If you are at the 2026 ASM Microbe meeting in Washington DC, please check out a talk on sensory origion of zorbs by our lab's postdoc Jitendra Gosai at the 'Holding Tight: the importance of bacterial adhesion' session on June 5th @gosciee.bsky.social
Congratulations to our 2nd year PhD student @samsen06.bsky.social for winning a Poster Award for Innovation in Environmental Solutions @ASUBiodesign annual retreat 👏🎊🥳
Our new paper in ISME Journal reports that swarms of anaerobic bacteria isolated from the human mouth exhibit mesmerizing flower-like, wave-like, and chrysanthemum firework patterns, via developmental phase transitions, to establish scattered colonies in new region
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Our paper on how a conveyor belt-associated protein of T9SS-driven gliding bacteria acts as a molecular switch, reversing T9SS rotation to fine-tune movement - like a smart conveyor or biological snowmobile adapting to changing terrain is out now in @mbio.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Happy to share that a study led by @ShahLab_Enzymes and our joint PhD student Pavani Dadi, where multiple neuromodulatory compounds are reported to be produced by an evolved enzyme from the gut microbe Bacteroides fragilis is now online www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Distinguishing among evolutionary and ecological processes shaping microbiome dynamics
#ISMEJournal review by Tiffany N Batarseh and @bkoskella.bsky.social
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Presenting RABiTPy, a Python package for bacterial tracking that works in a jupyter notebook format for: video/image stack import and processing, AI-based or traditional cell segmentation, cell tracking, trajectory analysis, and downstream plotting
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Distinct motors, shared mechanics: unifying principles of microbial gliding | Journal of Bacteriology share.google/SrtEabEQKdZs...
Our minireview is out now in J Bact!
The type 9 secretion system (T9SS) is fundamental to bacterial gliding motility, pathogenesis,
and surface colonization. Our findings reveal that the C-terminal region of the conveyor
belt-associated ...
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
Abstract. The collective surface motility and swarming behavior of microbes play a crucial role in the formation of polymicrobial communities, shaping ecos
Abstract. Evolution is defined as the change in allele frequency over time as a result of either neutral processes, such as genetic drift, or as an adaptiv
Bacterial tracking is crucial for understanding the mechanisms governing motility, chemotaxis, cell division, biofilm formation, and pathogenesis. Although modern microscopy and computing have enabled...
Gliding motility is a widespread form of microbial locomotion traditionally defined
as smooth movement of a cell along an external surface, enabling active translocation
that is distinct from diffusiv...
Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A little thread below 1/n
Sonja-Verena Albers
Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...
