Fully-funded PhD studentship to study C. difficile motility 

Interested in  understand how a deadly pathogen infects our gut using cutting edge tools from both physics and microbiology?  This project will be in collaboration with Dr. Rob Fagan, a leading C. diff. expert.PhD advertisement

The tortoise and hare, played out within bacterial colonies

Congratulations to postdoc Oliver Meacock on his fantastic new paper on collective bacterial motility, which was recently accepted by Nature Physics. 

Massively-parallel cell tracking made easy

We recently released FAST, our machine learning based tracking software. At the link below you download FAST and find extensive tutorials to help you get started.

Our group brings together ideas and tools from a wide variety of disciplines to explore fundamental questions in microbiology.  Our work incorporates microfluidic experiments, molecular biology, automated image analysis, evolutionary game theory, and fluid dynamics. The small-scale phenomena we study affect a broad range of important processes including human infection, harmful algal blooms, biogeochemical cycling, and the bioremediation of pollutants.