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  1. Toward Chemically Resolved Computer Simulations of Dynamics and Remodeling of Biological Membranes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, July 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  2. ER Membrane Phospholipids and Surface Tension Control Cellular Lipid Droplet Formation

    Article • Developmental Cell, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  3. Interdigitation between Triglycerides and Lipids Modulates Surface Properties of Lipid Droplets

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  4. A filter at the entrance of the Golgi that selects vesicles according to size and bulk lipid composition

    Article • eLife, July 2016, eLife

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  5. Phosphatidylserine transport by ORP/Osh proteins is driven by phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate

    Article • Science, July 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  6. From zero to six double bonds: phospholipid unsaturation and organelle function

    Article • Trends in Cell Biology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  7. Membrane Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics: a Perspective from Experiments and Theory

    Article • The Journal of Membrane Biology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  8. A phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate powered exchange mechanism to create a lipid gradient between membranes

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  9. Methyl-branched lipids promote the membrane adsorption of α-synuclein by enhancing shallow lipid-packing defects

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  10. BIN1/M-Amphiphysin2 induces clustering of phosphoinositides to recruit its downstream partner dynamin

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Vanni, Dr Julien Viaud

  11. A sub-nanometre view of how membrane curvature and composition modulate lipid packing and protein recruitment

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  12. Polyunsaturated phospholipids facilitate membrane deformation and fission by endocytic proteins

    Article • Science, August 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  13. Origin of the Spectral Shifts among the Early Intermediates of the Rhodopsin Photocycle

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  14. Conical Lipids in Flat Bilayers Induce Packing Defects Similar to that Induced by Positive Curvature

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  15. Amphipathic Lipid Packing Sensor Motifs: Probing Bilayer Defects with Hydrophobic Residues

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  16. Ion Binding and Internal Hydration in the Multidrug Resistance Secondary Active Transporter NorM Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • Biochemistry, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  17. Pushing the Frontiers of First-Principles Based Computer Simulations of Chemical and Biological Systems

    Article • CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, September 2011, Swiss Chemical Society

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  18. Identification of clustering artifacts in photoactivated localization microscopy

    Article • Nature Methods, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  19. Mechanical (QM/MM) Simulations of Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Ultrafast Phenomena

    Article • CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, May 2011, Swiss Chemical Society

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  20. Predicting Novel Binding Modes of Agonists to β Adrenergic Receptors Using All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2011, PLOS

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  21. Role of Aggregation in Rhodopsin Signal Transduction

    Article • Biochemistry, June 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  22. A Conserved Protonation-Induced Switch can Trigger “Ionic-Lock” Formation in Adrenergic Receptors

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  23. Observation of “Ionic Lock” Formation in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Wild-Type β 1 and β 2 Adrenergic Receptors

    Article • Biochemistry, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stefano Vanni

  24. A new formulation of the phase change approach in the theory of conical intersections

    Article • Chemical Physics, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Vanni