Hannah H. Tuson

TL;DR: A review of recent studies on bacteria-surface interactions, discusses mechanisms of surface sensing and consequences of cell attachment, provides an overview of surfaces that have been used in bacterial studies, and highlights unanswered questions in this field.

TL;DR: The technique enables the rapid determination of how changes in genotype and biochemistry affect the mechanical properties of the bacterial envelope, supporting a model in which the interactions between MreB and the cell wall persist on the same time scale as growth.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into the fundamental dynamic behaviors of bacteria in complex anisotropic environments and motile bacteria in LCs are suggested to be an exciting model system for exploration of principles for the design of active materials.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that phage-delivered programmable CRISPR therapeutics have the potential to leverage the specificity and apparent safety of phage therapies and improve their potency and reliability for eradicating specific bacterial species within complex communities, offering a novel mechanism to treat pathogenic and/or multidrug-resistant organisms.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the secretion of HSLs from a biofilm enhances the growth of neighboring cells in contact with surfaces into communities and may influence their composition, organization, and diversity.