Marco Lazzarino
SCIENTIST
Biomechanics
International School for Advanced Studies
Italy
Biography
Marco Lazzarino got the degree in Physics from the University of Genoa (IT) and the Phd from the University of Groningen (NL). From 1992 to 1998 he worked on the electronic properties of semiconductor devices, including heterostructures, Schottky barriers, hybrid superconductor-semiconductor and 2D electron gas with INFM in Trieste and with SNS in Pisa, Italy. Since 1999 he is a scientist with CNR-IOM in Trieste where initially worked in the field of scanning probe microscopy, nano-lithography and low temperature SNOM. In 2003 a visiting period at Princeton University (NJ) triggered a new interest in the application of probe microscopy to life science and the development of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems for the detection and manipulation of biological molecules. Nano-mechanobiology is still his current scientific activity. He is also scientific coordinator of the Nano-Bio-Analysis Laboratory of the Center for BioMedicine (CBM S.c.r.l. - Trieste) dedicated to the application of scanning probe microscopy to biology.
Research Interest
Cell force adhesion measurements, Nanopatterned substrates, Raman spectroscopy.
Publications
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Maity S, Mazzolini M, Arcangeletti M, Valbuena A, Fabris P, Lazzarino M, Torre V. Conformational rearrangements in the transmembrane domain of CNGA1 channels revealed by single-molecule force spectroscopy. Nat Commun. 2015 May 12;6:7093.
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Torelli E, Marini M, Palmano S, Piantanida L, Polano C, Scarpellini A, Lazzarino M, Firrao G. A DNA Origami Nanorobot Controlled by Nucleic Acid Hybridization. Small. 2014 Mar 20.
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Migliorini E, Ban J, Grenci G, Andolfi L, Pozzato A, Tormen M, Torre V and Lazzarino M. Nanomechanics Controls Neuronal Precursors Adhesion and Differentiation. Biotechnol Bioeng, 2013 Aug;110(8):2301-10.
