ReviewAnnual review of biophysics2014
Microfluidics expanding the frontiers of microbial ecology.
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88 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Dynamics of Spatial Organization of Bacterial Communities in a Tunable Flow Gut Microbiome-on-a-Chip.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
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- Mechanics limits ecological diversity and promotes heterogeneity in confined bacterial communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Microbes in porous environments: from active interactions to emergent feedback.Biophysical reviews · 2024Review
- Microfluidic approaches in microbial ecology.Lab on a chip · 2024Review
- Spatial exclusion leads to "tug-of-war" ecological dynamics between competing species within microchannels.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Smart and Multifunctional Materials Based on Electroactive Poly(vinylidene fluoride): Recent Advances and Opportunities in Sensors, Actuators, Energy, Environmental, and Biomedical Applications.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- A synthetic population-level oscillator in non-microfluidic environments.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Bacteria in Fluid Flow.Journal of bacteriology · 2023Review
- Ultraviolet control of bacterial biofilms in microfluidic chips.Biomicrofluidics · 2023Article
- Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animals.Hydrobiologia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Microfluidics has significantly contributed to the expansion of the frontiers of microbial ecology over the past decade by allowing researchers to observe the behaviors of microbes in highly controlled microenvironments, across scales from a single cell to mixed communities. Spatially and temporally varying distributions of organisms and chemical cues that mimic natural microbial habitats can now be established by exploiting physics at the micrometer scale and by incorporating structures with specific geometries and materials. In this article, we review applications of microfluidics that have resulted in insightful discoveries on fundamental aspects of microbial life, ranging from growth and sensing to cell-cell interactions and population dynamics. We anticipate that this flexible multidisciplinary technology will continue to facilitate discoveries regarding the ecology of microorganisms and help uncover strategies to control microbial processes such as biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance.
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