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Fate and effects of microplastic particles in a periphyton-grazer system
Kristin Schirmer, Ahmed Tlili, Renata Behra
In the aquatic environment, microplastic particles (MP) can accumulate in microbial communities that cover submerged substrata, i.e. in periphyton. Despite periphyton being the essential food source for grazers in the benthic zones, MP transfer from periph ...
Elsevier Sci Ltd2024Neuromechanical Simulations of Animats with Decentralised Control
Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments represents a significant event in the history of evolution. For this transition to occur, animals had to adapt their morphology, physiology and locomotory skills to handle the challenges and interacti ...
EPFL2023Comparative analysis of time-based and quadrat sampling in seasonal population dynamics of intermediate hosts of human schistosomes
Andrea Rinaldo, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez
Background Despite their importance for designing and evaluating schistosomiasis control trials, little attention in the literature has been dedicated to sampling protocols for the parasite's snail intermediate hosts since their first development. We propo ...
2019Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control
Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Marino Gatto
Recent evidence suggests that snail predators may aid efforts to control the human parasitic disease schistosomiasis by eating aquatic snail species that serve as intermediate hosts of the parasite. Here, potential synergies between schistosomiasis control ...
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019The role of Snail in non-small cell lung cancer
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a developmental program frequently reactivated in cancer. It plays an important role in several aspects of tumor progression, particularly in the acquisition of invasive capacities facilitating metastasis. ...
EPFL2018Snail mediates repression of the Dlk1-Dio3 locus in lung tumor-infiltrating immune cells
Nadine Fournier, Etienne Meylan, Julien Robert Rémi Faget, Svenja Johanna Groeneveld
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition-inducing transcription factor Snail contributes to tumor progression in different malignancies. In the present study, we used a transcriptomics approach to elucidate the mechanism of Snail-mediated tumor growth promoti ...
2018Neutrophils and Snail Orchestrate the Establishment of a Pro-tumor Microenvironment in Lung Cancer
Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Nadine Fournier, Miguel Garcia, Etienne Meylan, Alessandra Piersigilli, Julien Robert Rémi Faget, Inti Zlobec, Gael Luis Boivin, Svenja Johanna Groeneveld, Loïc Steiner, Ioannis Xenarios
Understanding the immune compartment of tumors facilitates the development of revolutionary new therapies. We used a Kras(G12D)-driven mouse model of lung cancer to establish an immune signature and identified a contribution of Gr1 + neutrophils to disease ...
Cell Press2017Heterogeneity in schistosomiasis transmission dynamics
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Marino Gatto
Simple models of disease propagation often disregard the effects of transmission heterogeneity on the ecological and epidemiological dynamics associated with host-parasite interactions. However, for some diseases like schistosomiasis, a widespread parasiti ...
Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2017Surface passivation and self-regulated shell growth in selective area-grown GaN-(Ale,Ga)N core-shell nanowires
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Luca Francaviglia
The large surface-to-volume ratio of GaN nanowires implicates sensitivity of the optical and electrical properties of the nanowires to their surroundings. The implementation of an (Al, Ga) N shell with a larger band gap around the GaN nanowire core is a pr ...
Royal Society of Chemistry2017Hydrology and density feedbacks control the ecology of intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis across habitats in seasonal climates
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Marino Gatto
We report about field and theoretical studies on the ecology of the aquatic snails (Bulinus spp. and Biomphalaria pfeifferi) that serve as obligate intermediate hosts in the complex life cycle of the parasites causing human schistosomiasis. Snail abundance ...
Natl Acad Sciences2016