How bacterial chemotaxis is performed is much better understood than why. Traditionally,
chemotaxis has been understood as a foraging strategy by which bacteria enhance their …

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

Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

In the wild, bacteria are predominantly associated with surfaces as opposed to existing as
free-swimming, isolated organisms. They are thus subject to surface-specific mechanics …

The intestinal microbiota plays important roles in human health. This last decade, the viral
fraction of the intestinal microbiota, composed essentially of phages that infect bacteria …

The majority of insect olfactory receptors belong to two distinct protein families, the
ionotropic receptors (IRs), which are related to the ionotropic glutamate receptor family, and …

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and
pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a …

Systems in thermodynamic equilibrium are not only characterized by time-independent
macroscopic properties, but also satisfy the principle of detailed balance in the transitions …

The interspecies exchange of metabolites plays a key role in the spatiotemporal dynamics of
microbial communities. This raises the question of whether ecosystem-level behavior of …

" This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of
statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It …