2 papers
physics.data-an2017
Relative distance between tracers as a measure of diffusivity within moving aggregates
Wolfram Pönisch, Vasily Zaburdaev
Tracking of particles, be it a passive tracer or an actively moving bacterium in the growing bacterial colony, is a powerful technique to probe the physical properties of the envir…
physics.bio-ph2017
Pili mediated intercellular forces shape heterogeneous bacterial microcolonies prior to multicellular differentiation
Wolfram Pönisch, Kelly Eckenrode, Khaled Alzurqa +4
Microcolonies are aggregates of a few dozen to a few thousand cells exhibited by many bacteria. The formation of microcolonies is a crucial step towards the formation of more matur…