Echoing the repeated convergent evolution of flight and vision in large eukaryotes,
propulsive swimming motility has evolved independently in microbes in each of the three …

The movement of microorganisms is not only an essential aspect of life, it also serves as a
fruitful model for the development of synthetic microswimmers or microrobots with potential …

Remotely powered microrobots are proposed as next‐generation vehicles for drug delivery.
However, most microrobots swim with linear trajectories and lack the capacity to robustly …

Surface sensing in bacteria is a precursor to the colonization of biotic and abiotic surfaces,
and an important cause of drug resistance and virulence. As a motile bacterium approaches …

Active colloids are a synthetic analogue of biological microorganisms that consume external
energy to swim through viscous fluids. Such motion requires breaking the symmetry of the …

The stator-complex in the bacterial flagellar motor is responsible for surface-sensing. It
remodels in response to perturbations in viscous loads, recruiting additional stator-units as …

We study a one-dimensional three-state run-and-tumble model motivated by the bacterium
Caulobacter crescentus which displays a cell cycle between two non-proliferating mobile …

The canonical chemotaxis network modulates the bias for a particular direction of rotation in
the bacterial flagellar motor to help the cell migrate toward favorable chemical environments …

Swimming bacteria exhibit a repertoire of motility patterns, in which persistent motion is
interrupted by turning events. What are the statistical properties of such random walks? If …

Bacterial flagellar motility is controlled by the binding of CheY proteins to the cytoplasmic
switch complex of the flagellar motor, resulting in changes in swimming speed or direction …