Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Curriculum Vitae

Giacomo Frangipane
 
EDUCATION AND TRAINING

11/2014 -10/2017
PhD in Physics (con borsa) cum laude at Sapienza University of Rome Supervisor: Prof. R. Di Leonardo Thesis title: Light controlled motility of Escherichia coli . Characterization and applications

10/2011 - 07/2014
MS Degree in Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, with  mark 110/110 Thesis Advisors: Prof. E. Marinari, Dr B. Cerruti. Thesis title: Tumor induced angiogenesis: a statistical mechanics approach

09/2008 - 11/2011
BS Degree in Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, with mark 110/110 cum laude Selected for the University excellent student course Thesis Advisor: Prof.  A. Tramontano

09/2003 - 07/2008
High School Diploma at Liceo Classico Statale Mamiani - Scientifico Brocca, Rome
 
WORK EXPERIENCE

08/2022 present
Research Fellow (RTDA) at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome

08/2020 07/2022
Postdoctoral fellow (contratto di ricerca) Research topic: Optogenetics in E. coli, with applications on light controlled growth at single cell level.

06/2019 07/2020
Postdoctoral fellow (assegnista di ricerca) at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome PI : Prof. R. Di Leonardo Research topic : Study of the active mechanics of bacterial suspension with application to the controlled transport of passive bodies of arbitrary shape

06/2018 - 05/2019
Postdoctoral fellow (assegnista di ricerca) at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome PI : Prof. R. Di Leonardo Research topic : Experimental study of bacterial motility in microenvironments with controlled structural disorder

02/2018 - 04/2018
Research scholar (borsista) at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome Supervisor: Prof. R. Di Leonardo Research topic : Trasport of photokinetic bacteria in light traveling waves
TEACHING EXPERIENCE & SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION

2022-2023 Physics course, Bachelor Degree in Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutiche

2017-present
Tutor of students for the Biophysics Laboratory course (each year)

2021
Co-Advisor of the Master thesis in Physics of Filippo Liguori on Optorepressilator: long-term optical synchronization of a population of genetic oscillators

2021
Judge in the International Genetically Engineering Machine (iGEM) competition, an annual world wide synthetic biology event that gives students the opportunity to push the boundaries of synthetic biology by tackling everyday issues facing the world.

2019
Lesson on bacterial motility for the course of Microbiology at Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin , Sapienza University of Rome held by prof. ML Bernardini

2015 - 2019
Scientific communicator member of The Science Zone Associazione di Divulgazione Scientifica . Activities and events:  Boosting science education at school , an Erasmus Plus 2-year Strategic partnership (October 2017-2019) aiming at bridging the gap between schools and science; Science Lab for kids for MeravigliOrto exhibit and Hands-on Science project (Rome); Guide to La Scienza Illumina exhibit at Sapienza University of Rome

2016 - 2017
Assistant for the course of scientific programming (laboratorio di calcolo) at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome held by prof. R Faccini

FUNDING 

Avvio alla Ricerca 2018 Tipo 2 from Sapienza University of Rome
Project: Invariance property of mean path length of bacterial trajectories in structured environments

PUBLICATIONS

Scopus
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57194679025
 
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OQAUQCYAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
 
CONFERENCE AND SCHOOLS

17-21/04/2023
Conference - Interdisciplinary challenges: from non-equilibrium physics to life sciences, in Rome (Italy)
Invited Oral presentation: Photokinesis and phototaxis in light-driven E. coli

02-04/11/2022
Conference - Workshop Physics of Microbial Motility , in Paris (France)
Oral presentation: Interplay between phototaxis and photokinesis in light-driven E. coli
 

22-27/05/2022
Conference: Microscale Ocean Biophysics 6.0, in Mallorca (Spain)
Oral presentation:  Flagellar elasticity and the multiple swimming modes of interfacial bacteria, S. Bianchi, F. Saglimbeni, G. Frangipane, R. Di Leonardo.

06/10/2021
Invited online speaker - Bioactive fluids ECR series
E. coli swimming in confinement

18-23/07/2021
Online Conference - Liquid Matter Conference
Oral presentation: Swimming bacteria in complex artificial microstructures

26-29/10/2020
Online Conference - Motile Active Matter
Poster presentation: A transition to stable one-dimensional swimming enhances E. coli motility through narrow channels, G. Vizsnyiczai, G. Frangipane, S. Bianchi, F. Saglimbeni, D. Dell Arciprete, R. Di Leonardo

16-22/07/2019
School - 6 th International Synthetic and System Biology Summer School 2019, in Pisa (Italy)
Poster presentation: Dynamic density shaping of photokinetic E. coli, G. Frangipane, D. Dell Arciprete, S. Petracchini, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, S. Bianchi, G. Vizsnyiczai, M. Bernardini, R. Di Leonardo.

15-16/05/2019
Conference - Biophysics@Rome 2019, in Rome (Italy)
Oral presentation: Dynamic density shaping of photokinetic E. coli, G. Frangipane, D. Dell Arciprete, S. Petracchini, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, S. Bianchi, G. Vizsnyiczai, M. Bernardini, R. Di Leonardo.

28/08-06/09/2018
School - PALM Summer School Microbiophysics 2018,  in Paris (France)
Oral presentation: Dynamic density shaping of photokinetic E. coli, G. Frangipane, D. Dell Arciprete, S. Petracchini, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, S. Bianchi, G. Vizsnyiczai, M. Bernardini, R. Di Leonardo.
Poster presentation: Light controlled 3D micromotors powered by bacteria, G. Vizsnyiczai, G. Frangipane, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, S. Bianchi, R. Di Leonardo.

18-22/09/2017
School - Microswimmers Summer School on Physics of Microswimmers,  in Cargèse (France)
Poster presentation: Light controlled 3D micromotors powered by bacteria, G. Vizsnyiczai, G. Frangipane, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, S. Bianchi, R. Di Leonardo.

04-07/10/2016
Conference - Microswimmers International Conference 2016, in Bonn (Germany) Poster presentation: Light controlled motility in E. coli, G. Frangipane, G. Vizsnyiczai, F. Saglimbeni, C. Maggi, S. Bianchi, R. Di Leonardo.