Should the biofilm mode of life be taken into consideration for microbial biocontrol agents?

C Pandin, D Le Coq, A Canette… - Microbial …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Almost one‐third of crop yields are lost every year due to microbial alterations and diseases.
The main control strategy to limit these losses is the use of an array of chemicals active …

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

Calibrating spatiotemporal models of microbial communities to microscopy data: A review

A Yip, J Smith-Roberge, SH Khorasani… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Spatiotemporal models that account for heterogeneity within microbial communities rely on
single-cell data for calibration and validation. Such data, commonly collected via microscopy …

Programmable self-organization of heterogeneous microrobot collectives

S Ceron, G Gardi, K Petersen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
At the microscale, coupled physical interactions between collectives of agents can be
exploited to enable self-organization. Past systems typically consist of identical agents; …

A multiphase theory for spreading microbial swarms and films

S Srinivasan, CN Kaplan, L Mahadevan - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Bacterial swarming and biofilm formation are collective multicellular phenomena through
which diverse microbial species colonize and spread over water-permeable tissue. During …

Adaptation of Escherichia coli Biofilm Growth, Morphology, and Mechanical Properties to Substrate Water Content

R Ziege, AM Tsirigoni, B Large, DO Serra… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biofilms are complex living materials that form as bacteria become embedded in a matrix of
self-produced protein and polysaccharide fibers. In addition to their traditional association …

Genetic network architecture and environmental cues drive spatial organization of phenotypic division of labor in Streptomyces coelicolor

VM Zacharia, Y Ra, C Sue, E Alcala, JN Reaso… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A number of bacteria are known to differentiate into cells with distinct phenotypic
traits during processes such as biofilm formation or the development of reproductive …

Matrix production and sporulation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms localize to propagating wave fronts

S Srinivasan, ID Vladescu, SA Koehler, X Wang… - Biophysical …, 2018 - cell.com
Bacterial biofilms are surface-attached microbial communities encased in self-produced
extracellular polymeric substances. Here we demonstrate that during the development of …

Microfluidic Giant Polymer Vesicles Equipped with Biopores for High‐Throughput Screening of Bacteria

L Heuberger, D Messmer, EC Dos Santos… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance is critical for the development of new
therapeutics. Traditional methods for testing bacteria are often limited in their efficiency and …

[PDF][PDF] Inorganic alkali lead iodide semiconducting APbI3 (A= Li, Na, K, Cs) and NH4PbI3 films prepared from solution: structure, morphology, and electronic structure

L Dimesso, M Wussler, T Mayer, E Mankel… - AIMS Materials …, 2016 - scienceopen.com
Inorganic alkali lead iodide semiconducting APbI3 (A = Li, Na, K, Cs) and NH4PbI3 films
prepared from solution: Structure, morph Page 1 AIMS Materials Science, 3(3): 737-755. DOI …