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Colonie (biologie)
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A Biohybrid Superorganism - Investigating honeybees' collective behaviors via interactive robotics
Social insects, such as ants, termites, and honeybees, have evolved sophisticated societies where the collaborative efforts of "simple" individuals can lead to the emergence of complex dynamics. The reliance of each organism on the collective is so great t ...
EPFL2024An Autonomous Robotic Platform to Manipulate Collective Behavior in Ants
Eusocial life is characterized by division of labour, collective decision making and self organization, and regarded as the highest form of social organisation in groups. Ants are a model organism for research in collective behavior and the evolution of eu ...
EPFL2023Combination of dielectrophoretic and hydrodynamic traps for the controlled contact between cells or beads and application to adhesion assays
Multicellular organisms require very well organized and finely balanced cell-cell communication, adhesion and coordination to ensure the organisms homeostasis. These functions rely on specialized receptors placed at the cells membrane whose binding to thei ...
EPFL2023CHARACTERIZING THE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION OF BIOFILM COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN GLACIER-FED STREAMS
Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Nicola Deluigi, David Touchette, Martina Gonzalez Mateu, Florian Baier
Biofilms conform the dominant microbial lifestyle in alpine streams where they are major contributors to carbon and nutrient cycling. However, relatively little is known about their adaptive capacity to climate change as water temperature rises and hydrolo ...
2023Material Substrate Physical Properties Control Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Architecture
Alexandre Louis André Persat, Alice Cont
The biofilm lifestyle is the most widespread survival strategy in the bacterial world. Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms cause chronic infections and are highly recalcitrant to antimicrobials. The genetic requirements allowing P. aeruginosa to grow into biof ...
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2023Functional and structural characterization of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in aerobic granular biofilms
The "Aerobic Granular Sludge" (AGS) technology for wastewater treatment is basedon dense microbial biofilm in the form of granular aggregates that have an excellentsettling property allowing high biomass concentrations in bioreactors. This promisingbiologi ...
EPFL2023Robotic manipulation to investigate the physical principles of biological self-organization
Self-organization is the spontaneous formation of ordered patterns and networks from a population of comparatively simple elements or individuals with no prior information on neither the formation process nor the final organization. While the construction ...
EPFL2022Nanomotion Detection-Based Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Anton Malovichko
Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) could play a major role in fighting multidrug-resistant bacteria. Recently, it was discovered that all living organisms oscillate in the range of nanometers and that these oscillations, referred to as nanomoti ...
2021The social nature of mitochondria: Implications for human health
Sociality has profound evolutionary roots and is observed from unicellular organisms to multicellular animals. In line with the view that social principles apply across levels of biological complexity, a growing body of data highlights the remarkable socia ...
2020A perspective view on the nanomotion detection of living organisms and its features
Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Anne-Céline Verenna Kohler, Giovanni Longo, Petar Stupar, Leonardo Venturelli, Massimiliano Bertacchi
The insurgence of newly arising, rapidly developing health threats, such as drug-resistant bacteria and cancers, is one of the most urgent public-health issues of modern times. This menace calls for the development of sensitive and reliable diagnostic tool ...
WILEY2020