ArticlePhysical biology2022
Tracking the stochastic growth of bacterial populations in microfluidic droplets.
Article in Physical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Probing Antibiotic Inhibition in Small Bacterial Populations With Combinatorial Droplet Microfluidics.Small science · 2026Article
- Coupling Bacterial Cell Size Regulation with Clonal Proliferation Dynamics Reveals Cell Division Based on Surface Area.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Different factors control long-term versus short-term outcomes for bacterial colonisation of a urinary catheter.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Habitat fragmentation enhances microbial collective defence.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Droplet microfluidics for single-cell studies: a frontier in ecological understanding of microbiomes.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Impact of micro-habitat fragmentation on microbial population growth dynamics.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Bacterial aggregation triggered by low-level antibiotic-mediated lysis.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2024Article
- Fragmented micro-growth habitats present opportunities for alternative competitive outcomes.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A Guide to Biodetection in Droplets.Analytical chemistry · 2024Review
- The use of droplet-based microfluidic technologies for accelerated selection ofBiology methods & protocols · 2024Review
- Quantifying stochastic establishment of mutants in microbial adaptation.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Review
- Droplet-based methodology for investigating bacterial population dynamics in response to phage exposure.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Surface Modification of 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Controlled Wetting in Two-Phase Flow.Micromachines · 2022Article
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Abstract
Bacterial growth in microfluidic droplets is relevant in biotechnology, in microbial ecology, and in understanding stochastic population dynamics in small populations. However, it has proved challenging to automate measurement of absolute bacterial numbers within droplets, forcing the use of proxy measures for population size. Here we present a microfluidic device and imaging protocol that allows high-resolution imaging of thousands of droplets, such that individual bacteria stay in the focal plane and can be counted automatically. Using this approach, we track the stochastic growth of hundreds of replicate
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