Proliferating active matter

O Hallatschek, SS Datta, K Drescher, J Dunkel… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have
fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter …

Understanding the complex phage-host interactions in biofilm communities

DP Pires, LDR Melo, J Azeredo - Annual Review of Virology, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Bacteriophages and bacterial biofilms are widely present in natural environments, a fact that
has accelerated the evolution of phages and their bacterial hosts in these particular niches …

Biofilm formation on human immune cells is a multicellular predation strategy of Vibrio cholerae

L Vidakovic, S Mikhaleva, H Jeckel, V Nisnevich… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Biofilm formation is generally recognized as a bacterial defense mechanism against
environmental threats, including antibiotics, bacteriophages, and leukocytes of the human …

DeepBacs for multi-task bacterial image analysis using open-source deep learning approaches

C Spahn, E Gómez-de-Mariscal, RF Laine… - Communications …, 2022‏ - nature.com
This work demonstrates and guides how to use a range of state-of-the-art artificial neural-
networks to analyse bacterial microscopy images using the recently developed …

Volatile methyl jasmonate from roots triggers host-beneficial soil microbiome biofilms

OS Kulkarni, M Mazumder, S Kini, ED Hill… - Nature Chemical …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The rhizosphere is a niche surrounding plant roots, where soluble and volatile molecules
mediate signaling between plants and the associated microbiota. The preferred lifestyle of …

Nano‐enabled Quenching of Bacterial Communications for the Prevention of Biofilm Formation

M Gao, B Xu, Y Huang, J Cao, L Yang, X Liu… - Angewandte …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biofilm formation is a major threat to industry, the environment and human health. While
killing of embedded microbes in biofilms may inevitably lead to the evolution of antimicrobial …

A genetic switch controls Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface colonization

C Manner, R Dias Teixeira, D Saha… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Efficient colonization of mucosal surfaces is essential for opportunistic pathogens like
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but how bacteria collectively and individually adapt to optimize …

Biofilm viability checker: An open-source tool for automated biofilm viability analysis from confocal microscopy images

SE Mountcastle, N Vyas, VM Villapun, SC Cox… - npj Biofilms and …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Quantifying biofilm formation on surfaces is challenging because traditional microbiological
methods, such as total colony-forming units (CFUs), often rely on manual counting. These …

Interkingdom assemblages in human saliva display group-level surface mobility and disease-promoting emergent functions

Z Ren, H Jeckel, A Simon-Soro, Z **ang, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Fungi and bacteria often engage in complex interactions, such as the formation of
multicellular biofilms within the human body. Knowledge about how interkingdom biofilms …

Multispecies biofilm architecture determines bacterial exposure to phages

JB Winans, BR Wucher, CD Nadell - PLoS biology, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
Numerous ecological interactions among microbes—for example, competition for space and
resources, or interaction among phages and their bacterial hosts—are likely to occur …