Mancini L+, Saliekh L, Claydon R, Benyei E, Munro CA, Shendruk TN, Brown A, Welch M, Cicuta P.
Hyphal growth determines spatial organization and coexistence in a pathogenic polymicrobial community within alveoli-like geometries.bioRxiv, 2025.
Brouwers R*, Mancini L*, Tavaddod S*, Biboy J, Tatham E, Cicuta P, Vollmer W, Allen R. Surface versus volume synthesis governs growth-dependent efficacy of a β-lactam antibiotic.bioRxiv, 2024.
Papers
Swain JEW, Askenasy I, Nazeer RR, Ho P, Labrini E, Mancini L, Zhang Q, Hollendung F, Sheldon IC, Dickson CEM, Welch A, Agbamu ASA, Godlee C, Welch M. Pathogenicity and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: recent advances and under-investigated topics.Virulence, 2025.
Kals M, Jones E, Kotar J, Donald A, Mancini L+, Cicuta P+. Antibiotics change the growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria.PLOS Pathogens, 2025.
Askenasy I, Swain JEW, Ho P, Nazeer RR, Welch A, Benyei E, Mancini L, Nir S, Liao P, Welch M.Wild Type.Microbiology, 2024.
McDermott S, Kotar J, Collins J, Mancini L, Bowman R, Cicuta P. Using old laboratory equipment with modern web-of-things standards for the smart laboratory: LabThings Retro.RSOS, 2024.
Benyei EB*, Nazeer RR*, Askenasy I, Mancini L, Ho P, Sivarajan GAC, Swain JEV, Welch M. The past, present and future of polymicrobial infection research: modelling, eavesdropping, terraforming and other stories.Adv. Microb. Physiol., 2024.
Kals M, Mancini L, Kotar J, Donald A, Cicuta P. Multipad Agarose Plate (MAP): a rapid and high-throughput approach for antibiotic susceptibility testing.J. R. Soc. Interface, 2024.
Monti M, Herman R, Mancini L, Davey K, Dawson CS, Ule J, Thomas GH, Willis AE, Lilley KS, E Villanueva. Interrogation of RNA-protein interaction dynamics in bacterial growth.Mol Syst Biol, 2024.
Mancini L, Pilizota T. Environmental conditions define the energetics of bacterial dormancy and its antibiotic susceptibility.Biophys J, 2023.
Walczak M, Mancini L, Xu J, Raguseo F, Kotar J, Cicuta P, Di Michele L. A synthetic signalling network imitating the action of immune cells in response to bacterial metabolism.Adv Mater, 2023.
Honda T*, Cremer J*, Mancini L, Zhang Z, Pilizota T, Hwa T. Coordination of gene expression with cell size enables Escherichia coli to efficiently maintain motility across growth conditions.PNAS, 2022.
Walczak M, Brady R, Mancini L, Contini C, Rubio-Sànchez R, Kaufhold W, Cicuta P, Di Michele L. Responsive core-shell DNA particles trigger lipid-membrane disruption and bacteria entrapment.Nat Comms, 2021.
Wlodarski M*, Mancini L*, Raciti B, Sclavi B, Cosentino Lagomarsino M, Cicuta P.
Cytosolic crowding drives the dynamics of both genome and cytosol in Escherichia coli challenged with sublethal antibiotic treatments.iScience, 2020.
Mancini L, Terradot G, Tian T, Pu YY, Li Y, Lo CJ, Bai F, Pilizota T.
A general workflow for characterization of Nernstian dyes and their effects on bacterial physiology.Biophys J, 2020.