Microfluidics Expanding the Frontiers of Microbial Ecology

Bacterial transport suppressed by fluid shear

(2014) Roberto Rusconi et al.   Nature Physics

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

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

(2013) Melissa Garren et al.   ISME Journal

Microfluidic chemostat for measuring single cell dynamics in bacteria

(2013) Zhicheng Long et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Going local: technologies for exploring bacterial microenvironments

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

Non-Newtonian Viscosity ofEscherichia coliSuspensions

(2013) Jérémie Gachelin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Light Control of the Flow of Phototactic Microswimmer Suspensions

(2013) Xabel Garcia 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

Ciliary contact interactions dominate surface scattering of swimming eukaryotes

(2013) Vasily Kantsler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities

(2013) J. L. Connell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Formation of bacterial streamers during filtration in microfluidic systems

(2012) Aurélie Marty et al.   BIOFOULING

Chemotactic steering of bacteria propelled microbeads

(2012) Dongwook Kim et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Bacterial microsystems and microrobots

(2012) Sylvain Martel   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation in a vortical flow

(2012) Shahrzad Yazdi et al.   Biomicrofluidics

A microfluidic platform for real-time and in situ monitoring of virus infection process

(2012) Na Xu et al.   Biomicrofluidics

Microfluidic-driven viral infection on cell cultures: Theoretical and experimental study

(2012) Elisa Cimetta et al.   Biomicrofluidics

Bacterial Thermotaxis by Speed Modulation

(2012) Mahmut Demir et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

Transverse Chemotactic Migration of Bacteria from High to Low Permeability Regions in a Dual Permeability Microfluidic Device

(2012) Rajveer Singh et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A web of streamers: biofilm formation in a porous microfluidic device

(2012) Amin Valiei et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Rapid screening of antibiotic toxicity in an automated microdroplet system

(2012) Krzysztof Churski et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A microfluidic platform for rapid, stress-induced antibiotic susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus aureus

(2012) Maxim Kalashnikov et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Studies of bacterial aerotaxis in a microfluidic device

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

Droplet microfluidics for high-throughput biological assays

(2012) Mira T. Guo et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Human gut-on-a-chip inhabited by microbial flora that experiences intestinal peristalsis-like motions and flow

(2012) Hyun Jung Kim et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing by tracking single cell growth in a microfluidic agarose channel system

(2012) Jungil Choi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Microscale confinement features can affect biofilm formation

(2012) Aloke Kumar et al.   Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Signaling-mediated bacterial persister formation

(2012) Nicole M Vega et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Frequency-DependentEscherichia coliChemotaxis Behavior

(2012) Xuejun Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Division by fluid incision: Biofilm patch development in porous media

(2012) William M. Durham et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Bacterial rheotaxis

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

Noninvasive inference of the molecular chemotactic response using bacterial trajectories

(2012) J.-B. Masson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Robustness and accuracy of cell division in Escherichia coli in diverse cell shapes

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

Trade-Offs of Chemotactic Foraging in Turbulent Water

(2012) J. R. Taylor et al.   SCIENCE

Controlling bacterial adhesion to surfaces using topographical cues: a study of the interaction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with nanofiber-textured surfaces

(2012) Mehdi Kargar et al.   Soft Matter

Flow-controlled densification and anomalous dispersion of E. coli through a constriction

(2012) E. Altshuler et al.   Soft Matter

Microfluidic device for analyzing preferential chemotaxis and chemoreceptor sensitivity of bacterial cells toward carbon sources

(2011) Minseok Kim et al.   ANALYST

Fluid Mechanics of Planktonic Microorganisms

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

Shear Stress Increases the Residence Time of Adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2011) Sigolene Lecuyer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Secondary Flow as a Mechanism for the Formation of Biofilm Streamers

(2011) Roberto Rusconi et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Temporal Dynamics of Bacterial Aging and Rejuvenation

(2011) Camilla U. Rang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A microfluidic concentrator array for quantitative predation assays of predatory microbes

(2011) Seongyong Park et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A self-loading microfluidic device for determining the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics

(2011) Nate J. Cira et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A microfluidic chemotaxis assay to study microbial behavior in diffusing nutrient patches

(2011) J.R. Seymour et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Directional persistence of chemotactic bacteria in a traveling concentration wave

(2011) J. Saragosti 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

Acceleration of Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Connected Microenvironments

(2011) Q. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Probing Individual Environmental Bacteria for Viruses by Using Microfluidic Digital PCR

(2011) A. D. Tadmor et al.   SCIENCE

Encapsulating Bacteria in Agarose Microparticles Using Microfluidics for High-Throughput Cell Analysis and Isolation

(2010) Ye-Jin Eun et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

The interaction of cells and bacteria with surfaces structured at the nanometre scale

(2010) K. Anselme et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Microfluidic Platforms for Single-Cell Analysis

(2010) Richard N. Zare et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

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

(2010) JR Seymour et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

High-throughput microfluidic system for long-term bacterial colony monitoring and antibiotic testing in zero-flow environments

(2010) Peng Sun et al.   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Robust Growth of Escherichia coli

(2010) Ping Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis

(2010) Tanvir Ahmed 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

Three-dimensional features in low-Reynolds-number confined corner flows

(2010) LAURA GUGLIELMINI et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Laminar flow around corners triggers the formation of biofilm streamers

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

Bacterial Chemotaxis in Linear and Nonlinear Steady Microfluidic Gradients

(2010) Tanvir Ahmed et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bacteria Pattern Spontaneously on Periodic Nanostructure Arrays

(2010) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   NANO LETTERS

A synchronized quorum of genetic clocks

(2010) Tal Danino et al.   NATURE

Investigation of bacterial chemotaxis in flow-based microfluidic devices

(2010) Derek L Englert et al.   Nature Protocols

Streaming Instability in Growing Cell Populations

(2010) William Mather et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective Escape of Chemotactic Swimmers through Microscopic Ratchets

(2010) Guillaume Lambert et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

(2010) J. R. Seymour et al.   SCIENCE

Mathematical Description of Bacterial Traveling Pulses

(2010) Jonathan Saragosti et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microfluidic Confinement of Single Cells of Bacteria in Small Volumes Initiates High-Density Behavior of Quorum Sensing and Growth and Reveals Its Variability

(2009) James Q. Boedicker et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Logarithmic Sensing in Escherichia coli Bacterial Chemotaxis

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

Run and Tumble Chemotaxis in a Shear Flow: The Effect of Temporal Comparisons, Persistence, Rotational Diffusion, and Cell Shape

(2009) J. T. Locsei et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Enhanced Transverse Migration of Bacteria by Chemotaxis in a Porous T-Sensor

(2009) Tao Long et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Isolation, incubation, and parallel functional testing and identification by FISH of rare microbial single-copy cells from multi-species mixtures using the combination of chemistrode and stochastic confinement

(2009) Weishan Liu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Generation of oxygen gradients with arbitrary shapes in a microfluidic device

(2009) Micha Adler et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Bacterial Motility and Clustering Guided by Microcontact Printing

(2009) Claudia Holz et al.   NANO LETTERS

Microfluidic devices for measuring gene network dynamics in single cells

(2009) Matthew R. Bennett et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Separation of Microscale Chiral Objects by Shear Flow

(2009) Marcos et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Swimming bacteria power microscopic gears

(2009) A. Sokolov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial growth and motility in sub-micron constrictions

(2009) J. Mannik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of flow regime on pressure drop increase and biomass accumulation and morphology in membrane systems

(2009) J.S. Vrouwenvelder et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Resource Patch Formation and Exploitation throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

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

Generating steep, shear-free gradients of small molecules for cell culture

(2008) Taesung Kim et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Experimental Verification of the Behavioral Foundation of Bacterial Transport Parameters Using Microfluidics

(2008) Tanvir Ahmed et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Tightly Regulated and Heritable Division Control in Single Bacterial Cells

(2008) Dan Siegal-Gaskins et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Using ratchets and sorters to fractionate motile cells of Escherichia coli by length

(2008) S. Elizabeth Hulme et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Spatial localization of bacteria controls coagulation of human blood by 'quorum acting'

(2008) Christian J Kastrup et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Biomechanical ordering of dense cell populations

(2008) D. Volfson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Single-cell protein induction dynamics reveals a period of vulnerability to antibiotics in persister bacteria

(2008) O. Gefen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

(2008) H. J. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Computation of mutual fitness by competing bacteria

(2008) J. E. Keymer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Microfluidic Pump Powered by Self-Organizing Bacteria

(2007) Min Jun Kim et al.   Small