Speaker
Amir Pahlavan
(Yale University)
Description
Bacteria sense chemical gradients, adjusting their swimming to move up nutrients or away from harmful chemicals. While our understanding of bacterial chemotaxis in steady and idealized environments has significantly improved, we know much less about the role of chemotaxis in real environments with dynamic flows, unsteady chemical gradients, and complex microstructure. Here, we use microfluidic experiments to shed light on this question, investigating how bacteria adapt their swimming strategies in response to nutrient hotspots, and the implications of these adaptations on the bacterial colonization of the environment.
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Author
Amir Pahlavan
(Yale University)
