3 papers
cond-mat.soft2019
Bacteria driving droplets
Gabriel Ramos, Maria Luisa Cordero, Rodrigo Soto
We confine a dense suspension of motile \textit{Escherichia coli} inside a spherical droplet in a water-in-oil emulsion, creating a "bacterially" propelled droplet. We show that dr…
physics.bio-ph2019
Local details versus effective medium approximation: A study of diffusion in microfluidic random networks made from Voronoi tessellations
Washington Ponce, Maria Luisa Cordero
We measured the effective diffusion coefficient in regions of microfluidic networks of controlled geometry using the FRAP (Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching) technique. Th…
cond-mat.soft2019
Magnetotactic bacteria in a droplet self-assemble into a rotary motor
Benoit Vincenti, Gabriel Ramos, Maria Luisa Cordero +3
From intracellular protein trafficking to large scale motion of animal groups, the physical concepts driving the self-organization of living systems are still largely unraveled. Se…