Visiting Prof Mara Freire’s Lab & giving a seminar at @ciceco_ua @UnivAveiro on “Modulating Cell Mechanics & Amyloid Fibrils via Ionic Liquid – A Combined Atomic Force Microscopy, Neutron Scattering, Molecular Dynamics & Cell Biology Study” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/c4C76MRRtU
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 16, 2025
Well done Jason with your BSc Physics Final Year Thesis Project on “The mechanical response of phospholipid membranes to ionic liquids by means of atomic force microscopy & spectroscopy” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/QSqui3frHy
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 25, 2025
Thanks Prof Harekrushna Sahoo @nitrourkela for visiting our NanoBioPhysics Lab, the fruitful discussions, and your seminar on “Ionic liquids: Applications in protein kinetics, dynamics and aggregation” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research @ucd_global pic.twitter.com/ZmfNRl96Gv
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) March 11, 2025
Crowded room today for Jia's succesfull PhD Stage Transfer Exam on "The Effect of #IonicLiquid on #CellMechanics" @NanosurfAFM #DriveAFM @cytosurge #FluidFM @zeiss_micro #AxioObserver7 @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research @ucddublin @Researchirel pic.twitter.com/q8Az0VN7xl
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 13, 2025
🎅🔬🎄Christmas came earlier in my NanoBioPhysics Lab this year as last week we got our 2nd @NanosurfAFM #DriveAFM which expands our capabilities, particularly towards atomic resolution & @cytosurge #FluidFM @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research @ucddublin pic.twitter.com/RRkE6WSWNo
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) December 21, 2024
At the "Grigori T. Popa" University of Medicine & Pharmacy in Iași, serving as panel member in the successful PhD defence of Roxana Gherasim (supervised by Cipriana Stefanescu) on "Early and progressive molecular imaging diagnosis in cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's disease” pic.twitter.com/r3QmUPcW1C
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) September 7, 2024
Giving a seminar at ETH-Zürich @ETH_en on “Ionic liquids to control cell membrane elasticity & amyloid morphology: A combined AFM, neutron scattering & MD simulation study” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 pic.twitter.com/ObWxlsllhm
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) July 11, 2024
Our NanoBioPhysics Lab’s expedition with with @HollyVLinford @AYedelkina & @Aadarsh_sony at the annual @ucdscience & @UCDEngArch STEM Early Stage Career symposium presenting on the effects of ionic liquids on lipid bilayers, lipid rafts, and cancer cells. @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway pic.twitter.com/gUKYUqIR9N
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) June 5, 2024
Visiting Prof Mihai Radu’s Lab & giving a seminar at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, in Magurele @ELINPMagurele @MagureleP on “Ionic liquids to tune cell membranes & amyloids” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucd_global pic.twitter.com/ED3caonQMB
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 17, 2024
Visiting Prof @SenSobhan’s single-molecule FCS Lab & giving a seminar at the School of Physical Sciences @SPS_JNU @JNU_official_50 on “Ionic liquids to tune biomembrane elasticity & amyloid morphology” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucd_global @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 pic.twitter.com/0EpY9Yf9BM
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 3, 2024
Visiting Prof Sajal Kumar Ghosh’s @SoftMatter_SNU Lab & giving a seminar at the School of Natural Sciences @ShivNadarUniv on “Ionic liquids to control cell membrane elasticity” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucd_global @UCD_Research @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 pic.twitter.com/UYszvP9h0J
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 29, 2024
About last week wonderful &
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) March 18, 2024
productive hands-on training on our #DriveAFM #AxioObserver7 BioAFM system with Dr. Gotthold Fläschner @gflaesch @NanosurfAFM on live cell nanorheology & adhesion & (pico)mass measurements @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @scienceirel @zeiss_micro pic.twitter.com/hIB67mqPOq
Crowded room today for Alyona's succesfull PhD Stage Transfer Exam on "Membrane Biophysics of Ionic Liquids" #afm #bioafm #driveAFM #lipidbilayer #lipidraft #ionicliquid @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @IrishResearch pic.twitter.com/amVg46W7qx
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 28, 2024
A real pleasure to welcome back Dr Visakh Pillai, one of my former PhD students and now postdoc at @TUeindhoven. Engaging discussion & seminar on ‘From Ionic Liquids Biophysics to Nanoscale Self-Assembly’ - Great to see how far he has come @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/QYOYg3jDRk
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 8, 2025
Spotted by @TheRubiniGroup while I was chatting with Prof Morten Meldal, 2022 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, after his inspiring talk including #AFM and 3D-AFM imaging of amyloid fibrils. @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdchemistry @UCD_SBBS @ucdscience @ucddublin pic.twitter.com/EK5zcjvdgc
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 17, 2025
WE ARE HIRING
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 21, 2025
Are you looking for a fully funded PhD position (4 years) in biophysics? Fancy poking lipid membranes & live cells to probe their mechanics? Join my NanoBioPhysics Lab @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway
Email me your CV - https://t.co/biFAeijtfe
DEADLINE Friday 14th March pic.twitter.com/2Fe5LQDsUJ
It is still Christmas in my NanoBioPhysics Lab as a cutting-edge @HamamatsuPhoton #ORCA camera got installed on our @zeiss_micro #AxioObserver7 fluo microscope hosting our @NanosurfAFM #DriveAFM & @cytosurge #FluidFM. @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research @ucddublin pic.twitter.com/8XLs9PdF4l
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 6, 2025
Crowded room today for Aadarsh's succesfull PhD Stage 2 Transfer Exam on "Membrane Biophysics of Ionic Liquids by Atomic Force Microscopy & Spectroscopy" #ionicliquid #lipidbilayer #membranemechanics #afm #DriveAFM @NanosurfAFM @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research pic.twitter.com/7cuOSfxMWg
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) October 23, 2024
Kicking-off the new Academic Year by giving an Invited Talk on “The Ionic Liquid Route to Control Cell Membrane Elasticity & Mechanics” at the 18th Romanian National Conference of Biophysics in Iasi, Romania, by the Romanian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics pic.twitter.com/bfWZguDJjm
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) September 6, 2024
Lorenzo @LaStatale joined my NanoBioPhysics Lab on a @UCD_physics Summer Research Studentship to work on “Ionic liquids on biomembranes’ morphology & mechanics by atomic force microscopy”. Today, he nicely defended his work for which he was awarded the 1st prize 🎉👏 @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/m1RpndYie3
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) July 3, 2024
Thanks Prof Tomaso Zambelli @ETH_en - AKA “the father of FluidFM” - for visiting our NanoBioPhysics Lab, the fruitful & inspiring discussions, and your seminar on “Measuring cellular forces and currents with the FluidFM” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @UCD_Research pic.twitter.com/GKPmUY3QQ1
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 27, 2024
Visiting Prof Beatrice Mihaela Radu’s electrophysiology patch clamp Lab & giving a seminar at the Dep of Anatomy, Physiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest @UNIBUC on “Ionic liquids meet cell biomembranes & amyloids” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/OdiWPhqvEi
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 16, 2024
Visiting the @UnivofDelhi north campus with my host Prof Pannuru Venkatesu & his team & stopping by one of the main gates to say hi to Mahatma (Bapu) #Gandhi at the sunset pic.twitter.com/HWAZ5RnnzF
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 29, 2024
Our NanoBioPhysics Lab’s expedition at @RoyalMicroSoc AFM & SPM Meeting 2024 (UK) to present on “The effects of ionic liquids on lipid bilayers” with @AYedelkina & @Aadarsh_sony presenting posters & @imenboujmil giving a talk @ucdscience @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @Scienze_RomaTre pic.twitter.com/CuoKw1zEtY
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 13, 2024
At the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Trastevere for a Lettura Corsiniana by the 2021 Physics Nobel Laureate Prof Giorgio Parisi on “Flocks of starlings” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 pic.twitter.com/4Zs8VR2bKM
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) March 3, 2024
Happy & proud supervisor as my former & first PhD student got this very prestigious EU postdoctoral fellowship. Well done @Pall_Kumari & good science with @KoesterLab & welcome to the Marie-Curie club! @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucddublin @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 https://t.co/e2OMHMBmFg
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 16, 2024
Soon in the best cinemas & scientific journals - Filming mode on in our NanoBioPhysics Lab while measuring the effect of ionic liquid on cancer cell mechanics & amyloid fibrils morphology on our @NanosurfAFM Bio-Atomic Force Microscope @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/LiYkqwrUo8
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 1, 2025
New technologies & their integration open new science. @zeiss_micro released its new high-speed super-resolution confocal microscope. Join us to hear more about it & its full integration with our @NanosurfAFM bioAFM & @cytosurge FluidicFM. @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @UCD_Research pic.twitter.com/HfriLtEwZ2
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) March 21, 2025
Delighted & honoured The Ambassador of Italy to Ireland H.E. Nicola Faganello & The Director of The Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin Marco Gioacchini visited my NanoBioPhysics Lab & discussed some IE-ITA initiatives @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucd_global @ucddublin pic.twitter.com/XblRm9lnId
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 17, 2025
Closing great 2024 by giving an Invited Talk on “Controlling Cell Membrane Mechano-Elasticity via Ionic Liquid” @ Complex Fluids 2024 - Soft Matter & Beyond @compflu2024 by @IITHyderabad & Indian Society of Rheology (Hyderabad, 🇮🇳) @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucddublin pic.twitter.com/BKnrNWahGM
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) December 23, 2024
Thanks Prof Samir Mitragotri @SMitragotri @Harvard for visiting our NanoBioPhysics Lab, the fruitful discussions & your inspiring Plenary Lecture on “A Hitchhiker’s & Backpacker’s & Ionic Liquid’s Perspective on Drug Delivery” #conwayfest24 @UCD_Conway @UCD_physics @UCD_Research pic.twitter.com/tvXxkBrVTH
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) October 3, 2024
Our NanoBioPhysics Lab’s 2-week expedition with @Aadarsh_sony @JiajiaWei6 & me at @ETH_en visiting Prof Zambelli’s Fluid Force Microscopy Lab for cell mechanics, adhesion, injection, SICM & patchclamp was a blast! Thx @ucdscience for funding @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @UCD_Research pic.twitter.com/4ztC2kliIN
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) August 9, 2024
Giving an Invited Lecture on “Tuning cell membranes & amyloid via ionic liquids” at the Scientific School “CheM-2024” by the Faculty of Chemistry, Yerevan State University @YSU_official & The National Academy of Sciences of Armenia @Academy_Armenia - @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway pic.twitter.com/q9zz9OZMex
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) June 10, 2024
Visiting Prof Mihaela Moisescu’s Biophysics Lab at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, discussing from optical tweezers on live cells to fluorescence microscopy & spectroscopy and bio-3D printing @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @Scienze_RomaTre pic.twitter.com/zXAltOioJe
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 18, 2024
Thanks Prof Alex Evilevitch @lunduniversity for visiting us, the fruitful discussions & your seminar on “Intranuclear herpes DNA ejection induces robust mechanoprotection of nucleus integrity required for viral genome replication” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience pic.twitter.com/OkWzSg8sKJ
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) May 9, 2024
Visiting Prof Pannuru Venkatesu’s Biophysical Lab & giving a seminar at the Department of Chemistry @UniofDelhi on “Ionic liquids to control biomembrane elasticity & amyloid morphology” @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway @ucdscience @ucd_global @UCD_Research @Scienze_RomaTre @UnivRoma3 pic.twitter.com/xdwlk8SjJH
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 29, 2024
About the enlightening meeting & discussion earlier this week with Prof @geoffreyhinton AKA “the Godfather of AI” @ucddublin @ucdscience @UCD_physics @UCD_Conway pic.twitter.com/j0vmrwh9cj
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) April 13, 2024
At @KTHuniversity, serving as judge in the succesfull PhD defence of Sichao Li (supervised by @MarkWRutland & Prof Glavatskah) on "Electro-interfacial composition control by ionic liquid" along with Profs. @kjedler (ULund) & Cappel (UUppsala), and Prof Spencer (ETH) as opponent pic.twitter.com/rrrGu0au5N
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) March 1, 2024
WE ARE HIRING
— Antonio Benedetto (@anto__benedetto) February 6, 2024
Fancy to poke biomembranes & cells with nanometric tips to probe their morphology & mechano-elastic properties at the nanoscale?
Join Prof Benedetto’s NanoBioPhysics Lab as RESEARCH ASSISTANT or POSTDOC (1-year) DEADLINE Mon 26th Feb
Info at https://t.co/gpFlGFLFnr pic.twitter.com/0oU8mJNxZK