Real-time microscopic study and modeling of the disruption of bacterial swarming motion

• Main Author: Lu, Shengtao
• Other Authors: Yeow Edwin Kok Lee
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry::Biochemistry; DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Biophysics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/65868
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Collective motion of living organisms is ubiquitous in nature. In biology, certain bacteria such as the Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis can differentiate into swarming cells and move rapidly across the surface of a semisolid media in multicellular rafts or clusters. Experimental studies on the colle...