Harish Kannan
harish94.bsky.social
Harish Kannan
@harish94.bsky.social
PhD student at UCSD
Reposted by Harish Kannan
One of the coolest papers I've ever read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Within-colony bacterial dynamics.

And the figures are absolutely striking and clear.
Spatiotemporal development of expanding bacterial colonies driven by emergent mechanical constraints and nutrient gradients - Nature Communications
Bacterial colonies growing on solid surfaces can exhibit robust expansion kinetics, with constant radial growth and saturating vertical expansion. Here, the authors use modeling and experiments to sho...
www.nature.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM