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Explosive dispersal of non-motile microbes through metabolic buoyancy
Jimreeves David, Shashi Thutupalli
For non-motile microorganisms, spatial expansion in quiescent fluids is presumed to be limited by diffusion. We report that microbial colonies can explosively circumvent this const…
Adaptation to extreme stress under the growth-survival fitness trade-off
Nandita Chaturvedi, Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Shashi Thutupalli
Microbial adaptation to extreme stress, such as starvation, antimicrobial exposure, or freezing often reveals fundamental trade-offs between survival and proliferation. Understandi…
Temperature switchable self-propulsion activity of liquid crystalline microdroplets
Manoj Kumar, Siddharth Sane, Aniruddh Murali +1
We report on a switchable emulsion droplet microswimmer by utilizing a temperature-dependent transition of the droplet phase. The droplets, made from a liquid crystalline (LC) smec…