Physics of Microbial Motility

4 Oct 2023, 11:30 → 6 Oct 2023, 15:40 Europe/Berlin

Room A101 (Biozentrum, University of Würzburg)

Markus Engstler (University of Würzburg), Gerhard Gompper (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Cecille Cottin-Bizonne (University Claude Bernard Lyon 1), Knut Drescher (University Basel), Marco Polin (University of the Balearic Islands)

From the largest animals to the smallest single-cell organisms, motility is a fundamental characteristic of life. Cell swimming, in particular, underpins a wide range of fundamental biological phenomena, including microbial grazing that fuels the base of the food webs, inter-microbial communication, animal reproduction, and parasitic infection—including severe diseases like malaria trypanosomiasis. Motile microorganisms are among the most important life-forms on earth, not only because of their abundance, but also because of their vital functions, e.g., in symbiosis with mammals or in ecosystems. Unravelling the basic principles of their propulsion mechanisms is essential for the development of novel strategies in the treatment of diseases, to understand microbial transport like the migration of marine phytoplankton in aquatic environments, and ultimately to open avenues for control of biological systems and the design of artificial nanomachines.

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Wednesday 4 October

1 Arrival - Registration - Lunch from 12.00

2 Welcome: Marcus Engstler & Gerhard Gompper

3 Active density patterns formation in bacterial binary mixtures

Speaker: Remy Colin

4 Optimal run-and-tumble in confinement

Speaker: Francois Detcheverry

5 Microfluidics to emulate the behavior of biological microswimmers using artificial alternatives

Speaker: Priyanka Sharan

6 microArgos: a new tool for bacterial movement ecology

Speaker: Riccardo Foffi

15:30 Coffee break - 30 minutes

7 Elastic Bistability and the Geometry of Cellular Neighbourhoods in Choanoflagellates and Green Algae

Speaker: Raymond Goldstein

8 Bacterial glass transition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Speaker: Martin Maliet

9 Effects of flagellar elasticity and cell body constraints on E.coli motility

Speaker: Silvio Bianchi

10 Simultaneous spatiotemporal transcriptomics and microscopy of Bacillus subtilis swarm development reveal cooperation across generations

Speaker: Knut Drescher

11 POSTER SESSION

Thursday 5 October

12 Multicellular transitions in collective bacterial movements

Speaker: Tam Mignot

13 Signature of (anti)cooperativity in the stochastic fluctuations of small systems: application to the mechano-sensitive assembly of the bacterial flagellar motor

Speaker: Nils Ole Walliser

14 Control of bacteria turbulence through surfaces

Speaker: Benjamin Perez

15 Microfluidics Approaches for Selection and Enhancement of Sperm Motility for Improved Fertilization

Speaker: Veaceslav Misko

10:30 Coffee break (30 minutes)

16 The physics of bacterial transport in dilute and porous environments

Speaker: Christina Kurzthaler

17 HoloV3C: unveiling eukaryotic flagella in 3D with holographic microscopy

Speaker: Patryk Nienałtowski

18 Swimming vs gliding: Exploring the first steps of biofilm formation of motile microbes

Speaker: Alexandros Fragkopoulos

19 Sperm Navigation in Viscosity Gradients

Speaker: Gerhard Gompper

12:30 Lunch break (90 minutes)

20 Bacterial Torpedoes Assaulting Biofilms

Speaker: Romain Briandet

21 Quantifying gliding forces of filamentous cyanobacteria

Speaker: Stefan Karpitschka

22 Inadequate migration of Leishmania-infected macrophages – the driver of parasite dissemination?

Speaker: Tom Beneke

23 Evolution of micro-swimmer designs in distinct microenvironments

Speaker: Narges Jamshidi

15:30 Coffee break (30 minutes)

24 The impact of elongation on transport in shear flow

Speaker: Rachel Bearon

25 Functional morphologies and fluid dynamics of foraging in ’typical excavates’

Speaker: Federica Miano

26 Controlling bacterial swimming in wavy channels

Speaker: Winfried Schmidt

27 Colloidal transport by light-induced gradients of active pressure

Speaker: Nicola Pellicciotta

19:00 Conference dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday night from 19.00 on, at the Bürgerspital Weinstuben Theaterstraße 19, 97070 Würzburg. The Bürgerspital Weinstuben is located in the city centre (near Theatre) and can be reached by busses starting at Hubland (lines 29, 14, 114).

Friday 6 October

28 Spectra of active turbulence

Speaker: Alexander Morozov

29 Multipad Agarose Plate (MAP): A Rapid and High-Throughput Approach for Anti-biotic Susceptibility Testing

Speaker: Morten Kals

30 Hydrodynamic near field effects give rise to fast synchronisation in finite groups of cilia

Speaker: Andrej Vilfan

31 MECHANICAL COUPLING IS SUFFICIENT TO SYNCHRONIZE C. REINHARDTII FLAGELLA

Speaker: Luc Zorrilla

10:30 Coffee break (30 minutes)

32 Swimming and Rheology of Active Suspensions in Viscoelastic Fluids

Speaker: Holger Stark

33 Droplet and waving instabilities of an active fluid jet

Speaker: Isabelle Eisenmann

34 Dispersion of motile bacteria in confined and geometrically complex channels

Speaker: Eric Clément

35 Utility of information in chemotaxis

Speaker: Avishek Das

12:30 Lunch break (90 minutes)

36 SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? THE ADHESION-MIGRATION TRADE-OFF OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA

Speaker: Benedikt Sabass

37 Motile cilia induce Periciliary transport

Speaker: Erika Causa

38 Transport of passive beads by random and directed motion of swimming micro-organisms

Speaker: Julien Bouvard

39 Bacteria Propulsion and Interactions in Thin Biofilms

Speaker: Dmitry Fedosov

15:30 Closing