Physics of Microbial Motility

Project Information

PHYMOT

Grant agreement ID: 955910

DOI 10.3030/955910

EC signature date 20 August 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 4 093 777,80

EU contribution € 4 093 777,80

Coordinated by

FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH
Germany

Deliverables

Documents, reports (15)

Chemotaxis and environment

Report on microbial motility and chemotaxis under realistic landscape conditions

Flagella interactions in swarming bacteria

Report on and images of interacting cells in bacterial swarms

Multiple cultures

Microfluidic device for simultaneous studies of cocultures egbacteriaepithelium

Cell-cell scattering

Diagram and data for scattering of bacteria with varying mobility cell shape and surfaces adhesiveness

Feeding flows in nano flagellates

Images of feeding flows in marine nanoflagellates

3D simulataneous imaging of bacteria and flagella

3D trajectories of bacteria visualizing in parallel body and flagella bundle

Viscoelastic properties of flagellum

Documentation of the viscoelastic properties of a flagellum

3D bacteria imaging

Images of 3D trajectories of bacteria

Control of parasite swimming

Report on the beating dynamics and collective behavior of trypanosomes at their various live cycles

Swim strategies in complex environment

Generic model for optimal swim strategy in complex environment

In-situ real-time microscope

Development of an advanced microscope for environmental microbiology

Real-time bacteria tracking

Optical microscope with real time feedback control

Model of axonemal dynein dynamics

Datadriven models for dynein activity

Collective effects in disordered and confined environments

Report on collective dynamics

Mechanical properties of the basal bodies

Report on lengthdependent mechanical properties of flagella

Other (2)

PHYMOT web page
PHYMOT Wikipedia page

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (2)

VxrB Influences Antagonism within Biofilms by Controlling Competition through Extracellular Matrix Production and Type 6 Secretion

Author(s): Jennifer K. Teschler, Eva Jiménez-Siebert, Hannah Jeckel, Praveen K. Singh, Jin Hwan Park, Stefan Pukatzki, Carey D. Nadell, Knut Drescher, Fitnat H. Yildiz
Published in: mBio, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) e0188522, ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01885-22

Encounter rates prime interactions between microorganisms

Author(s): Jonasz Słomka, Uria Alcolombri, Francesco Carrara, Riccardo Foffi, François J. Peaudecerf, Matti Zbinden and Roman Stocker
Published in: Interface Focus, Issue 13: 20220059, 2023, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 2042-8901
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2022.0059