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An Optical Fiber-Based Nanomotion Sensor for Rapid Antibiotic and Antifungal Susceptibility Tests

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Serguei Sekatski, Anne-Céline Verenna Kohler, Jiangtao Zhou, Leonardo Venturelli

The emergence of antibiotic and antifungal resistant microorganisms represents nowadays a major public health issue that might push humanity into a post-antibiotic/antifungal era. One of the approaches to avoid such a catastrophe is to advance rapid antibi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Hierarchical Protofilament Intertwining Rules the Formation of Mixed‐Curvature Amyloid Polymorphs

Giovanni Dietler, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Serguei Sekatski, Meltem Tatli, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Jiangtao Zhou

Amyloid polymorphism is a hallmark of almost all amyloid species, yet the mechanisms underlying the formation of amyloid polymorphs and their complex architectures remain elusive. Commonly, two main mesoscopic topologies are found in amyloid polymorphs cha ...

Wiley2024

3D printed fiber-optic nanomechanical bioprobe

Sandor Kasas, Jiangtao Zhou, Yiping Wang, Yuguang Chen

Ultrasensitive nanomechanical instruments, e.g. atomic force microscopy (AFM), can be used to perform delicate biomechanical measurements and reveal the complex mechanical environment of biological processes. However, these instruments are limited because ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Recent advances in fiber optic sensors for respiratory monitoring

Jiangtao Zhou, Yiping Wang, Dan Liu

There is a growing need to measure respiratory rate (RR) in a variety of applications, including in clinical and occupational settings, as well as during physical exercises. Fiber optic sensors (FOSs) is an attractive solution for wearable RR monitoring be ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2022

Environmental Control of Amyloid Polymorphism by Modulation of Hydrodynamic Stress

Giovanni Dietler, François Gallaire, Sandor Kasas, Serguei Sekatski, Ludovic Pierre Gustave Keiser, Jiangtao Zhou, Leonardo Venturelli

The phenomenon of amyloid polymorphism is a key feature of protein aggregation. Unravelling this phenomenon is of great significance for understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms associated with neurodegenerative diseases and for the development of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Effects of sedimentation, microgravity, hydrodynamic mixing and air-water interface on alpha-synuclein amyloid formation

Giovanni Dietler, Giovanni Longo, Jiangtao Zhou, Francesco Simone Ruggeri

The formation of amyloid fibrils is a characterizing feature of a range of protein misfolding diseases, including Parkinson's disease. The propensity of native proteins to form such amyloid fibril, both in vitro and in vivo, is highly sensitive to the surr ...

2020

Nanoscale Characterization of Amyloid Fibrils and Biomacromolecules by Atomic Force Microscopy Approaches

Jiangtao Zhou

This thesis focuses on the interdisciplinary biophysical research field, in which physical approaches are applied to study the biological phenomena. Specifically, the main object of the research in this thesis is to target biological species,especially the ...

EPFL2020

Fiber-interface directional coupler inscribed by femtosecond laser for refractive index measurements

Jiangtao Zhou, Zhechen Zhang, Yiping Wang, Jiachen Wang

A novel fiber-interface directional waveguide coupler was inscribed on the surface of a coreless fiber by femtosecond laser, and was successfully applied to highly sensitive refractive index (RI) measurements. The primary arm was first inscribed to couple ...

2020

Gap Plasmon Enhanced High Spatial Resolution Imaging by Photothermal Induced Resonance in Visible Spectral Range

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Anton Smirnov, Jiangtao Zhou

CELL PRESS2020

The role of xanthophylls in the supramolecular organization of the photosynthetic complex LHCII in lipid membranes studied by high-resolution imaging and nanospectroscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Jiangtao Zhou

The xanthophyll cycle is a regulatory mechanism operating in the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. It consists of the conversion of the xanthophyll pigment violaxanthin to zeaxanthin, and vice versa, in response to light intensity. According to the curre ...

ELSEVIER2020