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Overview

Giovanni Dietler is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields within Physics and Astronomy as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. More specifically, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work addresses a range of topics including Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Giovanni Dietler has collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Sandor Kasas, Leonardo Venturelli, María Inés Villalba, Jiangtao Zhou, and S. K. Sekatskiǐ, indicating an active engagement in multidisciplinary research networks.

Their scholarly output includes publications in several prominent scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Fiber-Tip Polymer Microcantilever for Fast and Highly Sensitive Hydrogen Measurement, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Effects of sedimentation, microgravity, hydrodynamic mixing and air-water interface on α-synuclein amyloid formation, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Single yeast cell nanomotions correlate with cellular activity, 2020, Science Advances
  • A perspective view on the nanomotion detection of living organisms and its features, 2020, Journal of Molecular Recognition
  • The Nt17 Domain and its Helical Conformation Regulate the Aggregation, Cellular Properties and Neurotoxicity of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology

These publications have appeared across a variety of highly regarded venues, including ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Chemical Science, Science Advances, Journal of Molecular Recognition, and Journal of Molecular Biology. This diversity reflects a broad interdisciplinary approach within their research activities.

Best Publications

  • Force-distance curves by atomic force microscopy

    Bruno Cappella;Giovanni Dietler

  • Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images

    Jozef Adamcik;Jin-Mi Jung;Jérôme Flakowski;Paolo De Los Rios

  • Europium-Doped CsPbI2Br for Stable and Highly Efficient Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

    Wanchun Xiang;Wanchun Xiang;Zaiwei Wang;Dominik J. Kubicki;Wolfgang Tress

  • Rapid detection of bacterial resistance to antibiotics using AFM cantilevers as nanomechanical sensors

    G. Longo;L. Alonso-Sarduy;L. Marques Rio;A. Bizzini

  • Infrared nanospectroscopy characterization of oligomeric and fibrillar aggregates during amyloid formation

    F. S. Ruggeri;G. Longo;S. Faggiano;E. Lipiec

  • Gelation of colloidal silica

    Giovanni Dietler;Claude Aubert;David S. Cannell;Pierre Wiltzius

  • Measurement of intrinsic properties of amyloid fibrils by the peak force QNM method.

    Jozef Adamcik;Cecile Lara;Ivan Usov;Jae Sun Jeong

  • Gradient of rigidity in the lamellipodia of migrating cells revealed by atomic force microscopy

    Valérie M. Laurent;Sandor Kasas;Sandor Kasas;Alexandre Yersin;Tilman E. Schäffer

  • The H50Q Mutation Enhances α-Synuclein Aggregation, Secretion, and Toxicity

    Ossama Khalaf;Bruno Fauvet;Abid Oueslati;Igor Dikiy

  • Scaling exponents and probability distributions of DNA end-to-end distance.

    Francesco Valle;Mélanie Favre;Paolo De Los Rios;Angelo Rosa

  • Influence of the β-Sheet Content on the Mechanical Properties of Aggregates during Amyloid Fibrillization†

    Francesco Simone Ruggeri;Jozef Adamcik;Jae Sun Jeong;Hilal A. Lashuel

  • Novel Mechanistic Insight into the Molecular Basis of Amyloid Polymorphism and Secondary Nucleation during Amyloid Formation

    Jae Sun Jeong;Annalisa Ansaloni;Raffaele Mezzenga;Hilal A. Lashuel

  • Nanoscale studies link amyloid maturity with polyglutamine diseases onset

    F. S. Ruggeri;F. S. Ruggeri;S. Vieweg;U. Cendrowska;G. Longo

  • Fractal dimension and localization of DNA knots

    Erika Ercolini;Francesco Valle;Jozef Adamcik;Guillaume Witz

  • Atomic force microscopy stiffness tomography on living Arabidopsis thaliana cells reveals the mechanical properties of surface and deep cell-wall layers during growth.

    Ksenija Radotić;Charles Roduit;Jasna Simonović;Patricia Hornitschek

  • Mapping the local Young's modulus by analysis of the elastic deformations occurring in atomic force microscopy

    M Heuberger;G Dietler;L Schlapbach

  • Interactions between NEEP21, GRIP1 and GluR2 regulate sorting and recycling of the glutamate receptor subunit GluR2

    Pascal Steiner;Stefano Alberi;Karina Kulangara;Alexandre Yersin

  • Nanoplasmonic mid-infrared biosensor for in vitro protein secondary structure detection

    Dordaneh Etezadi;John Blaine Warner Iv;Francesco S Ruggeri;Francesco S Ruggeri;Giovanni Dietler

  • Probing nanomechanical properties from biomolecules to living cells

    S. Kasas;G. Dietler

  • Elastic Membrane Heterogeneity of Living Cells Revealed by Stiff Nanoscale Membrane Domains

    Charles Roduit;F. Gisou van der Goot;Paolo De Los Rios;Alexandre Yersin

  • Active solubilization and refolding of stable protein aggregates by cooperative unfolding action of individual hsp70 chaperones.

    Anat Peres Ben-Zvi;Paolo De Los Rios;Giovanni Dietler;Pierre Goloubinoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Jozef Adamcik
Jozef Adamcik ETH Zurich
Hilal A. Lashuel
Hilal A. Lashuel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Andrzej Stasiak
Andrzej Stasiak University of Lausanne
Tuomas P. J. Knowles
Tuomas P. J. Knowles University of Cambridge
Beat M. Riederer
Beat M. Riederer University of Lausanne
Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Aleksandra Radenovic
Aleksandra Radenovic École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
László Forró
László Forró University of Notre Dame

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