diff --git a/config/_default/params.yaml b/config/_default/params.yaml index 915bc32..9345bab 100644 --- a/config/_default/params.yaml +++ b/config/_default/params.yaml @@ -115,4 +115,18 @@ extensions: publications: date_format: January 2006 - citation_style: apa \ No newline at end of file + citation_style: apa + +ticker: + items: + - text: "📢 We are hiring!" + url: "/post/2025/25-10-21-job-ad/" + - text: "🚨 New Project alert" + url: "/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/" + newtab: true + - text: "📜 New preprint: ShearView" + url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08951" + newtab: true + - text: "📄 New publication: The Hitchhiker's guide to DDM" + url: "https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/163/16/161501/3369109/The-Hitchhiker-s-guide-to-differential-dynamic" + newtab: true \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 517a4b0..1963c98 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -52,12 +52,14 @@ sections: buttons: - name: All tag: '*' - - name: Soft Matter - tag: Soft Matter + - name: Rheology + tag: Rheology - name: Optics tag: Optics - name: Microscopy tag: Microscopy + - name: Biology + tag: Biology design: # Choose how many columns the section has. Valid values: '1' or '2'. columns: '1' diff --git a/content/project/22-01-01-GTACS/index.md b/content/project/22-01-01-GTACS/index.md index 9039444..93942a2 100644 --- a/content/project/22-01-01-GTACS/index.md +++ b/content/project/22-01-01-GTACS/index.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ url_video: '' The GTACTS project also known as SEDIMENTING COLLOIDS has a primary objective to investigate the connection between velocity fluctuations and concentration fluctuations that occur during the sedimentation of particles in a fluid. This study will utilize the unique environment of microgravity in space to enhance understanding of colloidal systems and sedimentation processes, which are difficult to replicate accurately on Earth due to the influence of gravity. Experiments will be conducted onboard the International Space Station (ISS) by using the [FLUMIAS](https://issnationallab.org/iss360/miniature-microscope-aims-to-maximize-science/#:~:text=A%20miniaturized%20fluorescence%20microscope%20could,technology%20onboard%20the%20space%20station.) (Fluorescence Microscopy in the International Space Station) facility, a pioneering 3D fluorescence microscope developed by the [German Aerospace Center (DLR)](https://www.dlr.de/en), allowing to study dynamic changes in samples subjected to different gravitational environments, up to 1.1g. The project also involves: -- University of Milan, Dep. Physics: Alberto Vailati, Marina Carpineti -- University of Milan, Dep. BIOMETRA: Fabio Giavazzi +- University of Milan, Dep. Physics: [Alberto Vailati](https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/alberto-vailati), [Marina Carpineti](https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/marina-carpineti) +- University of Milan, Dep. BIOMETRA: [Fabio Giavazzi](https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/fabio-giavazzi) - Heinrich Heine University: Stefan Egelhaaf (deceased) diff --git a/content/project/24-01-01-TRAINGEL/index.md b/content/project/24-01-01-TRAINGEL/index.md index 7252569..994d59e 100644 --- a/content/project/24-01-01-TRAINGEL/index.md +++ b/content/project/24-01-01-TRAINGEL/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: Transforming Gels Through Training (TRAINGEL) summary: Training colloidal gels through mechanical solicitation or by altering the interaction between the colloidal particles. tags: - - Soft Matter + - Rheology date: '2024-10-21T00:00:00Z' authors: - admin diff --git a/content/project/24-04-09-sedimentation/index.md b/content/project/24-04-09-sedimentation/index.md index a32fe6a..757aa6e 100644 --- a/content/project/24-04-09-sedimentation/index.md +++ b/content/project/24-04-09-sedimentation/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: The Non-Equilibrium Physics of Colloidal Sedimentation summary: The project aims to combine novel quantitative microscopy approaches and advanced computer simulations to capture in full detail the richness of the sedimentation process in model samples. tags: - - Soft Matter + - Microscopy date: '2022-03-01T00:00:00Z' authors: - Enrico diff --git a/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/featured.png b/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/featured.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6074db3 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/featured.png differ diff --git a/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/index.md b/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a43faa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/project/25-11-01-Mechanosynth/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: MechanoSynth +summary: Decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues +tags: + - Rheology + - Biology +date: '2025-10-20T00:00:00Z' +authors: + #- Admin +# Optional external URL for project (replaces project detail page). +#external_link: 'https://www.wwtf.at/funding/programmes/ls/LS24-038/index.php?lang=EN' + +image: + caption: AI generated + focal_point: Smart + +links: + #- icon: twitter + # icon_pack: fab + # name: Follow + # url: https://twitter.com/georgecushen +url_code: '' +url_pdf: '' +url_slides: '' +url_video: '' + +# Slides (optional). +# Associate this project with Markdown slides. +# Simply enter your slide deck's filename without extension. +# E.g. `slides = "example-slides"` references `content/slides/example-slides.md`. +# Otherwise, set `slides = ""`. +#slides: example +--- +***Decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues*** + +--- +Physical forces are crucial in development, tissue maintenance, and disease. Tissues display complex mechanical behaviors such as viscoelasticity, strain-stiffening, and phase transitions, which are essential for biological function. However, the mechanisms behind these macroscopic properties remain unclear. While some features can result from passive physical effects, as seen in soft materials like polymer gels, living tissues also involve active processes such as mechanosensing, where cells exert and respond to forces. Because both passive and active mechanisms operate across multiple spatial and temporal scales, distinguishing their contributions to tissue mechanics is challenging. +{style="text-align: justify;"} + + +Progress has been limited by the lack of experimental methods that can measure tissue-scale mechanical properties while simultaneously visualizing cellular and molecular dynamics. To address this, the proposed research combines material science, developmental biology, and physics through a reductionist approach. It will use functionalized biomimetic emulsions and zebrafish gastruloids to create materials with tunable mechanical responses, analyzed using an innovative opto-rheological platform. Integrating these findings into a biophysical theory will reveal how microscopic interactions generate distinct mechanical behaviors in living versus synthetic tissues. Ultimately, this work aims to reconstruct and understand how passive and active mechanical processes interact, enabling the rational design of new living materials. +{style="text-align: justify;"} + +The project also involves: +- IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna: [Diana Pinheiro](https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/diana-pinheiro) +- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA): [Edouard Hannezo](https://ist.ac.at/en/research/hannezo-group/) + diff --git a/content/publication/2025/enrico2025/cite.bib b/content/publication/2025/enrico2025/cite.bib new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5972dbb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/publication/2025/enrico2025/cite.bib @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +@article{lattuada2025hitchhiker, + title={The Hitchhiker's guide to differential dynamic microscopy}, + author={Lattuada, Enrico and Krautgasser, Fabian and Lavaud, Maxime and Giavazzi, Fabio and Cerbino, Roberto}, + journal={The Journal of Chemical Physics}, + volume={163}, + number={16}, + year={2025}, + publisher={AIP Publishing} +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/index.md b/content/publication/2025/enrico2025/index.md similarity index 53% rename from content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/index.md rename to content/publication/2025/enrico2025/index.md index 2efffaa..5b3d229 100644 --- a/content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/index.md +++ b/content/publication/2025/enrico2025/index.md @@ -6,41 +6,41 @@ authors: - Maxime - Fabio Giavazzi - admin -date: "2025-07-07T00:00:00Z" -doi: "https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.05058" +date: "2025-10-24T00:00:00Z" +doi: "https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0289471" # Schedule page publish date (NOT publication's date). -publishDate: "2025-07-07T14:43:56Z" +publishDate: "2025-10-27T12:00:00Z" # Publication type. # Accepts a single type but formatted as a YAML list (for Hugo requirements). # Enter a publication type from the CSL standard. -publication_types: ["article"] +publication_types: ["article-journal"] # Publication name and optional abbreviated publication name. publication: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy" publication_short: "" -abstract: Over nearly two decades, Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) has become a standard technique for extracting dynamic correlation functions from time-lapse microscopy data, with applications spanning colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions, active fluids, and biological systems. In its most common implementation, DDM analyzes image sequences acquired with a conventional microscope equipped with a digital camera, yielding time- and wavevector-resolved information analogous to that obtained in multi-angle Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS). With a widening array of applications and a growing, heterogeneous user base, lowering the technical barrier to performing DDM has become a central objective. In this tutorial article, we provide a step-by-step guide to conducting DDM experiments -- from planning and acquisition to data analysis -- and introduce the open-source software package fastDDM, designed to efficiently process large image datasets. fastDDM employs optimized, parallel algorithms that reduce analysis times by up to four orders of magnitude on typical datasets (e.g., 10,000 frames), thereby enabling high-throughput workflows and making DDM more broadly accessible across disciplines. +abstract: Over nearly two decades, differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) has become a standard technique for extracting dynamic correlation functions from time-lapse microscopy data, with applications spanning classical soft matter systems, such as colloidal suspensions, liquid crystals, polymer solutions, gels and glasses, and active fluids and biological systems. In its most common implementation, DDM analyzes image sequences acquired with a conventional microscope equipped with a digital camera, yielding time- and wavevector-resolved information analogous to that obtained in multi-angle dynamic light scattering. With a widening array of applications and a growing, heterogeneous user base, lowering the technical barrier to performing DDM has become a central objective. In this tutorial article, we provide a step-by-step guide to conducting DDM experiments—from planning and acquisition to data analysis—intended as a resource for both new and experienced practitioners. We also introduce the open-source software package, fastDDM, designed to efficiently process large image datasets using optimized, parallel algorithms that reduce analysis times by up to four orders of magnitude on typical datasets (e.g., 10 000 frames), thereby enabling high-throughput workflows, reproducibility, and broader adoption across disciplines. # Summary. 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Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. tags: -- DDM +- Microscopy featured: false links: -- #name: Custom Link - url: '' -url_pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05058 +#- name: Custom Link +# url: '' +url_pdf: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0289471/20773519/161501_1_5.0289471.pdf url_code: 'https://github.com/somexlab/fastddm-tutorials' url_dataset: 'https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.686' -#url_poster: '#' +#url_poster: '' #url_project: '' #url_slides: '' -#url_source: '#' -#url_video: '#' +#url_source: '' +#url_video: '' # Featured image # To use, add an image named `featured.jpg/png` to your page's folder. diff --git a/content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/cite.bib b/content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/cite.bib deleted file mode 100644 index 269e5c1..0000000 --- a/content/publication/preprint/enrico2025/cite.bib +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -@article{lattuada2025hitchhiker, - title={The Hitchhiker's Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy}, - author={Lattuada, Enrico and Krautgasser, Fabian and Lavaud, Maxime and Giavazzi, Fabio and Cerbino, Roberto}, - journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05058}, - year={2025} -} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/layouts/partials/hooks/body-end/ticker.html b/layouts/partials/hooks/body-end/ticker.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0687d52 --- /dev/null +++ b/layouts/partials/hooks/body-end/ticker.html @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +
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