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

Biofilm is a syntrophic association of sessile groups of microbial cells that adhere to biotic
and abiotic surfaces with the help of pili and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). EPSs …

Organisms acquire and use information from their environment to guide their behaviour.
However, it is unclear whether this information quantitatively limits their performance at …

Bacteria are ubiquitous in our daily lives, either as motile planktonic cells or as immobilized
surface-attached biofilms. These different phenotypic states play key roles in agriculture …

Collective migration—the directed, coordinated motion of many self-propelled agents—is a
fascinating emergent behavior exhibited by active matter with functional implications for …

Many microorganisms have evolved chemotactic strategies to exploit the microscale
heterogeneity that frequently characterizes microbial habitats. Chemotaxis has been …

Highlights•Bacteria use the chemotaxis pathway to navigate in complex environments.•E.
coli chemotaxis pathway is composed of a transduction and an adaptation module.•The …

Collective behaviors require coordination among a group of individuals. As a result,
individuals that are too phenotypically different from the rest of the group can be left out …

Highlights•Bacterial chemotaxis is a model system for discovering design
principles.•Information theory provides tools to study how bacteria process stimuli.• …

Living cells detect and process external signals using signaling pathways that are affected
by random fluctuations. These variations cause the behavior of individual cells to fluctuate …