Adhesion of microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, to surfaces and the subsequent formation
of biofilms cause multidrug-tolerant infections in humans and fouling of medical devices. To …

How bacteria regulate, assemble and rotate flagella to swim in liquid media is reasonably
well understood. Much less is known about how some bacteria use flagella to move over the …

Individual swimming bacteria are known to bias their random trajectories in search of food
and to optimize survival. The motion of bacteria within a swarm, wherein they migrate as a …

Bacterial swarming is a collective mode of motion in which cells migrate rapidly over
surfaces, forming dynamic patterns of whirls and jets. This review presents a physical point …

Swarming is the fastest known bacterial mode of surface translocation and enables the rapid
colonization of a nutrient-rich environment and host tissues. This complex multicellular …

We describe a mechanism of flagellar motor control by the bacterial signaling molecule c-di-
GMP, which regulates several cellular behaviors. E. coli and Salmonella have multiple c-di …

Probiotics are non-pathogenic living microorganisms which, when administered in adequate
amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. Probiotic microorganisms most often are …

Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …

Bacterial swarming is an example of dynamic self-assembly in microbiology in which the
collective interaction of a population of bacterial cells leads to emergent behavior. Swarming …

Movement over an agar surface via swarming motility is subject to formidable challenges not
encountered during swimming. Bacteria display a great deal of flexibility in co** with these …