Vertical growth dynamics of biofilms

P Bravo, S Lung Ng, KA MacGillivray… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
During the biofilm life cycle, bacteria attach to a surface and then reproduce, forming
crowded, growing communities. Many theoretical models of biofilm growth dynamics have …

Interspecies social spreading: interaction between two sessile soil bacteria leads to emergence of surface motility

LM McCully, AS Bitzer, SC Seaton, LM Smith, MW Silby - Msphere, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteria often live in complex communities in which they interact with other organisms.
Consideration of the social environment of bacteria can reveal emergent traits and …

Dynamics of bacterial deposition in evaporating drops

A Agrawal, S Sinha, R Mukherjee, D Mampallil - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Evaporation of drops almost always deposits their suspended particles at the drop edge.
The dynamics of this process and the resulting patterns depend upon various parameters …

Spatial pattern formation of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance

MK Denk-Lobnig, KB Wood - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Bacteria frequently inhabit surface–attached communities where rich ″social ″interactions
can significantly alter their population–level behavior, including their response to antibiotics …

Crack patterns of drying dense bacterial suspensions

X Ma, Z Liu, W Zeng, T Lin, X Tian, X Cheng - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Drying of bacterial suspensions is frequently encountered in a plethora of natural and
engineering processes. However, the evaporation-driven mechanical instabilities of dense …

Ecological drift during colonization drives within-and between-host heterogeneity in animal symbiont populations

JZ Chen, Z Kwong, NM Gerardo, NM Vega - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Host-associated microbiomes vary greatly in composition both within and between host
individuals, providing the raw material for natural selection to act on host-microbe …

[PDF][PDF] Active Matter Alters the Growth Dynamics of Coffee Rings

A Callegari, T Andac, P Weigmann… - Optics InfoBase …, 2018 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Active Matter Alters the Growth Dynamics of Coffee Rings Page 1 Active Matter Alters the
Growth Dynamics of Coffee Rings Agnese Callegari, Tugba Andac, Pascal Weigmann Soft …