Self-organization of bacterial biofilms is facilitated by extracellular DNA

ES Gloag, L Turnbull, A Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Twitching motility-mediated biofilm expansion is a complex, multicellular behavior that
enables the active colonization of surfaces by many species of bacteria. In this study we …

Diatrack particle tracking software: Review of applications and performance evaluation

P Vallotton, AM Van Oijen, CB Whitchurch, V Gelfand… - Traffic, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Object tracking is an instrumental tool supporting studies of cellular trafficking. There are
three challenges in object tracking: the identification of targets; the precise determination of …

Stoichiometry and compositional plasticity of the yeast nuclear pore complex revealed by quantitative fluorescence microscopy

S Rajoo, P Vallotton… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is an eightfold symmetrical channel providing selective
transport of biomolecules across the nuclear envelope. Each NPC consists of∼ 30 different …

Bacterial stigmergy: an organising principle of multicellular collective behaviours of bacteria

ES Gloag, L Turnbull, CB Whitchurch - Scientifica, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐organisation of collective behaviours often manifests as dramatic patterns of
emergent large‐scale order. This is true for relatively “simple” entities such as microbial …

Efficient multiple object tracking using mutually repulsive active membranes

Y Deng, P Coen, M Sun, JW Shaevitz - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Studies of social and group behavior in interacting organisms require high-throughput
analysis of the motion of a large number of individual subjects. Computer vision techniques …

Comparing topological, symbolic and GA-based ATPGs: an experimental approach

E Corno, P Prinetto, M Rebaudengo… - … Test Conference 1996 …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this paper is-to compare from an experimental point of view the performance of
three ATPG tools for synchronous sequential circuits. The three tools are stare-of-the-art …

Size matters: Filamentous bacteria drive interstitial vortex formation and colony expansion in Paenibacillus vortex

P Vallotton - Cytometry Part A, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The beautiful patterns formed by motile bacteria have always intrigued the curious (Ben‐
Jacob et al., Eur. Phys. J. B 2008; 65: 315–322). The mechanisms underlying their formation …

Segmentation of dense 2D bacilli populations

P Vallotton, L Mililli, L Turnbull… - … conference on digital …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bacteria outnumber all other known organisms by far so there is considerable interest in
characterizing them in detail and in measuring their diversity, evolution, and dynamics. Here …

Computer vision-based image analysis of bacteria

J Danielsen, P Nordenfelt - Bacterial Pathogenesis: Methods and …, 2017 - Springer
Microscopy is an essential tool for studying bacteria, but is today mostly used in a qualitative
or possibly semi-quantitative manner often involving time-consuming manual analysis. It …

A study of touchless versus touch-based interactions with bacterial biofilm images

M Hosseini, P Vallotton, T Bednarz… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Bacteria reproduce simply and rapidly by doubling their contents and then splitting in two.
The majority of bacteria in the human body are countered by the human immune system …