4 papers
Multiflagellarity facilitates bacterial upstream motility
Ran Tao, Nathaniel C. Esteves, Wanho Lee +8
Upstream swimming drives bacterial spreading and surface colonization. Many pathogens encounter fluid flows as they infect the intestines, lungs, and urinary tract, so how bacteria…
Biomedical active matter: Emergence and breakdown of collective functionalities
Arnold Mathijssen, Hamed Almohammadi, Lauren Altman +13
Living systems are made of active materials with microscopic components that work together to perform macroscopic biological tasks. The breakdown of these collective functionalitie…
Collective Behavior and Memory States in Flow Networks with Tunable Bistability
Lauren E. Altman, Nadia Aguilar, Douglas J. Durian +2
Multistability-induced hysteresis has been widely studied in mechanical systems, but such behavior has proven more difficult to reproduce experimentally in flow networks. Natural f…
Experimental Demonstration of Coupled Learning in Elastic Networks
Lauren E. Altman, Menachem Stern, Andrea J. Liu +1
Coupled learning is a contrastive scheme for tuning the properties of individual elements within a network in order to achieve desired functionality of the system. It takes advanta…