Force-biased nuclear import sets nuclear-cytoplamic volumetric coupling by osmosis

Speaker: dr Paolo Maiuri, University of Naples, Italy

Talk:  Force-biased nuclear import sets nuclear-cytoplamic volumetric coupling by osmosis

Time: 17.05.2024, 9:00 am

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58, hall 042B

Dr Paolo Maiuri is a biophysicist with experience in quantitative biology. He did his PhD in HIV transcription at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste, Italy. Then, he moved to Paris to Institute Curie to study cell biology of cell polarity and  division. In 2015 he become a principal investigator in IFOM-IEO Institute in Milan, Italy where he investigated nuclear polarity and cell migration. Currently, he works at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy where his main interest is to how cells sense and react to external physical cues and how this impacts on tumor onset or evolution. He combines cell biology approaches with quantitative imaging and micro-fabrication to decipher basic biological functions. He is author or co-author of >50 scientific articles published in the most prestigious journals including PNAS, Science, Science Immunology,  Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Cell, Nature Materials.