Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sardelli L, Campanile M, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Fanizza F, Perottoni S, Petrini P, Albani D, Giordano C.
A novel on-a-chip system with a 3D-bioinspired gut mucus suitable to investigate bacterial endotoxins dynamics
Materials Today Bio. December 2023.

Donnaloja F, Izzo L, Campanile M, Perottoni S, Boeri L, Fanizza F, Sardelli L, Jacchetti E, Raimondi M T, Di Rito L, Craparotta I, Bolis M, Giordano C, Albani D.

Human gut epithelium features recapitulated in MINERVA 2.0 millifluidic organ-on-a-chip device

APL Bioengineering. September 2023.

Fanizza F, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Perottoni S, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
Development of an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Liver-on-a-Chip Assessed with an Alzheimer’s Disease Drug
ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. June 2023.

Fanizza F, Campanile M, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
Induced pluripotent stem cell-based organ-on-a-chip as personalized drug screening tools: A focus on neurodegenerative disorders.
Journal of Tissue Engineering. May 2022.

Fusco F, Perottoni S, Giordano C, Riva A, Iannone LF, De Caro C, Russo E, Albani D, Striano P.
The microbiota-gut-brain axis and epilepsy from a multidisciplinary perspective: Clinical evidence and technological solutions for improvement of in vitro preclinical models.
Bioeng Transl Med. February 2022.

Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Campanile M, Sardelli L, Tunesi M, Fusco F, Giordano C, Albani, D.
Using integrated meta-omics to appreciate the role of the gut microbiota in epilepsy.
Neurobiology of disease.  January 2022.

Sardelli L, Perottoni S, Tunesi M, Boeri L, Fusco F, Petrini P, Albani D, Giordano C.
Technological tools and strategies for culturing human gut microbiota in engineered in vitro models.
Biotechnology & Bioengineering. May 2021.

Boeri L, Perottoni S, Izzo L, Giordano C, and Albani D. 
Microbiota-Host Immunity Communication Disorders: Bioengineering Challenges for In Vitro Modeling.
Advanced Healthcare Materials. March 2021.

Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Forloni G, Albani D, Giordano C. 
3D brain tissue physiological model with co-cultured primary neurons and glial cells in hydrogels.
Journal of Tissue Engineering. October 2020.

Tunesi M, Izzo L, Sardelli L, Raimondi I, Albani D, Giordano C. 
A miniaturized hydrogel-based in vitro model for dynamic culturing of human cells overexpressing beta-amyloid precursor protein.
Journal of Tissue Engineering. August 2020.

Ceppa FA, Izzo L, Sardelli L, Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Albani D, Giordano C.
Human gut-microbiota interaction in neurodegenerative disorders and current engineered tools for its modeling.
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. July 2020.

Albani D, Giordano C.
Current perspectives on the microbiota-gut-brain axis in chronic neurodegenerative disorders.
Istituto Lombardo – Accademia Di Scienze E Lettere – Rendiconti Di Scienze. April 2020.

Raimondi I, Izzo L, Tunesi M, Comar M, Albani D, Giordano C. 
Organ-On-A-Chip in vitro Models of the Brain and the Blood-Brain Barrier and Their Value to Study the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Neurodegeneration.
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. January 2020.

Boeri L, Izzo L, Sardelli L, Tunesi M, Albani D, Giordano C. 
Advanced Organ-on-a-Chip Devices to Investigate Liver Multi-Organ Communication: Focus on Gut, Microbiota and Brain.
Bioengineering. September 2019.

Raimondi MT, Albani D, Giordano C.
An Organ-On-A-Chip Engineered Platform to Study the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Neurodegeneration.
Trends in Molecular Medicine. September 2019.

Sardelli L, Pacheco DP, Ziccarelli A, Tunesi M, Caspani O, Fusari A, Briatico Vangosa F, Giordano C, Petrini P. 
Towards bioinspired in vitro models of intestinal mucus.
RCS Advanced. May 2019.

Izzo L, Tunesi M, Boeri L, Laganà M, Giordano C, Raimondi MT. 
Influence of the static magnetic field on cell response in a miniaturized optically accessible bioreactor for 3D cell culture.
Biomedical Microdevices. March 2019.

Albani D, Giordano C. 
MINERVA: the technological project to boost research on the microbiota-gut-brain axis in chronic neurodegenerative disorders.
AgroFood Industry Hi Tech. November-December 2017.


CONGRESS REPORTS

Fanizza F, Boeri L, Pugli F, Negro F, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
An advanced in vitro tool to study gut-brain axis in neurodegeneration
Poster Session presented at 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, 9th-13th September 2023, Granada, Spain. 

Perottoni S, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Sardelli L, Albani D, Giordano C.
Engineered microbiota-gut-brain axis platform to address neurodegenerative disorders  
Oral session presented at: 33rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Biomaterials, 04th-08th September 2023. Davos, Switzerland.

Fanizza F, Boeri L, Pugli F, Negro F, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
A human body-on-a-chip platform to study gut-brain axis 
Oral Session presented at PhD students meeting, 29th-30th June 2023, Milan, Italy. 

Negro F, Fanizza F, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
Development of a gut-on-a-chip device suitable to be integrated into a body-on-a-chip platform
Poster Session presented at PhD students meeting, 29th-30th June 2023, Milan, Italy. 

Pugli F, Fanizza F, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
A millifluidic model featuring immune cells to investigate inflammation in a multi-organ-on-a-chip perspective
Poster Session presented at PhD students meeting, 29th-30th June 2023, Milan, Italy. 

Perottoni S, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Sardelli L, Albani D, Giordano C.
Multiorgan-on-a-plate microphysiologic platform based on a modular organ-on-a-chip device to address the microbiota-gut-brain axis  
Poster session presented at: MPS World Summitt, 26th-30th June 2023. Berlin, Germany.

Perottoni S, Bonacina A, Dell’Oro R, Donnaloja F, Boeri L, Magagnin L, Albani D, Giordano C. 
Integrated sensors for real-time monitoring og biological barriers in engineered cell culture dynamic in vitro models 
Poster session presented at: VIII Congress of the National Group of Bioengineering (GNB), 21st-23rd June 2023. Padova, Italy.

Fanizza F, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
An innovative liver-on-a-chip as part of a body-on-a-chip platform for Alzheimer’s disease drug testing.
Poster session presented at International conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and related disorders AD/PD 2023, March 28th-1st April 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Boeri L, Perottoni S, Donnaloja F, Fusco F, Giordano C, Albani D. 
An ipsc-based organ-on-a-chip of the blood-brain-barrier coupled to a millifluidic brain model to study the microbiota-gut-brain-axis. 
Oral session presented at: 57° Congress AINPeNC – 47° Congress AIRIC, 29th-30th September-1st October 2022. Desenzano del Garda, Italy.

Boeri L, Perottoni S, Donnaloja F, Fusco F, Albani D, Giordano C. 
A millifluidic brain model as part of an engineered microbiota-gut-brain platform to address neurodegeneration. 
Poster session presented at: 4th Brain Barrier summit 2022, 29th-31th August. Boston, MA, USA. 

Perottoni S, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Albani D, Giordano C.
An innovative in vitro engineered model of the glymphatic system to address neurodegenerative disorders in the context of microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Poster session presented at: 4th Brain Barrier Summit 2022, 29th-31st August 2022. Boston, MA, USA.

Donnaloja F, Perottoni S, Boeri L, Albani D, Giordano C.
A novel engineered in vitro gut model to address the gut microbiota role in brain neurodegeneration within the microbiota-gut-brain axis hypothesis.
Poster session presented at: 4th Brain Barrier summit 2022, 29th-31th August. Boston, MA, USA.

Perottoni S, Ferrari G, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Campanile M, Sardelli L, Albani D, Giordano C.
Glymphatic system modelled as part of a gut-brain axis on-a-chip platform to study brain fluids clearance in neuroinflammation.
Poster session presented at: FENS EU conference 2022, 9th – 13th July. Paris, France.

Donnaloja F, Izzo L, Campanile M, Perottoni S, Sardelli L, Boeri L, Jacchetti E, Raimondi M, Giordano C, Albani D.
Validation of an innovative millifluidic gut-on-a-chip to challenge the microbiota-gut-brain axis in vitro.
Poster session presented at: FENS EU conference 2022, 9th – 13th July. Paris, France.

Boeri L, Perottoni S, Donnaloja F, Fusco F, Albani D, Giordano C. 
Human iPSC-based millifluidic model of the BBB/brain as part of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis MINERVA platform. 
Poster session presented at: FENS EU conference 2022, 9th – 13th July. Paris, France.

Fanizza F, Bonanome C, Forloni G, Giordano C, Albani D.
Preliminary development of an in vitro 3D IPSC-based liver model for the dynamic culture within the liver-on-a-chip device. 
Oral session presented at: TERMIS EU Conference 2022, 28th June-1st July 2022. Krakόw, Poland.

Perottoni S, Ferrari G, Boeri L, Donnaloja F, Campanile M, Sardelli L, Albani D, Giordano C.
A gut-brain axis platform to model brain fluids clearance in neuroinflammation.
Oral session presented at: TERMIS EU Conference 2022, 28th June-1st July 2022. Krakόw, Poland.

Donnaloja F, Izzo L, Campanile M, Simone P, Sardelli L, Boeri L, Albani D, Giordano C.
An innovative in vitro gut-on-a-chip model to investigate intestinal microbiota impact on brain functionality.
Oral session presented at: TERMIS EU Conference 2022, 28th June-1st July 2022. Krakόw, Poland.

Fanizza F, Bonanome C, Forloni G,Giordano C, Albani  D.
Preliminary development of a liver-on-a-chip device as part of a body-on-a-chip platform forAlzheimer’s disease drug testing

Poster session presented at NeuroMi, 9th-10th November 2021, Italy.

Perottoni S, Izzo L, Sardelli L, Boeri L, Fusco F, Tunesi M, Albani D, Giordano C.
Numerical Investigation of a Novel Organ-on-a-Chip Platform to Model the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis.
Oral session presented at: 11th World Biomaterial Congress 2020, 11th – 15th December 2020. Virtual (Glasgow).

Sardelli L, Tunesi M, Briatico-Vangosa F, Giordano C, Petrini P.
Hydrogel-based bioinks for multi-layered mucus models.
Oral session presented at: 11th World Biomaterial Congress 2020, 11th – 15th December 2020. Virtual (Glasgow).

Sardelli L, Pacheco DP, Boeri L, Tunesi M, Merli M, Briatico-Vangosa F, Petrini P, Giordano C.
Towards in vitro dynamic models of gut microbiota.
Poster session at: 2nd Centro 3R Annual Meeting 20th-21st June 2019. Genova, Italy.

Tunesi M, Raimondi I, Izzo L, Albani D, Giordano C. 
Innovative 3D brain cell-based model in MINERVA project.
Oral session presented at: TERMIS EU Conference 2019, 27th-31st May 2019. Rhodes, Greece.

Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Izzo L, Albani D, Giordano C.
Hydrogel-based 3D neural cell model within MINERVA, an engineered platform of the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Poster session presented at: AD/PD 14th International Conference on ALzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, 26th-31st March 2019. Lisbon, Portugal.

Giordano C.
MINERVA ERC project: a bioengineered platform for frontier research on microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Oral session presented at: MicrobiotaMi 2018, 5th-7th November 2018. Milan, Italy.

Izzo L, Tunesi M, Laganà M, Marturano-Kruik A, Raimondi MT, Giordano C.
A new Miniaturized Optically Accessible Bioreactor to investigate the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis: magnetic characterization of the chambers.
Poster session presented at: 5th TERMIS World Congress-2018, 4th-7th September 2018. Kyoto, Japan.

Ceppa F, Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Izzo L, Albani D, Giordano C.
Preliminary hydrogel biocompatibility and functional assays within MINERVA: a microfluidic multi-organ platform modelling the gut-brain-axis relevant for studies on neurodegenerative diseases.
Poster session presented at: 20th Congress: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, 7th-11th July 2018. Berlin, Germany.

Izzo L, Tunesi M, Laganà M, Marturano-Kruik A, Raimondi MT, Giordano C.
Organ-on-chip platform based on a Miniaturized Optically Accessible Bioreactor: magnetic characterization of the culture chambers.
Poster session presented at: 6th GNB Congress of Bioengineering, 25th-27th June 2018. Milano, Italy.

Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Ceppa F, Izzo L, Albani D, Giordano C.
3D hydrogel-based cell model assays in MINERVA, a microfluidic organ-on chip-engineered platform of gut-brain axis to study neurodegeneration.
Poster session presented at: 54th Congress of the Italian Association of Neuropathology and Clinical Neurobiology and 44th Congress of the Italian Association of for Cerebral Aging Research, 17th-19th May 2018. Milan, Italy.

Izzo L, Raimondi I, Tunesi M, Boeri L, Laganà M, Albani D, Raimondi MT, Giordano C.
Toward the development of a complete organ-on-a-chip platform to study the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Poster session presented at: Workshop Nanomedicine. 2nd-3rd May 2018. Milan, Italy.

Raimondi I, Ceppa F, Albani D, Giordano C.
Cytocompatibility studies within MINERVA: MIcrobiota-Gut-BraiNEngineeRed platform to eVAluate intestinal microflora impact on brain functionality.
Poster session presented at: Fifth World Congress on Targeting Microbiota, 26-27 October 2017, Berlin, Germany.