Giovanni Meacci

Giovanni Meacci, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Associate Research Scientist

    Department of Biological Sciences

    Nanomedicine Center for Mechanobiology

    Columbia University (New York, NY)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Physics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (Dresden, Germany), Dresden University of Technology (Dresden, Germany)
     
    M.S., Theoretical Physics, University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Michael Sheetz (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Yuhai Tu (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Karsten Kruse (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Antonio Politi (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Biological physics: Cellular Force Production and Mechanosensing - Cell Motility - Bacterial Flagellar Motor - Min Oscillations in Escherichia Coli

    My research in biological physics aims to understand self-organization processes and collective behavior of biomolecules and cells using theoretical and experimental tools to build quantitative models. The subjects addressed during my work concern bacterial cell division and flagellar rotatory motor, focusing on the effects of stochastic fluctuations due to external noise or intrinsic probabilistic cellular processes. More recent is my interest in fibroblast cell motility. Motility is fundamental to many cell types and plays key roles in immune response, embryonic morphogenesis, tissue repair and regeneration, cancer progression, and many other biological and medical phenomena.

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  • Other Experience:

    2007-2009 Postdoc at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Physical Sciences Department - Theory and Computational Physics

    2003 National Institute of Applied Optics, Firenze (Italy): Research in "Fracture dynamics"

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Staining for paxillin and myosin in fibroblast cells spread on pillars with diameter D. D=2 µm paxillin and myosin localize around the edges. D= 0.5 µm paxillin localizes on the top and myosin builds local contractile units between pillars.


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