Microbiology is the science of microbes, particularly bacteria. Many bacteria are motile: they
are capable of self-propulsion. Among these, a significant class execute so-called run-and …

Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Diverse processes—eg bioremediation, biofertilization, and microbial drug delivery—rely on
bacterial migration in disordered, three-dimensional (3D) porous media. However, how pore …

It is important to study the response of plant pathogens to the antibiosis traits of biocontrol
microbes to design the efficient biocontrol strategies. In this study, we evaluated the role of …

The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by soil microbes have a significant role in
the control of plant diseases and plant growth promotion. In this study, we examined the …

Chemotaxis is a fundamental guidance mechanism of cells and organisms, responsible for
attracting microbes to food, embryonic cells into developing tissues, immune cells to …

How and at what pace bacteria evolve when colonizing healthy hosts remains unclear.
Here, by monitoring evolution for more than six thousand generations in the mouse gut, we …

Understanding how bacteria move in porous media is critical to applications in healthcare,
agriculture, environmental remediation, and chemical sensing. Recent work has …

Chemotactic migration of bacteria—their ability to direct multicellular motion along chemical
gradients—is central to processes in agriculture, the environment, and medicine. However …

The flagellated bacterium Escherichia coli is increasingly used experimentally as a self-
propelled swimmer. To obtain meaningful, quantitative results that are comparable between …