041404 (2002)
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47. Pietro Cicuta, A.R. Tajbakhsh and Eugene M. Terentjev
    Evolution of photonic structure on deformation of cholesteric elastomers
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 051704 (2002)
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48. Pietro Cicuta, Ian Hopkinson and Peter G. Petrov
    Photocontrol of Protein Conformation in a Langmuir Monolayer
    J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9991 (2001)
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49. Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
    Studies of a weak polyampholyte at the air-buffer interface: The effect of varying pH and ionic strength
    J. Chem. Phys. 114, 8659 (2001)
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50. Pietro Cicuta, Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
    Capillary to bulk crossover of nonequilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of a near--critical binary liquid mixture
    Applied Optics 40, 4140 (2001)
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51. Pietro Cicuta, Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
    Equilibrium and nonequilibrium fluctuations at the interface between two fluid phases
    Phys. Rev. E 62, 4920 (2000)
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Other

• 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)
  
• P.Cicuta
  Measuring cells with light
  Physics Review (a Physics journal aimed at high school students), April (2010)
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• P.Cicuta
  various lectures at undergraduate level within the
  Institute of Physics' (IoP) project on Biological Physics, (2011)
  Link
• P.Cicuta
  Tackling Malaria
  CavMag (Cavendish Laboratory Newsletter), July (2012)
  Link