Dan Cojoc
SENIOR SCIENTIST
Optical manipulation and imaging
International School for Advanced Studies
Italy
Biography
Dan Cojoc is a senior scientist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Materials (IOM) in Trieste, Italy. Since 2008, DC is the coordinator of the Optical Manipulation (OM) Lab, of which aim is to develop advanced optical techniques and instrumentation for applications in bio-nanotechnology, biophysics and biomedicine. Expertise: optical manipulation of biological particles, functionalized nanoparticles and living cells using optical tweezers and laser microsurgery; fluorescence microscopy (live cell imaging, TIRF, FRET, nanoscopy); live cell quantitative phase microscopy; fluorescence microscopy (live cell imaging, TIRF, FRET, nanoscopy); photonic force microscopy; microRaman spectroscopy; Fourier optics and diffractive optical elements; phase contrast X-ray microscopy; microfabrication. Scientific interests: cell signaling, cell mechanics, neurobiology, cancer cell biology.
Research Interest
Focal stimulation and cell signaling in neurons, Mechanotrasduction in neurons.
Publications
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Iseppon F, Napolitano LMR, Torre V and Cojoc D. Cdc42 and RhoA reveal different spatio-temporal dynamics upon local stimulation with Semaphorin-3A. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 9:333 (2015).
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Francesco Difato, Giulietta Pinato and Dan Cojoc. Cell Signaling Experiments Driven by Optical Manipulation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2013, 14, 8963-8984.
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Dan Cojoc, Sara Finaurini, Pavel Livshits, Eran Gur, Alon Shapira, Vicente Mico, and Zeev Zalevsky. Toward fast malaria detection by secondary speckle sensing microscopy. Biomedical Optics Express 2012, 3, 991-1005
