# overview
We combine sensitive biophysical techniques such as single-molecule fluorescence and force-spectroscopy with mechanistic modeling and molecular genetics to study bacterial motility, adaptability and antibiotic resistance.

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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2.2 Factors Relating To The Physical Environment

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

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University of Delaware - (Newark, Delaware, United States)

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Dynamics of mechanosensing in the bacterial flagellar motor.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Real-Time Deduction of Mechanisms and Kinetics Underlying Photocatalytic Water Disinfection: Cell Motility and Particle Tracking

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Molecular Mechanism for Attractant Signaling to DHMA by E.coli Tsr.

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A method for direct imaging of x-z cross-sections of fluorescent samples.

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Anisotropic random walks reveal chemotaxis signaling output in run-reversing bacteria

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Biophysical Characterization of Flagellar Motor Functions.

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Switching of bacterial flagellar motors [corrected] triggered by mutant FliG.

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Viscous drag on the flagellum activates Bacillus subtilis entry into the K-state.

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Low pH amplifies chemotaxis toward urea in Helicobacter pylori.

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Heterogeneous Distribution of Proton Motive Force in Nonheritable Antibiotic Resistance.

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Diversity in shareholder protection in common law countries

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Production and enzyme activity of an extracellular amylase from Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae and Bacillus subtilis

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Mechanosensitive recruitment of stator units promotes binding of the response regulator CheY-P to the flagellar motor.

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Biphasic chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to the microbiota metabolite indole.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Indole modulates cooperative protein-protein interactions in the flagellar motor.

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Bacterial mechanobiology: Rotary flagellar motors as mechanosensors

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One- and two-dimensional assembly of colloidal ellipsoids in ac electric fields.

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Polarization and interactions of colloidal particles in ac electric fields.

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Colloidal diffusion and hydrodynamic screening near boundaries

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Asymmetric random walks reveal that the chemotaxis network modulates flagellar rotational bias in Helicobacter pylori.

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Protein expression-independent response of intensity-based pH-sensitive fluorophores in Escherichia coli.

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Scrutinizing Stator Rotation in the Bacterial Flagellum: Reconciling Experiments and Switching Models

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A rotary motor drives Flavobacterium gliding.

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Torque, but not FliL, regulates mechanosensitive flagellar motor-function.

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Shareholder protection: a leximetric approach

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Response thresholds in bacterial chemotaxis.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Mechanism for adaptive remodeling of the bacterial flagellar switch.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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The flagellar motor of Caulobacter crescentus generates more torque when a cell swims backward.

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Anisotropic Swimming Modes in Helicobacter pylori

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Reassessing the Standard Chemotaxis Framework for Understanding Biased Migration in Helicobacter pylori.

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Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation.

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COLL 30-Directed colloidal assembly in AC electric fields

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A Skeptic's Guide to Bacterial Mechanosensing.

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FRAP analysis: accounting for bleaching during image capture.

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COLL 298-Ordering of anisotropic particles in 2D with AC electric fields

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Mechanosensitive recruitment of stator units promotes binding of the response regulator CheY-P to the flagellar motor

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Assemble-and-stretch method for creating two- and three-dimensional structures of anisotropic particles.

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Anomalous particle rotation and resulting microstructure of colloids in AC electric fields.

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Matrix stiffness drives drop like nuclear deformation and lamin A/C tension-dependent YAP nuclear localization.

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Switching and Torque Generation in Swarming E. coli.

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The Nucleus Bypasses Obstacles by Deforming Like a Drop with Surface Tension Mediated by Lamin A/C.

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Urea-Loaded PLGA Microspheres as Chemotaxis Stimulants for Helicobacter pylori.

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Etiology and Prevention of Gastric Cancers by Mitigation of H pylori Mechanosensing

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Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas - (Austin, Texas, United States)

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Physiological Role for Cation Channels in Bacteria

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science

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Mechanical Regulation of Ultra-Sensitivity in E. coli Flagellar Motors

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science

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Mechanosensitive Self-Assembly of Flagellar Stator Proteins in Bacteria

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United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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DOD-Army-Medical Research and Materiel Command

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Texas A&M University; Chemical Engineering; 3122 TAMU

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Two-faced bacteria: Researchers discover previously unknown response within gut microbiota

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Biphasic chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to the microbiota metabolite indole