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Environmental biophysics of microorganisms

 
Read more at: Diurnal variations in the motility of algae paper published

Diurnal variations in the motility of algae paper published

5 November 2020

Experiments carried out by Di Jin (formerly a PhD student in our group) have discovered that, when entrained to day/night cycles, the swimming parameters of the biflagellate microalga Chlamydomonas swims change with the alternation of day and night. In particular, the swimming speed grows at night to about double the value...


Read more at: Theresa passes viva with minor corrections!

Theresa passes viva with minor corrections!

9 October 2020

Many congratulations to Theresa who has passed her viva! Theresa's thesis explored theoretically, computationally and experimentally the transport of active particles in complex environments, realised by bacteria and microalgae swimming in microfluidic lattices. One key theoretical result is that bacteria-like swimmers, by...


Read more at: Bioactive fluids SIG meeting coming up in September

Bioactive fluids SIG meeting coming up in September

15 November 2019

The annual Biologically Active Fluids Special Interest Group is coming up. It will be held at the University of Warwick. The programme will be as follows: Thursday 12th September – pre-meeting early career workshop for PhD students and postdocs Friday 13th September – main meeting day It promises to be a very interesting...


Read more at: Otti giving Soft-Bio seminar in Warwick

Otti giving Soft-Bio seminar in Warwick

15 November 2019

Otti has been invitd to give the Soft Matter and Biological Physics seminar in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. He will talk on 'Microswimmer motility through day/night cycles'.


Read more at: Theresa speaking at the DPG 2019 meeting and at TU Berlin

Theresa speaking at the DPG 2019 meeting and at TU Berlin

15 November 2019

Theresa will be giving a seminar at the German Physical Society (DPG) in Regensburg. Her talk is entitled: 'Diffusion of active particles in a complex environment: role of surface scattering'. She has also been invited to give a talk at the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin, where she will be speaking on ' Active...


Read more at: Hannah wins flash talk prize at MMP 2019

Hannah wins flash talk prize at MMP 2019

15 November 2019

Congratulations to Hannah for winning the PhD student flash talk prize at the Marine Particles and Phycospheres 2019 meeting in Ascona, Switzerland. Well done!


Read more at: Welcoming Akshay to our labs!

Welcoming Akshay to our labs!

9 April 2019

Our collaborating postdoc Dr Aksay Kale will be testing the algal harvesting prototype we have developed with the PROFLOW grant collaboration over in the Physiss of Medicine labs. Looking forward to seeing how the prototype behaves with real algae init!


Read more at: Diffusion in complex environments paper published

Diffusion in complex environments paper published

2 March 2019

Our work on how boundary conditions affect the diffusive transport of active particals in a lattice of pillars we published today in Phys Rev E https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.012610 Microswimmers obey peculiar rules for scattering off surfaces and obstacles. For example, swimming bacteria slide...


Read more at: Hannah passes viva with minor corrections!

Hannah passes viva with minor corrections!

2 March 2019

Many congratulations to Hanna for passing her viva with minor corrections. Hannah's thesis is entitles "Experimental and Theoretical Study of Carbon Dynamics in an Algal-Bacterial Co-Culture". The thesis reports a pioneering study of the transfer of carbon from photosynthetic vitamin-dependent algae to heterotrophic...


Read more at: Hannah has submitted!

Hannah has submitted!

26 October 2018