The Physical Mechanics of Swimming Bacteria

Project Information

PhyMeBa

Grant agreement ID: 682754

DOI 10.3030/682754

Project closed

EC signature date 9 June 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 229,00

EU contribution € 1 999 229,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (52)

Dynamics of a helical swimmer crossing viscosity gradients

Author(s): Christian Esparza Lopez; Jorge González-Gutiérrez; Francisco Solorio-Ordaz; Eric Lauga; Roberto Zenit
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2469990X, 2021, Page(s) 083102, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.083102

Viscoelastic propulsion of a rotating dumbbell

Author(s): J. Amadeus Puente-Velázquez, Francisco A. Godínez, Eric Lauga, Roberto Zenit
Published in: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Issue 23/9, 2019, ISSN 1613-4982
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-019-2275-1

Selectively controlled magnetic microrobots with opposing helices

Author(s): Wendong Wang; Panayiota Katsamba; Joshua Giltinan; Eric Lauga; Metin Sitti; Metin Sitti
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 134101, ISSN 1077-3118
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/1.5143007

Hydrodynamic interactions between a point force and a slender filament

Author(s): Ivan Tanasijević; Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2469990X, 2021, Page(s) 124101, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.06725

Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids

Author(s): G. Li, E. Lauga and A. Ardekani
Published in: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Issue 03770257, 2021, Page(s) 104655, ISSN 0377-0257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2021.104655

Asymptotic theory of hydrodynamic interactions between slender filaments

Author(s): Maria Tătulea-Codrean; Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2469990X, 2021, Page(s) 074103, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.074103

Elastohydrodynamic synchronization of rotating bacterial flagella

Author(s): Maria Tătulea-Codrean; Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 10797114, 2022, Page(s) 208101, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.208101

Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer

Author(s): Lyndon Koens, Eric Lauga
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 916, 2021, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.181

Rebound and scattering of motile Chlamydomonas algae in confined chambers

Author(s): Albane Théry; Yuxuan Wang; Mariia Dvoriashyna; Christophe Eloy; Florence Elias; Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 17446848, 2021, Page(s) 4857–4873, ISSN 1744-6848
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.08218

Hydrodynamic synchronization in strong confinement

Author(s): Ivan Tanasijević, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 103/2, 2021, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.022403

Hydrodynamic model for Spiroplasma motility

Author(s): Eric Lauga; Christian Esparza Lopez
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 093102, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.5.093102

Energetics of synchronization for model flagella and cilia.

Author(s): Weida Liao; Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 24700045, 2021, Page(s) 042419, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.042419

Transition to bound states for bacteria swimming near surfaces

Author(s): Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 100/4, 2019, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: Physical Review E
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.043117

Front-back asymmetry controls the impact of viscoelasticity on helical swimming

Author(s): Veronica Angeles; F.A. Godinez; Jhonny A. Puente-Velazquez; Rodrigo Mendez-Rojano; Eric Lauga; Roberto Zenit; Roberto Zenit
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2469990X, 2021, Page(s) 043102, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.01579

Hydrodynamics and direction change of tumbling bacteria.

Author(s): Dvoriashyna, Mariia; Lauga, Eric
Published in: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254551 (2021), Issue 19326203, 2021, Page(s) e0254551, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254551

Geometrical Constraints on the Tangling of Bacterial Flagellar Filaments.

Author(s): Maria Tătulea-Codrean; Eric Lauga
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-10, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.17863/cam.55047

Self-organisation and convection of confined magnetotactic bacteria

Author(s): Albane Théry, Lucas Le Nagard, Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Cécile Fradin, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, Eric Lauga
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70270-0

Hydrodynamic interactions between nearby slender filaments

Author(s): Yi Man, Lyndon Koens, Eric Lauga
Published in: EPL (Europhysics Letters), Issue 116/2, 2016, Page(s) 24002, ISSN 0295-5075
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/116/24002

Geometric tuning of self-propulsion for Janus catalytic particles

Author(s): Sébastien Michelin, Eric Lauga
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7, 2017, Page(s) 42264, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/srep42264

Autophoretic flow on a torus

Author(s): Lasse C. Schmieding, Eric Lauga, Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2/3, 2017, Page(s) 034201, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.034201

Clustering instability of focused swimmers

Author(s): Eric Lauga, Francois Nadal
Published in: EPL (Europhysics Letters), Issue 116/6, 2016, Page(s) 64004, ISSN 0295-5075
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/116/64004

Swimming with a cage: low-Reynolds-number locomotion inside a droplet

Author(s): Shang Yik Reigh, Lailai Zhu, François Gallaire, Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 13/17, 2017, Page(s) 3161-3173, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01636g

Empirical resistive-force theory for slender biological filaments in shear-thinning fluids

Author(s): Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 95/6, 2017, Page(s) 062416, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.062416

The non-Gaussian tops and tails of diffusing boomerangs

Author(s): Lyndon Koens, Maciej Lisicki, Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 13/16, 2017, Page(s) 2977-2982, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02649d

Analytical solutions to slender-ribbon theory

Author(s): Lyndon Koens, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2/8, 2017, Page(s) 084101, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.084101

Two-fluid model for locomotion under self-confinement

Author(s): Shang Yik Reigh, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2/9, 2017, Page(s) 093101, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.093101

Active particles in periodic lattices

Author(s): Alexander Chamolly, Takuji Ishikawa, Eric Lauga
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 19/11, 2017, Page(s) 115001, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa8d5e

Spontaneous oscillations of elastic filaments induced by molecular motors

Author(s): Gabriele De Canio, Eric Lauga, Raymond E. Goldstein
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 14/136, 2017, Page(s) 20170491, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0491

Bundling of elastic filaments induced by hydrodynamic interactions

Author(s): Yi Man, William Page, Robert J. Poole, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 2/12, 2017, Page(s) 123101, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.123101

Helical micropumps near surfaces

Author(s): Justas Dauparas, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Published in: Biomicrofluidics, Issue 12/1, 2018, Page(s) 014108, ISSN 1932-1058
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5012070

Computing the motor torque of Escherichia coli

Author(s): Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 14/29, 2018, Page(s) 5955-5967, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm00536b

The boundary integral formulation of Stokes flows includes slender-body theory

Author(s): Lyndon Koens, Eric Lauga
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 850, 2018, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.483

Autophoretic motion in three dimensions

Author(s): Maciej Lisicki, Shang Yik Reigh, Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 14/17, 2018, Page(s) 3304-3314, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm00194d

Leading-order Stokes flows near a corner

Author(s): Justas Dauparas, Eric Lauga
Published in: IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Issue 83/4, 2018, Page(s) 590-633, ISSN 0272-4960
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxy014

Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

Author(s): H.-W. Huang, F. E. Uslu, P. Katsamba, E. Lauga, M. S. Sakar, B. J. Nelson
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/1, 2019, Page(s) eaau1532, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau1532

Artificial chemotaxis of phoretic swimmers: instantaneous and long-time behaviour

Author(s): Maria Tătulea-Codrean, Eric Lauga
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 856, 2018, Page(s) 921-957, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.718

The swimming of a deforming helix

Author(s): Lyndon Koens, Hang Zhang, Martin Moeller, Ahmed Mourran, Eric Lauga
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 41/10, 2018, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11728-2

Swimming of peritrichous bacteria is enabled by an elastohydrodynamic instability

Author(s): Emily E. Riley, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28319-8

Hydrodynamics of bacteriophage migration along bacterial flagella

Author(s): Panayiota Katsamba, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 4/1, 2019, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.4.013101

The N -flagella problem: elastohydrodynamic motility transition of multi-flagellated bacteria

Author(s): Kenta Ishimoto, Eric Lauga
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 475/2225, 2019, Page(s) 20180690, ISSN 1364-5021
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0690

Self-organization of swimmers drives long-range fluid transport in bacterial colonies

Author(s): Haoran Xu, Justas Dauparas, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga, Yilin Wu
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09818-2

A stochastic model for bacteria-driven micro-swimmers

Author(s): Christian Esparza López, Albane Théry, Eric Lauga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 15/12, 2019, Page(s) 2605-2616, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm02157k

Method of regularized stokeslets: Flow analysis and improvement of convergence

Author(s): Boan Zhao, Eric Lauga, Lyndon Koens
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 4/8, 2019, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.4.084104

Swimming eukaryotic microorganisms exhibit a universal speed distribution

Author(s): Maciej Lisicki, Marcos F Velho Rodrigues, Raymond E Goldstein, Eric Lauga
Published in: eLife, Issue 8, 2019, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.44907

Propulsion by stiff elastic filaments in viscous fluids

Author(s): Panayiota Katsamba, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 99/5, 2019, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.053107

Active Particles Powered by Quincke Rotation in a Bulk Fluid

Author(s): Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/19, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.194503

Zigzag instability of biased pusher swimmers

Author(s): Eric Lauga and Thanh Nghi Dang and Takuji Ishikawa
Published in: EPL, Issue 02955075, 2021, Page(s) 44002, ISSN 0295-5075
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/133/44002

The bank of swimming organisms at the micron scale (BOSO-Micro)

Author(s): Marcos F. Velho Rodrigues; Maciej Lisicki; Eric Lauga
Published in: PLoS ONE, Issue 19326203, 2021, Page(s) e0252291, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.17863/cam.72992

Stokes flow due to point torques and sources in a spherical geometry

Author(s): Alexander Chamolly, Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 5/7, 2020, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.5.074202

Direct measurement of unsteady microscale Stokes flow using optically driven microspheres

Author(s): Nicolas Bruot; Nicolas Bruot; Pietro Cicuta; Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha; Raymond E. Goldstein; Jurij Kotar; Eric Lauga; François Nadal
Published in: Bruot , N , Cicuta , P , Bloomfield-Gadêlha , H , Goldstein , R E , Kotar , J , Lauga , E & Nadal , F 2021 , ' Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres ' , Physical Review Fluids , vol. 6 , no. 5 , 053102 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.053102, Issue 2469990X, 2021, Page(s) 053102, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.053102

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

Author(s): Gerhard Gompper, Roland G Winkler, Thomas Speck, Alexandre Solon, Cesare Nardini, Fernando Peruani, Hartmut Löwen, Ramin Golestanian, U Benjamin Kaupp, Luis Alvarez, Thomas Kiørboe, Eric Lauga, Wilson C K Poon, Antonio DeSimone, Santiago Muiños-Landin, Alexander Fischer, Nicola A Söker, Frank Cichos, Raymond Kapral, Pierre Gaspard, Marisol Ripoll, Francesc Sagues, Amin Doostmohammadi, Julia M
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 32/19, 2020, Page(s) 193001, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348

Direct versus indirect hydrodynamic interactions during bundle formation of bacterial flagella

Author(s): Alexander Chamolly; Eric Lauga
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 123102, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.5.123102