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Pattern engineering of living bacterial colonies using meniscus-driven fluidic channels
Vasily Kantsler, Elena Ontañón McDonald, Cansu Kuey +3
Engineering spatially organized biofilms for creating adaptive and sustainable biomaterials is a forthcoming mission of synthetic biology. Existing technologies of patterning biofi…
Geometric control of bacterial surface accumulation
Rachel Mok, Jörn Dunkel, Vasily Kantsler
Controlling and suppressing bacterial accumulation at solid surfaces is essential for preventing biofilm formation and biofouling. Whereas various chemical surface treatments are k…
Scattering of biflagellate microswimmers from surfaces
Enkeleida Lushi, Vasily Kantsler, Raymond E. Goldstein
We use a three-bead-spring model to investigate the dynamics of bi-flagellate micro-swimmers near a surface. While the primary dynamics and scattering are governed by geometric-dep…
Entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects
Raphaël Jeanneret, Vasily Kantsler, Marco Polin
The incessant activity of swimming microorganisms has a direct physical effect on surrounding microscopic objects, leading to enhanced diffusion far beyond the level of Brownian mo…
Microalgae scatter off solid surfaces by hydrodynamic and contact forces
Matteo Contino, Enkeleida Lushi, Idan Tuval +2
Interactions between microorganisms and solid boundaries play an important role in biological processes, like egg fertilisation, biofilm formation and soil colonisation, where micr…
Rheotaxis facilitates upstream navigation of mammalian sperm cells
Vasily Kantsler, Jörn Dunkel, Martyn Blayney +1
A major puzzle in biology is how mammalian sperm determine and maintain the correct swimming direction during the various phases of the sexual reproduction process. Whilst chemotax…