The contribution highlighted the potential of tapered optical fibers as multifunctional platforms for multimodal neural interfacing.

The talk, entitled “Hybrid Photonic-Electronic Tapered Optical Fibers for Multimodal Neural Interfacing,” presented key research activities developed within MINING, focusing on advanced photonic and electronic interfaces for interacting with neural systems.

A further step in the @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu granted project's mission to develop innovative photonic interfaces for biomedical applications.

Her work explores how multimode optical fibers can become advanced, minimally invasive tools for biomedical diagnostics, helping pave the way towards new approaches for probing and monitoring biological tissues from within the body, with reduced invasiveness and improved optical capabilities.

Linda PISCOPO, researcher in the @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu granted project at @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social , delivered an invited talk at META 2026 entitled “Photonics on Multimode Fibers”.

MINING - @erc.europa.eu granted project was featured at META 2026 through an invited talk by the project coordinator, @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social Pisanello coordinator of @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social .

At the ICTON 2026 Conference in Prague, Claudia Latte Bovio, researcher at Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, delivered the invited talk: “Integration of PEDOT:PSS-based biosensors on the edge of tapered optical fibers.”

Linda Piscopo, Gonzalo Álvarez Pérez, Massimo De Vittorio and Tadele O. Otomalo, together with the center coordinator @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social Pisanello and our former colleague Huatian Hu, are in Dublin for the META 2026 Conference.

Oggi Tgr Rai Puglia ha mandato un servizio girato presso il @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social sulla maschera polisonnografica SOMNIIA MONITOR, progetto finanziato dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana: un salto verso il futuro dei voli spaziali. www.rainews.it/tgr/puglia/v...

I sensori del sonno

Arriva da Lecce il progetto di un dispositivo che monitora il sonno degli astronauti in orbita. E che potrebbe essere usato anche per i cittadini comuni

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Siamo felici di aver completato il progetto SOMNIIA MONITOR, finanziato dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. Un progetto innovativo per realizzare una polisonnografia in orbita con il solo ausilio di una maschera da sonno sensorizzata. @iitalk.bsky.social opentalk.iit.it/somniia-moni...

SOMNIIA MONITOR: dalla ricerca spaziale una nuova frontiera per il monitoraggio del sonno - Talk iit

Una maschera innovativa con applicazioni spaziali e per la vita quotidiana finanziata dall’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana e sviluppata dall’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in collaborazione con le Universi...

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The coordinator, @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social and collaborators, paved the way for a new vision about nanomaterials-integrated neural probes for the next generation of neural interfaces for diagnoses and brain researches. Check our last paper: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nanomaterial‐Integrated Fiber Neural Probes for Deep Brain Monitoring and Modulation: Challenges and Opportunities

The article presents nanomaterial-integrated fiber neural probes as innovative tools for deep brain molecular sensing, neural stimulation, and temperature monitoring. It examines breakthroughs in SER...

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Congratulations to Muhammad Fayyaz for his achievements on APL Photonics, a very interesting article about a novel multifunctional plasmonics fiber probe for biomedical applications. This paper belongs to @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu research activities. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...

Novel multifunctional plasmonic fiber probe: Enabling plasmonic heating and SERS sensing for biomedical applications

Optical fiber-based platforms are increasingly explored as compact, minimally invasive tools for integrated photonic functionalities in biomedical applications.

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Congrats to Stella Aslanoglou and colleagues on this review about interfacing neurons with optoelectronic devices. This review is at the forefront of neural interfacing and will be very valuable to the @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu community. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Optoelectrical Devices for Neural Interfacing: Engineering Integration, Stability, and Multimodal Sensing

Implantable optoelectrical devices are an effective resource for the modulation and monitoring of neural activity with high spatiotemporal resolution. This review discusses current challenges faced b....

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Congratulations to colleagues, Huatian Hu and @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social, coordinator of the @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu, on their paper on capturing molecular dynamics in nanoconfined channels in a microfluidics platform at high spatiotemporal resolution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatiotemporal Raman probing of molecular transport in sub–2-nm plasmonic quasi-2D nanochannels

Seemingly sealed plasmonic nanogaps act as accessible channels for real-time, ultrasensitive molecular sensing.

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A new paper from @ercmining.bsky.social collaboration by our @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social and other colleagues from @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social . This achievement enables the optimization of reproducible nanoplasmonic imaging applications.

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A deep-learning (DL)-powered paradigm is introduced that surpasses conventional imaging and spectroscopic capabilities. This achievement enables the optimization of reproducible nanoplasmonic imaging applications. A great work by @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu . pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Last week, @cbnunile.bsky.social hosted Liceo Classico Palmieri from #Lecce. We have been really keen to explain our Science and Technology activities to such smart young students. Looking forward to following their future in Science.

The coordinator @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social is attending a meeting with the President of the EIC - European Innovation Council in Lecce today. The "Bridges of Innovation" meeting highlights the importance of scientific research in building Europe. Our center is actively participating in this process.

CBN @iitalk.bsky.social has one position in the PhD school in "Physics and Nanoscience" at Università del Salento, Lecce. For further information, contact our PI, @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social . Topics range from neuroscience to photonics and artificial intelligence. www1.unisalento.it/bandi-concor...

CBN @iitalk.bsky.social has no. 5 positions in the PhD school in "Engineering of Materials, Structures and Nanotechnologies" in Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy. For further information, contact our PIs, Massimo De Vittorio and @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social. www1.unisalento.it/bandi-concor...

We have been happy to host students from Liceo "Don Tonino Bello" from #Copertino #Lecce . Science needs to be shared with young people if we want to have a future of young and enthusiastic researchers.

Our coordinator @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social Pisanello was among the chairs of the #Optogen2025 conference in #Copenhagen, Denmark.

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@ferruccio-phc.bsky.social, the PI of @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu project, was among the chairs of this great conference. A bunch of researchers working in MINING participated in this great conference. #Neurophotonics #Optogenetics

You will find all job posts and news here 👇, in the @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu project LinkedIn page. Stay tuned. #Neurophotonics #Optogenetics @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social

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We are glad to open this page about the ERC-funded project MINING - Multifunctional nano-bio INterfaces wIth deep braiN reGions. Here you'll find job posts and update about research activities.

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Our Linkedin page is out. Here you will find job opportunities in our center and news about our research activities. @iitalk.bsky.social

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Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies | 6 followers on LinkedIn. CBN-IIT develops materials and devices at the micro and nanoscale for enabling technologies for the human body. | The Center for Bio...

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The @ercmining.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu coordinator, Dr. Ferruccio Pisanello @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social , from @cbnunile.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social , will be in San Diego for a Keynote speech in the "Optica Biophotonics Congress" 👇. We are glad to meet you there #Neurophotonics #Optogenetics

Glad to host the new project @ercmining.bsky.social in #Neurophotonics coordinated by Dr. Ferruccio Pisanello @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu .

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We are based at @cbnunile.bsky.social center of @iitalk.bsky.social under the coordination of Dr. Ferruccio Pisanello @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social and we are a larger collaboration. Keep in touch to follow our advances in #Neurophotonics.

We are thrilled to share the start of MINING #Neurophotonics project. MINING is a @erc.europa.eu funded project aspiring to generate a novel class of multifunctional neural endoscopes able to trigger and detect electrical and molecular signaling with cellular resolution in vivo in a brain volume.

.@cbnunile.bsky.social staff shared Science with young students ... and maybe... future researchers and scientists. It was great to receive the visit from Liceo Capece from #Maglie #Lecce . @iitalk.bsky.social @ferruccio-phc.bsky.social