Oct 16
On Friday October 25. at 14.00, Luca Tubiana will give an invited keynote webinar on Cassyni. The seminar will provide a showcase of the review “Topology in Soft and Biological Matter” recently published on Physics Reports, and will be held together with Angelo Rosa, Emanuele Locatelli, Davide Michieletto, Marco di Stefano, Simon Copar and Sophie …
Jul 26
L. Tubiana et al., Topology in soft and biological matter, Physics Reports (2024) Prof. Luca Tubiana is the lead author of a comprehensive review, involving more than 50 authors, that recapitulates the current state of the art on the topic of topological problems in the context of soft and biological matter. This review offers a …
Jul 26
M. Giulini, R. Fiorentini, L. Tubiana, R. Potestio, R. Menichetti, EXCOGITO, an Extensible Coarse-Graining Toolbox for the Investigation of Biomolecules by Means of Low-Resolution Representations, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2024) Bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) models proved to be essential to complement and sometimes even replace all-atom representations of soft matter systems and biological macromolecules. …
Feb 12
On February 5, 2024 our group participated to the 8th edition of the workshop Physics of Biomolecules: Structure, Dynamics and Function, which was held in Bressanone, Italy. We had a great time showcasing some of our work and enjoying the excellent presentations by a number of participants. As usual, a great occasion to share ideas …
Dec 15
On December 13, 2023 our group gathered for a social dinner before the winter break. It was a great opportunity to further tighten personal interactions and human connections in our team, and enjoy an easy-going the incipient holiday atmosphere!
Nov 29
The postdoctoral position (1.5 Years) is aimed at developing a computational model of selective polymeric sponges for metal ions capture (more details – call – application page). This research is Funded by the European Union under NextGenerationEU. PRIN 2022RYP9YT_004 “SCOPE: Selective capture of metals by polymeric sponges”. The successful applicant will be part of a vibrant collaboration including both experimental and computational physicists and chemists from the …
Nov 09
New director for the Department of Physics at the University of Trento. Gianluca Lattanzi, full professor of Applied Physics, was elected for the three-year academic period 2023-2026. His term of office starts on 9 November. There were 69 out of 73 eligible voters, five blank ballots. Gianluca Lattanzi obtained 38 votes, more than the absolute …
Aug 09
M. Micheloni, L. Petrolli, G. Lattanzi, R. Potestio, Kinetics of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks through coarse-grained simulations, Biophysical Journal (2023) Double-strand breaks (DSBs), i.e., the covalent cut of the DNA backbone over both strands, are a detrimental outcome of cell irradiation, bearing chromosomal aberrations and leading to cell apoptosis. In the early stages of the …
May 09
On May 4-5, 2023 we held the workshop Statistical Physics of Living Systems. The meeting, organised by the SBP group in Trento, aimed at enabling and fostering the interaction with the Quantitative Life Sciences group at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. In this occasion, the two group presented …
Apr 20
Single-Molecule Structure and Topology of Kinetoplast DNA NetworksPinyao He, Allard J. Katan, Luca Tubiana, Cees Dekker, and Davide Michieletto Phys. Rev. X 13, 021010 – Published 19 April 2023 Trypanosomes are unique single-cell parasites: Their mitochondrial genome is made of thousands of DNA minicircles interlinked to form a giant 2D Olympic-ring-like network, known as a “kinetoplast …
