Most swimming bacteria are capable of following gradients of nutrients, signaling molecules
and other environmental factors that affect bacterial physiology. This tactic behavior became …

Mathematical modelling of bioprocesses has a long and notable history, with eminent
contributions from fields including microbiology, ecology, biophysics, chemistry, statistics …

At high cell density, swimming bacteria exhibit collective motility patterns, self-organized
through physical interactions of a however still debated nature. Although high-density …

In suspensions of microorganisms, pattern formation can arise from the interplay of
chemotaxis and the fluid flows collectively generated by the organisms themselves. Here we …

The production of biomolecules can provide new functionalities to the synthesizing
organism. One important example is the secretion of extracellular polymeric substances …

Biocatalysis for industrial application is based on the use of enzymes to perform complex
transformations. However, these systems have some disadvantage related to the costs of the …

Cellulose-overproducing wrinkly spreader mutants of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25
have been the focus of much investigation, but conditions promoting the production of …

Aerotaxis is the ability of motile cells to navigate toward oxygen. A key question is the
dependence of the aerotactic velocity with the local oxygen concentration c. Here we …

V. harveyi is a well-known pathogen-inducing vibriosis, especially for shrimp, fish, and
invertebrates. Its virulence is related to biofilm formation and this negatively impacts the …

The resistance of bacterial biofilms to antibiotic treatment has been attributed to the
emergence of structurally heterogeneous microenvironments containing metabolically …