Nicola Maghelli
Research Interests
- Live-cell imaging.
- Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM).
- High content multidimensional imaging.
Current project
- dSLM microscope
- Multiple illumination/detection SPIM
Recent Publications
- Kinesin-8 motors improve nuclear centring by promoting microtubule catastrophe
Physical Review Letters, 2015
- Identification and regulation of a molecular module for bleb-based cell motility
Developmental Cell, 2012
- Single-molecule imaging in vivo: the dancing building blocks of the cell
Integrative Biology, 2013
Old Publications
- Self-organization of dynein motors generates meiotic nuclear oscillations
PLoS Biology, 2009
- Optical near-field harmonic demodulation in apertureless microscopy
Journal Of Microscopy, 2001
- Polarization-modulation near-field optical microscope for quantitative local dichroism mapping
Review of Scientific Instruments, 2002
- Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy on rotated sub-micrometer polymer gratings generated by UV-laser based two-beam interference
Applied Surface Science, 2006
- Micromechanical properties of tobacco mosaic viruses
Journal of Microscopy, 2007
- Interphase microtubules determine the initial alignment of the mitotic spindle
Current Biology, 2007
- Versatile Laser-based Cell Manipulator
Journal of Biophotonics, 2008
- Microtubules and motor proteins: Mechanically regulated self-organization in vivo
The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 2009
- Optical trapping and laser ablation of microtubules in fission yeast
Methods in Cell Biology, 2010
- Axon extension occurs independently of centrosomal microtubule nucleation
Science, 2010
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
- June 2012-present
Staff scientist in Eugene Myers group, at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden - August 2006-June 2012
Postdoc in Iva Tolić-Nørrelykke group, at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden - November 2000-July 2006
Ph. D. Student in Prof. Othmar Marti group. Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Ulm, Germany
Title of thesis: “Mechanical properties of biological assemblies: Development of analysis instruments and methods”
Download Ph. D. Thesis (7 MB)
- June 1999
Undergraduate student in Prof. Maria Allegrini group. Department of Experimental Physics, University of Pisa, Italy
Title of thesis: “Development of an apertureless near-field optical scanning microscope with reduced artifact and increased resolution”