Gardini Lucia

Professional Profile: Researcher (Employee)
Activity field: Research
Main office/laboratory: Sezione Sesto Fiorentino – LENS
Office phone number: 0554572256
Laboratory phone number: 0554572463
E-mail:
ResearcherID: Q-3163-2018OrcidID: 0000-0003-0923-9221ScopusID: 55855199300
Primary activity: During my research career I’ve been dealing with advanced optical microscopy techniques, with particular experience in single molecule fluorescence microscopy. Through both tracking and super-resolution imaging experiments I study molecular motors, such as myosins, and the architecture of the actin cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells and how its structure is influenced by external and internal mechanical stimuli. I also apply super-resolution microscopy to the study of bacteria to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance and other epigenetic mechanisms.
As a researcher, I actively participate in experimental work and at the same time I coordinate the research of postdocs and PhD students, together with writing of papers, projects and other dissemination activities.

Main experiences acquired: She has been working in the field of microscopy and optics since the beginning of her PhD in 2011. She has longstanding experience in the design and fabrication of advanced microscopes, with particular application to single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and super-resolution microscopy.

Research Groups:
2D/3D super-resolution techniques for the imaging of thick samples

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 10
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 8
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 2
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 0
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 3
  –   Abstract, are: 5

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2024-03-24
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 36
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 11.878
  –   H-INDEX: 6   G-INDEX: 8   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 4 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor