Daria Bonazzi

This study shows that Neisseria meningitidis uses ancreopodia to transmit mechanical forces from the apical surface to the basal extracellular matrix, altering host-cell mechanics.

This study shows that bacterial growth under confinement leads to increased turgor pressure, which disrupts division and protein synthesis, and activates the Rcs pathway, with implications for infection physiology.

The paper introduces an automated framework for optimizing bacterial tracking pipelines using TrackMate 8, demonstrating its effectiveness on two use cases.

Rewritten Fiji plugin TrackMate now uses StarDist, ilastik, Weka, MorphoLibJ or imported label images as detectors, stores 2D object contours, and tracks shape and intensity over time.

This study identifies a novel physical mechanism, 1D wetting, by which Neisseria meningitidis drives plasma membrane remodeling on nanofibers independent of F-actin.