Microorganisms have evolved to thrive in virtually any terrestrial and marine environment,
exposing them to various mechanical cues mainly generated by fluid flow and pressure as …

Biofilms are a widely observed growth mode in which microbial communities are spatially
structured and embedded in a polymeric extracellular matrix. Here, we focus on the model …

The colonization of surfaces by bacteria is a widespread phenomenon with consequences
on environmental processes and human health. While much is known about the molecular …

Microorganisms often live in habitats characterized by fluid flow, from lakes and oceans to
soil and the human body. Bacteria and plankton experience a broad range of flows, from the …

Biofilms are structured communities formed by a single or multiple microbial species. Within
biofilms, bacteria are embedded into extracellular matrix, allowing them to build …

The dynamics and stability of ecological communities are intimately linked with the specific
interactions—like cooperation or predation—between constituent species. In microbial …

The bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus attaches to the exterior of a Gram-negative prey
cell, enters the periplasm, and harvests resources to replicate before lysing the host to find …

Bacteria can form dense communities called biofilms, where cells are embedded in a self-
produced extracellular matrix. Exploiting competitive interactions between strains within the …

Collective behavior in spatially structured groups, or biofilms, is the norm among microbes in
their natural environments. Though biofilm formation has been studied for decades, tracing …

Self-organized spatial patterns are ubiquitous in ecological systems and allow populations
to adopt non-trivial spatial distributions starting from disordered configurations. These …