Live from under the lens: exploring microbial motility with dynamic imaging and microfluidics

The Mechanical World of Bacteria

(2015) Alexandre Persat et al.   CELL

Microbes in flow

(2015) Roberto Rusconi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metachronal waves in the flagellar beating ofVolvoxand their hydrodynamic origin

(2015) Douglas R. Brumley et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes: review of microfluidic methods

(2015) A. Karimi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Living in the matrix: assembly and control of Vibrio cholerae biofilms

(2015) Jennifer K. Teschler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

(2015) J Elgeti et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

High-throughput 3D tracking of bacteria on a standard phase contrast microscope

(2015) K.M. Taute et al.   Nature Communications

Microfluidics Expanding the Frontiers of Microbial Ecology

(2014) Roberto Rusconi et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Bacterial Motility Patterns Reveal Importance of Exploitation over Exploration in Marine Microhabitats. Part I: Theory

(2014) Li Xie et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research

(2014) Eric K. Sackmann et al.   NATURE

Stochasticity of metabolism and growth at the single-cell level

(2014) Daniel J. Kiviet et al.   NATURE

Bacterial transport suppressed by fluid shear

(2014) Roberto Rusconi et al.   Nature Physics

Failed Escape: Solid Surfaces Prevent Tumbling ofEscherichia coli

(2014) Mehdi Molaei et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Transport Powered by Bacterial Turbulence

(2014) Andreas Kaiser et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

How the Motility Pattern of Bacteria Affects Their Dispersal and Chemotaxis

(2014) Johannes Taktikos et al.   PLoS One

Helical motion of the cell body enhances Caulobacter crescentus motility

(2014) B. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations

(2014) Y. Yawata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Response of Escherichia coli growth rate to osmotic shock

(2014) E. Rojas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

(2014) M. Rubenstein et al.   SCIENCE

Zooming in to see the bigger picture: Microfluidic and nanofabrication tools to study bacteria

(2014) Felix J. H. Hol et al.   SCIENCE

The curved shape of Caulobacter crescentus enhances surface colonization in flow

(2014) Alexandre Persat et al.   Nature Communications

Vibrio cholerae use pili and flagella synergistically to effect motility switching and conditional surface attachment

(2014) Andrew S. Utada et al.   Nature Communications

Flagellar synchronization through direct hydrodynamic interactions

(2014) Douglas R Brumley et al.   eLife

Quantitative Modeling of Bacterial Chemotaxis: Signal Amplification and Accurate Adaptation

(2013) Yuhai Tu   Annual Review of Biophysics

Active suspensions and their nonlinear models

(2013) David Saintillan et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE

A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals

(2013) Melissa Garren et al.   ISME Journal

Psl trails guide exploration and microcolony formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

(2013) Kun Zhao et al.   NATURE

Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction

(2013) Kwangmin Son et al.   Nature Physics

Going local: technologies for exploring bacterial microenvironments

(2013) Aimee K. Wessel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Fluid Dynamics of Bacterial Turbulence

(2013) Jörn Dunkel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Biofilm streamers cause catastrophic disruption of flow with consequences for environmental and medical systems

(2013) Knut Drescher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton

(2013) William M. Durham et al.   Nature Communications

Direct Upstream Motility in Escherichia coli

(2012) Tolga Kaya et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Flow Directs Surface-Attached Bacteria to Twitch Upstream

(2012) Yi Shen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Jump Control of Probability Densities With Applications to Autonomous Vehicle Motion

(2012) Alexandre R. Mesquita et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL

Studies of bacterial aerotaxis in a microfluidic device

(2012) Micha Adler et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Ecology and Physics of Bacterial Chemotaxis in the Ocean

(2012) Roman Stocker et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Frequency-DependentEscherichia coliChemotaxis Behavior

(2012) Xuejun Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Bacterial rheotaxis

(2012) Marcos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine Microbes See a Sea of Gradients

(2012) R. Stocker   SCIENCE

Fluid Mechanics of Planktonic Microorganisms

(2011) Jeffrey S. Guasto et al.   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Flagella and Pili-Mediated Near-Surface Single-Cell Motility Mechanisms in P. aeruginosa

(2011) Jacinta C. Conrad et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Reverse and flick: Hybrid locomotion in bacteria

(2011) R. Stocker   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial flagellum as a propeller and as a rudder for efficient chemotaxis

(2011) L. Xie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis

(2011) M. D. Lazova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteria use type-IV pili to slingshot on surfaces

(2011) F. Jin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fluid dynamics and noise in bacterial cell-cell and cell-surface scattering

(2011) K. Drescher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acceleration of Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Connected Microenvironments

(2011) Q. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Chemotactic response of marine bacteria to the extracellular products of Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus

(2010) JR Seymour et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Robust Growth of Escherichia coli

(2010) Ping Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis

(2010) Tanvir Ahmed et al.   Integrative Biology

Biological applications of microfluidic gradient devices

(2010) Sudong Kim et al.   Integrative Biology

Responses of Escherichia coli Bacteria to Two Opposing Chemoattractant Gradients Depend on the Chemoreceptor Ratio

(2010) Y. Kalinin et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Laminar flow around corners triggers the formation of biofilm streamers

(2010) R. Rusconi et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A field guide to bacterial swarming motility

(2010) Daniel B. Kearns   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cell density and mobility protect swarming bacteria against antibiotics

(2010) Mitchell T. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies

(2010) H. P. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

(2010) J. R. Seymour et al.   SCIENCE

Bacteria Use Type IV Pili to Walk Upright and Detach from Surfaces: Fig. 1

(2010) Maxsim L. Gibiansky et al.   SCIENCE

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome

(2010) Jan Bures   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Atomic force microscopy reveals microscale networks and possible symbioses among pelagic marine bacteria

(2009) F Malfatti et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Logarithmic Sensing in Escherichia coli Bacterial Chemotaxis

(2009) Yevgeniy V. Kalinin et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Bacterial chemotaxis towards the extracellular products of the toxic phytoplankton Heterosigma akashiwo

(2009) J. R. Seymour et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Surface molecular property modifications for poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) based microfluidic devices

(2009) Ieong Wong et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Voyage of the microrobots

(2009) Metin Sitti   NATURE

The Challenges Natural Images Pose for Visual Adaptation

(2009) Fred Rieke et al.   NEURON

Enhanced mixing and spatial instability in concentrated bacterial suspensions

(2009) Andrey Sokolov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

(2009) Eric Lauga et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Disruption of Vertical Motility by Shear Triggers Formation of Thin Phytoplankton Layers

(2009) W. M. Durham et al.   SCIENCE

Resource Patch Formation and Exploitation throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

(2008) J. R. Seymour et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Hydrodynamic Attraction of Swimming Microorganisms by Surfaces

(2008) Allison P. Berke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

(2008) R. Stocker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA