activity
20202025
most citedLight controls motility and phase separation of photosynthetic microbes

23 citations · 42 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Inferring intraciliary dynamics from the gliding motility of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Nicolas Fares, Elorri Garcia, Ahmad Badr +5

The unicellular microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is widely recognized as a premier model living microswimmer for physicists and biophysicists. However, the interest around C. re…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 1 cited

Metabolic activity controls the emergence of coherent flows in microbial suspensions

Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Florian Böhme, Nicole Drewes +1

Photosynthetic microbes have evolved and successfully adapted to the ever-changing environmental conditions in complex microhabitats throughout almost all ecosystems on Earth. In t…

physics.bio-ph2022★ 8 cited

Light-regulated adsorption and desorption of Chlamydomonas cells at surfaces

Rodrigo E. Catalan, Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Nicolas von Trott +4

Microbial colonization of surfaces represents the first step towards biofilm formation, which is a recurring phenomenon in nature with beneficial and detrimental implications in te…

physics.bio-ph2021★ 10 cited

Motility and self-organization of gliding Chlamydomonas populations

Sebastian Till, Florian Ebmeier, Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos +2

Cellular appendages such as cilia and flagella represent universal tools enabling cells and microbes, among other essential functionalities, to propel themselves in diverse environ…

physics.bio-ph2020★ 23 cited

Light controls motility and phase separation of photosynthetic microbes

Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Jérémy Vachier, Johannes Frey +4

Large ensembles of interacting, out-of-equilibrium agents are a paradigm of active matter. Their constituents' intrinsic activity may entail the spontaneous separation into localiz…