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Life in a tight spot: Coupled dynamics of bacteria and soil across scales
Pablo Bravo, Tanumoy Dhar, Eloise Masquelier +2
Soil harbors much of Earth's bacterial life. The activity of these bacteria governs plant growth, carbon and nitrogen cycling, and the response of land to a changing climate. Under…
Biogenic bubbles enable microbial escape from physical confinement
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Thomas Appleford, Hao Nghi Luu +3
Immotile microbes inhabit nearly every environment on Earth, from soils and sediments to food matrices -- yet how they disperse through these physically confining environments is p…
Life at low Reynolds number isn't such a drag
Sujit S. Datta
The following is an unedited version of two short articles that are forthcoming in Nature Chemical Engineering. Inspired by Purcell's classic lecture "Life at low Reynolds number",…
Chemotactic motility-induced phase separation
Hongbo Zhao, Andrej Košmrlj, Sujit S. Datta
Collectives of actively-moving particles can spontaneously separate into dilute and dense phases -- a fascinating phenomenon known as motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). MIPS…
Active transport in complex environments
Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, Carolina Trenado-Yuste, Sujit S. Datta
The ability of many living systems to actively self-propel underlies critical biomedical, environmental, and industrial processes. While such active transport is well-studied in un…
Cellular Sensing Governs the Stability of Chemotactic Fronts
Ricard Alert, Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, Sujit S. Datta
In contexts ranging from embryonic development to bacterial ecology, cell populations migrate chemotactically along self-generated chemical gradients, often forming a propagating f…