Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Very cool work from Gürol Süel's lab: Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion - Nature MicrobiologyBacillus subtilis biofilms locally disperse by ejecting motile cells through osmotic pressure generated by their poly-γ-glutamic acid hydrogel, a mechanism resembling that through which Cnidaria eject...www.nature.comHappy to announce that a new opinion paper of our group just came out: A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities with @swagatika.bsky.social @sharvari27.bsky.social @anjanaprasad.bsky.social @palshubharthi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communitiesMicrobial communities play vital roles in diverse ecosystems and are key drivers of numerous industrial or health-related applications. In many cases,…www.sciencedirect.comVery cool Will. Makes complete sense when you explain it in this way, but I need to read the paper and think about it a bit more ...
Will Ratcliff1/23 New preprint! Been thinking about the origin of cellular life. Specifically, how protocells (or *any* compartments) just aren't enough to support the evolution of increasingly complex cells. You gotta de-Darwinize the parts! The ribosome/genome do this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...