Bacterial Collective Behavior (Microswimmers lecture series)

Datum

08.05.2019

Zeit

13:30 - 14:30

Sprecher

Knut Drescher

Zugehörigkeit

Max-Planck Institute for terrestrial microbiology

Serie

TUD Vorlesungsserie - Microswimmers

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Chemie

Andere Themen

Biologie, Physik, Mathematik, Chemie

Host

Juliane Simmchen, Veronika Magdanz, Benjamin Friedrich

Beschreibung

On most moist surfaces, bacteria grow into communities termed biofilms. Such biofilms display strongly increased tolerance to antibiotics, and constitute the most abundant form of biomass on Earth. I will first present a new microscopy and imaging technique we recently developed to follow dynamical processes in biofilms at the single-cell level, and bacterial swarming at the single-cell level. Based on data from these new imaging techniques, bacterial genetics, and mathematical models, I will then demonstrate how two bacterial collective behaviors, swarming and biofilm formation, are unified by physical interactions, chemical signaling, and dynamical transitions.

Links

• Microswimmer's lecture series

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