Dr Leonardo Mancini
- Lecturer in One Health Microbiology (Host-Parasite Interactions & Pathogenesis)
email:
Leonardo.Mancini@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Publications
Prior publications
Article
L Mancini, M Kals, J Kotar, P Cicuta (2025) Ionic environment and nutrients affect the cysB-dependent conditional susceptibility of E. coli to mecillinam Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2025.09.27.678940)
L Mancini, L Saliekh, R Claydon, J Kotar, E Benyei, C A Munro, T N Shendruk, A Brown, M Welch, P Cicuta (2025) Hyphal growth determines spatial organization and coexistence in a pathogenic polymicrobial community within alveoli-like geometries Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2025.03.22.644766)
Morten Kals, Emma Kals, Jurij Kotar, Allen Donald, Leonardo Mancini, Pietro Cicuta, Suckjoon Jun (2025) Antibiotics change the population growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria PLOS Pathogens Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 1553-7374 (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012924)
Leonardo Mancini, Laila Saliekh, Rory Claydon, Jurij Kotar, Eva Bernadett Benyei, Carol A Munro, Tyler N Shendruk, Aidan Brown, Martin Welch, Pietro Cicuta (2025) Hyphal growth determines spatial organization and coexistence in a pathogenic polymicrobial community in a spatially structured environment The ISME Journal Crossref. (doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf279)
Morten Kals, Emma Kals, Jurij Kotar, Allen Donald, Leonardo Mancini, Pietro Cicuta (2024) Antibiotics Change the Growth Rate Heterogeneity and Morphology of Bacteria Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.27.609914)
Samuel McDermott, Jurij Kotar, Joel Collins, Leonardo Mancini, Richard Bowman, Pietro Cicuta (2024) Using old laboratory equipment with modern Web-of-Things standards: a smart laboratory with LabThings Retro Royal Society Open Science Crossref. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.240634)
Mie Monti et al. (2024) Interrogation of RNA-protein interaction dynamics in bacterial growth Molecular Systems Biology Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 1744-4292 (doi: 10.1038/s44320-024-00031-y)
Morten Kals, Leonardo Mancini, Jurij Kotar, Allen Donald, Pietro Cicuta (2024) Multipad agarose plate: a rapid and high-throughput approach for antibiotic susceptibility testing Journal of The Royal Society Interface Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 1742-5662 (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0730)
Rebecca Brouwers et al. (2024) Surface versus volume synthesis governs growth-dependent efficacy of aβ-lactam antibiotic Leonardo Mancini. (doi: 10.1101/2024.01.31.578235)
Michal Walczak, Leonardo Mancini, Jiayi Xu, Federica Raguseo, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta, Lorenzo Di Michele (2023) A Synthetic Signaling Network Imitating the Action of Immune Cells in Response to Bacterial Metabolism Advanced Materials Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 1521-4095 (doi: 10.1002/adma.202301562)
Leonardo Mancini, Teuta Pilizota (2023) Environmental conditions define the energetics of bacterial dormancy and its antibiotic susceptibility Biophysical Journal Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 0006-3495 (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.06.023)
Tomoya Honda, Jonas Cremer, Leonardo Mancini, Zhongge Zhang, Teuta Pilizota, Terence Hwa (2022) Coordination of gene expression with cell size enables Escherichia coli to efficiently maintain motility across conditions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Crossref. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110342119)
(2021) Responsive core-shell DNA particles trigger lipid-membrane disruption and bacteria entrapment Nature Communications Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 2041-1723 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24989-7)
(2020) Cytosolic Crowding Drives the Dynamics of Both Genome and Cytosol in Escherichia coli Challenged with Sub-lethal Antibiotic Treatments iScience Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 2589-0042 (doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101560)
(2020) Environmental conditions define the energetics of bacterial dormancy and its antibiotic susceptibility [] Leonardo Mancini. (doi: 10.1101/2020.06.18.160226)
(2020) A General Workflow for Characterization of Nernstian Dyes and Their Effects on Bacterial Physiology Biophysical Journal Leonardo Mancini. ISSN 0006-3495 (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.10.030)
Book Section
Éva Bernadett Bényei, Rahan Rudland Nazeer, Isabel Askenasy, Leonardo Mancini, Pok-Man Ho, Gordon A.C. Sivarajan, Jemima E.V. Swain, Martin Welch (2024) The past, present and future of polymicrobial infection research: Modelling, eavesdropping, terraforming and other stories Advances in Microbial Physiology Leonardo Mancini. ISBN 9780443295423 ISSN 0065-2911 (doi: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2024.04.002)
Leonardo Mancini, Estelle Crozat, Avelino Javer, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Pietro Cicuta (2022) Dynamics of Bacterial Chromosomes by Locus Tracking in Fluorescence Microscopy Methods in Molecular Biology Leonardo Mancini. ISBN 9781071622216 ISSN 1940-6029 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2221-6_12)
Other
Tomoya Honda, Jonas Cremer, Leonardo Mancini, Zhongge Zhang, Teuta Pilizota, Terence Hwa (2021) Coordination of gene expression with cell size enables Escherichia coli to efficiently maintain motility across conditions Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2021.05.12.443892)
Thesis
(2020) Measuring energy levels in bacterial dormancy Leonardo Mancini. (doi: 10.7488/ERA/79)