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Substrate geometry affects population dynamics in a bacterial biofilm
Witold Postek, Klaudia Staskiewicz, Elin Lilja +1
Biofilms inhabit a range of environments, such as dental plaques or soil micropores, often characterized by intricate, non-even surfaces. However, the impact of surface irregularit…
Evolutionary adaptation is facilitated by the presence of lethal genotypes
Viktoria Blavatska, Bartlomiej Waclaw
The adaptation rate in theoretical models of biological evolution increases with the mutation rate but only to a point when mutations into lethal states cause extinction. One would…
Reduced adhesion between cells and substrate confers selective advantage in bacterial colonies
Craig Watson, Paul Hush, Joshua Williams +4
Microbial colonies cultured on agar Petri dishes have become a model system to study biological evolution in populations expanding in space. Processes such as clonal segregation an…
A physics-explicit model of bacterial conjugation shows the stabilizing role of the conjugative junction
Jakub Pastuszak, Bartlomiej Waclaw
Conjugation is a process in which bacteria exchange DNA through a physical connection (conjugative junction) between mating cells. Despite its significance for processes such as th…
Antibiotic resistance: a physicist's view
Rosalind Allen, Bartlomiej Waclaw
The problem of antibiotic resistance poses challenges across many disciplines. One such challenge is to understand the fundamental science of how antibiotics work, and how resistan…
Phenotypic switching can speed up biological evolution of microbes
Andrew C. Tadrowski, Martin R. Evans, Bartlomiej Waclaw
Stochastic phenotype switching has been suggested to play a beneficial role in microbial populations by leading to the division of labour among cells, or ensuring that at least som…