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Environmental biophysics of microorganisms

 

Biophysics of algae and bacteria (theory and experiment)

D. Jin, J. Kotar, E. Silvester, K. Leptos, & O. A. Croze
Diurnal Variations in the Motility of Populations of Biflagellate Microalgae
Biophys. J. 119 2055-2062 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.10.006

H. Laeverenz Schlogelhofer, [...], R. Foster, A. G. Smith & O. A. Croze
Combining SIMS and mechanistic modelling to reveal nutrient kinetics

in an algal-bacterial mutualism

T. Jakuszeit, J. Lindsey-Jones, F. J. Peaudecerf & O. A. Croze
Migration and accumulation of bacteria with chemotaxis and chemokinesis
arXiv.org: 1908.05050

O. A. Croze, V. Martinez, T. Jakuszeit, […], W. C. K. Poon & M. A. Bees
Differential dynamic microscopy of helical and oscillatory microswimmers
New J. Physics
 21, 063012 DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab241f

T. Jakuszeit, O. A. Croze, S. Bell
Diffusion of active particles in a complex environment
Phys. Rev. E 97, 022411 (2018) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.022411

F. J. Peaudecerf, […]M. A. BeesA. G. SmithR. E. Goldstein & O. A. Croze
Microbial mutualism at a distance: the role of geometry in diffusive exchanges
Phys. Rev. E 97, 022411 (2018) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.022411

O. A. Croze, R. N. Bearon & M. A. Bees
Gyrotactic swimmer dispersion in pipe flow: testing the theory
J. Fluid Mech. 816, 481-506 (2017)
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.90

A. Hope, O. A. Croze, W. C. K. Poon, M. A. Bees & M. D. Haw
Resonant alignment of microswimmer trajectories in oscillatory shear flows
Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 051201(R)
(2016)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.051201

S. Widder, […], Issac Newton Fellows (including O. A. Croze) & O. Soyer Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding
of community function and dynamics

ISME J. 1–12 (2016) DOI:10.1038/ismej.2016.45

M. A. Bees & O. A. Croze
Mathematics for streamlined biofuel production from unicellular algae
Biofuels
5, 53 (2014) DOI:10.4155/bfs.13.66

O. A. Croze, G. Sardina, M. Ahmed, M. A. Bees & L. Brandt
Dispersion of swimming algae in laminar and turbulent channel flows: consequences for photobioreactors
J. R. Soc. Interface
10 20121041 (2013) DOI:10.1098/rsif.2012.1041

R. N. Bearon, M. A. Bees & O. A. Croze
Biased swimming cells do not disperse in pipes as tracers: a rational population model based on microscale behaviour
Phys. Fluids 24, 121902 (2012) DOI:10.1063/1.4772189

V. Martinez, R. Besseling, O. A. Croze, […], M. A. Bees, & W. C. K. Poon, Differential Dynamic Microscopy: a high-throughput method for the characterisation of microorganisms
Biophys. J.
103 525-534 (2012) DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2012.08.045
Highlighted by Biophysical Journal as ‘Emerging Biophysical Technology’
and in a Nature Methods Research Highlight

M. D. Haw & O. A. Croze
Physics comes to life
Physics World 25 39-43 (2012)
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O. A. Croze, G. P. Ferguson, M. E. Cates & W. C. K. Poon
Migration of chemotactic bacteria in soft agar: role of gel concentration
Biophys. J. 101 525-534 (2011) DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2011.06.023

O. A. Croze, E. E. Ashraf & M. A. Bees
Sheared bioconvection in a horizontal tube
Phys. Biol.
7 046001 (2010) DOI:10.1088/1478-3975/7/4/046001
Highlighted as Patterns of swimming algae in horizontal pipe flow,
a Physical Biology Labtalk feature (Jan 26, 2011)

M. A. Bees & O. A. Croze
Dispersion of biased swimming microorganisms in a fluid flowing through a tube
Proc. R. Soc. Lond.
A 466, 2057-2077 (2010) DOI:10.1098/rspa.2009.0606

O. A. Croze
A quick guide to working with bacteria in
Soft Matter: From Synthetic to Biological Materials Lecture Notes of the 39th IFF Spring School, D11.12 (2008) RG

 

Other (QED and soft matter)

O. A. Croze
Does the Feigel effect break the first law? 
arXiv:1304.3338

O. A. Croze
Alternative derivation of the Feigel effect and call for its experimental verification
Proc. R. Soc. Lond.
A 468, 429-447 (2012) DOI:10.1098/rspa.2011.0481

O. A. Croze & M. E. Cates
Nonadditivity of polymeric and charged surface interactions: consequences for doped lamellar phases
Langmuir 21(12), 5627-5638 (2005) DOI:10.1021/la0501738