Direct measurement of dynamic attractant gradients reveals breakdown of the Patlak–Keller–Segel chemotaxis model

TV Phan, HH Mattingly, L Vo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Chemotactic bacteria not only navigate chemical gradients, but also shape their
environments by consuming and secreting attractants. Investigating how these processes …

Remark on the entropy production of adaptive run-and-tumble chemotaxis

MDN Nguyen, PH Pham, KV Ngo, VH Do, S Li… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chemotactic active particles, such as bacteria and cells, exhibit an adaptive run-and-tumble
motion, giving rise to complex emergent behaviors in response to external chemical fields …

Vanishing in fractal space: Thermal melting and hydrodynamic collapse

TV Phan, TH Cai, VH Do - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Fractals emerge everywhere in nature, exhibiting intricate geometric complexities through
the self-organizing patterns that span across multiple scales. Here, we investigate beyond …

Stress-Induced Mutagenesis Can Further Boost Population Success in Static Ecology

KT Pham, DM Nguyen, DV Tran, VD Ao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We have developed a mathematical model that captures stress-induced mutagenesis, a
fundamental aspect of pathogenic and neoplastic evolutionary dynamics, on the fitness …

Social Physics of Bacteria: Avoidance of an Information Black Hole

TV Phan, S Li, D Ferreris, R Morris, J Bos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Social physics explores responses to information exchange in a social network, and can be
mapped down to bacterial collective signaling. Here, we explore how social inter-bacterial …

A bacterial antibiotic resistance accelerator and applications

J Bos, RH Austin - Methods in Cell Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The systematic emergence of drug resistance remains a major problem in the treatment of
infectious diseases (antibiotics) and cancer (chemotherapy), with possible common …

[PDF][PDF] Generation of heterogeneous drug gradients across cancer populations on a microfluidic evolution accelerator for real-time observation

KC Lin, G Torga, Y Sun, KJ Pienta, JC Sturm… - Journal of Visualized …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Conventional cell culture remains the most frequently used preclinical model, despite its
proven limited ability to predict clinical results in cancer. Microfluidic cancer-on-chip models …

Focus on bacterial mechanics

S Klumpp, A Siryaporn, S van Teeffelen - New J. Phys, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
All living organisms are constantly subject to intra-and extra-cellular mechanical forces. In
eukaryotic cells, such forces have been established as a major driver of morphogenesis and …

Construction of solitary solutions to differential equations via operator techniques

T Telksnys - 2020 - epubl.ktu.edu
Abstract [eng] A novel mathematical and computational framework for the construction of
solitary solutions to various types of nonlinear differential equations, including ordinary …