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ArticleLab on a chip2026

Controlling spatial structure in minimal microbial communities by sequential capillary assembly.

Cameron Boggon, Jeremy P H Wong, Arpita Sahoo, Annelies S Zinkernagel, Markus A Seeger, Eleonora Secchi, Lucio Isa

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Cameron BoggonLaboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. lucio.isa@mat.ethz.ch.ORCID 0009-0007-4434-2693
Jeremy P H WongLaboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. lucio.isa@mat.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-8731-3795
Arpita SahooInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2083-557X
Annelies S ZinkernagelDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4700-1118
Markus A SeegerInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1761-8571
Eleonora SecchiInstitute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. secchi@ifu.baug.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-0949-9085
Lucio IsaLaboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. lucio.isa@mat.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-6731-9620

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria in surface-attached communities often engage in social interactions with neighbouring microbes. Spatial structure within these communities is thought to strongly influence these interactions, yet there is a significant lack of experimental platforms which allow for the tight spatial control of microbial interactions at the microscale, severely limiting our ability to investigate the relationship between spatial structure and community development. Here, we demonstrate a workflow for patterning and growing two bacterial species on a template with high throughput (∼10

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