Bacterial traffic jams, swarming and biofilm! New paper!!

A part of Iago's PhD project is now published in eLife. Huge congratulations, Iago!! It has been a fun and fruitful collaboration with Marco Polin(physics).

In this work, we investigated stress-induced transition from swarming to biofilm. We discovery a transition compatible with motility-induced phase separation underpins the initial stage of this transition.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/62632

And, here is a layman’s summary by eLife. Thanks to Emily Packer for writing this nice piece!

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/bcd018f2/how-bacterial-traffic-jams-lead-to-antibiotic-resistant-multilayer-biofilms

 

Munehiro Asally : 16 Mar 2021 16:46 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem