About

Throughout evolutionary history, life has explored the laws of physics, creating remarkable new strategies to perpetuate itself. We are a research group in the Departments of Biology and Physics and a part of Boston University’s Biological Design Center that seeks to understand how these strategies arise using microbial populations as a model. We are interested in how the physical and chemical environment influences microbes, and how these microbes in turn engineer that very environment. In particular, we study how bacterial biofilms change their local conditions by producing extracellular matrix and how cell-to-cell signals drive such behaviors. We probe theoretical models of these phenomena with the goal of building toward an emergent understanding of life.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Biology
• Optoelectronics
• Cell biology

Frequent coauthors

• Jacob K. Rosenstein

  Providence College

  22 shared

• Gürol M. Süel

  University of California, San Diego

  19 shared

• Kangping Hu

  Providence College

  16 shared

• Meni Wanunu

  Northeastern University

  14 shared

• Jordi García‐Ojalvo

  Pompeu Fabra University

  9 shared

• Robert Y. Henley

  Northeastern University

  9 shared

• Joseph T. Incandela

  8 shared

• Arthur Prindle

  Northwestern University

  7 shared

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