Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
1) Nanomechanical characterization of eukariotic cells.
2) Development of biosensors based on the assembly of nucleic acids in the nanoscale for intracellular or diagnostic applications.
3) Development of advanced dynamic 3D cell culture techniques for the testing of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and nanostructures.
candidates can also choose amongst internship projects at related laboratories abroad: the projects need to be confirmed and defined in detail at the moment of interest.
- Lab. of Life Science Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland): development of microfluidic devices for the characterization and separation of extracellular vesicles.
- Nanobiophotonics Lab of the Leibnitz Institute at Jena (Germany): biosensor applications of plasmonic nanoparticles.
- Univ. of Leeds (UK): nanotechnology with nucleic acids
- Univ. of Edinburgh: availability to be defined
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Sviluppo di sferoidi tumorali come modello per il cancro del colon-retto ed analisi della risposta cellulare al trattamento col farmaco 5-FU
- Sviluppo di sistemi per co-colture cellulari 3D
- Sviluppo e studio di sferoidi tumorali omotipici ed eterotipici e analisi della risposta cellulare al farmaco 5-Fluorouracile
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Design e caratterizzazione di nanostrutture tridimensionali di DNA per l’interazione con cellule microgliali a scopo terapeutico
- Design, preparazione e caratterizzazione di nanostrutture di DNA come candidati farmaci per terapia a RNA.
- Microfluidic DLD sorting of Bone Marrow Adipocytes at different stages of differentiation
- Sviluppo e impiego di nanostrutture di DNA nella modulazione dell’attivazione della microglia
