The human gut microbiome plays an important role in resisting colonization of the host by
pathogens, but we lack the ability to predict which communities will be protective. We …

Plant pathogens cause yield losses in crops worldwide. Breeding for improved disease
resistance and management by precision agriculture are two approaches to limit such yield …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication form between bacteria via small signal molecules
that enables global gene regulation as a function of cell density. We applied a microfluidic …

Plants prevent disease by passively and actively protecting potential entry routes against
invading microbes. For example, the plant immune system actively guards roots, wounds …

At the microscale, bacteria have developed numerous motility mechanisms, as this process
allows movement towards nutrients and more habitable habitats. The research on bacterial …

Investigation of plant-bacteria interactions requires quantification of in planta bacterial titers
by means of cumbersome and time-consuming colony-counting assays. Here, we devised a …

Non-antibiotic drugs can alter the composition of the gut microbiome, with largely undefined
implications for human health. Here we compared the susceptibility of commensal and …

Background Plants are known to be infected by a wide range of pathogenic microbes. To
study plant diseases caused by microbes, it is imperative to be able to monitor disease …

Agroinfiltration in Nicotiana benthamiana is widely used to transiently express heterologous
proteins in plants. However, the state of Agrobacterium itself is not well studied in …

Whole-cell bacteria-based luminescent probes are crucial for monitoring bacterial
interactions with biotic surfaces. The primary approach to developing these probes involves …