Bartek Waclaw

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Microbes in biofilms interact with each other and the
environment in many ways, including mechanical
repulsion, adhesion, and friction. In the last 10
years, these physics-like interactions have been
shown to be as important for biofilm growth and
evolution as biochemical interactions. In this talk, I
will discuss how mechanical interactions affect the
establishment probability of new genetic variants,
and how the physics of a growing biofilm can be
used against it to reduce the chance that an
undesired variant, e.g., an antibiotic-resistant
mutant, spreads in the biofilm.

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Dioscuri Centre for Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria
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Contact: Joachim Krug